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...College students were involved in the walkout, and the loss of personnel probably will not affect student employment for the rest of the year. The high school employees worked an average of 18 hours per week, from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. six days per week...
Kanz blamed impending high school graduation as the cause of the walkout. "Some of the workers, especially the seniors, started to cause trouble last week. They didn't care for the job, and tried to persuade other workers to leave with them...
...walkout began when Frank Cousins, boss of the Transport and General Workers' Union, turned down the Industrial Court award of an 8½-shilling-a-week raise ($1.19) for 36,000 busmen of the inner city, and nothing for suburban drivers. Cousins was in no tactical position to strike, but felt bound to do so anyway. He accused Prime Minister Macmillan's government of wanting a "showdown with labor," and Laborites demanded in the House of Commons that the government intervene immediately to end the strike. "It is for myself," replied Labor Minister Iain Macleod icily, "to judge...
Despite efforts of federal and state mediators, negotiations with the Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners, AFL-CIO, broke down Friday. Federal mediator John J. Sullivan has indicated that he will be available today if the union and management wish to delay the walkout...
...after their walkout, the observers all returned to their seats, having read in advance the speech to be delivered by scholarly Edvard Kardelj, Tito's chief theoretician. To their dismay, Kardelj added some savage ad libs: "We cannot recognize anybody's right to decide what in our program is in the spirit of Marxism and what is not . . . We do not need any certificates on our Marxism-Leninism." Only the Pole joined in the applause. And Yugoslav trade union boss General Svetozar Vukmanovic-Tempo minced no words when asked who was interfering in Yugoslav affairs. "Who?" demanded General...