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Again last week the unions dominated by former Dictator Juan Perón jousted with President Pedro Aramburu by staging a nation-wide general strike. Again Aramburu won the test by virtue of sound planning and unruffled firmness. To keep fhe threatened 48-hour walkout within bounds, he alerted 50,000 troops and policemen, more than were called out for last month's 24-hour stoppage (TIME, Oct. 7). He warned workers in advance that strikers could legally be fired, enlisted the support of 40 non-Peronista unions to denounce the strike as nothing more than a political maneuver...
...Evidence." By leaving the rest of the hearing uncontested, the Faubus lawyers foreclosed themselves from hope of successful appeal from the facts and the evidence presented after the walkout. As for the U.S., which had nearly 200 witnesses on call, the case was simplified by the Faubus default. Result: only eight witnesses were called...
Governor Faubus, chief target of the injunction, had received word of his lawyers' walkout while lolling relaxed in a window seat at his executive mansion. Ever since calling out the National Guard he had warded off questions about his "evidence" of violence by promising to produce it in court. Yet his day in court had come, and neither the evidence nor Orval Faubus was there.* Upon hearing that he was no longer even represented (because he had wanted it so), Faubus called for pencil and paper, scratched out an extraordinary statement: "Now begins the crucifixion. There will...
...back up their demand. 210,000 shipyard workers walked out of Britain's 70 yards, which have enough orders on the books to keep booming through 1961. Six days later, the 2,750,000 members of Britain's "engineering" unions began a "snowball strike," or progressive walkout, which by April 6 was scheduled to close down 4,300 factories producing everything from textile looms to bombers. In the background, muttering ominously, were the 370,000 generally low-paid employees of the nationalized railways...
Railway union leaders rejected a government wage award yesterday and threatened to add another nation-wide strike to Britain's labor disputes in the shipbuilding and heavy machinery industries. The railroad strike threat developed 24 hours after 2 1/2 million factory workers received union orders to begin a "snowball" walkout next Saturday in manufacturing plants throughout the nation...