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Seventy shipyards already are idle by a walkout of 200,000 men. Taken together, the two strikes could bring the British economy almost to a standstill in the worst industrial chaos since the general strike...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: British Unions Announce Strike, Would Paralyze Manufacturing; Israel Poses New War Threat | 3/20/1957 | See Source »

...first of New York's 25,000 longshoremen swarmed back to the piers last week, signaling an end to the walkout that had tied up the Atlantic Coast from Maine to Virginia for ten days, a hiring official summed up their delight that it was all over: "They were hysterical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: End of the Dock Strike | 3/4/1957 | See Source »

...strike last Tuesday actually was a resumption of a nine-day walkout in November. That was interrupted under the Taft-Hartley law provision for an 80-day cooling off period...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: ILA, Management Reach Terms To End Crippling 5-Day Strike; Eisenhower Appeals to Israelis | 2/18/1957 | See Source »

...YORK, Feb. 17--The striking International Longshoremen's Association tonight reached a "meeting of minds" with shippers. The announcement signaled the end of a five-day walkout of 45,000 dockworkers from Maine to Virginia...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: ILA, Management Reach Terms To End Crippling 5-Day Strike; Eisenhower Appeals to Israelis | 2/18/1957 | See Source »

Reason for the drastic action (as a Justice Department representative explained it to the court in asking for the writ): at a time when the nation and the free world face "the threat of Communist aggression," a continuation of the walkout would do the U.S. "irreparable injury...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Injunction on the Docks | 12/3/1956 | See Source »

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