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...rate du Travail, whose 1,000,000-plus membership makes it the dominant power of French labor, to pull a nationwide, one-day strike. "Let us unite to stop fascism," they cried, meaning by fascism the resistance of all Hungarians to the Russian tanks. Last week the walkout came. It was a colossal and embarrassing flop. In the Paris area not a single bus, subway or trolley ground to a halt. Out of 600,000 metal and auto workers in the notorious "Red Belt" around Paris, only 3,000 obeyed the C.G.T. summons, and even they returned to work after...
...mean to run the canal," boasted Egypt's President Nasser. Last week, eight weeks after his seizure of the canal, a week after the walkout of two-thirds of the canal pilots, Nasser seemed to be making good his boast. Since the seizure, 2,432 ships had passed safely through the canal, 301 since the pilots' walkout. Thanks in part to the detour of some French and British ships around the Cape, there were no jams at the canal entrances. After a few days of limiting convoys to two a day, the Egyptians moved back...
Prospects for a quick end to the walkout seemed dim, though Government-inspired negotiations were expected to continue this week in Manhattan. Despite the deadlock, the National Industrial Conference Board found one bright note: the settlement, when it comes, should produce a new fillip to the economy. The board recalled that the eight-week steel strike of 1952 "produced a strong, but relatively short-lived, boom" as manufacturers built up their inventories, and a strike of similar or less length in 1956 "could well produce the same results again. However unfortunate a steel strike may be on other grounds, most...
...argued the issues in smooth, gentlemanly tones−first in Pittsburgh, then, to get away from local pressures, in Manhattan's Hotel Roosevelt. But gentlemanly tones or no, it became apparent last week that neither companies nor union were going to yield in time to stop a walkout. Six hours before the Saturday night deadline, a last, halfhearted session showed the negotiators as far apart as ever on the key issues: wage increases and length of contract...
...Walkout. The notion that opposition political rallies are damaging not only to himself but to the New Turkey he is building, was the argument that Menderes used last week to ban them. A clause in his bill provides that in the case of people attempting to hold unauthorized meetings, the police or military should shoot three times in the air, and if the meeting does not then disperse, they may fire into the crowd. When Fevzi Karaosmanoglu, leader of the newly created Freedom Party, vigorously protested that this provision was the work of a dictator, he was suspended for using...