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...walkout brought a creeping slowdown in British industry, already troubled by a strike of 20,000 dockers. Coal piled up at the pitheads, steel mills closed, trawlers were laid up for lack of fuel. Commuters, who took to buses, cars and bicycles by the thousands to get to their offices, involved London in a huge traffic snarl. With the nation's vital export trade and its own prestige at stake, Sir Anthony Eden's new Tory government stepped in vigorously. In the Queen's name, Eden...
After 24 hours of continuous negotiations, a rumpled three-man Government board last week announced tentative settlement of the 57-day strike called by nonoperating workers against the Louisville & Nashville Railroad and its subsidiaries. The walkout had affected 29,000 workers and curtailed traffic in 14 states...
This time the White House kept hands off-despite intervention pleas by the L. & N management and the governors of Kentucky, Tennessee and Illinois. Some observers were sharply critical, pointing out that the walkout was the longest major rail strike since 1922 and was marked with violence. Snapped the New Dealing Louisville Courier-Journal: "Strikes which lose millions of dollars for all concerned, which erupt into violence and bloodshed . . . cannot be left to the mercies of 'voluntarism...
...specific strike issues are now obscured. What started as a walkout over ordinary union demands-for a 20? hourly wage hike, a union shop, seniority rights, arbitration of grievances-has turned into an old-fashioned finish fight between the nation's No. 2 union and its No. 2 plumbing-fixtures manufacturer. The union vowed war "until doomsday." Said Kohler: "No outsider can determine our operation...
Continuing Strike. Last week, despite the strike, a steady stream of artillery shells, precision instruments, pink washbasins and peach bathtubs flowed off the Kohler assembly lines. The company hinted that it had 3,000 men at work, as against 3,300 before the walkout, said it was operating at a profit. The union conceded that Kohler had 1,800 employees at work, but claimed that 2,800 of the 2,850 U.A.W. members who walked out last year were still holding out. The strike had already cost the union some $4,000,000 in benefits-$25 weekly to each striker...