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...that his men had talked to Wolfson and would vote the 13,500 shares of union-owned stock against Avery. Knowing that Avery could not afford a strike in the closing days of his fight with Wolfson, Hoffa got his new members at Ward's to approve a walkout...
...Double Six. Hewitt's crime, in the eyes of his fellow workers, was his failure last December to join the one-day walkout of the Amalgamated Engineering Union at the Staveley works in Derbyshire. He had not joined the strike because his own union, the General and Municipal Workers, said not to. Despite the explanation, Ed Boyce, the A.E.U. shop steward, ruled: "The men in this shop .are not going to speak to you for six months." Hewitt might have moved on to some other shop, because he was still in good standing with his own union...
...Advance or Retreat." Hostilities began when Japan's No. 2 conservative, a 71-year-old cripple named Ichiro Hatoyama, led a sizable walkout from the Liberal Party. Hatoyama once led the party, had to turn it over to Yoshida when purged as "undesirable" by Douglas MacArthur, and never got the leadership back. Hostilities deepened when Mamoru Shigemitsu, 65, a crippled ex-war criminal who signed the surrender aboard the U.S.S. Missouri, withdrew the support of his right-wing Progressive Party from Yoshida, leaving Yoshida with only 183 votes in the Lower House of the Diet. The two dissident forces...
...longest and costliest postwar strikes was coming to an end last week. In Pittsburgh 760 delivery-truck drivers and helpers belonging to Dave Beck's A.F.L. Teamsters agreed to end their walkout against five of the city's biggest department stores (Kaufmann's, Home's, Frank & Seder's, Gimbels, Rosenbaum's) after 52 weeks of picketing and violence. Under the terms of a three-year contract, the stores agreed to an overall 8½? wage boost (to $2.21 an hour for drivers, $1.94 for helpers) plus some fringe benefits. In return the Teamsters gave...
Though the walkout failed to close down the five stores, it still cost dearly. Business in the stores slumped from 25% to 40%. As for the Teamsters, they lost close to $5,000,000 in wages and got no benefits from Boss Beck, who condemned their wildcat strike. For almost a year a third of Pittsburgh's 1,250-man police force was tied up patrolling the picket lines, and the city businessmen lost an estimated $100 million as shoppers stayed away from downtown...