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...walkout left Attlee securely in command but the party as a whole weakened. It certainly jeopardized Bevan's own prospects of a Cabinet job if Labor got back...
This week some Pittsburghers thought they detected a glimmer of hope. It looked as if Dave Beck himself might intercede. Beck, who prides himself on running his union like a big business (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), did not sanction the Pittsburgh walkout and has refused benefits to the strikers. Officially, he said only that he would move in "at the right time," and colleagues said the dispute was not the kind of strike Beck thought served the cause of labor. Said Teamster Beck: "I refused to sanction the strike before it started, and I don't condone it any more...
Though the strike lasted only one day, it was nonetheless disturbing. It was the third such walkout France had seen in four months, and it was obviously not to be the last. Last week the Fédération d'Education Nationale, the French teachers' union, solemnly announced that there would soon be another-unless the government finally comes to grips with the nation's rapidly deteriorating education system...
...hand grenades, the crowd stampeded into a blind alley. In the crush, three women and a boy were trampled to death. The Reds had the martyrs they wanted. They quickly ordered a "National Demonstration of Mourning and Protest," a series of leapfrog strikes in the north, a 24-hour walkout in Sicily...
...Whispers passed between Molotov and his advisers. Had there been just a hint of a Western walkout? Into that moment of uncertainty darted Bidault with a carefully drafted French proposal for keeping disarmament talks within the U.N., and a further suggestion that both his own and Molotov's arms proposals be put off for private discussion later. This time Molotov surprised the others. "I do not consider it advantageous to draw out discussions," said one of diplomacy's mas ter procrastinators...