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...Government hospitals amounted to less than those of bus conductors. The strikers were promptly fired, since it is against the law in Sweden for Government employes to strike. But in the face of a shortage of medicos, they promptly returned to work on a temporary basis, threatening another walkout (as private citizens) if salaries were not jacked...
Mysterious gaps that appeared in the University Band's pre-game drill rehearsal last Saturday were accounted for last night by the irate resignation of at least 16 of the members. Touching off the walkout, it appeared from the statements of several of the musicians was the announcement of a five dollar dues fee at last Wednesday's reharsal which will be required from each man unless a large donation comes through from an anonymous benefactor...
...line of strikes, blinked incredulously at an item last week in their skinny, adless newspapers (see PRESS). It was a short interview with Michael J. Cashal, first vice president of old Dan Tobin's International Brotherhood of Teamsters, which was involved in New York City's walkout of truck drivers (TIME, Sept. 16). Said Brother Cashal: "This strike is a rotten mess...
...diplomatic furor which blazed up with the flyers' death last month raged on. A ban by A.F.L. longshoremen on ships loading UNRRA supplies for Yugoslavia swelled from an impromptu wildcat walkout to an official statement of union policy. Cried the longshoremen's Joe Ryan: "None of those ships will be loaded until proper action is taken against those who are responsible for shooting down our planes." Veterans' posts, Congressmen, many a fierce U.S. citizen chimed...
...employes in other departments. That meant that the Herald & Express would have to shell out a 40% pay boost. To Hearst's 10% offer, the Guild said "no contract-no work," claimed that management's suspension of publication amounted to a lockout. Replied the Herald: "A mass walkout prevents publication. It is not a lockout." At week's end Federal Conciliator Harry C. Malcom had got almost nowhere...