Word: walkout
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...General Motors strike was still unsolved. So was the nationwide walkout of 200,000 electrical workers. In Los Angeles, steel-helmeted pickets of the United Electrical Workers ran into old-fashioned strike violence. Los Angeles police, after warning them against mass picketing, charged with tear gas and clubs, cracked heads, bloodied noses, took 25 off to jail. But the United States Motors plant at which the battle raged stayed closed. So did the lion's share of other U.S. factories which manufacture toasters, irons, light plugs, and generators for the world's most electrified country...
...biggest strike-the 55-day-old walkout at General Motors-there was a ray of hope. President Truman's factfinder recommended a 19½?-an-hour increase. The company promptly turned it down, but the union approved on the condition that G.M. accept by Jan. 21. This was the date of the new steel-strike deadline. If steel is settled by then (see below), G.M. and the auto workers might also get together...
...Moines: Need color for story on Iowa Packing Co. walkout. What are duties of sausage stuffer? What is a check sealer? Or is it a scale checker...
...Awfully Tired." The nation was just as bewildered at the walkout of 200,000 members of John L. Lewis' United Mine Workers. Steel mills in Western Pennsylvania were cutting down production; some would close because of the fuel shortage and union men would lose their jobs...
...National Labor Relations Board had finally counted the ballots of 100 set designers, over whose status the strike of 6,000 movie workers had started last March. A relatively new, leftish A.F. of L. outfit, the Conference of Studio Unions, which had called the walkout in the first place, had won. Producers conceded the C.S.U. victory, and got set for negotiations...