Word: walkout
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...Walkout Postponed...
...year of great labor upheavals, last week's ample budget of strikes all but constituted a lull. Many of them, like the Plymouth four-day walkout of 11,000 workers at Detroit, were caused by jurisdictional disease. Some of them, like the grave diggers of Kansas City who in one day kept ten bodies from burial, originated in nothing less prosaic than demands for union recognition, closed shop and wage increase. However, if strikes failed to make labor news, three utterances...
...week's end negotiations were still deadlocked when an I.A.T.S.E. official telephoned the Guild's Founder-Secretary Kenneth Thomson, promised to call a sympathetic walkout of his 30,000 members if the Guild struck. At that, the producers' representatives knuckled under. On behalf of RKO, Paramount, MGM, Columbia, Universal and Twentieth Century-Fox, Twentieth Century's Chairman Joseph M. Schenck and MGM's Vice President Louis B. Mayer squeezed their signatures at the bottom of an agreement to the Guild's demands, scribbled on a sheet of foolscap. Prime points were granting...
...chugging, swaying, double-decker busses, which carry 5,000,000 passengers a day, looked strange, and only taxi-drivers, who did a roaring business, rejoiced in their absence. Two other labor clouds loomed ominously: first, many subway and streetcar workers were eager to stage a sympathetic walkout; second, miners all over the country threatened to strike a week after the Coronation, unless Harworth (Nottinghamshire) colliery owners dropped their company unions, recognized the national Mineworkers' Federation...
According to the Council's strike call, "The strike (and walkout) is in no way directed against the University, but is rather a militant and orderly expression of the determination of students to oppose all plans which would lead us into another world slaughter." The Cambridge meeting is being followed by a second anti-war gathering of all greater Boston colleges on the Common at 12 o'clock...