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Celebrating national student Peace Day, the United Peace Council will stage the third annual anti-war strike and walkout from classes at 11 o'clock today is the New Lecture Hall...
These charges, Rome thought, laid the "juridical basis" for an Italian walkout from the 27-nation phalanx of Nonintervention, raised the risk of Italian action as heedless of Geneva as the Ethiopian war. Meanwhile in Spain, the big Russian air fleet of the Leftists machine-gunned Rightist trenches in one fell swoop along 330 miles of the fighting front...
...showed their strength this week by calling a sit-down which closed all of Chrysler's automobile plants in the Detroit area, throwing 55,000 employes out of work. Shut, too, by U.A.W. sit-downs were three Hudson plants employing 10,000 men. In Akron last week a walkout by C.I.O.'s United Rubber Workers closed Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. (10,000 employes). In Manhattan, General Electric's New Dealing President Gerard Swope agreed to a conference with C.I.O.'s United Electrical & Radio Workers, commencing next week. In Boston, C.I.O. organizers announced formation...
...prosecute Dr. Townsend for walking out on a House investigating committee last spring (TIME, June 1, Dec. 14). Last week in Washington's Federal District Court the lanky old pensioneer went to trial. A onetime aide testified that Dr. Townsend and his O.A.R.P. directors had planned the walkout two weeks before it happened, considering it a "masterpiece of strategy" which would win much sympathy for the Plan. Dr. Townsend denied this. The jury found him guilty of contempt of the House, penalty for which is $100 to $1,000 fine, one to twelve months in jail, or both. Thus...
TIME says: "Detroit newspapers no longer consider a Briggs strike news until it approaches in violence the 1933 walkout which forced Henry Ford to shut down...