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...foreigner, perhaps the most remarkable aspect of the Chinese students' strike is the capacity for organization which it revealed. A strike in a single school or college is readily conceivable. But a walkout of students on an extensive scale throughout the whole country is quite a different matter. There must be a central authority, recognized as such, with power to issue the strike order. There must be liaison between city and city, between province and province and between North and South. There must also be discipline. The strike order, when given, must be obeyed; and reports from China indicate that...
Last Saturday's walkout of thirty-seven players of the Boston Symphony marks the climax of dissatisfaction over conditions in the organization, conditions for which the Boston musical public must bear the brunt of moral responsibility. Many of the best musicians in the Boston Orchestra have withdrawn during the last few years to go into other orchestras where the pay made it possible for them more easily to keep soul and body together. And those who did not go have apparently stood it as long as they...
...walkout of 2000 freight handlers and longshoremen here in Boston, bringing with it the threat of a serious food shortage, is but another example of the helplessness of the country to deal with industrial disputes. Obviously Boston cannot put up with a food shortage, and our first concern must be the settlement of this particular strike. The freight handlers held a strategic position similar to that of the coal miners. It is the public which will suffer from this strike, and the public must be protected...