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After six days of a wildcat walkout, the biggest police strike in the U.S. since Boston's in 1919, more than 20,000 New York patrolmen returned to their jobs last week. Somehow, as they usually do, New Yorkers had muddled through. Crime did not rise, despite dire predictions that every gangster and petty criminal would have a field day, and traffic was no more snarled than usual. The fact that detectives, sergeants and ranking officers stayed on the job and that the weather was bitterly cold helped keep things quiet. One psychologist praised the "incredible selfdiscipline...
...relies on a powerful attack to compensate for a weak, thin defense. Forward Lew Friegon trails only Cornell's Kevin Pettit in points scored per game, and four of the Wildcat forwards have totaled over 30 points so far this season. U. N. H., however, has needed every point to keep winning. The inexperienced defense and goalie Bob Smith have given away almost four goals a game...
...than they had first feared. Allende, on the other hand, may worry that he is not moving fast enough. Aroused by his hellfire-and-brimstone campaign promises to take away Chile's wealth from monopoly capitalists and give it back to the people, the people are growing restive. Wildcat strikes have erupted all over the country, and squatters have seized 4,250 new apartments in Santiago alone. Street fighting between leftists and extreme leftists has broken out in several cities. Throughout the country, bands of radical students and workers have been marching through the streets to demand faster government...
...endure a 24-hour nationwide strike by 350,000 workers protesting the government's proposed Industrial Relations Reform Act, which comes up for debate this week in the House of Commons. The Carr bill, so named for Employment and Productivity Minister Robert Carr, aims at legally preventing wildcat work stoppages. Though the bill is anathema to many union members, only a fraction of Britain's 24 million organized workers left their jobs in protest...
...hottest issue involves the "no-strike clause" that has been a part of every U.S.W. contract since 1936, and is a common feature of most other labor agreements. It forbids any wildcat strike during the life of a contract, providing instead for binding arbitration to settle local grievances. The clause is fundamental to the U.S.'s tenuous labor peace-in contrast with Britain, where workers can walk out in mid-contract. If the no-strike clause is abolished, said a U.S.W. official, "it will be just like the old days again: work on Monday and Tuesday and strike...