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...Budapest workers, quiescent for the past few weeks, staged a series of wildcat strikes. It was their only way to protest the prospect of reduced wages in plants where production fell below the "norm." As the strike developed, Soviet tanks and armored cars (guns uncovered for the first time in weeks) blocked off Budapest's factory area. When 5,000 Csepel Island iron and steel workers demonstrated in the streets, trigger-nervous Hungarian militiamen began shooting in the air, bounced a few volleys into the crowd. Casualties: two dead, at least four wounded. Two days later the Kadar government...
Died. Harry Ford ("Sinco") Sinclair, 80, poker-faced onetime Kansas pharmacist who parlayed $5,000 in insurance money (awarded after he shot off a toe while rabbit-hunting) into a successful string of wildcat oil wells, lost a wad (1914-15) trying to establish a third major baseball league, by 1916 founded the Sinclair Oil & Refining Co., bought a string of racehorses (his Zev won the 1923 Kentucky Derby), in 1922 leased the Navy's Teapot Dome oil reserve in Wyoming from Interior Secretary Albert B. Fall; in Pasadena, Calif. Buoyant Harry Sinclair survived when Teapot Dome blew...
...Duff, as willing to fight at 73 as when he was a brawling lad in the wildcat oilfields, but now trailing in his campaign for re-election against Philadelphia's ultraliberal, former Mayor Joseph Clark...
Before 3,000 convention delegates last week, the United Mine Workers' Chief John L. Lewis angrily laid down the law on wildcat strikes in the coal industry. Rumbled Lewis, citing 170 local walkouts from January through April this year: "Carry this message back to your members : don't do it again. The time has gone when half a dozen men can decide not to work." Mine Boss Lewis had good reason to want peace. He had just negotiated another one-year contract with Edward Fox, representing the bituminous coal operators, for a pay increase that would keep Lewis...
...Little Too Late. A wildcat strike of 6,000 transport, industrial and catering workers, paralyzing Pamplona, took the authorities by surprise. Said Civil Governor Carlos Arias: "Order will be re established in a firm and inflexible manner." Though Arias threatened that workers would lose their social benefits, and called out the Guardia Civil, Pamplona's workers paraded the city's sunny streets in their best clothes. The strike fever spread to the Basque city of Bilbao (scene of a 1953 stoppage of shipbuilders), Tolosa, San Sebastian and other northern towns. Thus far only workers in small dispersed industries...