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Three weeks ago the National Dock Labor Board (representing management and labor) refused to let the dockers go to work on any ship at all unless they unloaded the two Canadian ships. When troops were called in to take the place of the wildcat strikers, they stayed away from the two Canadian ships. Using troops to unload them would have settled the dispute, but the government knew what it was doing...
Nozaka's small, sleepy eyes twinkled. "Where workers are to be discharged, we oppose it and they back our struggle whatever their politics. There will be spontaneous wildcat strikes all over Japan all summer-locally led, of course. Workers will slow down. They will come late and go early. They will demand the exact letter of the law of the safety regulations. All these tactics can be very effective. We don't need big strikes or demonstrations if we have enough small ones...
...Ferguson down to Washington to face each other (though both live in Detroit, they had never met). After an all-night session at the Pentagon, they came to terms. Bendix agreed to withdraw a $2,000,000 damage suit against the union, to rehire immediately 43 of 47 wildcat strikers who marched off the job in a squabble over assembly-line speeds. The union agreed to new negotiations on wages and production schedules, and to withdrawal of charges of unfair labor practices against Bendix...
...miracle seemed capable of brightening Britain's dark economic prospect, which included declining exports, talk of devaluing the pound, and growing pressure on Labor's "full-employment" dikes. But as the cabinet held another emergency meeting to deal with wildcat strikers, the strikers themselves showed signs of coming to heel. In Liverpool 8,000 dockers voted to go back to work. For the fifth successive Sunday, striking locomotive crews dislocated rail traffic; but the stoppage was less severe than on previous weekends, for some crews worked in defiance of the strike leaders' pleas...
Meanwhile, union members, disappointed by nationalization, were becoming increasingly hard for their government to handle. Last week, a wildcat strike of railway workers against the nationalized railway system was spreading. Liverpool dockers were out, and London truckers were engaged in a slowdown. In London, even the men who wash milk bottles had struck...