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...Corporation of London workers-market and street cleaners, rubbish collectors, gravediggers. At 7 o'clock one evening the twin bascules* of Tower Bridge went up, but not because a Thames ship tooted for passage through. The 70 men who operate the drawbridge in shifts had also joined the wildcat sympathy strike over George Turner's three hooks...
...Navy v. Wildcat. Labor Minister George Isaacs (see cut) was up to his neck in troubles. British labor in general seemed as touchy as a wildcat's ribs. Less annoying to the public than the Corporation workers' strike, but more jolting to the national economy, was an unauthorized walkout by about 10,000 of London's 24,000 dockmen. They struck in sympathy with Glasgow's 3,800 dockmen who walked out seven weeks ago when the Ministry of Labor ruled that about 500 of them would have to be dismissed (there was not work enough...
...Frachon, Communist Co-Secretary General of France's General Federation of Labor, called in Eugene Henaff, a tough Communist disciplinarian (whose chief claim to distinction is that he has worn a red tie every day for the past eleven years). Benoit Frachon issued instructions: "We have a small wildcat strike chez Renault. Get down there...
...compensation for pay lost by wildcat strikes...
Last week the Labor Government wiggled out from under its worst labor scare yet. A wildcat strike of about 500 London truck drivers had mushroomed into a walkout of about 40,000 sympathizers and threatened to spread disastrously through the country. The Government got the strike ended in its eleventh day, but it was severely clawed by the wildcatters. So was the strong but unwieldy Transport and General Workers Union, to which most of the strikers belonged. So was London's long-suffering public. The truck drivers had struck in protest against union and government bumbling that had delayed...