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...Yorkshire last week the chances did not look bright. There some 16,000 coal miners went out on an unauthorized strike over the Government's request that they work harder in return for a five-day week. In vain burly Will Lawther, president of the National Union of Mineworkers, pleaded with them. "This is sheer anarchy," he cried, "more than criminal at a time like this." A miner in Armthorpe summed up the long-smoldering disappointment of his fellows: "Nationalization don't make no difference. There's still the bloody boss...
...Communist whose first loyalties might not belong to his country in crisis (TIME, July 28). Attlee pleaded: would the miners work an extra half hour daily, or an extra half day weekly? The men from the mines agreed-if the Government promised not to revoke the newly granted five-day week...
Extension of the University sculling races from a four- to a five-day meet was announced last night by Bill Dowd '44, clerk of course, moving the date of the finals to August 15 and scheduling the qualifying heats from August 11 through August...
...followed his call for resistance, Gandhi was overwhelmed with remorse. He called off his campaign in 1922, admitted himself guilty of a "Himalayan miscalculation." His followers were not yet self-disciplined enough to be trusted with satyagraha. To become a "fitter instrument" to lead, Gandhi imposed on himself a five-day fast...
Even John Lewis* seemed in less vengeful mood. From what leaked out about his starting demands on the private operators, they were, as usual, stupendous: a five-day, 40-hour week, at the same pay as for the present 54-hour week; doubling of the 5?: royalty for his welfare fund on each ton of coal mined; inclusion of supervisors in his contract. But for the first time since 1943 he had agreed to separate sessions with Northern and Southern operators. Mineworkers headquarters henchmen were already talking confidently of an agreement by June 15-if not before...