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Finland was gripped by the first general strike in its 36-year history as a republic. The strike was brought on by 200,000 members of the trade union federation who walked off their jobs, demanding a 6% wage increase to meet a recent hike in dairy prices made by Finland's farmers' marketing organization. As the strike entered its third week, all industry was at a standstill, and strikers were hard pressed for money to feed their families. But there was a remarkable absence of any real violence among the imperturbable Finns. At week...
...House Ways and Means Committee, in approving a money-raising section of the vast road construction program, voted to assess highway users nearly $14 billion in new taxes over the next 16 years. Among the committee recommendations: a 1? hike in the present 2?-per-gallon gasoline and diesel fuel tax; a 3?-per-lb. increase in the present 5?-per-lb. tire tax; a 2% increase in the tax on the sales price of trucks, buses and trailers; a new annual tax of $1.50 per 1,000 lbs. on trucks weighing more than...
...colleges raised their tuition collaterally, part of this problem in selling the best would be eliminated, for many families already regard the Ivy League as the only place their children can get a first rate education. But many others do not, and it seems inevitable that a substantial tuition hike will throw the balance even more heavily in favor of State U. for the student from the provinces, still unconvinced by accolades in Holiday...
Last month, afraid that an all-round wage hike would whip Israel's cantering inflation into a gallop, the government reneged on a promise to raise professionals' pay. The professionals had taken all they could: 8,000 of them went on strike. Doctors, judges, lawyers, engineers, teachers and civil servants walked out of clinics, courtrooms, lecture halls and government offices, leaving the untrained and unskilled to fend for themselves. Said striking professors at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem: ''The future of Israel in the Middle East depends on its position as a state highly developed...
...Cathedral, was in the embarrassing predicament of a big employer with a wage dispute on his hands. Early this year Party-Liner Johnson's choristers, restricted to part-time outside jobs because they must warble Evensong at 3:15 p.m. five days a week, asked for a pay hike from $675 a year to $1,000. No strike was threatened, but Dr. Johnson and his chapter cohorts thumbed down the raise, summarily suspended the choristers' spokesman on a handy pretext. Last week, with the suspended singer toying with the idea of lorming a choristers' union, Dr. Johnson...