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...Tolerable Edge. To Administration officials, 5% settlements are "right at the tolerable edge" as far as their inflationary impact is concerned. Nonetheless, when the Teamsters reportedly won a 5% boost after 1,500 trucking firms halted their three-day lockout, they were not noticeably elated. For three days, Teamsters in Chicago struck for a 90?-an-hour boost instead of an hourly increase in wages and fringes totaling 600 to 700 over a three-year period, as accepted by the national union. In its talks this fall, covering 775,000 workers, the United Auto Workers union is expected...
...segment of university students developed their own style, their own content, their own leadership in an effort to exert an impact on the whole society. Instead of "student chapters" of off-campus movements, the center of activity was on the campus itself. This...
...Concentration in the mass university: The large college and the large university have become a standard habitat for many of these students. The environment is often quite impersonal. There is little sense of a united community of scholars and students and administrators. The impact of greater size has been increased by the recent neglect of the undergraduate in favor of graduate students, research, and external service...
...nation about their concerns. They can travel readily. They can have a loose network of friendships and contacts. As a consequence, they can concentrate their talents and their attention at selected pressure points quite readily. A form of guerrilla warfare has been possible with few student casualties but much impact--a strange war where the casualties often lie elsewhere and the impact may owe more to the exaggeration of the enemies than to the aid of the allies. The new style of flamboyant dress and flamboyant speech fits the headlines and the TV screens as no milder performances would...
...Tactics for the short-run. The methods of action are all aimed at quick results or quick impact, such as the sit-in, the picket line, strike, march, vigil, teach-in or other forms of mass demonstration. The preparation of big programs, the conduct of prolonged negotiations, the organization of an extensive educational program, the establishment of an organization to exert constant pressure, are all avoided. The tactics can be described as "instantism." There is a chiliastic aspect--a dramatic action to be followed expectantly by dramatic reulsts. Here again there is a parallel to syndicalism and the I.W.W...