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...milling picket lines, the fire hoses, the club-wielding police were all reminiscent of the bloody strikes of the 1930s. When the International Union of Electrical Workers struck General Electric last week, the company vowed it would keep its plants open for all employees who wanted to work. Both sides knew the vow could lead to violence. It was not long in coming...
Close Votes. The militancy on the picket line barely concealed many of the union members' misgivings about the strike. The union's local at the Schenectady, N.Y. plant, the largest of G.E.'s 166 factories, at first voted 5,033 to 2,895 not to strike. But after the other I.U.E. locals went out, union officials at Schenectady passed around a petition until enough names were collected to call out I.U.E. workers there too. Soon after the strike began at Schenectady, such violent skirmishes broke out that the mayor declared a state of emergency, asked New York...
...effective was the strike? The union claimed that almost all of its 70,000 members (out of G.E.'s hourly work force of 110,000) were out, but the company maintained that as many as 5,000 workers, who are represented by the I.U.E., were slipping through the picket lines and reporting for work at the 44 struck plants. By the fifth day of the strike, G.E. said that including supervisory and salaried personnel, it had 33,902 employees in the nine major strikebound plants where 98,390 employees normally work. One thing was sure: not nearly enough workers...
...enthusiasm created by songs inspire the audience to work for disarmament. As a device for solidifying a group music, particularly folk music, is matchless. But it is best used for sustaining a mood of focussed activism; rarely, if ever, can music by itself ignite such a mood. On picket lines, song kept emotions taut; but hatred of management--and desire to unionize--was present long before the strikers learned their union songs...
...what they should do, although most think they know what should be done. What new techniques for activism can be used to meet this new situation? What are the implications of the necessarily unsubtle techniques now used? One can feel great sympathy, for example, with the pacifist who pickets missle bases until he realizes that this sort of action bears no direct relation to the situation (a technician here is by no means a scab if he crosses the picket line) and that the symbolism behind this movement, if carried to its extreme, augurs extreme danger for the United States...