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...Reports (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.).-The program examines labor-management relations in the light of last-ditch attempts to avoid a nationwide railway strike...
Four Men to a Job. The problem spreads across the whole range of industry. At least 5,000 of Bolivia's 25,000 mineworkers and 30,000 of Argentina's 180,000 railway workers are superfluous. Chile's creaking national railroad employs 87 men per mile of track v. 27 in Britain, where that number is considered heavy featherbedding. Brazilian 10,000-ton freighters have an average 49 crewmen each, while similar ships under other flags use only 37.* Argentina's depressed auto manufacturers, producing at scarcely 30% of capacity, are desperately trying to thin their...
Seasoned soldiers, baaing like sheep, flatly refused to fight. At Soissons, the men of the 370th Infantry Regiment stormed the railway station, captured a train, and headed for Paris. A whole division was so rotten with mutiny that it was cajoled into holding against the Germans only by the hand-wringing eloquence of its commanding officer. By June 1917, out of some 100 infantry divisions, the French high command could count on fighting obedience from only...
...Britain is headed for a general election this fall, Tories and Laborites last week gave the country a lively foretaste of the campaign to come. During a two-day House of Commons debate on Dr. Richard Beeching's drastic reorganization program for the nation's ailing, anachronistic railway system (TIME, April 5), Labor, which decried the government's plans as "political" window dressing, set up a crescendo of jeers that thoroughly rattled the Tory advocate, Transport Minister Ernest Marpies. But the noise hardly concealed the fact that most Laborites wholeheartedly favor modernizing the state-owned railways, which...
...didn't have to discuss the route with him. I already knew it," Lynn replied. "We had reconstituted the underground railway" to protect Robert Williams from unjust persecution by the American government...