Word: walkout
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Chicago (463,516 pupils), which had a huge boycott last fall, a smaller one-day walkout this time faced seem ingly fatal opposition from Negro politicians and the Urban League. Nonetheless, boycott leaders mustered 126,350 pupils (beyond normal absences of 46,000). The numerical success suggested that Chicago's political leaders cannot much longer ignore the issue...
...Brunswick. It began 19 weeks ago, when 145 members of the Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers International Union stomped out of Irving's $52 million Saint John refinery protesting that their hourly wages-$1.55 to $2.30-were 75? below the industry's average in Canada. The walkout has since spread westward to other parts of the Irving Oil Co. Labor views the Saint John strike as a battle of principle to extend standard industry wages and labor practices to Irving's many companies, but few of the real issues of the strike or its nasty incidents have...
Cash Shortage. The most serious crisis is a three-month strike for higher wages by 1,500 clerks on the Colombo docks, which has mushroomed into a sympathy walkout by more than 13,000 other white-collar workers. Warehouses bulge with millions of pounds of unsold rubber and tea. Many of the vast plantations cannot meet their weekly payrolls because they are short of cash. Foreign trade is at a virtual standstill. As the Cabinet leveled a back-to-work ultimatum at the strikers last week, Colombo buzzed with rumors that Mrs. Bandaranaike could only remain in office by declaring...
Scheduled to begin at midnight yesterday, the walkout by the 12,000 members of the International Brotherhood of Telephone Workers was averted Saturday morning when the union's executive committee reached agreement on a new contract with the New England Telephone and Telegraph...
...Sukarno that he had taken over West Irian without a plebiscite and that the legislatures of North Borneo and Sarawak had passed resolutions in favor of the new federation. No man to be troubled by inconsistencies, Sukarno nevertheless demanded his referendum. Only the soothing presence of Macapagal prevented a walkout by the Tunku...