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...wake of last Wednesday's episode, a general meeting of 2000 students voted to stage a strike. Since it was really a wildcat move, the students had difficulty molding a cohesive program. But they agreed to continue their boycott of classes until Chancellor Roger W. Heyns had acceded to five demands...
...Motors, and Standard-Triumph as well as B.M.C. have cut work weeks to four days. B.M.C. Chairman Sir George Harriman announced that 12,000 employees will be laid off early next month, "and it does not appear that they will be taken back again." Angry workers have responded with wildcat strikes, and union leaders utter dark warnings of slow downs and more work stoppages...
...settlement will increase the shipowners' labor costs at least 9.5% over a two-year period, shattering Wilson's 3.5% annual-increase guideline against inflation. Even so, the Communists and many of the more militant union members were still not satisfied, and might vent their unhappiness with wildcat strikes on some docks...
Extreme Positions. The dispute might never have come to a strike except for the internal tensions within Britain's National Union of Seamen. The present crisis dates back to 1960, when a group of Communist renegades from the union succeeded in pulling off several wildcat strikes against British shipping. Figuring that it would be better to have the Communists back in his union where he could keep an eye on them, Union Chief William Hogarth invited the troublemakers into his union's inner council. They have pushed him into increasingly extreme positions. To the Labor government...
...Buick LeSabre '65s and Wildcat '65s turned up a batch of cars with weak wheels; they were replaced on 11,257 cars...