Everybody's Doing It

Strike-happy Americans could take comfort; other people were crazy too. Around the world last week, labor, management and government were at each other's throats.

P:In Japan, traffic and transport workers won a sharp, significant victory. More than 5,000 members of their Communist-led union paraded through Tokyo, immediately achieved: 1) wage increases averaging 500%; 2) ousting of "reactionaries" from the company; 3) employe participation in management. Just before this victory, Japanese Reds had gained face because of U.S. concessions to Russia on control of Japan (TIME, Jan. 7).

P:In Australia unions blacklisted a brigadier for blacklisting his former valet (see FOREIGN NEWS).

P: In Denmark, the largest shipyards stopped for eight hours. Reason: shipworkers did not like Premier Knud Kristensen's anti-Communist talk.

P: In Dakar, French West Africa, black workers were organized into an all but general strike against pay increases for their white bosses.

P: In Brazil, taxicab drivers struck against new police regulations. Government vehicles were pressed into strikebreaking service. After four days of accidents, the cabbies went back to work.

P:In Argentina, the rich got the word. At pre-arranged H-hour, in a Mar del Plata casino, anti-Peron playboys and playgirls rose from the Government-run roulette wheels, started to march out. Peron's police, hurling tear gas, unrelentingly forced them back to the tables.

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