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27. The "china clay" strike which has snowballed across the Mersey docks was still on tonight, with 8,000 men away from work. At a mass meeting of Dockers at the Pier Head this evening, the Dockers overwhelmingly voted to stay out. 28. The movement "to kill the Bill" may snowball to irresistible proportions by the time when the Trades Union Congress recall conference on June 5. 29. Pravda front-pages a dispatch from its Warsaw correspondent about the work of Polish miners, among other economic progress reports from Socialist countries. 30. Even in the U. S., where intimidation has been most severe, there are many signs that large numbers of the American people are not "sold" on this line or brain-washed by the President of the A.F.L.— C.I.O.[21] 31. The President is not a welcome visitor, despite the massive brain-washing operation which has been mounted to convince us that the hawk has become a dove, the opportunist has turned into a man of principle. 32. Not content with slogans inciting to violence, some of the demonstrators acted in the tradition of the American lynches. Spotting a long-haired youth, they jumped off their lorry shouting: "Get him, kill him, he is a beatnik, he burnt our flag." 33. One of the reasons for the incredible consistency of the Beatles' success was their peculiar ability to keep abreast or ahead of current trends. 34. The Minister of Economy need not conclude that the British worker is too cussed to fit into an economic plan, or that he will inevitably frustrate labor mobility. But grandiose general statement in Whitehall about "shaking out labor" and redeployment are only convincing if they are accompanied by practical measures to make the intention a reality. 35. Mrs S. said: "If there is to be this so-called redeployment to the export industries, at least we should have the figures on which to work." 171
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