More Troubles

From other capitals came news on further tiny fuses blown out in the world's economic hookup:

In Dublin, the 1,230 primary schoolteachers on strike for higher wages since last March (TIME, April i) made the front pages again. Into a Dublin football pitch where Prime Minister de Valera, President Sean O'Kelly and other bigwigs sat watching the All Eire Gaelic Football finals, marched some 100 schoolteachers With banners demanding mediation. The crowd of 80,000 roared delightedly: "Good old teachers." Next day the teachers, joined by some 500 parents, held a huge parade that held up Dublin traffic for an hour, while children chanted "We want school."

For the next two days the teachers picketed the Dublin Mansion House, where De Valera's Fianna Fail Party was holding a convention. But Education Minister Thomas Derrig held firm. "The government," he said, "will not be coerced." Prime Minister de Valera threatened to lock out rural teachers who, by giving up a tenth of their salaries, were maintaining the Dublin strikers at nine-tenths of their pre-strike pay level. Stubborn De Valera was so wroth that he was reported pondering a general election on the strike issue.

In Stockholm, doctors were on strike, --118 of them, whose earnings in Government hospitals amounted to less than those of bus conductors. The strikers were promptly fired, since it is against the law in Sweden for Government employes to strike. But in the face of a shortage of medicos, they promptly returned to work on a temporary basis, threatening another walkout (as private citizens) if salaries were not jacked up.

In Amsterdam, stockbrokers caught the fever, refused to do any more trading unless Finance Minister Pieter Lieftinck lifted his ban on trading in U.S. securities.

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