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PUBLIC concern over work stoppages, reflected in demands for restrictions on the strike weapon, has increased in recent years. It reached a peak in the period immediately following World War II. At that time major stoppages occurred in coal, oil refining, railroads, steel, automobile manufacturing, shipping and longshoring, telephone communications, and other public utility industries. To many people, it appeared in the latter part of 1945 and early 1946 that the economy was to be paralyzed. A natural consequence was the insistent demand for compulsory arbitration machinery to assure the public an uninterrupted flow of goods and services. Joint labor-managment opposition did not quiet the insistence that at least in public utilities and other basic industries strikes should be outlawed. Twelve states enacted such legislation for This study of national emergency strikes suggests that the incidence and dangers of such strikes are overexaggerated in the minds of legislators and the public; except in time of war, machinery to deal with emergency strikes is
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