For the first time in the postwar era, a major nationwide strike against a giant corporation producing consumer goods was being brokenand by the workers themselves. After two weeks of strike against General Electric, more and more members of the International Union of Electrical Workers were defying Union President James Carey and reporting to work. The action was the result of the steadily hardening attitude of management toward union demands, which first turned up in the auto strike two years ago and in the steel strike last year.
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