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"A Strikeless Society on America's Horizon?" The question mark at the end of this recent headline

"A Strikeless Society on America's Horizon?" The question mark at the end of this recent headline on a syndicated newspaper column suggests appropriate skepticism about the substance therein, even thouperiod be the fullness of time for the emergence of significant new developments in labor peacemakinggh the column reported that the first eleven months of 1973 had been "the most serene labor climate in a decade with man hours lost at a 10-year low."' Well before the year-end "energy crisis" and attendant economic dislocations, however, questions such as the following, far from being in the realm of idle conjecture, were becoming increasingly pertinent: Will the travail of this gloomy period be the fullness of time for the emergence of significant new developments in labor peacemaking? Will pervasive fears and drives to satisfy divergent needs in difficult times coalesce the forces moving toward more rational and less costly methods of resolving labor conflicts? Will the necessity of developing legal alternatives for the illegal strike in the public sector (governmental employment) lead to improved methods of peaceful settlement in the private sector? A number of signs point to affirmative answers to these questions.

on a syndicated newspaper column suggests appropriate skepticism about the substance therein, even though the column reported that the first eleven months of 1973 had been "the most serene labor climate in a decade with man hours lost at a 10-year low."' Well before the year-end "energy crisis" and attendant economic dislocations, however, questions such as the following, far from being in the realm of idle conjecture, were becoming increasingly pertinent: Will the travail of this gloomy period be the fullness of time for the emergence of significant new developments in labor peacemaking? Will pervasive fears and drives to satisfy divergent needs in difficult times coalesce the forces moving toward more rational and less costly methods of resolving labor conflicts? Will the necessity of developing legal alternatives for the illegal strike in the public sector (governmental employment) lead to improved methods of peaceful settlement in the private sector? A number of signs point to affirmative answers to these questions.

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