September 1964 The Big Strike Could the general strike

September 1964 The Big Strike Could the general strike of May 31 to June 13 have been averted if the Governments of the Nigerian Federation, on the one hand, and the Joint Action Committee, on the other, had exercised more self-control, more ability to give and take, more mutual trust, less arrogance, less jealousy and less delight in the show of will-power and strength?. The Governments of the Federation had long laid the stage for the strike because of their past errors of commissions and omissions, their irritating obduracy when in the wrong and equally irritating vacillation when in the right, their sense of inverted economics, the ostentatious way of life of their ministers and senior civil servants, and their airy assumption that workers of Nigeria could never get united enough to embark on successful strike action. And the Governments could not, short of abdicating their powers, have averted the strike even if they had set their minds to d

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