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Catch Up Is Not Enough. Steelworkers used to set the pace for labor. Says Morris Burmmit, a union local president at the Jones & Laughlin mill in Aliquippa, Pa.: "Now we don't want just to catch up. We want to set the pace again." The average steelworker earns $4.19 an hour in base pay, or $170.53 weekly. If he earned that year round, as few do, his annual earnings would be $8,860-or $739 less than the auto worker's average income. The auto workers are now in the fourth week of their own strike...
MARILYN HARTMANN MORRIS Aliquippa...
...Ambridge and Aliquippa experiment, known as the four-quarter plan, the year is divided into quarters, and vacations are distributed equally among four terms. Three-quarters of the student body is always in school...
...difficulty was not the program itself--educationally it "worked well," according to Dr. L. M. Wilson, superintendent of schools in Aliquippa at the time. But parental opposition to the staggered vacations and to summer work was overwhelming. Wilson explained that the school-board had "promised" to return to the old program when sufficient money was available, but strong community pressure was an important factor...
...Thomas B. Stanley, governor of Virginia, proposed that the entire Virginia public school system should be put on a four-quarter program much like that which had been tried with little success in Aliquippa, Ambridge, and Fort Worth. The plan, which had met with great parental disapproval, was shelved when the segregation crisis occurred, and there is little prospect that it will be revived. Despite its failure, the Virginia proposal represents one of the first serious moves by a state system toward the full year school, and is memorable for that reason alone...