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Throughout her years of skiing, St. John has received financial backing and moral encouragement from the National Brotherhood of Skiers, a coalition of Black skiing clubs. In addition, she regularly receives skis from the Rossignol company, which gives away mismatched skis to amputees...
...such ways was the country affected last week when 26,000 members of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers walked off their jobs. The strike, which began one minute after midnight on Sunday, lasted only four days. By its second day Ronald Reagan had introduced emergency legislation in Congress ordering the engineers to accept a new contract and report back to work; the House and Senate overwhelmingly approved the resolution during the next two days. "It's not pleasant to bring forth legislation that affects the right to strike," said Democratic Congressman John Dingell of Michigan chairman of the House...
...union must now accept the 28.8% pay hike, which will boost the annual earnings of each engineer to more than $47,000 by January 1984. The Brotherhood is also prohibited from striking until July 1,1984, when the current contract expires...
...ideals are basically the same love for your neighbor humanity brotherhood," he added...
...seemingly defunct and a group who rose up defiantly to demand its freedom. We see him standing before the Lincoln Memorial an Old Testament prophet in the guise of a Baptist preacher both admonishing a nation for its transgressions and exhorting it to live up to a vision of brotherhood and equality. But while the image of King as a modern day Moses has become fixed the human being behind that image has lost focus...