Word: firemen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Chicago cops and 1,000 federal agents will be in and around the amphitheatre during evening sessions. A special contingent of 200 firemen will also be on the grounds round the clock to answer special calls. The memory of last year's multimillion-dollar holocaust that gutted the modern McCormick Place convention hall-it probably would have housed this year's convention-is still painfully fresh. If mass arrests overflow the Cook County Jail, officials are prepared to put prisoners in tents in the jail yard. While the candidates trade charges on whether the convention is open...
Ticket Strike. Other slowdowns have taken a variety of forms. To back up their demands for higher pay and shorter working hours, Kansas City firemen resorted to a slowdown in 1966 during which they continued to answer alarms but refused to keep records, make safety inspections or clean up debris after fires. Detroit policemen, demanding more money and better work conditions, staged a brief "ticket strike" last year, deliberately cut the number of summonses issued for minor traffic violations by 50%. Slowdowns also occur when workers phone in sick in large numbers, a ruse used over the past 18 months...
...slow progress in contract talks, 115 nurses at two city hospitals phoned in sick one day this month, an epidemic that forced doctors and supervisory personnel to take over their chores. Three weeks ago, embroiled in a dispute over how many new fire fighters the force should hire, uniformed firemen and the city averted a threatened slowdown only by agreeing to submit the issue to a fact-finding board...
...York, Organizer Bayard Rustin skillfully set about mobilizing marchers and money for the massive June 19th demonstration that is intended to highlight the demands of the poor; to ensure order, Rustin is arranging for nearly 1,500 black New York City policemen (known as "the Guardians") and firemen ("the Vulcans") to serve as marshals in Washington on the big day. On Capitol Hill, Abernathy and 20 sympathetic Congressmen agreed to set up six subcommittees that will seek legislation to aid the poverty-stricken. Among the measures that they will push: President Johnson's program to build...
...their haste to get the insidious banner down, Washington firemen resorted to burning it off with a blow torch, before the Party could gather its forces, leaving pieces of red ash to settle around the steps of the Supreme Court...