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...offended the nation's nostrils-and was quickly followed by another strike of trash haulers in Memphis, Tenn. Detroit's summer epidemic of "blue flu," in which 700 policemen reported sick, deprived that city of 30% of its on-duty law-enforcement force. A 1967 walkout of firemen in Youngstown, Ohio, emptied all but one of 15 fire stations. In fact, Ohio, which has a tough law calling for the firing of every public employee who goes on strike, has had at least 30 strikes-involving police, nurses, city service employees, teachers and other government workers...
Labor Mediator Theodore Kheel proposes enjoining only those strikes that affect public health and safety; others, he feels, can be managed within the strategies of arbitration. Michigan State University Economist Jack Stieber would group government employees into three categories, only the first of which-possibly limited to policemen and firemen-would not be allowed to strike. Strikes instigated in less essential services would be tacitly tolerated, at least until their cumulative effect went beyond inconvenience...
...School Department's share of the budget took the biggest leap--$1.5 million--principally to pay for salary increases. Last year's pay raise for police and firemen (not fully included in the 1967 budget) accounted for $1.2 million of the increase. Another $700,000 of the increase will pay for salary increases for nurses and the higher operating expenses of the new City Hospital...
...Cambridge firemen tried to save some of Swamy's handwritten notes by rushing into the burning building and throwing them out the window. But they are still lost in the snow, and Swamy said the ink has probably been washed away...
Several explosions sent smoke gushing from the theatre as firemen fought to shut off the oil burner. The smoke did little damage and no one was hurt. The fire trucks departed shortly before midnight. The theatre was empty at the time of the first blast...