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...Striking firemen in Chicago
...danger was clear, present and ominous: 90% of Chicago's firemen were on strike. How did the nation's second largest city (pop. 3.5 million) cope with the emergency? With ingenuity, a stub born we'11-get-by persistence, a small army of willing, if nastily trained substitutes - and just plain good luck. At week's end Chicago had survived 17 days of the strike without a major disaster...
...crisis began when the Chicago Fire Fighters Union became locked in an angry, name-calling feud with strong-willed Mayor Jane Byrne. Richard Daley, her predecessor, had kept the firemen content by raising their pay without a contract until the average $22,300-a-year salary was among the highest paid to the nation's firemen. But Byrne resisted demands for a contract that would assign a six-man team to each fire truck (up from the current four or five men), cover supervisors, and include the right to strike...
...Stearns admits that the Kennedy campaign is in bad shape in Illinois because of rural downstate support for Carter and because of political turmoil in Chicago. Since she announced her support for Kennedy, Byrne has been preoccupied with strikes by transit workers, firemen, and school teachers. Moreover, the machine itself is plagued by vicious infighting. "It is certainly not the best campaign in the country," Stearns says, adding that most of the problems are local...
CHICAGO--Most of Chicago's 4350 firefighters defied a court order and walked off the job yesterday in the first strike in history by Chicago firemen...