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...announced his gubernatorial candidacy last week. He takes Castro's Cuba as his model and gets both rhetorical and material help from Havana. Mari Bras formed alliances with several unions, though most of organized labor remains antiCommunist. Some radicals are now in the leadership of unions representing firemen and telephone and power-plant workers. A number of strikes in 1974 and early 1975 grew violent, and industrial sabotage became a nagging problem. So did random explosions at the Puerto Rican offices of mainland-based enterprises...
Salaries and benefits now account for 85% of the postal budget. The basic wage of postal workers nationwide is presently $13,400 a year. To carry your analogy a little further, the average basic wage of New York policemen is $14,700; New York firemen, $14,700; New York teachers...
...national basis, the average police salary is $11,800; firemen, $11,200; teachers, $11,600. Consider also that assistant professors of four-year colleges earn a national average of $12,600, while postal workers earn an average of $13,400. As you surmised, only New York, the case you have cited as an example of disastrous municipal mismanagement, can be said to have kept pace with the Postal Service in this regard...
...smoother campaign organization and personal style. The dollar-conscious Barbagelata, a businessman who keeps a pocket calculator at the ready during board of supervisors meetings, counted on support from San Franciscans who feared their city might suffer the fate of New York. A four-day police and firemen's strike in August showed citizens how determined unions might bully a city into submission. Over the supervisors' protests, outgoing Mayor Joseph Alioto finally caved in and granted raises to end the strike...
Mohr and Kiratli extinguished the fire before the firemen arrived...