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...Lowell House fire bell system failed to function, leaving many students unaware of the blaze until they were awakened by shouts and whistles from police, firemen and other students...
Local authorities finally acted in the name of private property. Police and firemen succeeded in coaxing Mrs. Stebbins down after seven days, and workmen then quickly felled the enormous beech. Though the tree was lost, Mrs. Stebbins claimed a kind of nuisance-factor victory: "I think we've made a point. People may now think twice about cutting down a beautiful thing like that...
Taxpayers' Revolt. The process begins by setting labor directly against government. Police, firemen, sanitation workers and other public service employees, battered by inflation, strike for higher wages and benefits. Services to the general public grow worse, and the infection spreads. The ideal of public service erodes?children watch their teachers walk picket lines. The government becomes an adversary. To yield to labor demands heats up the inflation further; to resist spreads further chaos. With paychecks squeezed on one side by inflation and on the other by rising government expenses, a taxpayers' revolt of one kind or another grows likely. Observes...
...fuckin' world's so fucked up, the country's fucked up. But the firemen, you actually see them produce. You see them put out a fire. You see them come out with babies in their hands. You see them give mouth-to-mouth when a guy's dying. You can't get around that shit. That's real. To me, that's what I want...
Rocca said that the present firemen's contract with the city contains a "parity" clause which stipulates that if any other city department is granted longevity service pay or extra pay for night work, the Fire Department will automatically be granted them also...