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...sorry to read on page one of The Crimson that "Drinking Age Hike to 21 Gains in Congress," for there is another side to the issue. Let's put the Federal plea to raise the drinking age to 21 into perspective. Because such measures focus on the trouble that some young misusers of alcohol cause, let's start by thinking of things that some under-21 year olds do that cause trouble...
...workers had sought a 25-cent increase in their $2.01 hourly salary. Their new contract does not include a raise, and although the workers say they are happy with the settlement, they add that they plan to press for a wage hike when the contract expires in a year...
...employees, all members of Local 26 of the Hotel and Restaurant Employees' Union, continued to work last Thursday but asked customers not to patronize the establishments while they sought a wage hike. They had worked without a contract since last Monday, when their previous one-year pact expired...
...picketing earlier in the day, union members said they sought a 25-cent wage hike from their $2.01 hourly wages, along with a more comprehensive benefits package. The union rejected management's first contract offer...
That in itself would seem to indicate that Dukakis will veto the proposal but the governor has in the past acted against his own beliefs because he thought the public felt otherwise. Most recently, he said that he would have signed the lately-defeated bill to hike the drinking age--even though he opposed it--because "there is considerable public sentiment to raise...