Word: local
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Striking machinists and pilots maintained a 60-person picket line at Logan but did not interfere with people crossing it, said Edward Imondi, business agent for Local 1726 of the International Association of Machinists in Boston...
...weekends) would be hauled to police stations; parents of repeat offenders would be fined. Police are skeptical. In murder cases, says Police Chief Maurice Turner, the "average victim is 31, and the average perpetrator is over the age of 18." If Mayor Marion Barry signs the bill, the local A.C.L.U. has vowed to go to court against...
...rejected the contract and threw their support to the I.A.M. members, asserting that the airline's fleet could not be safely maintained during a mechanics' walkout. Said John Bavis, head of Eastern's pilots' union: "What's Lorenzo going to do with 225 airplanes? Take them down to the local Jiffy Lube...
I.A.M. officials heatedly denied the charges. Said Frank Ortis, vice president of IAM Local 702 in Miami: "Our people are professionals. There is no sabotage." But as the strike got under way, 3,000 IAM members vented their anger outside Eastern headquarters in Miami. Some hurled rocks, bottles and cinder blocks, while others charged the gates...
...connoisseurs of roughhouse local politics, there is no place like Chicago and no name like that of the late Mayor Richard J. Daley. Last week it appeared that the fabled boss's firstborn son might be the next occupant of the office in city hall from which hizzoner presided for 21 years. In a Democratic primary notable for its racially polarized voting, Cook County State's Attorney Richard M. Daley defeated Eugene Sawyer, a black who took over as mayor 16 months ago, after the death of Harold Washington, Chicago's first black chief executive. Daley...