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Such is the talk and the style around this game now. The owners are no less strident, chewing over the idea of a lockout, professing to be negotiating while mailing the players how-to instructions on quitting a union. In football, owners can still regard the athletes lightly, confident they will never find a truly competitive market for their services. Jack Donlan, executive director of the management
...favor the fixed percentage proposal are saying they will support a walkout. Naturally, the owners too are talking tough. The union proposal, says N.F.L. Negotiator Jack Donlan, is "alien to American business" and "would be tantamount to getting control" of the league. Donlan threatens a possible lockout if no agreement is reached and hints at fielding teams of nonunion rookies and free agents. Should that happen, the rich new TV deal would start with some ironically low-grade football...
...pitchers, whose coddled arms must be toned gradually, a couple of weeks' preparation would be ample. Managers need no more time than that to make up their minds about the rosters-not infrequently made up going in. All of this was proved in 1976 when an owners' lockout of three weeks had no great effect on the quality of training-just on the quality of spring...
...most urban public transportation shut down. Only one major port, Halsingborg, remained open to receive freighters. Responding to a growing fuel shortage, panicky Swedes were filling up their tanks at gas stations. They also began raiding the shelves of state-owned liquor stores after the announcement of a brewery lockout. Such staples as bread, milk and toilet paper were either rationed or unavailable...
...major league baseball players voted not to play the rest of their spring training games and to strike on May 22 if their union has not reached a new Basic Agreement with the owners by that time. Opening Day will proceed as scheduled barring a lockout by the owners...