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Unable to have her exhibition-bound art removed from a strikebound ship in Manhattan, French Sculptress Jacque line Fayet-Leroy stationed herself by the picket lines, went on a hunger strike. After five days, the strikers could no longer stand it, and last week they al lowed longshoremen to remove the crate containing her six sculptures. That was about the only visible progress in the eight-week-old maritime strike, which has become one of the most frustrating in U.S. history. The walkout by deck officers, engineers and radiomen has idled 99 of the best U.S. ships (including the superliner...
...Theodore Flicker, who made The Troublemaker, constructed his parody film around the story of a naive chicken farmer named Jack Armstrong who comes to New York to open a coffeehouse. Jack's refusal to pay off the various authorities was meant to echo Marlon Brando's fight with the Longshoremen's Union in On the Waterfront. The touch is far too heavy, and what could be somewhat effective humor gets bogged down in weary detail...
Some individual union leaders are also corning under increasing attack from their own rank and file. Last year insurgents deposed the presidents of three unions-the International Longshoremen's Association, the American Federation of Teachers, and the State, County and Municipal Employees. Rebels also seriously challenged six other union chiefs, including the International Union of Electrical Workers' eccentric James B. Carey; critics within the union noted that, among his many other gestures that needlessly irritated management, Carey sent Monopoly sets to General Electric executives in jail for price fixing...
Unions make little effort to attract luminous young men. Salaries are low, advancement slow. Young talents who are drawn to union careers for ideological reasons often quit in frustration. There are, of course, some exceptions. The boss of a big Longshoremen's local in Brooklyn is college-trained Anthony Scotto, 30. He is a special case: he was hand-picked by the late Tony Anastasio, who happened to be his father-in-law. And one of the fastest-rising men in the Ladies' Garment Workers is Dave Dubinsky's son-in-law Shelley Appleton, 45. Obviously...
Shortage of Scotch. With more losses to come, the strike has already dealt the U.S. economy a $2.2 billion blow-$67 million for each day of the strike. Commerce Secretary Connor estimated that 191,000 workers were idled by the strike: not only the 60,000 striking longshoremen, but 38,000 seamen and other maritime workers, 45,000 railroadmen, 48,000 truckers. With 855 ships tied up, U.S. ocean shippers were deprived of 161 million tons of freight. The nation's strangled lines of trade also cost highway carriers 9,000,000 tons of business, railways...