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...rally dispersed, the Bobby Seale Contingent made its way down Beacon St. and passed a group of mailmen, "We support you," shouted one demonstrator to the group. "Do you support...
...What the hell does it matter?" answered one of the mailmen. "We see one of these marches every other...
...Clifford Odets' play Waiting for Lefty, typified the spirit of radical protest in the depressed 1930s. Now, in the affluent '70s, it is echoing from meetings of union men who would fit neatly into Odets' script (truck drivers, tugboat deckhands) and many others who would not (mailmen, air traffic controllers). Their mood of frustration is so intense that 1970 may go down in U.S. economic history as the Year of the Strike...
...their eagerness to ward off just such a disaster, both sides made concessions. The Government, which had earlier pledged not to negotiate until the strike ended, seized on a developing back-to-work trend as an excuse to open talks with union leaders. The mailmen, who had vowed to stay out until Congress took action on their wage demands, settled for the opening of serious talks with Administration officials-though the Executive Branch by itself has no authority to set pay scales...
...discussions on all of the issues as soon as the men went back to work. Senator Gale McGee, chairman of the Senate Post Office Comittee, agreed to consider postal pay raises as part of a general salary bill covering all federal employees, but refused to take any action while mailmen remained on strike. Said McGee: "I will not discuss any pay legislation that rewards only those workers who walk out on the American people in a wildcat strike." Rademacher was satisfied with the deal, confident that he could sell it to postal union officials...