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...House Post Office and Civil Service Committee reported out a measure that provided for 98% of the postal workers a hike of 5.4% retroactive to October 1969, plus an average 6% raise for all federal employees, including the mailmen, early in 1970. The House passed the bill and sent it along to the Senate. There, according to union officials, "it was emasculated." The Senate amended it so that it provided a raise of only 4% for all federal employees earning less than $10,000 annually. House and Senate conferees never met on the bill, and it passed into legislative limbo...
...convince the Congressmen and the national [union] president that we were not playing games and that there would be a strike unless we got the legislation that would satisfy [our members]." Their attempt was unsuccessful. Earlier this month, the Post Office Committee reported out still another bill providing the mailmen with a 5.4% increase retroactive to January. The men were unhappy with the amount. They were further irked by the announcement that Congress would take no action on the bill for three or four weeks. "This was the spark that set them on fire," said Sandbank...
...only men who used to carry hand bags were medieval couriers, New Guinea natives, mailmen, doctors, photographers and Truman Capote. These days, with trousers slim and pocketless and Ed wardian jackets cut to hold no more than the wearer, men are finding it ever more difficult to make room for even a credit card. Billfolds, eyeglasses and loose change? Forget them. Unless, of course, a fellow could get away with carrying a handbag...
...Some street plans are more difficult to police, some more difficult to service with oil trucks, mailmen, and bread delivery. But how often do urban planners consult truckdrivers?" Atkins asked...
...debris of revolt. In Paris' elegant Tuileries Gardens, sanitation workers plucked beer bottles and litter from the multicolored flower beds. On the capital's broad boulevards, road crews shoveled steaming asphalt into the gaps where paving stones had been pried up to build barricades. Blue-uniformed mailmen made their appointed rounds for the first time in weeks. Trains and subways rumbled once more; the whine of jetliners echoed again at the airports. By the millions, French workers trooped back to their factories. Though there were still some pockets of holdouts, notably the university students and the strikers...