Word: mayor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...worker-employer impasse followed the classic pattern of conflict. Invoking Tennessee court decisions banning strikes by public service workers, the mayor brought in some 150 strikebreakers. The Negro community countered with a boycott of downtown stores with the slogan: "No new clothes for Easter." Seven hundred Negroes picnicked in city hall. A few youngsters tried to overturn a police cruiser. Nervous cops sprayed the kids' faces with Mace. Injunctions were brought against union leaders. When a contingent of Negro ministers and militants returned to city hall, a raucous exchange of words resulted in the arrest of 117 protesters. They...
Young raiders broke into a Beale Street department store. Fires were set to the garbage piling up at a rate of nearly 500 tons a day. Windows have been broken in laundries and barbecue restaurants bearing the Loeb name (they are owned by the mayor's brother). "I am not in favor of violence," said the Rev. James M. Lawson Jr., an erudite militant who leads much of the Negro struggle. But "if I were inclined to advocate burning, it would be in East Memphis [where the mayor lives]-I think we've had enough talk of this...
Hope & Danger. By week's end two mutations in the struggle had evolved. Growing weary of Mayor Loeb's intransigence, fashionably dressed white housewives urged him to give in, while council members called for the dues checkoff and for pledging Memphis' government to equal-opportunity hiring and promotion. And the scope of Negro demands was widening as swiftly as their mood could darken. Now agitators call not only for victory for the garbage men but better jobs and housing for all of Memphis' Negroes...
...first time, Mayor Jerome Cavanagh stepped into Detroit's 17-week-old newspaper strike that has shut down both the Free Press and the News. "This continued strike is a disgrace bordering on calamity," he told both sides last week. "This has gone far beyond any reasonable bounds. We all share a responsibility to resolve this demoralizing situation quickly because of the unique and critical problems confronting our city at the present time...
Cavanagh was referring to rumors that had armed Negroes invading the white suburbs and armed white snipers riding through the Negro ghettos. Because of such rumors, both Negroes and whites are starting to arm themselves. The mayor and others thought that the News and the Free Press could have helped quiet such wild talk. As it is, the city no longer even has its three interim papers...