Word: nonunion
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...week to "run the traps," as every advance man should, and his brain was abuzz with the axioms of his craft: "Make them come to you; get typists and a legman quick; be anonymous; don't spill news-dribble it out; stress unity; keep calm; avoid nonunion bands; don't make cameras shoot into the sun; be ready to pick up strays; beware of national committeewomen...
...trouble began after a neighborhood governing committee in the Ocean Hill-Brownsville section of Brooklyn summarily transferred teachers because they were supposedly trying to sabotage the experiment. The committee was never able to document its harsher charges, but it stubbornly refused to back down, and hired its own nonunion instructors. The city's central school board finally suspended the Ocean Hill committee and its administrator, Rhody McCoy, because it refused to return the unwanted teachers to their regular duties. The move seemed to ease the crisis. The teachers were grudgingly accepted in seven of Ocean Hill's eight...
...largest after Prudential, went on strike for higher commissions and bigger retirement and pension funds. At one point, a settlement seemed near. But that was before the strikers began to toss bricks through windows of Metropolitan's headquarters in Manhattan, throw knives around the cafeteria and generally terrorize nonunion agents...
...very least, if the strike continues for any length of time, veteran players - even though they are working out on their own - figure to report out of shape, will have missed valuable coaching. If it lasts into the season, owners may play with teams composed entirely of nonunion rookies. Or they may not play at all: Baltimore Colts Owner Carroll Rosenbloom has gone so far as to order his front office to work out plans for repaying 50,000 season-ticket holders. In either case, there is genuine concern for the damage a protracted strike may do to the image...
...Aggrieved that they are paid one of the lowest minimums of any sizable paper in the country ($174.80 a week after five years), Guildsmen seek a $25.20-a-week raise over two years. Management has offered $13 over the same period. The longer the strike drags on, the more nonunion personnel the Herald-Examiner hires to put out the paper. It is not much different from the usual one. It skimps on local news, runs a lot of wire service copy, a flock of columnists and a strong sports page. The paper claims a 600,000 press run; its normal...