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...Pickets are a common sight in New York City, but there was something different about the workers marching in front of 21 metropolitan hospitals last week: they were doctors. In the first major strike ever undertaken by American M.D.s, about 2,000 interns and residents took to the picket lines for four days to protest what they regarded as intolerable working conditions...
...total of 350 doctors walked out at Metropolitan Hospital; most New York University Hospital interns and residents refused to join the strike. Many of the struck hospitals were able to maintain their normal capacity by pressing senior physicians into service. Even the strikers helped; they frequently slipped off picket lines to care for their patients...
HAYDEN HALL is plunged into a slimy mist at 10 a.m. Sunday morning. A bearded fellow wearing a blue parka lurches across its granite steps. "Go picket Louise Day Hicks's house," he barks into a portable loudspeaker. The Committee Against Racism (CAR) is trying to mount a demonstration...
...noon, CAR's proposal to picket Hicks's house reaches a vote. Seideman hurries to the aisle mike and tells the crowd not to accept it; CAR is reactionary, there is too great a risk of violence. Support for the proposal is neglible...
Before they entered the OCS-OCL building, the protesters, chanting and singing, formed a picket line outside...