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...organizations will be soliciting money from students at tables in the House dining halls this week to pay for advertisements publicizing the workers' situation. The groups will ask students to join with the strikers in manning the picket lines...
...process begins by setting labor directly against government. Police, firemen, sanitation workers and other public service employees, battered by inflation, strike for higher wages and benefits. Services to the general public grow worse, and the infection spreads. The ideal of public service erodes?children watch their teachers walk picket lines. The government becomes an adversary. To yield to labor demands heats up the inflation further; to resist spreads further chaos. With paychecks squeezed on one side by inflation and on the other by rising government expenses, a taxpayers' revolt of one kind or another grows likely. Observes Northwestern University Historian...
...student who attended the speech out of loyalty to the Nixon administration has just as much a right to do so as the demonstrators had to picket. Any of the demonstrators would justifiably invoke the Bill of Rights if anyone dared question the lawfulness of their action; therefore they should show tolerance to a fellow student expressing a different sentiment...
Despite his amiability, controversy frequently dogged him. His refusal to honor his union's picket lines during a 1967 strike by the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists aroused the ire of many colleagues. (Huntley argued that AFTRA is a union of "singers, actors, jugglers, announcers, entertainers and comedians, whose problems have no relation to ours.") The Nixon White House regarded him as a special thorn, and internal memorandums depicted him as a paradigm of the influential journalists who badgered the Administration. Further criticism followed his decision-after retiring from the program-to lend his anchor...
Jones, the leader of a demonstration at A&P's central office last year, also called for volunteers to man picket lines outside A&P stores on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays. A&P sells Teamsters grapes...