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...efforts to thwart Imetal, Copperweld has rallied impressive support-with the help of its image maker, Ketchum, MacLeod & Grove, Pittsburgh's biggest public relations firm. Hundreds of Copperweld's 4,300 employees have ridden buses into Washington and Manhattan to picket against the takeover, urged on by United Steelworkers President I.W. Abel. Republican Senators Hugh Scott of Pennsylvania and Robert Taft of Ohio, where Copperweld operates two plants, have issued statements supporting the Pittsburgh firm. Pennsylvania Governor Milton J. Shapp sent a wire to Smith stating his belief that Imetal wants Copperweld "as a source of cash only...
...Judge Fines Teachers' Union; Boston Walkout in Third Day" (Wed., Sept. 24), reporting my address to a Spartacus youth League Forum which seriously endangers black-white unity in the union's struggle. In this report you infer I stated that '''about half' of Boston's 1000 black teachers crossed picket lines." What I actually stated was that the radio reported that one half of the 225 members of the Black Educator's Alliance, not all Boston teachers, voted Monday night at Freedom House to go to school to protect endangered black schoolchildren, particularly in racist areas; they additionally stated that...
...Tuesday very few of the less than 500 teachers and aides (out of 6000 union members) who crossed picket lines were black. And Tuesday night union officials met with the Black Educator's Alliance. The result of that meeting was an announcement of the formation of the Black Caucus of the Boston Teachers Union which immediately issued the following press release: "This evening, the Black Caucus of the Boston Teachers Union unanimously supported the present strike by the Boston Teachers Union." Unfortunately for the school committee, which interpreted the Freedom House meeting as signifying that black teachers would break...
Last week many parents joined teachers on the picket line outside P.S. 140. Complained one mother, Mary Akins: "My ten-year-old is a slow learner. With 40 kids in a class, I don't think she can improve...
...doored school. Even at P.S. 6, which is regarded as one of the three or four best schools in the New York City system, classes were overcrowded; last year they grew to 36 students and this year to 40. Said Sally Mendel, a mother on the picket line: "I'm fearful that conditions in the city will continue to force out the middle-class people who can't afford private schools...