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...last. By the end of the week, four other craft unions had settled, and the rest of the craft unions are likely to come around soon. But a speedy end to the strike was by no means assured. It is the Newspaper Guild, after all, that took to the picket lines, and the Guild's demands cannot be met with money alone. The question of seniority in hiring for the new papers has yet to be resolved. Guild Chief Tom Murphy has said that a new contract could be negotiated in 48 hours of hard bargaining...
...class on flights where it has no competition. Patterson's latest complaint is about the youth fare (TIME, April 22), which offers reduced rates to the 12-to-22 age group. "I wish," he growled last week, that "kids carrying banjos and ukuleles and looking for a new picket line would find some other way to travel...
...Students for a Democratic Society yesterday helped picket the Jewish Memorial Hospital in Roxbury to demand higher wages and better working conditions for hospital employees...
...Monday, hospital director Murray Fertel fired Keaty for attempting to organize the workers. The Association met with SDS again Monday night and decided to picket the hospital for the rest of the week. If Fertel does not offer to recognize the Association, Keaty said, "we'll have to try more drastic measures...
...nothing so crude as a march on Washington, nothing so trite as a White House picket line. It was a camp-in. And a stroke of publicity genius at that. Some 90 impoverished Negroes from Mississippi's tent cities last week staked out for themselves some of the choicest acreage in the Great Society-the tulip beds of Lafayette Square, just a few steps across Pennsylvania Avenue from Lyndon Johnson's front door and within nailing distance of his bedroom window. "We want," declared Camp Leader Frank Smith, 25, "to let the President see exactly what the housing...