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...usual, the intransigent I.T.U. was at odds with the rest of the newspaper unions. Though most of the other union members honored the picket line, only the mailers joined the printers in striking. Five of the other unions had accepted the publishers' early offer when contracts ran out in 1964: a $4.10 weekly increase in health and welfare benefits in 1965; a $4.20 increase in pension payments in 1966; and no wage boost. The printers, who have a fatter pension fund than the other unions, balked. They demanded an immediate pay raise. As one printer on the picket line...
...Dixie Student. Though he was chairman of the policymaking N.A.A.C.P. board of directors in 1960, Weaver has never been a picket-line, front-line fighter in the civil rights movement. His role has been, in his words, that of "a liberal rather than a Negro; I feel that black chauvinism is no bet ter than white chauvinism...
...they don't care how big I get as long as I don't get too close." Despite the disappearance of the old ethnic comedy, though, some sub rosa jokes still thrive, on the assumption that only a really minor minority lacks the strength to fight or picket. The current favorite is the Polish joke, which ranges from harmless slap to unpleasant slur: Q. Why are there so few Polish suicides? A. It's not easy to get killed jumping from a basement apartment." The one subject that is strictly taboo right now is Viet Nam, says...
...interfaith age, Protestant and Roman Catholic clergy pray together and picket together, and hardly a church exists that has not been preached to by a minister of another faith. But there is a point where ardent advocates of ecumenism draw the line: interCommunion. To receive the consecrated bread and wine together is the ultimate expression of Christian unity, and to do so lightly is morally wrong as long as Christianity remains divided...
...successful defense of his heterosexual hon or against the assault of perverted Chicago cops-and later of giant Negro homosexuals in jail-with the same modest gusto of a college quarterback telling Coach how he managed to shake the field. It was a rough world, not just on the picket lines but in the interminable ideological warfare among the power addicts on the outer fringe of communoid politics. This kind of politics seems as dead today as Joe Hill. The reader will wonder how, among his chosen society-the failed saints, moral riffraff, ignorant zealots, sex addicts and refugees from...