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...think of a greater punishment than an antitrust suit for A T & T [Dec. 2] as the result of its success in serving the public efficiently. It should be required to take over the U.S. Postal Service...
What does apply, as it does for everyone, is the way life works. Jones is a pseudonym, but he is no stereotype. He is the son of a white Italian nurse ?whom he adores?and a black postal worker whose struggle to break into the middle class prompts bitter wrangling. Jones grew up on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. At 13, he hoped to be a professional singer. Instead, he followed the lead of older ghetto kids and got into drugs; by 17 he was stealing in earnest. Now 25, Jones is a bright street hustler who stutters...
...began last month with a minor dispute over a change in shifts in one Paris mail-sorting station. But by last week France was facing its worst labor unrest since the protests of May 1968 that nearly toppled Charles de Gaulle. The postal spat quickly developed into a strike that spread to the entire mail system, paralyzing thousands of dependent businesses. In the past fortnight meanwhile, coal miners, railway men, electric-utility workers, hospital employees, customs officials, Paris bus drivers and even veterinarians have walked off their jobs for at least a day. Last week Interior Minister Michel Poniatowski outraged...
Giscard sees inflation, currently running at about 15%, as the key threat. Polls show, however, that most Frenchmen worry more about job security. The President has argued that giving in to the strikers-the postal workers are demanding across-the-board wage increases of about $43 a month-would amount to capitulation in the struggle to control inflation. Millions of Frenchmen fear that allowing the strikes to continue could lead to a slump and inevitable layoffs...
Nonetheless, even Giscard's supporters admit that the government has been maladroit in handling the present strike crisis. During early negotiations with the postal workers, Pierre Lelong, Secretary of State for the Postal Service, called the task of sorting mail "an idiot's job." The unions are now insisting that negotiations be carried on by Premier Jacques Chirac, on the ground that Lelong is incompetent. After last week's police attack on the picketers, it appears that both sides were occupying entrenched positions...