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...those responsible for printing this picture, and others, we feel that black people have been extremely intelligent in fighting back against the special oppressions heaped on them by the ruling class of this country, and in giving leadership to the daily struggles of working people, such as the recent postal strike...
Dead on Arrival. On the postal front, Congress also moved quickly to make good on the promises that the Administration had made to end the illegal eight-day postal strike. Both the House and the Senate overwhelmingly passed legislation, which President Nixon is expected to sign this week, providing a 6% pay increase for 5,300,000 federal employees. The increase would include the nation's 725,000 postal workers, who stand to get annual pay hikes ranging from $371 to $507 a year. Even that did not please everyone. Gustave Johnson, leader of the letter carriers' Manhattan...
Almost lost in the maneuvering on the postal-pay question was the latest flurry of congressional action on Nixon's once-vaunted plan to modernize the mail system by making it a nonpolitical, Government-owned corporation. Several junior members of the House Post Office and Civil Service Committee made a last-gasp effort on behalf of the concept by pushing through a bill embodying the original Nixon proposals. Politically, however, the bill was dead on arrival. Many powerful Congressmen have been opposed all along to corporate reform of the postal system, and they have the votes to defeat...
Second Installment. The White House has now placed its hope for postal reform on a more modest Senate bill sponsored by Wyoming's McGee and Hawaii Republican Hiram Fong. The McGee-Fong bill, among other things, would retain a Senate-approved Postmaster General but would give Congress' cherished power of setting postal rates to a new, semi-autonomous board of commissioners. Though the slowly progressing bill is now in its eleventh version, Congress will be under strong pressure to pass some legislation before long. Almost certain to be attached to it is another 8% postal pay increase, which...
...sheer brilliance." "They are trying to show he's a great lover," she carped, "but they'll never prove it to me." In mock embarrassment, Pressagent Warren Cowan reprimanded Zsa Zsa: "I can't take you anyplace." Actually Zsa Zs.a's escort was Ron Postal, the Beverly Hills haberdasher who designed Richard Burton's dinner jacket and brocade waistcoat...