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...postal employees returned to work last week and got the mail moving, the nation had a right to feel relieved; total chaos had been narrowly averted, at least temporarily. But any sense of relaxation is premature. American labor is in a state of turmoil, and the threat of other potentially crippling strikes hangs over the country. No sooner had the postal strike ended than another group of federal employees, the nation's professional air-traffic controllers, began delaying hundreds of flights daily and causing the cancellation of others by a planned "sick-out." The nation's railroads face...
...troopers got mixed reviews as postal workers. While some shouldered mail sacks and delivered the contents to Wall Street firms, a publisher of pornographic books, other businesses and institutions, many played the old Army game of goldbricking and, seizing empty mail sacks, disappeared for the day. Still others, working in post offices and resentful of the disruption in their lives, deliberately threw letters into wrong pigeonholes and switched labels on boxes of outgoing mail...
...rest of the country and under increasing pressure to end its resistance. Administration officials had already begun meeting with union leaders in Washington to hammer out a pay-raise agreement. New York City Postmaster John Strachan tried to win over the strikers with an offer of amnesty; other postal officials undermined unionists' confidence with overoptimistic reports of the troops' effectiveness in handling the mail. The federal court joined the siege. U.S. District Judge Frederick Bryan found Gustave Johnson, president of New York's Branch 36, N.A.L.C., in contempt of an earlier court order forbidding the strike...
...proposal, previously suggested by the Kappel commission, ran into strong opposition in Congress and among the postal unions. But intensive Administration lobbying and a White House promise to include binding arbitration got the bill reported out of the House Post Office Committee earlier this month, and prospects for passage by Congress have improved. The entire Government must share the blame for the strike; now there is greater incentive to support basic alterations of the system...
...clear edge over the tarnished Rockefeller. If forced into a June primary, Goldberg would still be a heavy favorite. Perhaps the only thing that could seriously hurt his chances now is his Humphreyesque penchant for overtalk. If he were Governor now, Goldberg bragged last week, he could settle the postal strike singlehanded-though a Governor has absolutely nothing to do with the Post Office and no power to give or promise raises. "As Secretary of Labor, I came here and settled the tugboat strike," Goldberg said. "I'd settle this...