Word: postally
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...invisible were the docile, dependable men in gray until last week that no one noticed that their passions were about to explode into a historic and ominous strike. The first national postal stoppage in U.S. history and the largest walkout ever against the Federal Government, the postal strike almost immediately began to strangle the operations of commerce, impair Government functions and vastly inconvenience the public. It was also an acutely painful symptom of the fragility of the institutions that are crucial to the nation's orderly functioning. It could well set a new pattern of ruinous civil service strikes...
...first major postal strike in U. S. history entered its fifth day yesterday as President Nixon ordered 2500 Federal troops into New York City to help process strike-bound mail...
Declaring a national emergency, Nixon said yesterday in a televised statement. "What is at issue here is the survival of a government based on law," and urged the estimated 167,000 postal workers still on strike "to return to [their] jobs so that negotiations can begin...
Irving Shear. spokesman for the Boston Postal District, said yesterday that only four of the area's 90 stations did not report to work. Members of the Boston branch of the Massachusetts Letter Carriers Association voted at a tumultuous meeting Sunday night to return to work after a brief stoppage Saturday...
...held a rally in support of the striking postal workers at noon yesterday...