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...propose an additional cut with which I am sure millions of Americans will agree? If the mail service is as poor in other parts of the United States as it is in Albuquerque, I propose cutting the entire budget of the Postal Department and returning to the Pony Express...
...pattern had been established by the 1966 airline machinists' strike, which buried the Administration's once cherished 3.2% wage-price "guideposts." This fall, 5% became more of a floor than a ceiling. Auto workers won 7% increases from Ford, Chrysler and General Motors; Congress gave 705,000 postal workers a 6% raise (along with a 20% increase in postal fees for first-class letters, from...
Five policemen and a postal inspector yesterday raided the Boston office of the hippie newspaper Avatar. They arrested Avatar writer Edward Beardsley and seized all copies of the 11th, 12th, and 13th issues...
Citing possible steering-wheel defects, the company called back 745,000 cars, including its entire 1967 production run of 447,000 Mustangs. The postal expense of notifying car owners set Ford back at least $260,000, not to mention the cost of inspections and possible parts replacements. In the case of recalled '66 and '67 Falcons, Fairlanes and Thunderbirds, the company blamed "workmanship problems rather than design"-a pointed indictment of the workers who, under the new contract, will cost better than $5.30 an hour in wages and fringe benefits...
...Yourself Kit. It was a blatant bit of buckpassing. Moreover, only a week earlier the House had passed a pay increase for civilian employees that was more generous than the Administration had requested. That bill singled out the postal workers, who have the most powerful civil service lobby, for a larger raise than other groups and denied employees of the Office of Economic Opportunity any raise at all. Many of the most economy-minded Congressmen protested when the Administration recently imposed temporary freezes on certain construction projects. In the course of a six-hour debate last week, members loyal...