Word: postmen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...years since Charles II organized the Post Office. Britain's blue uniformed postmen have made their appointed rounds despite highwaymen, Hitler's bombs, and a maze of pettifogging postal regulations that run into several thousand pages of fine type. Last week, by the trick of working strictly according to the rule book, British postal workers who want higher pay came close to strangling the Royal Mail in red tape...
...than 100,000 of the 350,000 French who resided in Morocco have left. Most have returned to France. But more than half of the million Europeans in Algeria are of Spanish, Italian and Corsican descent, have no family or economic links with France, and work as farmers, mechanics, postmen and plumbers. "Where can we go?" asked one. Said another glumly: "If the Moslems treat us the way we used to treat them, we will all have to flee...
...motorists dared venture into the dark, empty boulevards. Restaurants, dimly lit by candles to save electricity, were sparsely occupied by diners who whispered anxiously over their food. Postmen delivered the mail accompanied by police escorts...
Behind the nationwide one-day strike of government employees, from postmen to customs inspectors, lay the dissatisfaction of lower-income Frenchmen at the steady upward creep of consumer prices. Though France has 30% more cars on the road this year than last, and the long-abused French franc continues to gain strength in relation to gold and the dollar, the new prosperity fostered by Charles de Gaulle has not trickled down to the lowest-paid classes. Even conservative newspapers concede that the pay of government employees, traditionally a pace setter for clerical workers generally, is disgracefully low. Only 14% earn...