Word: sanitationmen
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...YORK Aftermath of the Garbage Battle As New York City sanitationmen attacked an Andean accumulation of garbage, a legion of critics-with considerably more enthusiasm-piled into Governor Nelson Rockefeller, the man who had ended the union's illegal nine-day strike. Both efforts succeeded. The pestilential piles of trash were disappearing, and so was a goodly portion of Rockefeller's political capital in the state and nation...
...confrontation between Mayor John Lindsay and the Teamster-affiliated Uniformed Sanitationmen's Association had been abuilding for months. The mayor thought that he had a tacit understanding with Union President John DeLury for a reasonable settlement. The city was willing to give an annual increase of $350, plus fringe improvements, to the 10,000 workers who now receive $7,956 after three years' service. But DeLury, apparently unable to sell those terms to his men, demanded $600. After sporadic negotiations, the union staged a wild rally at city hall two weeks ago, virtually forced DeLury to call...