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Perhaps he will begin to emerge in future episodes. One hopes that later programs will spare us the pageantlike pace of George Schaefer's direction and give us some supporting characters who are not just mouthpieces for historical exposition. From them we might learn something of the spirit of a time in which a figure we are expected to regard as a demigod had an uncommon number of enemies. At the very least they should goad the central figure into some emotion less tedious than all-forgiving humility...
...walk off their jobs. In Baltimore, the walkout by 3,000 trash collectors, jail guards, zookeepers and other city workers ended when the city and the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees reached agreement on a new contract that made a mockery of Mayor William D. Schaefer's vow to hold pay increases to 6%. Garbage men's salaries will leap 20%%, from $3.42 an hour to $4.12, by July 1975, while policemen's will soar 22%, to a maximum of $ 13,500 a year...
...AFSCME, limited their protest to a time-consuming slowdown, carefully measuring how many inches cars were parked from the curb and filling out lengthy lost-property reports for pennies picked up off the pavement. One cop took particular delight in ticketing the chauffeur of Mayor William D. Schaefer for changing lanes without signaling...
Verge of Chaos. "There is no money at all," said Mayor Schaefer, who has refused to consider higher pay boosts. "There is no city money, no state money and no federal money on the horizon." The plight of Baltimore, which has the lowest per capita income and highest property taxes in Maryland, is similar to that of many other major cities faced with increasingly rebellious public employees...
...were on the streets, trying to keep looters under control. Negotiations resumed between city officials and Local 44, which was under a court injunction to end the strike and faces fines of $15,000 a day. "We've had problems before. We'll solve this one," insisted Schaefer. He was not prepared to say how it would be done...