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...veteran who wanted to return as an 83f^-an-hour sausage stuffer instead of going back to his job as a 74^-an-hour check sealer, provided a test case for his union. After a four-day strike of 1,000 workers, the union won its demand that returning servicemen receive all promotions granted to colleagues in their absence...
...work of the College Admissions Committee is also on the upgrade," said Gummere. "In addition to the responsibility for all new civilian enrollments, we must now deal with all the returning servicemen who held certificates of admission but were unable to take advantage of them before induction...
OPEN LETTER TO THE PUBLIC . . . I AM TRYING TO MAKE A NEW START IN LIFE AND THEY WON T LET ME. . . . IS THIS THE FREEDOM THAT A MILLION MEN AND I HAVE FOUGHT FOR? MY BARTENDERS, EX-SERVICEMEN, ARE MAKING MORE THAN A UNION CAN OFFER. . . . IS THIS WHAT WE CAME BACK...
Meanwhile Danny's business boomed. From noon until the small hours soldiers, sailors, ex-servicemen and their girls crowded the bar to drink and damn the Bartenders' Union. A commander from the aircraft carrier Enterprise hurried to Danny's to announce that the picketing was a "damned shame." But Danny still had his troubles. Union drivers refused to deliver whiskey, and at times Danny seemed to be sweating slightly as drinkers cried, glass in hand: "You can't give in, Danny!" It was obvious that he couldn't-his clientele had gotten bigger and tougher...
Aside from an occasional bad fishing season or a poor crop year, the village's troubles are the complications of close kinship. Parents, giving wedding receptions or welcome-home parties for returning servicemen (three returned last week), are eternally flustered about which relatives to invite, which to ignore...