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...primary area of dispute involves the amount of time given to the drivers for safety checks of the buses. Spelt said that the roughly seven minutes allotted drivers twice daily to punch in, walk to the bus, check indicators, reflectors and lights, write a bus report, and start up is not enough. Last year the drivers had 15 minutes for each check, she said...
...Kara A. Spelt, the spokesman for Local 8751, said that ARA yesterday improperly fired one bus driver and gave stand-by runs--normally assigned to union drivers--to drivers who had substituted during the strike. Nevertheless, the drivers will not strike again, she added...
...drivers decided Sunday night to return to work after agreeing with ARA to submit disputes to "mini-arbitration." Settlements will be handled by local arbitors, who are cheaper and faster than a national arbitration association, Spelt said...
Shaw gave advice to photographers on photography (he was a fanatic for "scientific timing" in the darkroom) and to printers on printing. He instructed Poet Laureate Robert Bridges about phonetic spelling: "If we do not spell words as they are pronounced, our readers will pronounce words as they are spelt." And he lectured practically everybody on love...
...than that. Rags's call to revolution is really more of a nostalgic attempt to return to the nineteenth century. It's a clarion call reverberating with notes of simplistic iconoclasm, Emersonian self-reliance, a Thoreauvian communion with the land, and, ironically enough, a championship of the small businessman. Spelt out in those terms, it's just not that revolutionary. More like Consciousness I in bell-bottoms. Which means that where Rags is at may be just about midway between the late Herbert Hoover and the early Yves St. Laurent...