Word: strike
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Some McCarthy dropouts strike a wistful note. Says Nobel Prizewinning Biochemist Arthur Kornberg of Stan ford, who had never worked in politics before the McCarthy campaign: "I thought I could make some contribution, but it is very disappointing to have the business-as-usual people tak ing over." McCarthy's celebrity corner is largely in despair. Actor Walter Matthau calls the Humphrey-Nixon face-off "a choice between strychnine and arsenic." Paul Newman, one of McCarthy's busiest advocates at the convention, promises "a month of serious drinking" before he decides whether to support Humphrey actively, though...
Only In Brownsville. For the second year in a row, the school year in New York City opened last week with the teachers on strike. A strike vote had been called by Albert Shanker, the tough, shrewd president of the teachers' union, when the locally elected Brooklyn committee refused to reinstate ten teachers it had ordered out of the district last year and tried to replace 200 teachers who had walked out in sympathy. The city's 4,000 school supervisors, including principals and district superintendents, aided the strike by ordering schools closed for the children...
After two days of round-the-clock negotiations, the school board announced a settlement under which the ousted teachers would "not be prevented" from returning and any teachers dismissed by local boards in the future could appeal to arbitration panels. The union called off its strike-but the agreement blew up when the affected teachers tried to return to their classrooms...
Shanker immediately declared that the agreement had been broken and that the strike was back on. At the risk of being jailed for leading a strike that was illegal under state law, he also raised the stakes by insisting that his teachers would not work unless McCoy and the Ocean Hill-Brownsville com mittee are fired. "Mob rule must go," he said. Leaders of the local committee conceded that they no longer could control neighborhood opposition to the return of the teachers and did not intend to try. At week's end the schools were again shut down...
Power Grab. The tragedy of the strike was that it was so easily avoidable. Privately, Shanker and McCoy had arranged a deal with Lindsay under which the ousted teachers would return to their schools for a few days. The community would temporarily tolerate them; eventually, the teachers-who could not have worked effectively in the hostile atmosphere-would be quietly transferred. McCoy, however, was unable to restrain the more militant blacks in the community. And Shanker used the breakdown of the agreement as an excuse to try to make his union the dominant power in the city's increasingly...