Word: strike
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There is much talk about the burning (even fire stations), looting, shooting and overall rioting. But how long could the Black man sing the same old song, "WE SHALL OVERCOME." He in many instances has changed that tune to "WE SHALL OVER RUN" and wherever his beautiful black hands strike a note, the cold, bitter, angry music leaves a melody that lingers...
Uruguay's workers, who are used to winning paycheck increases every six months or so, violently protested against the wage decree. When the government work force joined in two strikes, Pacheco decided to make an example of traditionally lackadaisical clerks in the state-owned banks. Instead of being allowed to clock in at their jobs at noon, when their work day usually begins, they were ordered to take turns reporting to army garrisons for four hours a day of marching. Some also got trips to the army barber and showed up for their regular jobs with considerably shorter hair...
...vacation spirit." The fact, however, was that 114 newsmen and producers of the O.R.T.F. (Office de Radio et Télévision Français) were on a paid holiday until September pending what Couve called "a profound reorganization." Their wages had been raised 13%, but the TV strike issue had been government censorship, not money. That complaint was still unresolved...
...layout is conservative. Compared with the psychedelic sheets put out by today's revolutionary-minded kids, the Daily World seems almost as prosaic as a house organ for some large trade union. In its first issues, it reported the first New York-Moscow air link, the threatening steel strike, the tussle over the poverty program. An editorial had some kind words for the U.S.: "The recent increase in activity in Washington and Moscow toward more cordial relations should be welcomed by all Americans." And some sharp words for "selfstyled Leftists who denounce any step toward a detente...
...negative actions. Spider halts the installation of Muzak broadcasting in the subways by threatening to unload garbage on the Muzak man's beach. Marie does her bit by joining a major political party and then subverting the party hacks by persuading slum dwellers to organize a rent strike. There are other liberal, square attacks on the illiberal squares, among them the rout of a women's march protesting the establishment of a neighborhood clinic for drug addicts...