Word: strike
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...already preparing other battles. COME (for Committee On the Move for Equality), which mobilized Negroes behind the garbage men, plans fresh boycotts and picketing in a campaign to win more jobs, better housing, and improved educational opportunities for Memphis blacks. The new labor-civil rights coalition forged during the strike may soon flex its organizing muscle on behalf of Memphis' Negro hospital workers and Negro teachers. Memphis, in fact, has become so symbolically significant to the Negro cause, that Abernathy hopes to use it as a Deep South springboard for King's postponed Poor People's March...
...predominantly Negro union not only forced a form of recognition from the cotton capital; its 14-month pact with city hall also calls for some solid pocketbook gains, including grievance procedures, a system of mer it promotions and a 9% pay hike. Mayor Henry Loeb, who bitterly branded the strike illegal when it began ten weeks ago, even agreed to a dues checkoff; under a face-saving scheme, a credit union will collect the money for the sanitationmen's treasury...
...Under Secretary James Reynolds), civil rights and labor leaders, and his own increasingly irritated local establishment. While many white Memphians initially supported Loeb's stand, they soon fretted over their city's fading image and the threat of more Negro boycotts and street violence. Just before the strike's end last week, King's successor, the Rev. Ralph D. Abernathy, played on their fears by promising to treat Memphis to "the most militant nonviolent steps ever taken...
...rancorous Memphis garbage strike that led to the murder of Martin Luther King Jr. ended last week, but all was not peaceful. Negroes started picketing the two daily newspapers, the Commercial Appeal and the Press-Scimitar, in protest against their coverage of the strike. Handbills were distributed listing grievances against the papers. A boycott was mounted to prevent Negroes from buying the papers T placing ads in them. "They are racist papers," complained the strike's leader, the Rev. James Lawson. "They have attacked and vilified Martin Luther King. They have to share responsibility for his death...
During the meeting Gardiner said that possible labor shortage--not mere economizing--was the real reason the hall might be closed next spring. The University expects a carpenter's strike next May, Gardiner said. If the strike seems imminent he said, construction would have to begin by April 1 to meet the September 1969 deadline for the opening of Mather House. However, Gardiner said that construction might be put off until June if there was no danger of a strike...