Word: strike
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Blowing smoke in their usual frantic fashions, the Press, TV and, surprisingly, TIME also have unreservedly stated that the V.C. can "strike at will virtually anywhere in the country" [Feb. 9]. You saved yourself by not adding "any time." Granted the attacks in the South were well executed and successful-but they were also their best effort. The sapper units by anyone's estimate suffered horribly. These units are not, as was inferred by many, inexhaustible, nor are they mere country folk. These were the invaluable, irreplaceable, Hanoi-trained hard-core V.C., Directorate members themselves possibly, and the devout...
Immediate Rebuff. Next day, the strike was on. Refusing to knuckle under to what he called "blackmail, brute force and muscle," Lindsay fought back as best he could with legal action and calls for unity. He was determined to bring order into the city's chaotic labor relations and to counter the threat of public strikes that, though banned by state law, have been used to win fat contract settlements. "Now is the time and here is the place," he declared, "for the city to determine what it is made...
...York City's 8,000,000 ad versity-tempered citizens, the sanitation workers' strike was merely a nuisance at first. By the end of last week, it had turned into a genuine crisis. Nearly 100,000 tons of uncollected garbage lay in noisome heaps on sidewalks and in doorways. Trash fires flared all over town. Rats rummaged through pyramidal piles of refuse. Public-health authorities, warning of the danger of typhoid and other diseases, proclaimed the city's first general health emergency since a 1931 polio epidemic...
...workers who now receive $7,956 after three years' service. But DeLury, apparently unable to sell those terms to his men, demanded $600. After sporadic negotiations, the union staged a wild rally at city hall two weeks ago, virtually forced DeLury to call a strike. Said he, ducking an egg thrown at him: "I accept the motion...
Lindsay had DeLury jailed for ignoring a court injunction issued under a new state law, but this merely solidified the union. The mayor's pleas for help from other city employees were immediately rebuffed. On the strike's seventh day, Lindsay was forced to turn to his fellow liberal Republican, Governor Nelson Rockefeller. The mayor wanted the National Guard called in to clean up the city, and Rockefeller was the only man who could...