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Unable to have her exhibition-bound art removed from a strikebound ship in Manhattan, French Sculptress Jacque line Fayet-Leroy stationed herself by the picket lines, went on a hunger strike. After five days, the strikers could no longer stand it, and last week they al lowed longshoremen to remove the crate containing her six sculptures. That was about the only visible progress in the eight-week-old maritime strike, which has become one of the most frustrating in U.S. history. The walkout by deck officers, engineers and radiomen has idled 99 of the best U.S. ships (including the superliner...
...biggest stake, however, belongs to the U.S. Government. It maintains expensive U.S. vessels on essential world routes by providing a $200 million annual subsidy, pays 72? of every dollar in most seamen's wages. Because some of the largest U.S. ship lines are among the strikebound (U.S. Lines, Moore-McCormack, Grace, Farrell), Labor Secretary Willard Wirtz at first took personal charge at bargaining sessions; he was so frustrated by the gap between the two sides that he was reduced to table pounding...
...return of New York's long-strikebound newspapers brought from columnists a renewed freshet of negative pronouncements upon the New Frontier. "Frustration and stalemate," wrote the Times's James Reston, "now seem to be the order of the day for the Administration.'' Echoed the Herald Tribune's Robert J. Donovan: "The President is beset by stalemate and sluggishness...
...endless. But neither city has anything on Portland, Ore. There, an almost forgotten dispute has dragged on since November 1959, and is not one pica closer to settlement than it was when it began. But unlike New York or Cleveland, Portland has not been without its newspapers for one strikebound day. It is, in fact, the only U.S. city that ever went into a strike with two dailies-the Oregonian and the Oregon Journal-and wound up with three. The newcomer is the tabloid Reporter, a strike-born paper that was first published by union members in February...
...Cleveland, where strikebound papers have been shut down one week longer than they have in New York, the situation was no better...