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...teachers' "arrogance," was that President Nixon's chief negotiator, Assistant Secretary of Labor Willie Usery, had just settled the second-longest teacher strike in the nation's history. It had lasted eleven weeks and two days (two days short of the 1971 Newark walkout) of mounting bitterness that will not soon die. "I don't think we'll even try to talk to the scabs," said Fifth Grade Teacher Anne Philips...
With less than a week remaining until the scheduled walkout, steering committee members decided to launch a momentum-building membership drive to build interest among all members of the community...
Among the 50,000 black strikers, the majority of them Zulu tribesmen, were 16,000 Durban municipal employees; their walkout caused litter to pile up in the streets and forced white housewives to perform the unaccustomed task of carting away their own garbage. At nearby Hammarsdale, where 7,00 blacks left their jobs, a crowd of 200 was dispersed by police with tear gas after the demonstrators had brandished clubs and chanted "Usutu!", a traditional Zulu...
...prefect of police, Rene Heckenroth, responded to political pressure to clean up the city by suddenly closing down the 30-odd hotels where the prostitutes took their clients. With that, the girls walked off the job-but not before consulting Lawyer Emile Pollak, who told them to extend their walkout for 30 days. "On the 31st day," he warned, "you'll see what state Marseille wilt...
Despite the reprieve, the strike by the 1,200-member IBEW has already brought the network an eyeful of trouble. Since the Oct. 31 expiration of the old contract and the walkout on Nov. 3, CBS claims it has suffered $250,000 in equipment damage, presumably inflicted by strikers bent on sabotage; CBS election night coverage was restricted to the New York studio and a reduced number of remote pickups (TIME, Nov. 20). Insiders say that CBS-owned local stations have already lost thousands of dollars because of commercials missed or botched by inexperienced management and supervisory personnel...