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Babies and bourbon drinkers were faced with the same problem last week. The supply of containers from which they get their nourishment was being rapidly diminished because of a strike by the A.F.L.-C.I.O.'s Glass Bottle Blowers Association. The walkout by 44,000 employees had shut down 102 plants across the country that supply 90% of the nation's glass containers...
...glad to see your Education article "Walkout in Florida [March 1]." Your publication is one of the few to break through the news blackout. I have just resigned my position as second-grade teacher in one of the newest schools in Escambia County. Children are stuffed into classrooms, sit in broken chairs, taught on the stage in the "cafetorium," have speech classes in a closet between a Coke machine and the teachers' mailboxes, eat a 15-minute lunch in silence. Our affluent society is cheating children. It is time to stop...
...elsewhere, hinges not just on civil rights but on the bread-and-TV-set issues of economic parity. The city's 200,000 Negroes have discovered not only that they are poor but also, even by honky standards, undeservedly so. What began a month ago as a walkout by city employees is now a black-and-white confrontation. Memphis garbage collectors, most of them making $1.80 an hour, went on strike for a 60?-an-hour minimum raise, recognition of their union and a dues checkoff by city hall. Nearly all of Memphis' 1,300 garbage...
...Pittsburgh and San Francisco strikes were staged by units of the American Federation of Teachers (an A.F.L.-C.I.O. affiliate) in a drive for bargaining rights and school improvements. The walkout of 1,000 of Pittsburgh's 3,100 teachers forced the closing of all 24 high schools, although 65% of the city's elementary pupils continued to attend class. In San Francisco, 1,500 of the city's 4,000 teachers struck, and all the schools were closed...
...Walkouts. The rival National Education Association was flexing its muscles, too. The Pennsylvania State Education Association called on its 80,000 teachers to shut down the state's schools for one day this week and undertake a march on Harrisburg to demand higher pay. The Oklahoma Education Association scheduled a similar one-day walkout, urged its 27,000 teachers to attend a rally in Oklahoma City to apply pressure on the state legislature for more school money. In South Dakota, the state's Education Association declared a "sanctions alert" in a drive to increase salaries and legislative...