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Strikes by Municipal Employees Major Problem for Local Governments Editor'! Not - Strikes of public employee! have' be come a growing problem lor the nation'! local gov ernment!. Major citie! have been crippled by iuch walk out! th'i year. Serious threat! to the publ'c wel fare have been narrowly averted in many area!. Here is a reoort on the labor troublei of local government!. By BARNEY SEIBERT UPI Correspondent Six Chicagoans faced sus pension from their jobs. Eight Bostonians were jailed for contempt of court. In both cases their troubles had a common cause - a strike of public employees against a governmental agency. At least four of the na tions largest cities have been hit this year by strikes of public employees. Other walkouts have been narrowly averted. In at least one case, even a legal ban on such walkouts failed to prevent the strike. Most strikes of public em ployees involve the same is sues a the labor strife in private industry - wages, hours, fringe benefits. But, in some instances, the walkouts stem from more bizarre caus es. In St. Louis, Mo., lat win ter sanitation workers struck, leaving the city's garbage and tra?h uncollected, to back up a demand that they be ex cused from work in sub-zero weather. St. Louis city officials re fused to submit to the de mand, insisting that garbage must be collected as long as other public services were maintained. The city fathers pointed out that mail carriers had to work outside in the cold too. But that didn't get the garbage cans emptied for a week. All Demands Mot In Chicago the threat to public health was even more acute than that raired by the SI. Louis walkout. On March 30 members of Local 9, International Broth rrhood of Electric Workers, walked off their jobs at the Chicago sanitary district's sewage disposal plant. Nine teen hours later they re turned to work, but only aft er the district trustees had He said that supervisory met all their demands, includ- employees were unable to lo ing a signed agreement that calc k y , switcnboxes no disciplinary action would , be taken against them. to start th" PumP shut down William A. Dundas, general by the departing workers and manager of the Chicago ?ani-the sewage disposal plant tary district, announced after Serving nearly 5 million per the strike ended that a major (sons very nearly"blew up un catastrophe had narrowly :der the pressure of accumulat- been averted. the mass transportation facili-: ties for Boston and 13 nearby ' communities, staged wildcat I strike. of New Condon-Wadlin prohibits walkouts by public I employees, but local authori ties planned nn action agiiinst the strikers. Will the strike ever spread to employees of the federal Drivers Cautioned To Be on Lookout For Playing Child "A primary rule for drivers is to 'expect the unexpected' from children at play," said Chief Charles P. Champlin of the Medford city police today. He cautioned all Medford motorists to be on the alert for young bicycle riders, ball players and dog-chasers now that milder weather and long ed hours of sunlight are here. "Youngsters just have to re lease all the energy they've stored up over the winter months," continued the Chief, "and they do it by hopping out from between parked cars, thoughtlessly following a bouncing ball into the street without watching for traffic and often indulging in other actions that are hazardous. This is the nature of children, particularly the very young." Chief Champlin said schools can teach youngsters certain elements of traffic safety but the burden of respoi.sibility lies mainly with (1) Parents who must train their children to obey the traffic laws and use common sense in traffic and (2) Drivers-who must al ways be ready for the unpre dictable behavior of children in and around streets and while riding bicycles. "The motorist is the child's last link with safety," said Chief Champlin. "When par ents instructions and school training are forgotten in the excitement of the bicycle race or the ball game, the only thing that can save the eager but un-lhinking youngster as he dashes across the intersec tion is the quick-thinking and careful action of the responsi ble driver." ing sewage. Officials of the sanitary district managed to prevent an explosion but they couldn't halt the thousands of gallons of raw sewage which flowed into the Illinois waterways system, polluting streams and jeopardizing water supplies if continued. , Sabotage Charged Despite the pledge against disciplinary action, Dundas has asked that at least six of the strikers be suspended. He accused the plant's chief elec trical operator of "sabotage" in shutting down the pumps. ' Other striker.', he said, hid equipment, jammed doors and removed fuses to prevent su pervisory employees from op crating the sanitary district's disposal plants. Residents of greater Boston 1 were left healthy, if footsore, 1 by their walkout of public employees. On March 31 some 4.400 employees of the Metropoli-1 tan Transit Authority, a public agency which provides ! ers were jailed for contempt . lation nl rnurt Vin mmn f-r timi ' lar charges this week. Teachers Call Strike On April II, the 15.000 membcr United Federation of Teachers called a strike against the New York Cily schools. Slightly more than ha'f o( government? A spokesman for New York's 40.000 scho.il tne House post office and civil The walkout halted sub- i teachers remained out of their service committee in Wash way trains, street cars and classrooms. In at least one ; ington thought it unlikely, buses. ; school, a near riot resulted I He pointed out that the Because the two-day strike among the school children left Lloyd LaFollette act of 1912 was staged in defiance oi a-i to their own devices. gave federal employees the injunction, eight of i"f sirik-1 The teachers struck In vio-1 right to appeal their griev- MedfordJ&Tribune York state sianies to Congress. This act. act, w h i c h nr sad. has befn construed as prohibiting strikes by federal employees. 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