As of April 4 tNt limes
News strike is in it's 31st
4
u.ay. Recent negotiations
give tentative signs of end
ling the strike by the Erie
l!wspaper Guild.
The Guild first star
ted the strike on March 6,
with the Stereotypers Union
joining the Guild on March
13. Three more unions
printers, pressmen, a n d
mailers all refuse to cross
the picket lines.
Management personnel
and some union people who
did decide to work allow the
Times to put out a limited
newspaper of approximately
30,000 daily copies (90,000
is near normal) and n early
65,000 Sunday copies, as
against 90,000 normal. No
home deliveries are being
made in the-county, and the
papers are sold mostly by
machines and newsstands.
Basic goals sought for
in union settlement are a
thirty dollar raise ( over
two years), hospitalization
benefits and improved pen
sion programs: One other
factor involved in settle
ment is the fact that the
Times is erecting a brand
new building at Twelfth
Sassafras to Twelfth 'Pz Myr
tle. Within the walls of
this new building will b e
more -mechanization, and
therefore some employee s
are looking for job securi
ty claunes or provisions in
their contracts.
A possible break is in
sight as the Times offered
the Printers Union a $l3
raise per year for 3 years
which will presumably be
accepted. This same will
in probability be offered
to the Guild. However due
to inflationary trends, the
Guild dislikes signing for
more than two years at a
time but even: with $l3 a
year for on_l_y two years
this would be $4.00 short
of the requested $30.00.
POPULA.TION EXPLOSION
(Pittsburgh)
A population explosion occur—
red recently among the sea horses
at the Aqua Zoo in Highland Park.
A male sea horse--es happens
only among sea horses gavebirth
to several hundred progeny - 9 also
as happens only among sea horses.
Baby sea horses about an inch
long are now floating in an iso—
lation tank heated to 68 degrees '
eating newly hatched brine shrimp
(which are crustaceans like lob—
sters) and hoping they live to
become adult sea horses.
Female sea horses transfer
fertilized eggs to be incubated
in the abdominal pouch of the
male. After a gestation period
of about 25 days, the male exper—
iences labor pains and releases
his offspring.
It would ' of course s be fas—
cinating to talk to a hippocampus
hudsonlas 9 the ichthyological
name of the species. Women of
the world who often have com
plained that men don't knew suf—
fering because they have not ex,-
perienced labour pains would more
than meet their match in the sea
horse.
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