Boston Teachers Go out on Strike
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The weather Partly sunny today, high in 70s. Variable cloudiness tonight, low in 50s. Tuesday, in creasing cloudiness, chance of rain, high around 70. MANCHESTER, CONN., MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1975 - VOL. XCIV, No. 300 Manchester—A City of Village Charm TWENTY PAGES PRICE: FIFTEEN CENTS News Boston teachers summary go out on strike tM>iii|iili'(l rroin t niird I'rrss InU-riiiitiunul BOSTON (UPI) — Teachers went on Early morning pickets, wearing strike today against the nation’s oldest sweaters and jackets under their white I State I public school system. Only a handful of the cardboard strike signs, sipped coffee city’s 84,000 students attended classes as against a morning chill while police took I WATERTOWN - Watertown § the school system was thrown into its se up stations around the schools. The teachers voted to strike Sunday and cond crisis this month. strikers are subject to the same court ;|:j the waikout effects 4,500 students. Most of the city’s 4,900 teachers refused regulations which prevent large Sj: They have been working without a to enter classes and instead set up picket gatherings and picketing within 100 feet of ji| contract that expired at the start of ij;: lines around all 262 schools. any school. the school year. Issues are seniority ROAD The strike seriously disrupted the start The teachers rejected a “final” contract :|:J to determine iayoffs and a dental CLOSED of the third week of a court ordered plan to offer only six hours before school was to plan. integrate public schools by busing. begin. “The teacher's strike is on,” an i'i $ The strike was called after llth-hour nounced Boston Teachers Union President I HARTFORD - Alfonse Marotta, | weekend negotiations to get a new con Henry Robinson. "S’ ' |:| a Hartford highway engineer, was tract bogged down. The strike will “create great confusion elected president of the Connecticut The last Boston teachers’ strike, in 1970, in the schools,” School Commiittee Chair State Employes Association Satur- lasted 13 days. The union president was man John McDonough said. “Frankly, I day night. He pledges efforts to jailed 30 days and the union was fined $13,- don’t know where it will lead.” :|: begin immediate talks for cost-of- 000. What the committee called its “finar |:| living raises for the state’s 40,000 |:j: Despite the strike, officials said schools offer” was rejected at about 2:20 a.m. by employes. I-:; E, Middle Tpke, paving operations under way would be open throughout the city. BTU negotiators. The negotiations broke But less than an hour after school bells off at that time. rang, all children who had arrived for The union voted Sunday night to strike condition of the road bed which, public works officials The long-awaited paving of E. Middle Tpke. now is under classes at South Boston High School, the because of failure to agree with the com 2 way and is scheduled for completion in about two days. say, is in need of reconstruction. Estimates are the new adjacent L Street Annex and Dorchester mittee on a new contract to replace one I Regional The street is being paved from Main St. to Manchester pavement will last up to seven years. The project is under High walked out. At racially troubled which expired earlier this month. A strike Green by the Hoosic Valley Asphalt Co. of Valley Palls, a $60,000 allocation, which provides also for paving Charlestown High, a few students and no would violate state law against such job BOSTON — A floor vote on Presi- ; N.Y. Shown here is the Midland Mixed Paver used in the Keeney St., from Folly Brook to the Glastonbury town teachers entered. actions by public employes and an injunc indent Ford’s request to place : process. The rough-finish asphalt is the type used on rural line. Keeney St. paving awaits completion of storm The few classes meeting throughout the tion, based on the law, issued by a state American technicians in the Sinai ; roads. It is being used on E. Middle Tpke. because of the drainage installations there. (Herald photo by Dunn) city were staffed by some non-striking judge. § Desert has been scheduled ten- teachers, substitutes, and administrators. Both sides said the main point of dis •i;: tatively in the House for early next Officials said they would try to set up so- agreement was a proposal by the com ix month. House Majority Leader called “alternative learning sites.” mittee that instructors work three extra :S Thomas P. “Tip” O’Neill, D-Mass., Police Supt. Joseph Jordan ordered full hours a month without pay. said Sunday. He said the House will mobilization of Boston police, calling back comply. O’Neill received Israel’s Ford proposes huge plan to work all off-duty and day personnel — Prime Minister’s Medal from Am- except those on vacation. bassador Simcha Dinitz, the first Strikes by teachers and other public non-Israeli to be so honored. employes are illegal in Massachusetts and to spur energy researeh are punishable by jail terms for violators Eloise becomes and fines for the union. i BILLERICA, Mass. - Some where he faced a polite but unenthusiastic The main issue was salaries for hurricane again ?: Middlesex House of Corrections in- MONTEREY, Calif. (UPI) - President Firestone, made the plan public in an ad audience, and later at Disneyland, where teachers and aides. The School Committee mates are contracting for early Ford today unveiled a multibillion-dollar dress prepared for a labor gathering in he was given a rousing welcome at a offered a 6 per cent pay raise. The union MIAMI (UPI) — Tropical storm Eloise release in exchange for paying plan aimed at making the nation’s energy San Francisco. banquet of the National Association of Life was seeking 9 per cent. Salaries in Boston became a hurricane again today and was restitution to their victims. Under supply self-sufficient. The President arrives in San Francisco Central to the proposal is the creation of at 9:50 a.m. PDT (12:50 p.m. EDT) for a Underwriters. range between $9,772 and $16,765 a year. expected to strike the Gulf Coast tonight >:• mutual agreement plans they pledge somewhere between Mobile, Ala., and ^ a new quasipublic agency to spur energy round of public appearances and inter The creation of an agency to float loans Other chief issues were the union's de $ to reimburse victims and to take to private industry for energy research mand for a job security clause in case of ■ Pensacola, Fla., the National Hurricane § other forms of-postive action, such ' research and development. views before he heads back to Washington Press Secretary Ron Nessen said Ford late tonight. has been under consideration at the White layoffs because of a decreased student Center said. as alcohol therapy. At 7 a.m. the hurricane was located 275 would not spell out all the details of the Ford made two major speech House for several weeks. The ultimate enrollment and the School Committee’s miles south of New Orleans and just over plan, which he said would need con appearances Sunday — first in dedicating goal is to make the United States indepen demand for unpaid extra time from a new Iqw school at Stanford University, dent of foreign energy sources. teachers. 200 miles from the mouth of the Mississip gressional approval and create complex pi River, moving north at 14 miles per f legal issues in its financing. hour. But it was expected to turn north- § National The name for the proposed agency northeast during the afternoon and reach reportedly is the “Energy Research land in the Mobile-Pensacola area tonight. I MONTEREY, Calif. - Veterans | Financing Corporation,” but Nessen said Senate panel to probe reports It was centered near 26 degrees north Day will return to Nov. 11 on the the President is not happy with the title calendar of federal holidays effec- latitude and 89.5 degrees west longitude. “ERFCO.” Vice President Nelson Hurricane warnings were in effect from E tive in 1978 under a bill signed unday Rockefeller is among those who originally Grand Island, La., to Apalachicola, Fla. It by President Ford. It was shifted to proposed creation of the agency, Nessen of plan to to assassinate columnist the fourth Monday in October in 1968 :|:; was expected to cause tides 5 to 8 feet noted. above normal near the point where the and since then has been a subject of the Nixon White House ordered the said Hunt received the assassination order Ford, who spent the night at the WASHINGTON (UPI) - The Senate storm crosses the coast. Tides 3 to 5 feet controversy especially among § assassination of columnist Jack Anderson, in December, 1971 or January, 1972, six or Monterey oceanside estate of the U.S. Am-. Select Committee on Intelligence will in- above normal were forecast in the >|: veterans groups which favored Nov. :j:| a committee spokesman said’today. seven months before the break-in at the bassador to Belgium, Leonard K. vestigage reports that a senior official in remainder of the hurricane warning area. 11, the end of World War I. “We are looking into this,” the Watergate complex. An Air Force hurricane hunter plane spokesman said. “I don't think you could The sources said Hunt told former CIA found that Eloise' highest sustained winds label it a crash investigation but it I WASHINGTON - The extraor- § associates the order came directly from a increased from 50 miles an hour at mid P depends on definitions.” i|; dinary events leading to Gerald j-: Hearst may take stand “senior official” in the White House.