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s Already at Hand SEE STORIES BEUOW Clearing, Mild Partial clearing and mild to- THEDAILY HNAL day: Clear and colder tonight < and early tomorrow. Red Bank, Freehold Long Brandt (Be* DeUil«, 7 EDITION Monmouth County's Home Newspaper for 92 Years VOL. 93, NO. 117 RED BANK, N. J., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1970 46 PAGES TEN GENTS Rail Strike on Despite Ban By NEIL GILBRIDE would worsen the nation's steepest inflationary wage-price had exhausted delaying provisions of the Railway Labor •, WASHINGTON (AP) - Railroad workers stalked off the spiral in more than 20 years. Act over more than a year of protracted negotiations before job today in the third nationwide rail strike in half a century He said any. pay raise should be accompanied by modi- walking off their jobs. although Congress passed an emergency law ordering them fication in union work rules in order to increase productivi- "The only thing that could keep us from going out would back to work with a partial pay raise. ; ty. He then urged the strikers to return to their jobs. be hearing from the President himself that the strike had "They are increasingly angry/and bitter," said strike Just over an hour later — at 3:17 a.m. — U.S. District been settled," said a union official setting up picket lines in leader C. L. Dennis'of the nearly 500,000 workers who walked Judge John H. Pratt of Washington, D.C., issued a tempo- Salt Lake City. out at 12:01 a.m. and showed no immediate inclination to rary order restraining a strike until Dec. 20. In issuing the Train passengers in some titles were taken by cab to return in compliance with the new .law, a plea from Presi- injunction at the industry's request, Judge Pratt set a hear- bus stations while rail officials tried to find other means of dent Nixon and a federal court order. ing for the morning of Dec. 18. shipping stranded perishables and other cargo. The Post SEEK PAY BOOSTS WALKOUT GOES ON Office Department clamped on an embargo limiting mail, "The men and women who work for the railways have and auto industry officials in Detroit said the strike could had a bum rap for a long time," Dennis said. They will re- But the strike went on. "They don't care what the Senate or the President shut down assembly lines in a week or less. main off the job until they win their demands for substan- Spreading effects of the strike were expected to gradu- tial pay boosts above current wages ranging from $3.45 to say," said a union local official in West Virginia of the rail workers. ally paralyze other industries. ' ', • $3.60 an hour, he said. OFFER IS SPURNED Trains -bearing passengers arid goods, including Christ- "We'll stay out until our international officers tell us mas mail, ground to a halt and government officials predict- to go back," said 48-year-old Jim Leach, donning a picket . The strikers spurned the immediate 13.5 per cent pay ed disastrous effects on the nation's already troubled eco- sign at Washington's Union Station a few blocks from the hike written into the special law by Congress, representing nomy if the strike lasts long. floodlit U.S. Capitol where Congress enacted the law order- the first stages of a total 37 per cent in wage increases of- President Nixon stayed up through the night as Congress ing a strike delay until March 1. fered by the rail industry in six steps over three years. labored past the minute-after-midhight strike deadline to "They are prepared to withhold their labor until they The four unions rejected the offer, the largest in .indus- produce an emergency law. achieve equitable conditions of work,'* said Dennis, presi- try history, totaling $1.32 per hour for highest paid workers. LEGISLATION SIGNED dent of the Brotherhood of Railway Clerks, largest of four Dennis had demanded a three-year settlement of ;?1.85 per At 2:10 a.m. EST he signed the special legislation or- AFL-CIO unions in the dispute. hour similar to wage hikes won earlier this year in a nation- dering the workers back until March 1, but complained the GOT RAISE IN 1969 wide contract by some 425,000 Teamsters Union truck driv- immediate 13.5 per cent pay hike included in the measure The strikers, who haven't had a pay raise since mid-1969, ers. Area Commuters Switch To Road By JANEFODERARO "My boss said to get in dletown, said he came south provide extra buses when Evelyn Mcllwain of Red to their destinations. How- RED BANK — Thousands somehow, so here I am," said to Bed Bank in order to get a something happens." He and Bank, observed that the ever, at 7; 15 a.m., buses were of shore train commuters this Miss Diane Weston of Red seat on a bus "before they fill Robert H., Shelley, also of crowd "has never been like departing after .they' were morning boarded buses as Bank. Dressed fashi6nably in up along the line." Little Silver, waited for a bus this." ........ filled to seating capacity. LONESOME TRAIL — Empty railroad tracks at Red railroad workers picketed sta- a midi-coat, gaucho hat and Another train commuter, to Jersey City so they could The prevailing concern Meantime, Louis Rollo Jr. Bank railroad station attest to effectiveness of rail- tions and towers along the laced boots, Miss Weston Warren Vandervoort of Little take the PATH train to down- among the temporary bus of the Rollo Transit Corp., road strike which went into effect at 12:01 a.m. today. New York-Long Branch Rail- waited in line with approxi- Silver said, "we've' taken town New York. commuters .was the possi- Keyport, headed the sched- mately .100 other commuters buses before. They 'always A regular bus rider, Miss bility of standing all the way (See Commuters, Pg. 2) (Register Photo by Don Lordih''" road. Railroad employes across bound for New York City. the nation struck at 12:01 Most of the commuters "ex- a.m., as scheduled, despite an p e c t e d'' that bus trans- llth-hour move by President portation would be provided Nixon and Congress to1 give for stranded train riders. Justice Ackerson them a 13%. per cent wage in- "Yes, I just assumed they crease. would be here," said Martin At the Monmouth Street bus Judge of Fair Haven. terminal in Red Bank, com- "I hoped so ..." said Rob- muters lined up with charac- ert Mulligan of Little Silver, KEYPORT - Justice Hen- teristic patience In the C:30 i "I expected there would tje ry B. Ackerson, 90, retired a.m. darkness to get bus tick- extras," commented Richafcfl New Jersey Supreme Court ets. Extra buses, chartered Denny of New Shrewsbury. justice, died last, night in the by shore bus lines, waited at [ Switched To Trains A r n D 1 d, tyalker;,. Nursing the curb. They pulled/jut,: John; Haiiseiv Middletown, • Home, HolmtleU; •• Y;' • heading for Newark, New said, "I used to be a bus rider A lifelong Monmouth Coun- York and Jersey City, as soon but I switched to ty resident, Justice Ackerson as they filled up: At fi:45 a.m., trains—(because $e bus ser- had a long and distinguished apiproximately 15 buses were vice was so lousy." career as a lawyer and jurist. on hand in Red Bank. Chirs Haney, also of Mid- He was born in Holmdel Township in 1880, and 10 years later the family moved here, where he lived until go- Cahill Sees Need ing to the nursing home. He: was graduated from Keyport High School and worked for a short time as a For New Taxation clerk in the Peoples National Bank, here. Later he studied NEWARK (AP) - Gov. needed to balance the new at the Packard Commercial William T. CahiU feels "some budget. A one-cent-a-pack in- NEW POPULARITY — Buses were prime means of transportation to city -this morning for -thousands of sh6r« School of New. York and grad- form of taxation wiU be re- crease in the cigarette lax residents who work there. In Red Bank, approximately SO extra buses were put in service to accommodate passen- uated fttim New York Law quired" in the new year to would bring in only about $8% million. gers.' . (Register Photo by Don Lordi) School in 1902. • Justice Henry E. Ackerson balance the state budget. He was admitted to the New In his strongest statement Cahill said he believes the Jersey Bar in 1904 and began Court in 1924 and, in 1948, was , on taxes • yet, the governor public would buy increased his political career in 1914 chosen by\Gov. Alfred E. said revenues from the state taxation if convinced that when he was appointed to the Driscoll to fill a place on, the sales tax are running behind government is run efficiently Monmouth County Board of newly-formed Supreme Court. the amount anticipated and and economically. He said his Legislature Set to Face Freeholders, where he served He served until his retirement unless there is a dramatic administration has whittled until 1921. in 1952. turnaround "there's only one spending, cut back on hiring answer." new state employes and He successfully ran for the His wife was the late Mrs. Cahill said there would be enacted money-saving sugges- state Senate and, in 1919, was Edith Ackerson. tions recommended by a spe- appointed to the former Court Arrangements are under no broad based tax—like an Newark's Money Problems income tax — until his Tax cial blue ribbon -commission of Errors and Appeals.