TEACHERS BRAVE THREAT OF FINES
1972Sarah HanniganEducationPost office and public services Read the scan at ETOL (PDF) →Read from the scan by machine and not corrected: headlines and words can be misread, and a caption or advert can run into the text. For anything you quote, read the scan.
Throughout the United States in the past tew weeks teachers' strikes have been spreading rapidly.
Last week in Washington teachers refused to end their nine-day-old strike in the face of threats of a $50,000 fine plus an additional $17,000 for every day they stayed out beyond September 27.
The 3,500 teachers were on strike in support of a 17-percent pay increase. They had been offered a 7-per-cent rise by the Washington DC State Committee-compared with a 17 per cent increase given to policemen and firemen.
The swingeing fines were to be levied for contempt of a court order to return to work.
In the face of these threats, other school workers' unions indicated for the first time in nine days that they might not cross the teachers' picket lines.
About a third of the city's 188 schools were closed by the strike and about 70 per cent of the 140,000 students missed classes since the beginning of In Philadelphia representatives of striking teachers and the city School Board last week reached a tentative agreement to reopen schools, at least until the end of 1972.
The 13,000 teachers there had been or strike for nearly three weeks while negotiations on a new contract stopped and started.
About 307 teachers in the campaign. McGovern, above, is mal Barberton school district, Ohio, have returned to work after a two-day strike.
In Mobile, Alabama, janitors, bus drivers and canteen staff have struck work in support of their demand for union recognition.
Teachers on strike in two areas in Wisconsin have stayed