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...group of liberals, including Senator Fred Harris, Willard Wirtz and some chic Harvard types had come down as concerned citizens to investigate. Miller--who in an unprecedented union show of support, had backed the strikers with $100 per week of strike pay for over a year--called for a five-day nationwide mines shutdown, and led a rally of several thousand miners from across the nation in a parade through Harlan's streets on August...
...long strike," predicted Producer Adela Holzer. The union and the League are locked in a classic impasse over money v. productivity. The union is demanding a 50% raise to be prorated over the next three years on the minimum weekly salary of $290, for a seven-performance, five-day week. The League has countered with a minimum of $400 for an eight-performance, six-day week, provided that the musicians give up bonuses for such extras as performing onstage and playing more than one instrument. Says Schoenfeld: "It's incredible! They even want an increase for 'walkers...
Last spring Tyner spent part of his five-day Boston tenure giving the audience a preview of his blistering Atlantis album. This time the playing will be more varied. Tyner's supporting staff, traditionally composed of the best music men around, like tenor saxman Azar Lawrence, complement the man who learned the true value of interaction with the master himself, Coltrane. Three shows nightly...
Coming into town for a five-day stay at Paul's Mall with his jazz/rock legions next week will be Gato Barbieri with AI Jarreau. More on that later...
...Short Day. The settlement made many teachers wonder if the five-day strike was worthwhile. It preserves the official class size at 32 in elementary school, 33 in junior high and 34 in senior high, but it reduces the class day-at six hours and 20 minutes already one of the shortest in any large city-by two 45-minute periods a week. In return for the abbreviated schedule, teachers give up two preparation periods. The board agreed to use the money it "saved" during the strike (by not paying teachers' salaries and by fining them two days...