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Teamsters v. Teamsters. Detroit has turned into a comedy of strikes. No sooner had the Press and News stopped publishing than three interim papers sprang up, ready to reap lush profits. Interestingly enough, the Teamsters, who had called the strike in the first place, were intimately involved in the publication of two of the new papers. All went swimmingly until the Teamsters' local demanded the same stiff wage increase from the interim papers that they had asked of the dailies: a 10% hike over two years, plus a $46 benefit package. Teamsters wanted the papers to hire...
Nuggets of New Leftism. As in Detroit, interim papers have popped up in San Francisco, but they have not done very well. The Stanford Daily, which had added wire-service copy and increased its press run, gave up last week. The Berkeley student paper, the Daily Californian, is still struggling. Ramparts magazine has produced a slender daily with the motto: "What good is freedom of the press if there isn't one?" A free press apparently means little nuggets of New Leftism; last week the paper expanded somewhat, adding some Chronicle columnists. Meanwhile, out-of-town papers are enjoying...
Another, and possibly final round, was fought last Monday as the two council factions clashed over the legality of the removal motion. DeGuglielmo's supporters then reiterated their opposition to an interim manager, but to no avail. The majority five, plus Sullivan, voted to appoint Public Works Commissioner Ralph J. Dunphy to the post...
...interregnum of the next few months is not likely to be easy for the City. In a real sense, the manager's office is the center of the City administration; the interim manager, who is not in the best of health, may have a difficult time preparing the budget, making any needed appointments, and doing the thousand and one lesser tasks required to run a City...
...alternative--allowing DeGuglielmo to ramain as an interim manager--was hardly more feasible. As a "lame duck" lacking the confidence of the council majority, he would have had to sound them out on any decision other than the most routine. DeGuglielmo probably knew this, and it is unlikely that he really expected to remain as interim manager. The bloc opposing him had waited two years to dismiss him; they had the votes, and, as one councillor put it, "the ball game was over...