Governor Lucey Could Head Off Milwaukee Strike Risks
Opinion page notes that Governor Lucey may be asked to help avert a possible strike by Milwaukee city and county employees after Jan. 1. Mediators have failed to secure new contracts, threatening shutdowns in snow removal garbage collection health inspections and library services. A sewerage plant strike could dump untreated sewage into Lake Michigan and idle plants risk wrecking by freezing. County employee walkouts would strain institutions and airports. Teachers also voted to strike, with little clarity on offers or demands, while law bans public employee strikes.
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The
Milwaukee Journal
Lucey
Milwaukee City
Sewerage Commission
Lake Michigan
Milwaukee
Milwaukee Sentinel
Part Calvinist part middle class Don’t take working man for granted
In this 1960s era voice James D. Hodgson argues American workers value work and have advanced living standards through collective bargaining and political clout. He notes wage growth outpaced profits and links worker liberalism to economic gains, then warns about shifting issues in the Sixties challenging the worker’s political stance.
Strange musings on leadership and the modern worker
Sydney J. Harris muses on boring eternity, leadership flaws, and how distant rulers misread fields of expertise. He argues that the American worker shifts toward the political center, becoming independent, with 70 million wage earners shaping a fierce election market and the main winner being the workers themselves.
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Sydney J. Harris
Pigs and Irrigation Drive Yu Hsi County Prosperity
Joseph Also visits Yu Hsi in Yunnan to learn of rapid growth led by a rise in pig numbers from 30 000 to 70 000 in a decade and a major irrigation program creating 8 000 hectares of new land. Officials plan an artificial fertilizer plant, terrace fields, better seeds, and schooling for 31 000 children as income climbs to 600 pounds of grain and 110 yuan per person.
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Joseph
Yu Hsi
China
Yang Feng-chun
Revolutionary Committee
Yang Fengchun
Yorkshire
Safety rules spark debate on child sleepwear and mattresses
Consumer groups cheered federal standards for nonflammable children sleepwear with a July 1973 cutoff for sizes up through 6X and later bans. Critics note higher costs and fabric shortages as makers race to meet rules, while new flame resistant mattress standards planned for next June may raise prices and threaten small firms.
UW band members head west for Rose Bowl rout
Eight Coulee Region students join the University of Wisconsin band traveling to Pasadena to perform before Wisconsin’s Rose Bowl game on New Year’s Day. Charles Roddle elected president of La Crosse Business Men’s Club succeeding Chester Canfield. Julius B. Jorgenson named executive secretary of the Wisconsin Indian Head Country tourist group at Eau Claire meeting. Black River Falls completes a water filter plant set to operate January 5.
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Coulee
University of Wisconsin
Wisconsin
Charles Roddle
Dolly Madison Co
la Crosse
Readers Warn About School Historic Site Visit
A Gale-Ettrick Trempealeau High School senior writes about a sociology class visit to the building now used as the Galesville grade school. The letter reflects on the history and current use of the historic site.
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Gale - Ettrick Trempealeau High School
Galesville
Bart Near
Ettrick
Wis
Awkward choice for Warren in Wisconsin politics
Atty. Gen. Robert Warren may be considered for a federal judgeship or governor in 1974. The piece weighs eligibility for a Milwaukee district court vacancy and a second Western Wisconsin seat, and questions how a federal post would affect his state leadership role and party loyalty. It cites Warren's prominence and possible tradeoffs with party elders and Governor Lucey.
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John Wyngaard
Madison
Robert Warren
Milwaukee
Bob Warren
Wisconsin
Miami
Robert Tehan
Thomas Fairchild
Warren
White House
Lucey
Christmas Spirit From a College Student
A married student thanks homeowners and merchants for decorating early, noting finals and dorm rules delay display until vacation. Karen J. Cooper from La Crosse expresses appreciation for those who brighten the community for students.
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Karen J. Cooper
George St
la Crosse
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Freud
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Yu Hsi County
Pou
Sears, Roebuck
Christian Science Monitor
Tribune
Leon Henderson
Carl Wisland
la Crosse Business Men's Club
Runge Sletten
Burma
Logan
Central
Hoover
Franklin Roosevelt
A. H. Schubert
A. C. Wolfe
Health Department
Pabst Brewery
Chicago
Cermak
Mississippi River
Hokah
B. F. Forbes
8Th
Cass Sts
Guy L. Parker
Fred Kowalke
9Th St
California
John Richards
Jones
Secretary of the Treasury
George P. Schultz
International Monetary Fund
World Bank
New Republican
Joshua
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