[News Script: Dallas council] Part: 3 of 6
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make room for the returning demonstrators.
M 1;ETING TONIGHT
Tonight, about four hundred garbagemen met at the Labor
end
Temple, and union leaders advised them to XMXNtXIEK
their walkout.
Apparently, most of the men will do so.
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TZIxXXEIEiq was closed to newsmen. T.J. Smith, a labor
leader from Ft Worth, called the dispute a tough fight,
and he said he reguarded the outcome as a moral TIIXyE,
victory. Smith also said the garbagemen agreed to takeDALLAS COUNCIL 2 2 2
The council goes on to pass, without change, the pay
raises recommended by city manager Crull. This means
four percent increases for most employes. Excluded are
unclassified, or unskilled, employes, with less than
two years service. Crull said a majority of the gar.
bagemen, about 60 percent, had been eligible for raises,
before the demonstrations began. Since then, more than
three hundred of the demonstrators have been fired. The
council approves a motion to re-hire as many as JIXNI
possible, but MU replacements will not be fired to
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WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.). [News Script: Dallas council], item, September 23, 1963; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc981179/m1/3/: accessed April 24, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.