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Yeah, yeah. Rally point for the start of the parade was in the 1400 block of a street in Hayward near the Castro Valley line, which is union headquarters. There are approximately 600 members in local 94 12. Around 50% of them are young ladies who are operators

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during normal times just in their colorful costumes with the music in the background. Very early. The procedure took on all the aspects of a spring celebration. The way the parade route led down a street around the corner and over

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two v. Street, then past the main headquarters at pacific Telephone and Hebert on B Street just off Foothill boulevard. It took only minutes for the picket parade to reach its destination of uh library Plaza across from City Hall and Hayward where the rally is being held.

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The principal reason for this march and rally today as stated by the local was to apologize to the people of Hayward for any inconvenience they might have been caused by the strike and to state the union's position on the major issue. As many of you here

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know why the strike is being prolonged. You can see in our office here in Hayward Where management has hired their own relatives to come in and take your jobs girls to do the job that you normally do. There's no reason in the world why a girl

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has to work here 60 years to reach top money, which is only $105. Nor is it anyway. My I've been corrected by my group. That's only 99. Now the problem we have here now is to maintain our good spirits, what we have here until the day

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that the strike is over with.