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Striking copy editor Beverly Weintraub gives a ride to her three-year-old daughter Abigail on the picket line at the New York Daily News. Meanwhile, the New York police have refuted charges by publisher James Hoge that the 10 striking unions have conspired to "commit violence" against the newspaper as circulation plummeted and major advertisers dropped out. (25-1-90).

New York Governor Mario Cuomo is applauded for calling for a fair settlement at the New York Daily News at a rally for strikers. Leading the applause are New York State AFL-CIO President Edward Cleary, Newspaper and Mail deliverers President Mike Alvino and ladies' Garment Workers President Jay Mazur. (1-1-91).

Union members and supporters, some 15,000 strong, rally strikers outside the New York Daily News building on 42nd Street. Represented by 10 unions, 3,000 employees of the third largest daily in the United States went on strike October 25. They had been working without contracts since March 31. Management brought in scabs immediately, but distribution of the paper is down sharply. (23-1-90).

For a Balanced Solution.

Two black and white photos depict a strike by National Football League players in the 1980s, though they do not specify if it is the 1982 or 1987 strike. (ID numbers on the photos may indicate 1987.) One picture shows the scab pick-up game between the Detroit Lions and Tampa Bay Buccaneers, while the other shows fans picketing with the real Washington Redskins. The third photo, which is also undated, depicts the New England Patriots' Mosi Tatupu striking with Ladies Garment Workers in Fall River, Massachusetts.

Farm Workers President Cesar Chavez, in a water-only fast since July 17 to draw attention to labor's boycott of table grapes and the use of toxic chemicals by California growers, embraces his granddaughter Nicole during a mass in Delano, Calif. The union has pointed up the dangers of pesticides to farm workers and consumers. (34-1-88).

Farm Workers President Cesar Chavez (center; Dolores Huerta, right) took the UFW's demand on five hazardous pesticides to the steps of the California capitol in Sacramento after UFW member Jose Campost Martinez, 25, died while spraying Parathion, a toxic pesticide. Chavez called on Governor George Deukmejian to ban Parathion immediately saying, "agribusiness and the agri-chemical industry reap their benefits. The workers bury their dead. That is not the way it should be". (4-2-90).

Hundreds of grape and citrus workers have been walking off their jobs at farms across California's Coachella Valley in rotating daily demonstrations to protest low pay and rotten working conditions. Growers have frozen pay over six years, Farm Workers President Cesar Chavez said in leading a march on the Highway 111. (13-3-92).