National Affairs: Penny Wise

Succumbing to last week's pandemic strike fever, the women elevator operators of Boston's 13-story Statler Building held an excited conference over cigarets in the powder room. They decided to strike posthaste for discharge of their unpopular supervisor and a raise in pay.

Leaving the elevators idle, they marched to the building manager's office, planked down the first of their demands. The manager agreed at once. Astonished, they trooped happily back to work. Later, when someone happened to think that they had forgotten all about their pay, they decided to strike all over again this week.

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