Firing Line
Can You Strike Against the State?
S9 • E37 Oct 21, 1975 60m
Mr. Wurf, the leader of the fastest-growing union in the United States, answers the title question with an emphatic Yes. Mr. Buckley, citing "public figures ranging from Calvin Coolidge to Franklin Roosevelt," answers with an equally emphatic No. A heated but frequently illuminating debate that keeps returning to a recent strike by some of Baltimore's policemen after the mayor had refused any form of arbitration.