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The article discusses events related to U.S. politics. In a television address, U.S. President Richard M. Nixon claimed the deployment of U.S. troops in Cambodia will allow the withdrawal of some troops from Vietnam. Members of teachers' unions in New York and New Jersey were sentenced to jail for participation in strikes. Marvin Mandel, governor of Maryland, vetoed legislation to remove restrictions on abortion.

The article relates how New York City Mayor John V. Lindsay handled the issue of labor dispute involving teachers in the area in 1968. It provides an account of what took place during the teachers' strike in October. Discussions regarding the mayor's absence during the crisis are presented. It also discusses the mayor's concerns over the issue.

The article analyzes the strike organized by the United Federation of Teachers (UFT) of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) and the National Education Association (NEA) in the U.S. It notes that the UFT, led by Albert Shanker, has threatened a mass resignation to advance their demands and AFT and NEA also plan to close schools in several states. It also emphasizes that the teachers' militancy is caused by their frustration to be involved in curriculum processes and in school discipline.

Presents information on various reasons why teachers go on strikes in the U.S. Fact that before rising costs evaporated teachers' salaries, teaching was a fairly pleasant, full-time job; Report that teachers' strikes differ radically from industrial disputes, since teachers must strike against their city and state governments; Effects of poor pay, overwork and lowering of educational standards, on the morals of the teachers in the country; Discussion of the roles played by various associations and teachers' unions in reference to the strikes called by the teachers.

The article offers information on the dispute between the teachers of schools in California and the school authority. It mentions that the teachers went on strike after the negotiations between the teacher's union and the Board of Education collapsed. It also discusses the cause of the dispute, one of which is the demand of high salary, and focuses on the role of the Governor of the state, Ronald Regan regarding the issue.

A photograph of a teachers' union walkout in St. Paul, Minnesota with students serving hot coffee to instructors is presented.

Focuses on illegal strikes called by teachers and the teachers' union leader Albert Shanker against a decentralization experimentation at the Ocean Hill-Brownsville school district in New York. Concerns of the teachers' union toward the right to hire and fire being given to local school boards; Need to emphasize on educational innovations with the adoption of bilingual teaching for Spanish-speaking children in the Ocean Hill-Brownsville school district; Analysis of who is to benefit from the money expended on schools; Role of schools in upliftment of a community.