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Show -350- only one truck carrying supplies for the library. He understood that several garbage trucks had been turned axay from the main service entrance and that supply trucks had refused to cross the l i n e by the dormitories. That showed, he said, that the Teamsters Union xas f u l f i l l i n g its promise to support the s t r i k e . He had even heard that they were going to send some men to march on the line l a t e r in the day. He handed the Professor his sign, xrhich said only, A.F.L.- C.I.O., Teacher's Union, on s t r i k e , and the Professor began xaIking back and forth on Holloxay Avenue before the entrance to the l i b r a r y . No students crossed the line, although txro library xrorkers did, and one of the other txro pickets shouted at them to join the s t r i k e . The Professor said nothing. He d i d n ' t notice xrhen his friend arrived, a l i t t l e late, because he came from the campus, xrhere he had gone to get his January salary check. There had, he said, been a Union meeting the night before, and a l l members who had not got their checks were told to do so this morning, as i t might be the last time they would get paid u n t i l a f t e r the s t r i k e had ended. The administration had not yet been able stop payment, partly because of the red tape in Sacramento, partly because they xrere not yet certain who xas on s t r i k e and who wasn't. The Professor did not have to go for his check, because he had alxays had it sent d i r e c t l y to his bank for deposit. "How was your t r i p ? " his friend asked. The Professor told him about i t as they marched xrith their |