KTLA News: "Mayor Tom Bradley interviewed about transit strike" (1974)

[Unintelligible chatter] [Mayor Tom Bradley] This morning, the committee and I talked about, timing. And about possible alternatives to settle this strike. Ah, we're not, ah, privileged to disclose those, but, ah, we're gonna step up the pace of our activity. I believe that the, ah, settlement which was reached last night by the Oakland parties, after sixty days or more in strike, ah, could be a new factor in, in our discussions here. I think the time has come when we ought to have around-the-clock bargaining sessions. I'm calling upon the parties to the RTD bus walkout, to engage in that kind of around-the-clock bargaining. [Unintelligible chatter] [No audio] [Unintelligible chatter] [Reporter] Are there any, ah, just how many senior citizens are there in Van Nuys, ah, and, and, [Reporter] what do you think about the bus strike? Is it affecting you quite badly? [Woman] It's affecting us a great deal. Now, I'm president of the Hazelton Chase Social Club. We meet on a Sunday afternoon. I have to go pick up people. to bring to the club. There was no transportation. They wait on the corners and it's hot. Therefore I would appreciate if Mayor Bradley would intervene, and see what he could do about trying to settle the strike. [Reporter] Was that, [camera noise] [Reporter] The Mayor eventually would intervene. I would greatly appreciate if Mayor  Bradley would intervene, and see that we get this bus strike settled, immediately. We have senior citizens, a great number of them. We have a hundred and seven clubs in  the Valley. And I'm President of the Hazelton Chase Social Club. I have to take my car, use my gas, to pick up people, to bring them to the club. And it's a kind of hard for them to  sit on the corners and wait until I get there, at different corners, so I can bring them to the club. Therefore, I would appreciate it, if Mr. Bradley, would do the seniors, a good turn, and intervene into that situation. Thank you. [Unintelligible conversation] [Bradley] You're getting real, [Reporter] Mayor, let me ask you a very short question. I, ah, I know there's a [Reporter] publicity blackout on the RTD strike. [Reporter] You've talked to both sides before and you just talked to some of your committee. What have you resolved. [Reporter] You'll be leaving the city for a time now. Who have you left in charge? What instructions have you left? [Bradley] Oh, I'm going to be here for the rest of this week and we're going to be working very actively, ah, during that time. Ah, my Labor-Management Committee and the Deputy Mayor's, will be, ah, fully prepared to continue the arrangements that we start this week. [Reporter] Ah, we talked about intervention, ah, [Reporter] getting in there. [Reporter] What capacity would that be or would it just be advice or just a pleading to get things straight. [Bradley] Well, I'm not going to  disclose exactly what those steps are going to be.  I think it's inappropriate, ah, at this point to publicly disclose what we're going to try to do. All right. [Reporter unintelligible]