Victory for Local 1733
As mass meetings continued in Memphis, local merchants and Federal officials increasedthe pressure on Mayor Loeb and other city officials to settle the strike. Finally on April 16, the city and union officials formalized a strike settlement. An agreement was adopted by city council by a vote of 12 to 1 and Mayor Loeb signed it. The agreement included fifteen cents per hour wage increase, dues check off, memorandum of understanding, promotion and an end to racial discrimination.
For a time, AFSCME 1733 became the largest single union in the city with 6000 members. Bill Lucy commended later that the strike went beyond Memphis and a "new kind of respect and a new kind of recognition for sanitation workers" developed across the country.
