YONKERS HISTORY: Yonkers officials today obtained an injunction ordering nearly 450 patrolmen and officers to end their two‐day “sick‐out”

YONKERS HISTORY: Yonkers officials today obtained an injunction ordering nearly 450 patrolmen and officers to end their two‐day “sick‐out” and sought the help of the state‐created Yonkers Emergency Financial Control Board in the matter.

YONKERS FLASHBACK: The sick‐out began Wednesday afternoon as policemen, angered by a breakdown in contract talks and skeptical about the city'city ability to pay a retroactive wage increase that was due them next month,

DAILY NEWS: The Yonkers Police Department staged what union officials say was a “spontaneous” protest action.

YONKERS: The City Manager, Vincent Costaldo, said that supervisors, senior officers and a number of sergeants and lieutenants not participating in the sick‐out were adequately providing police protection.

QUOTE: “The city is safe,” he said. “There is no emergency here and if there was I would seek help from the County Sheriffs department.”

The injunction issued in White Plains by Justice Morrie Slifkin of State Supreme Court is returnable Monday. Eugene Fox, City Corporation Counsel, said that the policemen'policemen action constituted a strike encouraged by the Yonkers Patrolmen Benevolent Association and, therefore, was in violation of the state criminal law.

Mr. Costaldo said that he was asking State Comptroller Arthur Levitt to call a special meeting of the control board tomorrow morning. He said he would ask the board, which must approve all city revenue estimates, to allow Yonkers to count on nearly $3.25 million in state aid that is currently bottled up in the State Legislature.

Without that money from the so‐called state municipal overburden bills, Mr. Costaldo said he could make no new wage offers to the city'city policemen and contract talks could not resume.

As the city, union officials and a conciliator from the state'state Public Employment Relations Board worked to end the “sick‐out” by policemen, the city's nearly 300 firemen, who are in the same position as the policemen, also stage their own job action.

However, they quickly returned to work after the ruling by State Supreme Court Justice Morrie Slifkin.

Police protection In the city was quickly reported back to normal.

Al Portanova, the president of the Yonkers Patrolmen's Benevolent Association, began calling P.B.A. members Just before 7 P.M., urging them to report for work.

The police said many officers had returned to duty by 8:15 P.M., and the force was back to normal strength on the midnight‐to‐8 A.M. shift.

Yonkers’ 400 officers had begun reporting in “sick” Friday evening in apparent protest against an arbitrator's award.

For 20 hours Saturday, the city's working police force consisted largely of senior officers, sergeants and detectives.

There was no report of an unusual increase in crime.

Afterwards, Mr. Portanova spent time at City Hall with the City Manager, Vincent Castaldo, ironing out disputes on such issue as longevity and the status of probationary officers.

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