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Hold it now, you don't want to go inside.

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Anything inside, we're staying out here.

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It's not crossing picket lines.

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Mr. Ford didn't cross the other night.

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Management hasn't done anything, you nor these people.

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But as the world's heavyweight champion, it seems to me that you ought to be on the side of labor.

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I don't know what you're talking about.

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You shouldn't go inside and do no interview.

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I don't know what you're talking about.

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Well, I'm telling you, champ, you shouldn't go inside and do no interview.

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Chicago's...

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He's a champ, not a chump.

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Call it injustice or whatever, and it's just a few people.

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See them cheering already?

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I'd rather them cheer me than boo me.

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He's a champ, not a chump.

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He's a champ, not a chump.

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He's a champ, not a chump.

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He's a champ, not a chump.

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He's a champ, not a chump.

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He's a champ, not a chump.

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He's a champ, not a chump.

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He's a champ, not a chump.

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Alley had come to appear on NBC's sports program Grandstand.

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He was supposed to trade insults with European boxing champ Richard Dunn, the man he fights in May.

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The question was whether he'd cross the picket lines at NBC and show his contempt for the high principles of organized labor.

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Well, Alley claimed he didn't even know there was a strike on at NBC.

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This sounded a bit odd since the small army of public relations men and aides who arrived with him did know and cautioned him not to go through with it.

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Among them, his friend, State Senator Charles Chu.

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Alley went inside and got the lowdown from up above from an NBC executive.

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This apparently put a whole new complexion on his intended visit.

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Alley demured and walked out, refusing to appear on NBC's Grandstand.

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Was this merely the champ's own Grandstand staged for the media, or was it another blow struck for the laboring man?

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Clearly, the freezing pickets outside thought the latter.

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But there remained a wee bit of skepticism in the other spectators, among them yours truly, Jack Smith, Eyewitness News.