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THE BATTALION
WEDNESDAY, JULY 26, 1978
Postal worker firings don’t stop walkouts |
United Press International
The firing of almost 100 postal workers in
New Jersey and California has failed to quell
wildcat walkouts threatening to spread into
a full-scale strike in the New York City area.
Union leaders said they thought a New
York City strike would mean a nationwide
walkout.
The effect of wildcat walkouts so far has
been minimal — a one-day backlog of hulk
mail — parcels, “junk mail” and other low-
priority items at bulk mail centers in New
Jersey and California. But the leader of the
New York City union local said Monday
night he was recommending the 23,(KK) mail
handlers, clerks and drivers in the union
vote to strike.
Union President Moe Biller said a strike
authorization vote would be held later this
week and if the union members approve a
strike — no matter what the margin of the
vote — there would he an immediate walk
out.
He said a New York strike probably
would start a national postal strike.
"1 really do believe if New York votes to
strike, the rest of the country will follow,”
said Biller.
Asked about the legal ramifications, since
postal workers are barred from striking, Bil
ler said, “You'll have to see my lawyer.”
The wildcat strikes began last Friday at
the New York Bulk and Foreign Mail
Center in Jersey City, N.J., and the San
Francisco Bulk Mail Center in Richmond,
Calif., after a nationwide contract proposal
was agreed on in Washington.
Mail balloting on the national contract
proposal is expected to be complete in about
two weeks, but postal workers in many areas
of the country wasted no time in condemn
ing the proposed contract.
The proposal would give postal workers
an average 19.5 percent wage and cost-of-
living increase over three years, a raise
scorned by most workers, particularly those
in cities with high costs of living.
“We need the strike, we have to have it to
get a decent contract,” said James Nolan, a
mail handler from Elizabeth, N.J.
A U.S. Postal Service spokesman said
Monday the service had fired 40 people at
the Jersey City center, 42 at the Richmond
center and another 14 who walked out of the
Los Angeles bidk mail center Saturday.
“All these firings can be appealed through
the normal grievance process,” said Harry
Nigro, a Postal Service spokesman in New
York. “But if these guys are on the picket
line when they’re supposed to be at work,
they re breaking the law. We have no other
choice but to send them letters of removal.
New York-area Postal Service officials also
got a temporary injunction against the
strike. It banned any picketing at any postal
facility anywhere in the country.
But pickets still marched Monday night
outside the Jersey City center where 37
percent of the scheduled employees did not
report for the night shift.
1 he 42 strikers at the Richmond center
were ordered to appear in federal court
Tuesday to explain why they failed to obey
an injunction against the strike.
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Georgia governor
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United Press International
ATLANTA — Gov. George Busbee plans to reward some prison
inmates for saving the lives of two guards in the weekend riot that left
three men dead, and he promised the killers would be swiftly prose
cuted.
Busbee, an advocate of capital punishment, told reporters Monday
night he wants to make sure the men involved in the mutilation
murder of guard Dan Harrison and the fatal stabbings of two prison
ers are never again a threat.
He said a group of prisoners — no names were released — had
been identified as assailants responsible for the killings and the
wounding of guard Preston Foskey, who was stabbed repeatedly dur
ing the Sunday afternoon violence.
Five prisoners were put in isolation Monday following an investiga
tion of the killings, but Busbee declined to say how many suspects
had been linked to the killings. He did say, however, that “we do
expect early prosecution of the people involved.'
Busbee praised most of the inmates of two black dormitories where
a black guard and a white officer were protected by inmates after
Harrison was killed and Foskey was wounded. The two uninjured
guards initially had been described by prison authorities as hostages.
Had it not been for these prisoners, then we woidd have had
further killings of guards, so that’s earned time — they’ve earned
some time, good time, Busbee said.
But also, we have some people we’ve identified who've killed a
~ mu Ulated him — we also have some earned time for them.
Were going to try and do everything we can to see that they
never injure anybody in society or any guard in the prison.”
Carter warns White House
against marijuana, drug use
United Press International
WASHINGTON — President
Carter is making it clear “in no un
certain terms that marijuana smok
ers and drug users have no place on
the White House staff’.
Describing himself as deeply con
cerned over recent reports that
some of his staff use illegal drugs,
the president served notice in a
memorandum circulated Monday
that he expects every member of the
White House staff to obey the law.
Carter acted to stop any drug use
among his staff after a flurry of re
ports were published about drug
use by White House workers.
Some of the reports came from in
terviews with Dr. Peter Bourne,
who said after resigning under fire
last week as the president’s adviser
on drug abuse problems that he
knew of White House staff members
who had smoked marijuana and snif
fed cocaine.
Bourne is under police investiga
tion for prescribing Quaalude, a
powerful and frequently abused
sedative, under a phony name for an
assistant in his office.
“Whether you agree with the law
or whether or not others obey the
law is totally irrelevant,” Carter
said. “You will obey it, or you will
seek employment elsewhere.”
On another front, Carter planned
an appeal to Democratic congres
sional leaders I uesday for support of
one amendment repealing the Tur
kish arms embargo and defeat of
another lifting U.N. trade sanctions
against Rhodesia.
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