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THE BATTALION Page 11 THURSDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1980 Providence city workers end walkout over layoffs :r books wltm the price?"' e with the neijl cicks fromdia ts, : improving tl itt on videodisc is#' rooves of a dollar bill ition. nxird industn to make Photo by Angie Jones She ’s an (early) elf to herself etting her Christmas present wrapping done early is Susan lobertson, a junior pre-med major. Robertson, a Krueger resident, doesn’t want to be tempted by wrapping the pack ages during final exams week. United Press International PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Nearly 1,900 city workers who went on strike to protest layoffs of 300 co workers began returning to their jobs Wednesday after a compromise was reached with Mayor Vincent Cianci. Public schools, where teachers re fused to cross picket lines Tuesday, were also scheduled to have re turned to normal Wednesday. The compromise was reached late Tuesday night after the layoff dispute resulted in a four-day illegal strike by most city workers, disrupting muni cipal services. Garbage collection and most other city services were halted abruptly by the walkout. Only police and firemen remained on the job, and they worked without the ser vices of 200 civilian dispatchers and school crossing guards. Water and sewage plants were staffed by supervisors and managers. Principals and other administrators staffed schools, which were kept open Tuesday despite picket lines that kept many teachers from report ing to work. The heart of the two-month dis pute was Cianci’s layoff of 300 work ers to help close a $12 million budget gap- Under the compromise, Public Service Employees Union Local 1033 and the city agreed to a new list of 240 workers who will remain laid walked off their jobs to protest Cian ci’s layoffs. The union claimed Cianci did not follow seniority rules when trimming the payroll, A labor arbitrator set down the “last hired, first fired” rule, which was affirmed Monday by a Su perior Court judge. off. The city will be able to lay off other workers in the future, though the union will be able to file grie vances if it disputes the action. “We made some compromises and we were able to come up with a list agreeable to the city and to the un ion,” Cianci said. Local President Joseph Virgilio said earlier in the day, “We’ve made a lot of progress. I think we can get it settled.” About 90 percent of the union’s 2,000 members joined 70 striking sanitation workers Friday and P€KWG CMlKese RcSTikUiUNT it t iHfe i£ SPECIAL DINNER $3.50 NOON BCFFET $3.29 Monday thru Friday SUNDAY EVENING BUFFET $4.25 All You Can Eatl Marvelous Peking-Szechwan and Cantonese Dishes • Take Out Orders n 5Atlanta children missing ewalorreveM ■ ~ 'vemments,cl i each year. City to seek clues by phone opted by tlell nds for state i j d year but rwl| United Press International for states ad ATLANTA — Public Safety Com- ies to a Houseipsioner Lee Brown said Wednes- immittee. m the city will use a computerized Jbhone system, featuring a plea rejected atfe:|o m some grieving mothers, to seek litchell, IT'‘dues i n the disappearance and mur- >r states this mb of 15 children, idley, D-N.pf Brown called a news conference in anti-recfS'jmth officials of Telephone Broad- cal goven»%ting Systems Inc. of Dallas and Bllie Mae Mathis, mother of one of ise Speaker f-ithe missing children, to announce and Senate Dr: the new approach to electronic can- ert Byrd will passing of neighborhoods where the r they can aj/«dren were last seen and where tinueintonrifhe bodies of some of the kids were rd talked ofapKWi'd. n, buttheH»®F r We believe there’s somebody, ’ day. pnewhere out there who knows mnething that can help us,” said I firown. “We aren’t going to stop un- I P we the key to this investiga- ICl w" 4 ’ ' !: ^ * I Brown said people contacted by Be telephones would be guaranteed inonymity, but there would be a spot on the computerized tape for sailers to identify themselves in the bent their information was helpful JtandgetsoaMand they wanted to claim a reward. : cats.” |0ver more than a year and a half, iot been fedhllthildren have been murdered and Ided untilauWfeu'r others have vanished from low- lays later, auWcome neighborhoods on the south er said she i'side of Atlanta. A reward fund of ib all over tkipe than $150,000 has been cre- >ld the judjt ated by local business and govem- fflent interests and police have mo- is a self-prodiBzed a special task force that has of a double ^followed thousands of leads and ten held satl«®eked out a daily barrage of clues ;ment, CooK^-pll fruitless, so far. s Attorney 1®eated before a city map with eadshots of the missing children ned at various locations, Brown a Bob Adler, chairman of the Dal- ibased telephone firm, demons- ited how the computer and eight recorders could dial a number d give the recorded plea for clues. Adler said the system, which nor ally would rent for about $150,000 r a 90-day campaign, was on loan to e city for “as long as it takes” to pvass every household in the areas ere the murders took place or the ildren disappeared. tener to recall anything that might help crack the case. After each recorded question, a separate tape would pick up any re sponses made by those called. Adler said the tape would run as long as the resident wanted to talk, and that 1.2 seconds after the answer stopped, the other tape would cut in with the next question from Brown. Mathis, whose 11-year-old son Jef- Day Deer Hunting r. ; ! inr 'jjfviftrrm /Than* v-.-v .•H.-ihwoti $50. a day Groups of 10 3 days/$100. Camp House 70 miles west of Houston 1-732-6849 frey has been missing since March 12, said she would record a plea for assistance in the case. She said she had no written script for the re corded message but “I’m just going to let it come out. It’s been 10 months now, and I want my child back home.” ']: We specialize in personaliz- i ing gifts and unique gift l {wrapping. I 3601 E. 29th St. 846-2797 j | AUTO TUNE “The Inflation Fighters” (Formerly Bill's & Jay’s Auto Tune) “Quality Service.. Personal Attention" TUNE-UPS & OIL CHANGES... by Appointment Only 846-9086 3611 S. 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