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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1981
State
Cubans to be paid for work
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GREENVILLE — A patio furn
iture manufacturer who had not
been paying Cuban refugees
under his sponsorship said Tues
day he had agreed to pay them
minimum wage and arrange for
back pay.
The U.S. Department of Labor
Monday began investigating
Stromberg’s Patio Furniture after
Cuban refugees said they had not
been paid for working at the plant.
The Stromberg family said when
they agreed to sponsor the Cubans
from Fort Chaffee, Ark., they
were told they did not have to be
paid for six months.
Employers who do not pay for
Clayton says
he’ll give up
legislature
United Press International
AUSTIN — Speaker Bill
Clayton, whose election Jan. 13 to
a fourth term as the House’s pres
iding officer established a new re
cord for tenure in that office, is
giving up his position in the Leg
islature when his term runs out in
1982.
Clayton said Monday he will
surrender the legislative seat he
has held for 18 years, and will
either retire from politics and re
turn to his Texas Panhandle farm,
or make a race for a statewide
office.
Most of Clayton’s friends be
lieve a statewide campaign is the
most likely choice, despite his trial
and acquittal last year on bribery
charges stemming from the FBI’s
Brilab investigation.
Clayton had said in 1979 he
would retire or run for another
office at the end of this term, but
hinted at the opening of the legis
lative session that he was consid
ering campaigning for a fifth term
as speaker.
Monday, he again disclosed his
plans to retire or seek another
office.
He first gave the message to a
lobby group, then to reporters.
“I guess I had better go ahead
and say it publicly, I will not be
seeking another term in the Leg
islature,” Clayton said.
“After this termJL will-have conr+
eluded 20 years in the Legislature,
and I believe it is time to move on
and let someone else represent
that district.”
He said he will decide near the
end of the legislative session, or
perhaps after it ends, whether he
will seek another office or return
to his farm in Springlake.
Clayton, 52, has been men
tioned as a potential candidate for
governor, lieutenant governor or
land commissioner in 1982.
Coy. Bill Clements has not said
whether he will seek re-election,
but Lt. Gov. Bill Hobby already
has announced for re-election in
two years.
Land Commissioner Bob Arm
strong has said he will retire from
his office at the end of his present
term, leaving that office perhaps
the easiest target for Clayton. At
least 10 other Democrats have ex
pressed interest in Armstrong’s
job.
Police say
fake money
isn’t funny
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ALLENTOWN — The student
who printed phony dollars on his
high school printing press to deco
rate a Christmas present for an
aunt and uncle had no idea he was
triggering a counterfeit crime
wave.
Fellow students at Allen High
School thought the money looked
so authentic, they have since
turned out an estimated $3,000 in
bogus bills on the press. Police say
the money looks phony at close
range, but has been fooling
cashiers and change machines.
The money was passed off pri
marily in pizza parlors and dough
nut shops.
One teen-ager was arrested and
six others were sought on charges
of forgery and theft of services.
The students were not identified
because of their age.
Lt. Ronald Neimeyer, chief of
the Allentown police juvenile di
vision, set a deadline of 4 p.m.
tqday for the return of all the
bogus bills before police begin
making more arrests.
services violate the federal wage
and hour act.
“We’ve put them on minimum
wage ($3.35 per hour) and every
thing’s straightend out,” said Pat
Stromberg. “According to the law,
you’ve got to pay somebody you
hire.”
Stromberg said the two Cubans
still at his plant, as well as others
who quit with complaints of not
being paid, would receive back
pay, minus what they were given
in room, board and other ex
penses.
Labor Department spokesman
Bill Belt said no official agreement
had been reached and the investi
gation would continue. But the
Strombergs had been cooperative
and no problems were foreseen,
another spokesman said.
Refugees Antonio Taylor, 22,
and Lorenzo Guerrero, 25, said at
a news conference Monday they
had been treated like family by the
Strombergs and given room,
board and medical care. The men
acknowledged they worked for
free, but said officials at Fort Chaf
fee told them they would receive
no pay for the first sixth months.
“We were anxious to get out of
Fort Chaffee,” Taylor said. “Fort
Chaffee was like a prison.”
Guerrero said they also re
ceived about $30 per month in
spending money for working 36 to
48 hours per week.
Five other refugees working for
the Strombergs fled to Dallas last
month, saying they were over
worked and not paid. Taylor and
Guerrero claim the others left be
cause they were offered high-
paying jobs in Chicago.
“We want to be here, an<J they
want to be there, ” said Taylor, an
amateur boxer in Cuba. “We all
have our choices. This is a free
country. ”
Senate committee approves
bill limiting injury claims
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AUSTIN — A Senate committee has approved
a bill which would prevent a lawsuit by a person
who loses a hand working on a defective machine
that is more than six years old.
The bill by Sen. Bill Meier, D-Euless, would
impose a statute of limitations of six years from the
time the product is manufactured, five years from
the time it is purchased and two years from the
time it causes injury.
With one dissenting vote, the committee re
commended the bill Monday.
Opponents argued that the statute of limita
tions would protect manufacturers of defective
automobiles, manufacturers of cancer-causing
drugs and producers of any other products that
cause injury more than five or six years after they
are manufactured.
“If a man buys a new house and owns it six
years and it bums down because of faulty wiring
and destroys everything he has, maybe some
members of his family, can he sue under Meier’s
bill?,” asked Sen. Bill Sarpalius, D-Hereford.
“He has no cause of action,” answered Mike
Gallagher, legislative chairman of the Texas Trial
Lawyers Association.
The bill would also eliminate punitive dam
ages, except in cases where death has resulted.
The Texas Constitution does not permit the Leg
islature to rule out punitive damages if a death has
occurred.
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