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THE BATTALION
THURSDAY, MAY 7, 1981
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Staten Island ferry, Norwegian vessel collide
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NEW YORK — A packed
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of mishaps collided with a Norwe
gian freighter in dense fog just
south of the Statue of Liberty
Wednesday, injuring scores of
commuters.
The collision set off a brief panic
aboard the ferry, as passengers
screamed, knocked into each
other and scrambled for life vests,
but the boat was towed safely back
to Staten Island.
Police said at least 62 people
were injured — four seriously —
and were taken to hospitals on
Staten Island. Of the four serious
ly injured, one person had a heart
seizure, one had a fractured thigh
bone, another had a neck injury
and the fourth suffered chest
pains.
A Coast Guard spokesman said
the collision between the ferry
boat, the American Legion, and
the 515-foot freighter, Hoegh
Orchid, occurred at 7:20 a.m. in
Upper New York Bay, about one
mile from the St. George ferry ter
minal on Staten Island and just
south of the Statue of Liberty.
It was the third time the Amer
ican Legion has been involved in a
mishap, prompting some angry
passengers to label the vessel a
“jinx ship.”
It was not known how many
people were aboard the ferry but
the Coast Guard said there usually
are between 2,000 and 3,000 com
muters on the boats during the
morning rush hour.
Among the passengers on the
ferry at the time of the collision
were David Curran, 32, a U.S.
Customs official and Bob D’Arco,
33, who works for Prudential
Steamship Lines in Manhattan,
both of Staten Island.
“I’m a little shaken,” said Cur
ran. “There was a lot of fog, a lot of
horns, then all of a sudden, we
looked and saw a bow of a huge
ship smash in our side.
“People were really scared.
They were ripping down life pre
servers. It was really a panic. No
one could see more than 20 feet
because of the fog.”
crash occurred.
D’Arco said that after the colli
sion, the captain said over the
loudspeaker, “Don’t panic.”
“A lot of people were grabbing
life savers,” D’Arco said. “It was
quite a jolt, but I think people
were more shaken up emotion
ally.”
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freighter did not appear tok
riously damaged.
D’Arco said the ship was head
ing toward the freighter and at one
point the ferry was put rapidly in
reverse. The sudden change
knocked people over and then the
The fog was so intense that re
porters standing on the Battery in
Manhattan said they could not see
anything in the distance.
Police said the port or left side
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Staten Island while the frfeij^jT LAKE
remained in the bay for;
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South African blacks gain power in indust]
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JOHANNESBURG, South
Africa — South Africa’s blacks
suddenly have found new strength
in labor unionism, and it has
started to pay dividends at the
negotiating table.
For the first time, black and
multiracial unions in the steel and
engineering industry took part in
wage talks this year as full mem
bers of their industrial council.
As a result, half a million work
ers of all races were awarded sub
stantial wage increases. Semi
skilled black workers got the big
gest raises.
Until two years ago, the na
tion’s 7 million black workers were
not allowed to belong to unions,
although a number of unofficial
ones did exist. Strikes by black
workers were considered crimin
al. Whites kept a jealous hold on
skilled jobs.
The breakthrough came when
the government realized the
country was faced with an acute
manpower crisis, the result of 40
years of racial discrimination in
the job market.
A government report in 1979
was the catalyst. It called for abo
lishing all discriminatory practices
on the factory floor and the rapid
training of all races to overcome
the crippling shortage of skilled
workers.
The reservation of certain jobs
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for whites only now has been era
dicated in all industries except for
mining.
Black workers also won the
right to unionize, and they have
been doing so with a speed and
militancy that dismays many con
servative employers as well as the
government.
White unions attempted to
form “parallel” black unions led by
moderate workers, but more
radical groups opposed to govern
ment control have flourished in
stead.
The black unions were first re
garded as dangerous by the gov
ernment and most firms. Now
such views have softened.
Led by Ford Motor Co. in Port
Elizabeth, many firms have begun
to negotiate with the unregistered
unions as more representative of
their workers. Even Labor Minis
ter Fanie Botha and the conserva
tive Federated Chamber of Indus
tries advocate talking to whatever
worker body is most representa
tive, registed or unregistered.
“The Chamber clearly spells
out that it is the representative
ness of an employee orgnanization
that is the more important issue, ”
said Andrew Levy, an industrial
relations consultant. “This stance
is crucial to the possibifity of in
dustrial peace in South Africa.”
Despite progress in the past two
years, Western diplomats and
labor experts say it will take sever
al years for the whole movement
to settle down.
Arthur Grobbelaar, whites
retary-general of the Trade L'i
Council of South Africa, then
conservative of the multiraciil
ion bodies, says employers i
“never had to bother with nt
tiating with blacks” as well as is
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strikes last year need not
happened,” Grobbelaar said
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causing controversy. It hi
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legislation for unions on one
and abolition of all racial and
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front on the other
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Youngest recipient
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MINNEAPOLIS — One of the
country’s youngest heart trans
plant patients, a girl, 9, who had
been suffering a terminal cardiac
disease, survived the critical 24-
hour period after surgery and was
reported doing fine Wednesday.
“Her new heart is pumping
away beautifully and her blood
pressure is normal,” Dr. John
Najarian said.
The girl, who was not identi
fied, received the heart of an 11-
year-old girl in surgery early Tues
day at University of Minnesota
Hospitals.
Najarian, chief of surgery, said
the girl will remain in intensive
care and on a respirator for several
days.
The child should be able to go
home in six to eight weeks, said
Ralph Heussner, a hospital
spokesman. She then can lead “a
relatively normal” life with regu
lar checkups and medication.
It was the sixth heart transplant
at the university since 1978.
The girl was one of the youngest
heart transplant recipients in the
country, but doctors said they did
not view her “age, size, or emo
tional maturity, as a prohibitive
factor.”
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