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1 CHICAGO — Neatly 12,000
Burlington Northern brake-
men, switchmen and conductors
Tuesday staged a wildcat walk
out that shut down the rail sys
tem in a 25-state region and
scrambled the rush hour for
thousands of suburban Chicago
commuters.
Railroad officials said they
need fust, *iw planned to go to court in Chica
go or St. Paul, Minn., to seek a
temporary restraining order
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H^e can get a judge the fastest,”
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company headquarters in St.
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Paul.
Picket lines went up simul
taneously at railroad yards in 25
western, midwestern and south
ern states-
Burlington Northern con
tends the strike is an illegal ac
tion authorized by the United
Transportation Union, Welsh
said.
A week ago, Burlington
Northern dispatchers walked
out. in a strike that lasted until a
court order in Illinois halted the
picketing.
“The strike is system-wide,”
Welsh said. “It affects 11,900
United Transportation Union
members who are switchmen,
brakemen and conductors —
the guys who operate the trains,
with the exception of the loco
motive engineers.”
Other unions were honoring
the strike, effectively shutting
down the railroad.
The walkout fouled up the
morning rush hour for nearly
20,000 Burlington Northern
Railroad commuters in suburbs
in western Chicago. Feeder
buses were used to transport rid
ers to other rail lines.
Rod Swisher, Sheridan chair
man of UTU Local 951 in Sher
idan, Wyo., said the walkout was
a “peaceful withdrawal” to pro
test lack of negotiations on a
contract for engineers and train
men that expired in March
1981. He said the UTU is cur
rently working under the ex
pired contract.
Don Baker, a Burlington
Northern official at Fargo, N.D.,
said the walkout was illegal be
cause the issue of work rules was
before the National Mediation
Board.
Burlington Northern is the
nation’s longest railroad with
more than 29,000 miles of track
in 25 states from the Pacific
Northwest to the Midwest and
the Gulf of Mexico. It specializes
iri hauling commodities such as
coal from western states to mid^
western power plants, and grain
to overseas markets.
Reports of picketing came
from states including Wisconsin,
Illinois, Minnesota, Colorado,
Oklahoma, Montana, Wyoming,
Nebraska and Iowa.
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NEW YORK — The do-it-
yourself industry has done well
diiring the current recession as
more and more people get out
tools and make repairs and
alterations to save money.
In 1980, retail sales of do-it-
yourself tools and supplies were
up about 6.2 percent after ad
justment for inflation. This in a
year when general retail sales
were down 9.3 percent in real
terms, personal income was off
2.3 percent and the Gross Na
tional Product off 2.5 percent.
The survey made for the
Stanley Works of New Britain,
Conn., makers of many kinds of
tools, was done before 1981 fi
gures were available.
A group of people from tools
and supplies producers pre
sented the data to Wall Street
analysts in a New York seminar.
Sales volume for 1990 was
E rojected at just under $115 bil-
on. That is compared with esti
mated expenditures in 1980 of
about $30 billion.
The 1980 sales values of the
eight most common types of do-
it-yourself projects were esti
mated at $19.5 billion for about
84.2 million separate projects by
homeowners and other do-it-
yourselfers. These figures were
presented to the seminar by
Morris R. Robinson, vice presi
dent of the Bureau of Building
Market Research.
Painting, wallpapering,
paneling and floor covering
were by far the most popular do-
it-yourself improvements with
36 million projects and outlays
of $4.1 billion. The most expen
sive jobs were kitchen and bath
room improvements and re
pairs.
About 12.5 million do-it-
yourself plumbing jobs were ex
ecuted in 1980, Robinson said,
plus 13.5 million energy-related
jobs — furnaces, water heaters,
insulation, solar heaters — and
7.6-million electric repairs.
Much of this is work that in
many areas requires a building
permit or other official permit
and is forbidden to amateurs in
some urban areas with strict
law's.
As for major outside jobs, do-
it-yourselfers spent $708 million
for supplies for patios and decks
in 1980, $757 million for new
roofs, $370 million for new sid-
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