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national Battalion/Pagtf August 4, Rules for longer teen ^ ar/>grf By Scott McCullar work hours postponed 70UR HOA/OR, CLIENT IS INNOCEJfT OF THE MURDER CHARGE BY REASON OF I NS AN ITT. IV CLIENT DID INDEED STAB THE DECEASED 37 TIMES, BUT CANNOT BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE, WHY IS THAT, SON? CAUSE X SET MY SIAM* OF RIGHT AHD WROM BYT"®* OUTCOME OF INSMITT United Press International WASHINGTON — The administration, under pressure from organized labor and edu cators, Tuesday backed off con troversial new regulations that would allow some teenagers to work longer hours and for less than the minimum wage. Just before House hearings on the proposed changes, Depu ty Undersecretary of Labor Robert Collyer sent a letter to labor standards subcommittee chairman Rep. George Miller, D-Calif., announcing a five- month extension of the period for public comment and his in tention to revise the revisions. Collyer said extending the comment period from one month to six months would allow the Labor Department to consult more extensively wiih business, labor and educational groups, with an eye toward modifying the proposal. Under the July 16 proposal, 14- and 15-year-olds would be allowed to work one extra hour a night, and the night-time hours they are allowed to work would be extended from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. It also would let stores seek ing permission to pay a submini mum wage to student workers get approval for more than the currently allowed one year at a time. Fast food stores, convenience stores and amusement parks, which rely heavily on teenage labor, would be the main benefi ciaries of the proposed changes. The minimum wage is $3.35 an hour, but under law, em ployers can seek Labor Depart ment approval to pay $2.85 to full-time students. In testimony prepared for the hearing, AFL-CIO official Robert Harbrant said the pur pose of the original proposal was “so that McDonald’s and Mar riott can ‘have it their way.”’ Harbrant, president of the AFL-CIO Food and Beverage Trades Department, said mak ing it easier for 14- and 15-year- olds to work takes jobs away from 16- to 60-year-olds. “The question then becomes one of priorities — do we give jobs to kids or their parents?” he said. Education groups have com plained that extending night time work hours for young teenagers will harm their school performance and social lives and could lead to greater alco hol, tobacco and drug use. Bid-rigging conspiracies prosecuted nationwide mg Job-placement specialist has advice for ’80s job-hunters United Press International NEW YORK — Many persons hunting jobs during the current recession are using “shotgun” methods that would have been fine around 1964 but succeed only in antagonizing prospective employers today, says Robert L. Swain. Swain heads Eaton-Swain Associates Inc., a New York out placement firm which helps dis placed supervisory and middle- management people to find new jobs. Some weeks ago, Swain and his colleagues began to suspect that employers are increasingly impatient at getting floods of re sumes, many of them quite irrelevant to their needs and often actually irritating in their presumptuous or uninformed tone. Eaton-Swain subsequently surveyed 507 hiring executives in 21 states and 24 industries with a 31.9 percent response. Swain said the responses showed clearly that a lot of peo ple are huntingjobs on the basis of advice contained in books on the subject published in the rela tively affluent mid-1960s when companies were eagerly hunting new management and supervis ory workers and the “shotgun” approach worked. “Today you definitely need to use rifle shot tactics,” Swain said, “because employer attitudes have changed drastically.” The most important changes the Eaton-Swain survey turned up concern resumes. Not too many years ago employers did not assume anyone who sent them an unsolicited resume was out of work; he or she might be just casting around for a better job. Today about 90 percent of employers who receive unsoli cited resumes assume those who send them are jobless. For many years, the resume has been considered the main key to job-hunting and profes sional resume preparers do a substantial business. Responses to the Eaton-Swain survey indi cate, however, unsolicited re sumes can do more harm than good. “The results indicated the re sume is far more important to the jobhunter than to the pros pective employer,” Swain said. He said he is inclined to suspect that unless a help-wanted ad asks for a resume, a personal ized letters is far more effective. If a resume is sent it should not be over two pages; one page is better. the old bromide, “Don’t call us, we’ll call you.” United Press International WASHINGTON — The Jus tice Department is concerned that competition for construc tion projects will be scarce be cause it has banned so many firms from bidding for the jobs because of bid rigging. But Assistant Attorney Gen eral William Baxter wrote letters to the attorneys general of 13 states — Texas, Florida, Geor gia, Kansas, Kentucky, Mary land, Mississippi, Nebraska, North and South Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee and Vir ginia — saying the department will continue to step up investi gations, despite its concern. Maryland, Oklahoma and Iowa — to the list of states where we have charged bid-rigging con spiracies,” he said Monday. “In the past two months, we have filed 14 cases against 14 companies and 10 individuals and have added three states — “Less competition could be the result if debarment of many firms within a region during the same period left only a handful of firms eligible to bid,” said Baxter, who is in charge of the department’s antitrust division. |ol The letter was datedJult jurl and the 13 states Baxterrat were the only ones wheregn |jve jury investigations wereinp |ro ress at the time. Currentlytl are investigations in 17 Jraci Baxter said. "I can assure you those in ligations will continue and | , vigorously pursued,” Bn |j r said. mu “The big effort should be put on the personalized letter, not the resume,” Swain said. He re counted a lot of mistakes made in personalized letters because not enough attention is devoted to them. “One executive complained that jobhunters often misspelled his name when they sent him personal letters,” he said. “Others complained that many jobhunters started nearly every sentence in the letter with ‘I,’ in cluding such boastful and exag gerated remarks as ‘I have saved my company millions of dollars’ or patronizing remarks such as, ‘I have selected your company because ...’” Then there was the executive of a non-profit institution who got naive letters from jobhun ters referring lyrically to his company’s products. On the opposite side of the fence was a chap who said, “It is remarkable that an $80,000-a- year executive doesn’t bother to read a prospective employer’s annual report or visit the super market to see the company’s products.” Remarks in a letter such as “I’m a self-starter” or “I enjoy a challenge,” brand the writer a boring platitudinarian. “The approach executives find most distasteful is the letter that asks them for advice in job hunting,” Swain said the survey indicated. Finally, he said, most em ployers don’t want to be called . on the telephone by jobhunters so don’t suggest in your letter that you’ll make a follow-up call. One thing that hasn’t changed is Pac-Man gobbles his way into court United Press International CHICAGO — The manufac turers of the ever-hungry “Pac- Man” game have been barred from gobbling up a book that instructs game fans how to beat the popular video game. U.S. District Judge John Grady rejected an attempt by Midway Manufacturing Co., the makers of Pac-Man, to ban the book “How to Win at Pac-Man,” which tells how to rack up points on the machine. About a dozen books on the market claim to show players how to successfully maneuver their way out of Pac-Man’s jaws, but this dispute was the first to go to court. Midway Manufacturing sought to stop sales of the book and recall it from bookstores. Illinois truck stop has a losing streak United Press International MARION, Ill. — Some days are best forgotten. That’s what the people at the Marion Truck Plaza on Inter state 57 are thinking since Dame Fortune turned her back on the folks there. The business was heavily damaged when a tornado rip ped through the area May 29. Then lightning struck the building July 4. Early Monday two women in a yellow pickup truck got some gasoline at one of the gasoline islands and drove off without re moving the nozzle from the tank. 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