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, ! Tuesday Night Bar drinks for ladies 7-10 p.m. $ 300 "Wet Set' Contest Dallas night Club in the Deux Chens Complex Behind K-Mart, College Station 693-2818 national Battalion/Page 8 September 7,1982 Union rallies mark 100th Labor Day United Press International Tradesmen staggered by the worst unemployment since World War II rallied thousands strong Monday, the 100th anniversary of the first Labor Day parade, while Americans bid summer farewell with beach parties, ballgames, concerts, and fireworks. A Huckleberry Finn Raft Race in Connecticut, a Mr. and Mrs. Muscle Beach contest in California and an eclectic free concert featuring Count Basie, Glen Campbell and 5,100 fire works shells in Chicago were all part of the nation’s final big fling Looking For A New Calculator? Lou has 45 models waiting! ★ Texas Instruments ★ Hewlett-Packard + Cassio TLOUPOrST 335 University Drive At Northgate 846-6312 before falling temperatures and football take over. U nionists were joined by poli ticians up for election this fall at a “Solidarity for Survival” rally in Sioux City, Iowa, where near ly 4,000 people are jobless and another 2,500 are in the fourth month of a bitter strike. A tradition started by a Pater son, N.J., machinist and a New York carpenter in 1882 was re newed by thousands of mar ching trade union members in parades across the country. Marchers began gathering hours before step-off time for the New York City parade up Fifth Avenue, wearing union hats and buttons and waving pro-labor flags and banners. “ Fhis is the beginning of the second century of the American labor unions and this labor movement is very much alive,” said Sen. Daniel Patrick Moyni- PIZZA & SUBS Delivers Free... Fresh! Fast! Hot Pizza! Plus Free Cokes! Call Now 846-3768 846-7751 han, D-N.Y., who walked at the head of the parade. But some union leaders said President Reagan’s economic policies have built unemploy ment to a post-World War II high of 9.8 percent and threaten to disrupt or destroy the labor movement. “The administration’s cur rent economic policies have pro duced a nationwide trend of un ion-busting attempts,” said Robert Voorhies, president of Central Indiana’s labor council and organizer of a sparsely attended, rain-hampered In dianapolis parade, the city’s first in 40 years. Chicago also staged its first labor parade in decades, top ping it off with a Grant Park food festival where 30 vendors dished out the city’s famed ribs, deep-dish pizza and other treats. A free concert and spectacu lar fireworks display capped a weekend chock full of activities that drew thousands to the city’s loop. The thousands drawn to the North Carolina shore were dis appointed when officials were forced to order beaches closed in Nags Head and warn against bathing in other communities. Winds whipping the ocean off the Outer Banks swirled under tows that made swimming hazardous. About 200,000 people jam med into Ocean City, Md., were recovering from the shock of lernale green-and purple haired “new wave punk rockers" stripping off their bathing suit tops. “You kind of expect some people to do some crazy things, this being the last weekend and all,” lifeguard A1 Fiedler said Saturday. “That, however, I wasn’t ready for.” What’s Up Tuesday -ting will be held f 0 mai i etingwi!; ASSOCIATION i kei s will be featured t 7:30 p.m. j n ^ uss an emerge: •st speaker Ted Ct — its status and fu; : niembr MSC CEPHEID VARIABLE:A me members at 7:30 p.m. in 201 MSC. STUDENT SERV ICES:The first organ held at 8:30 p.m. in 401 Rudder. TEXAS A&M STUDENT DIETETIC formation on internships and guest spe a meeting at 7 p.m. in 126 Kleberg. PSI CHI: Psychology honor society will n Academic Building. Peggy Shafer wtl children's shelter. WILDLIFE BIOLOGY SOCIE1 Y:C, will speakahout Texas’ natural resource — at 7:30 p.m. in 137 MSC. DEBATE SOCIE 1 Y:Will discuss tournaments ant ship at 7 p.m. in 20(5 MSC. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE ORCiANIZA I ION:Will meet, p.m. in the Meditation Room of the All Faiths Chapel MANAGEMENT SOCIETY:Tom Joseph will speak at' p.m. in 102 Academit and Agency Building. 4 RODEO CLUB:General meeting at 7:30 p.m. in 113 KWr CHI ALPHA CHRISTIAN FELLOWS HIP: Will meeu p.m. in the All Faiths Chapel. STUDENT DIETETIC ASSOCIATTON:Imerns will^ at 7 p.m. in 126 Kleberg Center. COLLEGE REPUBLICANS:Organizational meeting at 55 p.m. in 301 Rudder. CAMAC:Discussion of fall projects at 7 p.m. in 308 Rudde: 1 AML W INDSl RUNG CLUB: Discussion of events at > p.m. in 410 Rudder. UNDERGRADUATE ENTOMOLOGY CLUB:Gi* speaker Tim Friedlander will talk at 7:30 p.m. in 103 Soil a Crop Sciences - Entomology Center. ASSOCIATED GENERAL CON Ik ACTORS: Nab. 1 1 ev< th< th< tei siv wl TI an Da wh ori the Ag Da chi lim int bal Held ill p.m. in 207Hi B:F p.m. in t iss trip to B idge at 7 p.m: President H.C rington. WATERSKI CLl Rudder. SNOW SKI CLUB:Will di: 01 Rudder. MSC CAMERA COMMITTEE:! photography at 7:30 p.m. in 103 Za POULTRY SCIENCE CLUB:W >.m. in 100 Kleberg Center. WOMEN IN COMMUNICATIONS INC.:Wineandch«s reception followed by guest speaker Ginger Purdy, a natko W ICI officer who owns an advertising agency in San Antoni at 7:30 in the College Station Community Center at thecorK of Jersey and Holick. New members are welcome. ML. PLEASANT HOMETOWN CLUB: 1 he Aggidandp ture will be taken and olfleer elections will be held at 7:15p. in 201 Physics building. For information call Bobby Alexanti: saf Ag sm shi Rt ill pi; ,11 mutes at i') 775-3710. 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