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United Press International
| ST. LOUIS — A company’s
obligation to provide a safe
ot king area for its employees
. ■ .■ndudes protecting them f rom
11 “ he dangers of tobacco smoke, a
late appeals court says.
The Missouri Court of
ppeals issued the ruling Tues-
iay in the case of Paul Smith,
vho said he suffers from severe
scnmina -gacPons to tobacco smoke.
10 d0ll ftmith had asked a Sr. Louis
bounty Circuit Court to issue an
i injunction against his employer,
an , 3 Hit Indge Philit) I. Sweenev dis-
no,E ''“ nissed the petition.
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Smith, 50, tried to prevent
Western Electric from allowing
smoking in certain work areas.
The petition said that by allow
ing smoking in the working
area, the company was exposing
its employees to a health hazard.
Smith, an engineering associ
ate for the company since 1950,
said tobacco smoke causes him
to suffer from nausea, dizziness,
headaches, blackouts, loss of
memory, sore throat, aches and
pains in joints, choking sensa
tions and lightheadedness.
Western Electric moved
Smith to different locations in its
building, but the court said
“each location contained signifi
cant amounts of tobacco
smoke.”
Smith was told to wear a re
spirator, which did not improve
his condition, or to work in the
computer room, where smoking
was prohibited. The change to
the computer room brought
Smith a pay decrease of about
$500 a month.
“It is well-settled in Missouri
an employer owes a duty to the
employee to use all reasonable
care to provide a reasonably safe
work place,” the court said.
“The allegations of the instant
case, taken as true, show the
tobacco smoke of co-workers in
the work area is hazardous to the
health of employees in general
and plaintiff in particular,
“Therefore, by failing to ex
ercise its control and assume its
responsibility to eliminate the
hazardous condition caused by
tobacco smoke, defendant has
breached and is breaching its
duty to provide a reasonably
safe work place,” the court said.
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pan. in 204 Sterling G. Evans Library. Bractice and game
schedule wall be discussed.
MSC OP AS'. Season tickets are being sold in the Rudder
Box Office today through Saturday.
A&JV1 RUGBY:Practice is held at 5 p.m. in the main drill
field Mondays through 'Thursdays. For more informa
tion, contact Robert Gougler at 846-9772.
CLASS OF ’84: Executive Council applications are availa
ble in the Student Programs Office now through Friday.
DEBA I E SOC1ETY: 1 Vo practicing debates will start at 5
p.m. and 7:30 p.m. in 203 Academic and Agency
Building.
RENEWABLE NATURAE RESOURCES ASSO
CIATION: In our first meeting tonight at 7:30 p.m. in
203 Harrington, Dr. Silvey will speak on endangered
. species. <
TOYOTA OWNERS’ ASSOCIATION: A car care
session and parts order will be discussed in a meeting at
7:30 p.m. in 321 Physics Building.
ANTHROPOLOGY CLUB:Slides of Jamaica, 1982
Nautical Field School by Tony Comuzzie wall be featured
at a meeting to he held at 7:30 p.m. in 301 Bolton.
AGRICULTURE ECONOMICS CXI
bach wall speak on career opportunitk
Ralston Purina in a meeting at 7:30 p.n
rington.
CIRCLE K — SERVICE ORGAMZA r lvzit . ^ meet
ing will be held at 7 p.m. in Rudder Tower.
TAMSCAMS (METEOROLOGY CLUBhAnyone in
terested in weather is invited to come to a meeting at 7
p.m. in the O&M Observatory (15th floor). A short film
on hurricane preparedness will be shown followed by
refreshments and a tour of the weather department.
AQUA I IANS: I he first meeting for new members is
tonight in the indoor swimming pool at 7 p.m. For more
information, contact Marti Nix at 845-4918 or Spunky
Sheppard at 260-0279.
MIDDAY MANN A: A Bible study will be held in the AH
Faiths Chapel Library on T uesdays and Thursdays from
12:30 p.m. to 1 p.m.
DANCE ART’S SOCIETY: Beginning ballet classes will be
/ p.m. to 8 p.m. Intermediate/advanced classes will he 8
p.m. to 9:30 p.m. A potnre class will he from 9:30 p.m. to
10 p.m. Classes are in 268 E. Kyle. Students and non
students are invited to attend; no charge is made for
classes during the first two weeks. After two weeks, mem
bership is $20 a semester.
Chrysler steers clear
of auto strike for now
United Press International
DETROI T — Chrysler Cor-
iration’s chief bargainer said
Vednesday that he is confident
In agreement will he reached on
new contract with die United
uto Workers before time runs
lut on an extended strike dead-
■ne.
y | UAW and Chrysler are bai-
Maining one more day in an
"iIffort to reach a new contract to
lieplace the one that expired at
n iT2:()l a.m. Wednesday.
{i| Chrysler Vice President I ho-
Jjlnas Miner, who arrived at the
I Balk's about 40 minutes after
LAW bargainers, told UP1 he
whichil e | t p re tty sure an agreement
since il Ivillbe reached sometime during
wn so: Ee day.
tti® When asked how he felt ab-
ctedto: Lit the coht ract being extended,
ix cut.
duction
diner smiled and said, T feel
letter than 1 would if there had
just, co; )een a strike.”
0 in 1^1 UAW President Douglas
raser said Tuesday there were
iuFficient reasons to extend the
)act. His announcement of the
ind sw jjj p act ’ s extension came at
xit up [i : 40 p m — j us t 21 minutes
ctioiiso )e f ore the strike deadline.
He said union locals were
idvised of the extension 31 mi-
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nutes before the pact was to ex
pire. Fraser said 60,600 workers
liad been standing ready with
picket signs at 52 plants in 17
states awaiting word on the talks.
The extension ran out at
12:01 a.m. today.
One worker, Fi nest Lanier of
Detroit, a 19-year UAW veteran,
said he had favored a walkout.
“I was hoping we would go on
strike. We don’t need any more
concessions and all they want are
concessions,” said Laniei a
truck driver at the Jefferson
Avenue plant in Detroit.
“1 believe the extension came
as a shock. A lot of people were
disappointed — they w'ere hop
ing we would go on strike. An
extension is helping them
(Chrysler) not us,”he said.
In announcing the extension
Fraser said, “I think the ele
ments are there for a settlement.
We’re not very dose/ but we
think there are sufficient
reasons to tr) far 24 more
hours.”
T he negotiations began July
20 and there was little of the in
tensity that marked talks earlier
this year at Ford Motor Co. and
General Motors Corp., even on
what originally was planned to
be the final day of talks.
Talks were being held simul
taneously at General Dynamics,
where the contract covering
5,200 former Chrysler workers
was extended, and in Canada,
where the UAW settled with CM
of Canada earlier Tuesday.
Fraser said the union received
clarifications late Tuesday even
ing on Chrysler’s overall bar
gaining stance.
There was some progress on
economic issues like wage in
creases and cost-of-living allo
wances. Monday, Chrysler laid
out a COLA formula tied to both
the inflation rate and Chrysler’s
profitability.
Fraser said another money
proposal has been made but it is
not up to the standards used to
gram COLA’s at Ford Motor Co.
and General Motors Corp. He
added that Chrysler bowed to
the union’s demand for a one-
year pact* covering economic
issues and a two-year section
covering everything else.
Chrysler officials offered no
comment on the extension.
Chairman Lee lacocca is in New
York City where he is monitor
ing the talks.
Detroit
teachers
striking
United Press International
Striking Detroit teachers may
be laid off unless they accept
economic concessions that
would save the nation’s seventh
largest school district about $50
million in wages, Superinten
dent Arthur Jefferson said.
Jefferson outlined the possi
bility of lay-offs in a 20-page re
port at Tuesday night’s school
board meeting.
School of ficials Tuesday laid
off about 8,000 non-teaching
employees for the duration of
the strike, now in its third day, in
an effort to trim the $2.2 mil-
lion-a-day payroll in the 200,000
student system.
“The Detroit school board
faces a financial crisis. We must
implement cost containment
measures to reduce our operat
ing deficit to manageable
TevVlS;” Jeffersoil said.
“Employee layoffs — and
there could be as many as 2,000
teachers laid off— are least pre
ferable to the Detroit board be
cause they limit educational
opportunities.”
Love-guide author
forgets own advice
United Press International
NEW YORK —The author of
“How to Make Love to a
Woman” faced trial Wednesday
on charges he punched his for
mer lover in the mouth because
she was interested in another
man.
A spokesman for Manhattan
District Attorney Robert
Morgenthau said Michael
Morgenstern will stand trial in
state Supreme Court in Manhat
tan on assault charges.
Morgenstern, a lawyer, is the
author of “How to M ake Love to
a Woman,” in which he urges
men to take the lead with
women, hut to avoid macho be
havior'.
Morgenstern is accused of
punching Ethel Parks, 22, in the
mouth Aug. 5, 1981 — a day
after she decided to move from
the East Side apartment the two
had shared.
The spokesman said Parks
left the apartment and went to
the East Side to stay with a friend
after becoming interested in
another man.
Morgenstern went to that
apartment the next day and
allegedly punched her in the
face immediately after she
opened the door.
Parks, a mode! for the Zoli
Agency, also is suing Morgenst
ern in a civil action. She claims in
the suit that she missed two
weeks of work because of bruises
sustained in the assault.
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