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Page 14/The Battalion/Tuesday, September 4, 1984 British unions vote to support coal miners’ strike United Press International BRIGHTON, England — Brit ain’s 10-million-member Trades Union Congress Monday voted overwhelmingly to support striking coal miners in a move that could bring the country to the verge of its first general strike in 58 years. With a show of hands, the cheering 1,200 delegates to the TUC’s annual conference voted to give “total support” to the National Union of Miners in its 5-month-old strike by prohibiting movement of coal and oil across picket lines at power stations and factories. But opposition from moderate unions — including the steelworkers and electric workers — made it doubtful whether the most extreme blockade measures proposed at the TUC’s annual conference would go into effect. Eric Hammond, secretary gen eral-designate of the power station workers, rejected the TUC council’s support for miners’ Marxist leader Arthur Scargill as a “dishonest and deficient” act that would bring Brit ain to its knees. “Hitler would have been proud of Britain’s vote to support the striking coal miners ended with an emotional plea from Scargill, the miners’ Marx ist leader for union support of the strike of 130,000 miners. i. .... - .. V \ followed from most every delegate except the steelworkers. An estimated 3,000 to 4,000 dem onstrators massed outside the con ference center in the seaside town (60 miles south of London), but po lice said the protests were peaceful and reserve officers were not called strike call. The issue has< movement’s worst crisis 1926 general strike, whidia out of a minors’ revolt. Steelworkers argued thatp iling coal movements acroti| lines would cripple their and be equivalent to a general Fis you lot,” he yelled as hundreds of unionists in the hall booed and hissed him. The vote ended with an emotional plea from Scargill for union support of the strike of 130,000 miners, which began March 12 to protest the proposed layoffs of 2O.O0O workers and the closure of 20 pits. “What is wrong with asking this congress to support the basic tenets of trade unionism? When workers are on strike, you don’t cross picket lines!” Scargill said. A loud ovation One aircraft flew over the Briy-h- ngn- ton seafront trailing a banner that read — “Get stuffed Scargill.” The union movement has been torn by the coal dispute, with more than one in four of the nation’s 175,000 miners ignoring Scargill’s Opponents have accused5 of using the miners’ strikeK| down Prime Minister Thatcher. A miners strike ii|| 74 caused the downfall of dtp servative government ofPriM| ister Edward Heath. St! Freshj Freshi 1 faniili ' part-ic: Cover m»tt«?e I able *t Bald eagles come back; years of decline cease United Press International 0602501 WASHINGTON — The endangered bald eagle pop ulation in the continental United States is making an encouraging comeback after years of decline, the National Wildlife Federation reported Monday in its annual bald eagle survey. The federation, the nation’s largest environmental group, counted 11,819 eagles in 42 of the lower 48 states, up from 10,903 in those states last year. The population of the national bird declined severely for many years due to pesticides — partic ularly DDT — and shrinking hab itat. It is officially endangered in 43 states ind is listed as a threatened species in five others. It is plenti ful only in Alaska. No bald eagles live in Hawaii. “The bald eagle isn’t home free yet,” said Jay Hair, federation ex ecutive vice president. “Slow’Iy but surely, the bald eagle is mak ing a comeback, and this year’s survey demonstrates encouraging progress.” The federation on July 30 called for action to protect bald eagles in 30 states, saying the birds are threatened by lead poi soning from eating prey con taining shotgun pellets. A report by the group warned that in areas of five of those states — Arizona, California, Illinois, Missouri and Washington — eagles face a “high risk of lead poisoning” from the spent pellets left by hunters. The federation, a pro-hunting organization, advocates use of non-toxic steel shot loads in shot guns — rather than lead shot —in areas where lead is known to be a problem for fowl. It recommends establishing “emergency non toxic steel shot zones” for the 1985-86 hunting season in those five states. According to the 1984 bald ea gle survey, Washington state has the largest eagle population among the lower 48 states, with 1,525 birds. Next was Missouri, with 975; followed by Utah, with 901; Oklahoma, with 794; and Arkansas, with 639. The federation’s survey, con ducted each January, draws on voluntary state participation. In 1979, the federation’s first survey in all the lower 48 states counted 9,815 bald eagles. In 1982, the most recent year a count was taken in the entire con tinental United States, 13,825 bald eagles were counted. National Guard now more visible in Valle United Press International MCALLEN — Members of a bat talion of the Texas National Guard outfitted in full battle gear have been more visible this summer than ever before in the Lower Rio Grande Valley. But an official of the battalion, which was made a round-out unit of the 1st Cavalry Division of the regu lar Army at Fort Hood a year ago, says Valley residents should not be overly concerned about the military activity. The reason people in the Valley have been spotting Guardsmen marching and carrying out exercises in the proximity of the Rio Grande, said Sgt. Maj. Sherwood Stewart, is that the lease expired on their for mer training site near remote Heb- bronville and they have been doing their weekend drills closer to home. “We’re just training closer to the armories. Normally we would go to Hebbronville,” Stewart said when asked about a recent exercise south of Mercedes, and a report from an alarmed resident who claimed to have seen soldiers in camouflage fa tigues who crossed the river into Brownsville. “We had some of our people training behind the armory at Brownsville, right up against the river. They were in their battle dress uniform and were playing back there,” he said. When the National Guard in 1983 announced that the 800-rnember 3rd Battalion, 141st Infantry (the Valley Battalion) — was being made a round-out unit of the 1 st Cavalry, a Hispanic peace group alleged tnat the predominantly Mexican-Ameri- can battalion was being "groomed as cannon fodder for Central Amer ica.” “We are a part of the 1st Cavalry,” Stewart said. “If they (1st Cavalry) went someplace, we’d go with them. We think we’re as ready as anybody. But that (round-out action) was mis interpreted that we were being made part of a Rapid Deployment Force. “We’re available anytime, like it’s always been the last 34 years I’ve been in it, but no more or no less. doesn't lit# iMiitr The Nation.il Guard T there 1 as been mu eased Asll ferinf present in South Texas basis < past ye« II. and admitted thtireli comnr makes s "a ptetl\ good drCMp§j| an ur tial situ. ttion" lot s|Kx-ulati»Jp| grade has som ethmg t<• d< 1 withthei^^K stude Central F01 Amci u a L? imi.ime, Bi owiuviJ||| Box * 10. 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