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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
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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
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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
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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.
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