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Americans hailed the working
rson Monday by taking the day of!
or Labor Day parades, picnics, rock
music and sun-oathing.
In New York, marchers rep
resenting hundreds of unions pa
raded up Fifth Avenue to press for
the creation of more jobs.
“This is the high noly day of the
working people in this country,” said
New York Gov. Mario Cuomo, who
marched in the vanguard. ‘‘It's a day
to remember the role unions have
played in our,progress. It’s a day to
recall what the situation was before
unions."
Cardinal John O’Connor re
viewed the parade from the steps of
St. Patrick’s Cathedral.
“It’s absolutely imperative to keep
the concept of labor and unions al
ive," O’Connor told the marchers.
“It’s so easy to forget what things
were like before we had unions."
In El Paso, AFL-CIO President
Lane Kirkland told about 600 peo
ple at a Labor Day breakfdst that
unions, as well as the U.S. economy,
are threatened by a flood of foreign
imports.
“What I see today from the grass
roots up is not a weak, sick, discour
aged labor movement," he said.
“The labor movement is the First line
of defense and the only real avenue
of progress for the plain people in
this country.”
But Hurricane Elena was no vaca
tion for hundreds of thousands on
the Gulf Coast. Hurricane Elena
came ashore with winds up to 100
mph, ripping off roofs, uprooting
trees, flooding highways and knock
ing out power to 100,000 people.
But on Southern California’s
beaches, lifeguard Phil Tobar pre
dicted a big crowd.
“This is the last weekend at the
beach for a lot of kids,” he said.
At Santa Monica beach, teams
from the University of Southern
California and the University of Cal
ifornia at Los Angeles competed in a
sand-sculpting contest.
Beverly Hills held its First-ever La
bor Day bash, with Rolls-Royces
chauffeuring celebrities at the head
of the parade and gourmet food
stands fining its route, which in
cluded posh Rodeo Drive.
At San Francisco’s Golden Gate
Park, thousands heard rock stars
Paul Kantner and Marty Balin, co
founders of Jefferson Airplane, at a
beneFit concert for the city’s hungry
and homeless.
President Reagan ended his vaca
tion in California and flew to Inde
pendence, Missouri, Monday to
lobby for his tax reform proposal.
On Sunday, Reagan issued a La
bor Day message urging labor and
management to “work hand in hand
to improve the position of American
products in foreign markets.”
By Monday evening, 391 people
had died on the nation’s highways
during the three-day weekend. The
National Safety Council had pre
dicted that 450 to 550 people could
die in trafFic accidents between 6
p.m. Friday and midnight Monday.
In Michigan, Grand Rapids
staged its First Labor Day parade in
30 years, with bands, floats and
horse-drawn carriages.
“It’s long overdue and all of orga
nized labor in west Michigan de
cided it’s time to renew an old tradi
tion,” said Terry Lint of the United
Auto Workers union.
Michigan Gov. James Blanchard
was to lead an estimated 45,000 peo
ple across the Mackinac Bridge for
the 28th annual Five-mile walk from
St. Ignace in the state’s Upper Pen
insula to Mackinaw City in the
Lower Penisula.
The annual Labor Day trek is the
only time pedestrian trafFic is per
mitted on tne bridge.
In Hampton, Va., visitors rode
the rollercoaster and carousel for
the last time at the Buckroe Beach
Amusement Park, which was closing
down after 90 years in business, a
victim of competition from fancy
theme parks, the owners said.
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weaponry
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Associated Press
LAWTON, Okla. — When Joe
Talley came to Fort Sill 45 years ago,
he found transportation on the post
less modern than the train he ar
rived on.
Willis Johnson, who arrived in De
cember 1940, said the 18th Field Ar
tillery remained a horse-drawn unit
untiljune 1942.
“They met me there with two
horses and a buggy and carried me
on post,” he recalled during a reun
ion Sunday of about 200 veterans of
the 18th Field Artillery and 1st Field
Artillery.
In 1940, the Army was not the
mechanized marvel it would later be
come, the veterans said.
Prior experience with horses was
no guarantee that a young soldier
was prepared for Army animals.
“I was raised on a farm, but that
was altogether a different deal,” Tal
ley said. “You were better off if
you’d never seen a horse before.”
Clyde Shelton of Grand Prairie,
Texas, entered the service in August
1940. He said the horse was more
important to the artillery than the
cavalry.
“We had more horses than the
cavalry because we had to pull the
caissons and the guns,” he said.
The horses weren’t hitched to the
caissons and guns every day, but had
to be exercised without fail.
“We rode horses every day. That
took up most of our time,” Shelton
said. The horses had to be groomed,
cleaned and fed daily, and their
needs took precedence over the sol
diers’.
“The horses came First, and we
had some of the best horses in the
Army,” he said.
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what to do when they got to a gun
position,” he said.
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WASHINGTON — Richard
Trumka, president of the United
Mine Workers, will address the AFL-
ClO’s biennial convention next
month in another step on the road
toward affiliation between his union
and the 13.7 million-member labor
federation.
No mineworkers’ president has
ever addressed a convention of the
AFL-CIO, which was created in
1955.
The independent UMW has not
been part of any labor federation for
nearly four decades, since pulling
out of the old American Federation
of Labor.
But with steep membership de
clines in the mineworkers’ union and
throughout organized labor, the
idea of unity is viewed by many in
unions as a vital necessity.
Perhaps more important, rela
tions are excellent between Trumka
and AFL-CIO President Lane Kirk
land, who has directed the labor fed
eration’s headquarters staffers to
treat the mineworkers union with
the same cooperation given to full-
1947 amid much bitterness when the
mineworkers’ legendary president,
John L. Lewis, angrily scrawled the
words “We disAf Filiate” on a white
cArd sent to the labor federation’s
“Our relationship with the AFL-CIO has improved
drastically. We have . . . a good solid working
relationship. We intend to continue working with them
and see what happens. We will make the decision (on
affiliation) whenever the membership and our officers
say that it's in everyone’s best interest.” — Richard
Trumka, president of the United Mine Workers.
fledged afFiliates.
In an interview last week, Trumka
conFirmed that he will address the
AFL-CIO convention in Anaheim,
Calif., during the last week of Octo-
The UMW left the old AFL in
chief, William Green.
“Our relationship with the AFL-
CIO has improved drastically,” said
Trumka. “We h^ve ... a good solid
working relationship. We intend to
continue working with them and see
what happens. We will make the de-
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