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Some strikers warped
temporarily
stop activity
Associated Press
AUSTIN, Minn. — Union meat-
packers temporarily halted strike ac
tivities outside Hormel’s flagship
plant Tuesday, but workers at plants
in two other states honored picket
lines as stockholders gathered for a
meeting.
“We have absolutely no intention
of pulling down any of our pickets,”
Ray Rogers, a strike strategist, told a
meeting of union members. “We
think there are a lot of hot ques
tions” stockholders should ask com
pany officials at a meeting in Hous
ton, Rogers said.
About three dozen National
Guardsmen stood guard outside the
company’s gates in Austin, but only a
handful of pickets were on hand as
workers drove through the plant
gates.
Only 35 of about 450 day shift
workers at Hormel’s Ottumwa,
Iowa, plant reported for work,
Ralph Nelson, plant manager, said.
Hormel officials said about 200
workers at the Ottumwa plant were
fired Monday. Nelson said those
Fired were given a chance to return
to their jobs Tuesday, but it Was not
clear how many responded to the of
fer.
A cheering crowd in Fremont,
Neb., heard strikers from the Min
nesota plant urge meatpackers not
to report for work. About 40 work
ers apparently honored the picket
line, plant manager Jim Jorgenson
said. He said some of the 65 workers
fired Monday came back to plead for
their jobs.
The company has said workers
who honor the picket lines will be
fired.
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Gov. Rudy Perpich had asked
both sides Monday to institute a 48-
hour cooling-off period following
the announcement that union mem
bers in other cities were being Fired
for refusing to cross the picket lines.
Local P-9 agreed to a 24-hour
cooling-off period, pledging to re
strict protests only at the Austin
plant.
However, Hormel Vice President
Charles Nyberg said the company
would suspend hiring of replace
ment workers only if Local P-9
agreed to all of the governor’s condi
tions. He termed the union’s
agreement to limit protests only in
Austin as “just playing games.”
Holbrook’s Twain
Cigar smoke doesn't hide wit cyncism of performance
By By MARY McWHORTER
/ Staff Writer
Underneath the curls of cigar
smoke constantly puffed towards the
spotlights, little puffs of humor, wry
wit and cynicism were spawned from
Hal Holbrook’s “Mark Twain To
night!” for the sold out audience
Tuesday at Rudder Auditorium.
Holbrook’s Twain impersonation
is superb. With exactly the right Old
South dialect, twist of the cigar
clutching hand, stooped gait and
proper mutterings and throat clear
ing, you soon stopped trying to see
the real Holbrook beneath the three
hours of applied makeup and let
yourself believe what Holbrook
wanted you to believe. That he was
no longer an actor impersonating
Twain, he WAS Twain.
In fact, he was not just Twain, he
was Twain impersonating the young
and alert Huck Finn, the drunken
and cruel Pap and a senile and dot
ing old storyteller. And not only did
you believe that you were watching
the root of all evil, and I wanted all I
could get.”
Nothing escapes his satiric gaze.
Not religion. He said that a South
Pacific cannibalistic tribal chief he
once knew exclaimed, “We under
stand Christianity. We have eaten
the missionaries.” Nor do the foibles
of mankind want from lack of atten
tion. “I wonder if God invented man
because he was disappointed with
the monkey?”
gave him national television*^
sin e. After polishing his actf»SI
Holbrook opened in an oPpVt
way theater in New York wit®
was a big success.
Since then, Holbrook haH
Tony Award as best actorani
cial Drama Critics Circle Am
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toured the show in somepartf
every year since 1954.
Hal Holbrook
And after 30 years of performing
>k keeps the
and listening to Twain but that you
also were watching Twain mimick
ing these characters. A mimic mim
ing a mimic.
Holbrook’s Twain emerges as a
soft spoken old sage and at times a
ranting idealist. In fact. Twain often
contradicts himself, which lends to
his charm. He criticizes the hypo
crites of his age and cracks a joke
about Standard Oil’s greediness. But
later he remarks “I knew money was
Twain, Holbrook keeps the act fresh
by having memorized 12 hours of
material and spontaneously picking
two hours of it as he goes along. He
definitely has a broad range of sub
jects to choose from. Holbrook’s
Twain grew out of an honors project
he did in his senior year at Denison
University. After touring the school
assembly circuit in 1948 through
30,000 miles of the country, Hol
brook took the show to a Greenwich
Village nightclub.
Finally Ed Sullivan saw him and
Perhaps if there was one]
lacking from tonight's perfid
it was freshness. Holbrooks!
was a little tired and flat. Ai
the transitions from story W|
were smooth and graceful!
pieces were slow and needed^
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has become more of an exp
of who he is than who Mark Ip
is. What Holbrook has succeefiT
doing is to make audiencesesl
who they are.
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