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World and Nation
Reverend terms meeting fruitful
Jackson talks to Hormel official
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AUSTIN, Minn. (AP) — The Rev.
Jesse Jackson met Sunday with pro
testers arrested in a violent demon
stration during the nearly 8-month-
old strike against Hormel and said
his meeting with a company official
earlier in the day was fruitful.
“The issue is not about jobs, con
frontation and tear gas,” the civil
rights leader told reporters after his
jail visit with the protesters arrested
Friday. “It’s about getting to work.”
Jackson, who had offered to me
diate the contract dispute, met with
Hormel Vice President Charles Ny-
berg earlier Sunday but said he did
not get any promise for renewed ne
gotiations with Local P-9 of the
United Food and Corpmercial
Workers union.
Nyberg had said Saturday of Jack
son’s visit: “His suggestions, any sug
gestions, would be most welcome. A
pure mediation role, we don’t think,
would be positive.”
Jackson also met with law enforce
ment officials and Mayor Tom
Rough and planned to meet with
leaders and members of Local P-9.
Seventeen demonstrators were ar
rested Friday during a violent pro
test outside Hormel’s Austin plant,
and authorities said 16 remained in
jail Sunday.
Jackson and the jailed protesters
sang “We Shall Overcome,” and
jailed P-9 strike strategist Ray Rog
ers told Jackson that “spirits are
fine.”
Friday’s clash between police and
demonstrators erupted when more
than 300 demonstrators attempted
to shut the plant down by blocking
the entry gates and roads leading to
the gates.
In addition to the 17 demonstra
tors arrested Friday, a warrant was
issued for the arrest of P-9 President
Jim Guyette on charges related to
the confrontation.
Guyette argued that Friday’s dem
onstration was peaceful until it was
“turned into a riot by the Hormel
company in partnership with the
city, county and state law enforce
ment officials.”
On Saturday, thousands of strik
ing meatpackers and supporters
marched peacefully through the
streets of this southern Minnesota
town.
The international union withdrew
its sanction of the strike last month.
The local refused to end the strike,
and a hearing has been scheduled
for Monday to determine if the par
ent union should place P-9 in trust
eeship and remove its officers.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Presi
dent Reagan’s fight to persuade
Congress to send SI00 million in
aid to Nicaragua’s Contra rebels
enters a third round this week
with the White House accusing
Democrats of foul play in writing
the rules.
Democratic leaders who exer
cise majority control of the House
chained the Contra aid proposal
to an unrelated’ S1.7 billion
spending bill which administra
tion officials say the president
may veto because it is “larded up”
with unneeded programs.
Reagan says that the Demo
crats, bv tving the aid package to
the spending bill, sought to de
feat his plan and could endanger
the lives of the rebels.
The House is scheduled to
open debate on the issue Tues-
dav.
Tuesday is also the deadline
Congress set for itself to pass a
budget for the fiscal year starting
Oct. 1. But that date will be
missed because the spending plan
is snarled in disagreement be
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