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700 laborers
vote to strike
at shipyard
GALVESTON (AP) — About 700
Todd Shipyard Inc. laborers re
mained off the job Tuesday after
voting last Friday to strike in a move
a company spokesman said could be
the beginning of the end for the
yard.
Charles Delgado, business man
ager for the local International
Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
union, said the company made its fi
nal offer at 5 p.m. Thursday.
The union voted to strike the next
day and put up a picket line at noon
Friday. The contract ran out at 1:30
a.m. Friday.
Dan Whichard, Todd’s director of
industrial relations, said the 700 la
borers eligible to work under union
contracts stayed off the job.
Although only about 300 of those
are union members, the others can
honor a strike and have chosen to do
so, he said.
Operations were shut down, but
120 supervisory and office person
nel came to work.
Whichard said the union was
asking for what it termed substantial
and equitable increases but did not
name a dollar figure.
The company wanted to cut wages
from $12.11 to $10.30 an hour, re
duce holiday pay from double time
to time and a half and eliminate two
holidays, one of which would be
given back in the third year of the
three-year contract.
Todd has closed its yards in Hous
ton, New Orleans and Brooklyn,
N.Y. One in Los Angeles is operat
ing and another in Seattle is working
without a contract on a day-to-day
basis.
“The yard in San Francisco is on
strike and it appears questionable as
to whether that shipyard will ever
open again,” Whichard said. “It’s
quite possible this one will close, too.
“The company has not made a
commitment but there is that possi
bility it will close.”
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Judge tenders resignation
citing burdened workload
Police face
program
for fitness
HOUSTON (AP) — A report
that found city police of ficers are
too flabby has prompted a get-fit
program that may mean pink
slips for those who don’t shape
up.
A police task force’s report said
Houston police officers appear to
be in much worse physical shape
than the general population, and
it noted that the average age of
death for officers is nearly 14
years earlier than that of the gen
eral public.
The task force has been study
ing the health issue for the past
year, and it recently sent a propo
sal to selected city officials for
their comments.
A final draft is expected to be
sent to the Houston police com
mand staff in about two weeks. If
approved, the fitness program
would be in place by July 1.
Officers now in charge of get
ting the police force in shape say
the department needs to give the
rank and file some incentive to
work out.
Joe Lowry, HPD’s first-aid
coordinator, said, “The only time
they are forced to be in shape is at
the academy when they go
through 18 weeks of hard train
ing.”
Under the proposal, the offi
cers would be required to meet
standards regarding their weight,
blood pressure, cholesterol level,
body-fat percentage and flexibil-
ityand muscle strength.
AUSTIN,(AP) — A city judge
who has watched a parade of crimi
nals, suspects and drunks parade by
his bench since 1980 says he has seen
enough.
“I remember one day I came to
work at 6 o’clock, and before 7
o’clock rolled around I had deal with
three aggravated sexual assaults on
children,” said Municipal Judge
Cleve Moten, who is resigning Fri
day.
“Thirty minutes after I get here,
the rapes, the murders, the beatings,
the robberies begin to flood in,” he
said.
Moten, 47, one of Austin’s five
municipal judges, was appointed by
the City Council in 1980 and has
served three, two-year terms. His
current term would have ended in
December 1988, but he mailed let
ters of resignation to Mayor Frank
Cooksey and City Council members
last week.
“I’m going to take off for at least a
month,” Moten said. “I might do a
limited (law) practice for a while to
get the feel for what I really want to
do. Seven years is a long time. The
workload has increased immensely.
And I’ve just been running on
empty for a long time. That’s about
the size of it.”
Municipal judges do not try fel
ony cases, but they set bonds and
handle other preliminary matters in
felony cases.
“They add an incremental depres
sion and after a while, it becomes cu
mulative,” Moten said. “You remem
ber all the terrible things that
happen to these people. And you
can’t prevent it.”
Presiding Municipal Judge J. Da
vid Phillips agreed with Moten that
the local judges’ workload has in
creased.
“For the first six months this year
we experienced a 37-percent growth
in magistrate services,” he said, add
ing that each judge handles an aver
age of 50,000 traffic cases a year.
“It can devour you,” he said of the
job. “I’ve seen it devour a lot of
judges, especially at the magistrate
level, where your impact on the
world’s problems is minimal.”
Despite the workload and emo
tional strain, Moten said it was not
easy for him to decide to give up the
$44,000-a-year job.
“But it got to the point of it cost
ing me emotionally and physically
because of the circumstances under
which the job had to be performed,”
he said.
plied who met our qualifications was
rejected on the basis of race, creed,
color, et cetera. This is something
the U.S. Justice Department thought
up.”
Minnie Honora-Hill, one of 30
applicants DeAnda cited as a victim
of discrimination, said she was
passed over for a job in 1981 in favor
of a le&s-qualified candidate.
“I found it kind of strange that
they wanted me to include a photo,”
said Honora-Hill, who now teaches
with the La Porte school district.
District ordered to hire more block teachers
HOUSTON (AP) — The Pasa- DeAnda said he will appoint a
dena Independent School District special master to handle claims
must actively recruit black teachers, brought by individuals who contend
a federal judge ruled after agreeing they were damaged by the district’s
the district had discriminated biased hiring practices,
against black applicants. The order goes into effect May
U.S. Districtjudge James DeAnda 16.
ordered the district to regularly con- The court ruling Monday ends a
tact other school districts for the four-year court battle that cost the
names of black applicants they can- district more than $1 million,
not place, and to seek student teach- School board president Harvey
ers and attend job fairs at the pre- Turner said, “We didn’t have any
dominantly black Texas Southern problems, that’s the mind-boggling
University. thing about it. No teacher who ap-
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