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NEVILLE ISLAND, Pa.
|AP) — President Bush, hoping
drive a wedge between
)emocrats and their big labor
oase, pledged Monday to fight
ecession and terrorism on
half of American workers.
“Congress needs to get mov-
ng,” Bush said during a Labor
Day address, purging lawmakers
o stop blocking his efforts.
He demanded action on his
errorism insurance, energy,
etirement protection and tax-
utting policies, saying
mericans are hurting more
han economic indicators
uggest.
“I know the statistics and all
that business, but what I worry
[about is when I hear stories
[about people who can’t find
[work,” Bush said.
Though he has not made
huge gains overall. Bush has
managed to cultivate relation
ships with two labor leaders:
James P. Hoffa of the
International Brotherhood of
Teamsters and Douglas J.
jMcCarron of the United
Brotherhood of Carpenters
and Joiners.
Both labor leaders are rivals
of AFL-CIO president John
Sweeney, who leads the federa
tion of 66 international
union affiliates.
“When you look at rank-and-
file union workers, there is
increasing support for President
George W. Bush,” White House
spokesman Ari Fleischer said.
“They are not in lockstep with
some of these older-line liberal
labor leaders. There’s splits in
the labor movement.”
Introducing Bush at a picnic
outside a union hall, McCarron
said he won't agree with the
president on every issue, but that
disagreements would be over
principle, not personalities,
“because I believe in the integri
ty of this man.”
Trying to show empathy with
the working man. Bush helped
several carpenters-in-t raining
practice building a house.
He grabbed hold of a power
miter saw and quickly cut four
blocks away from two-by-fours.
Chuckling, the president held
his hand down toward the floor,
his fingers gripped in his fist,
and pretended to be missing all
10 of his digits.
Playfully offering reporters
instructions. Bush said, “Never
put you hands near the saw
while it’s cutting.”
Bush and unions have
worked together to push his
energy plan, which includes
opening Alaska’s Arctic
National Wildlife Refuge to oil
drilling, and imposing new tar
iffs to help protect the ailing
U.S. steel industry.
Still, some Bush policies ran
kle even Teamsters leaders,
including the killing of
ergonomics workplace rules,
the opening of the U.S. border
to Mexican trucks and the
renewal of fast-track legisla
tion that did not include labor-
backed wage and safety
provisions.
Even the steel tariff decision
has been watered down by
exceptions offered to angry
U.S. allies.
His proposal to create a
Department of Homeland
Security has angered many
union leaders who fear that
many hard-fought rights,
including collective bargaining
provisions, will be lost as Bush
pushes for flexibility.
Bush dismissed the argu
ment as he talked for 15 min
utes to several hundred union
workers, who were there by
invitation only
“Anybody who wants to
join a union can do so in this
crowd” and still be part of the
new department. Bush said.
“But I need the flexibility to ...
protect the people. The Senate
better get it right."
The Senate is controlled by
Democrats.
He urged Congress to
approve the Pentagon budget
before a dozen other spending
bills awaiting action this fall.
As for the war, he said,
“We’re in this for the long
haul” but didn’t mention the
internal debate over what to do
about Saddam Hussein’s Iraq.
Labor groups are key donors
and organizers for Democrats,
who cling to a one-seat majori
ty in the Senate and arc a hand
ful of seats away from control
ling the House. Thirty-six gov
ernorships also are at stake in
the November elections.
The trip was Bush’s 13th as
president to Pennsylvania,
which has the fifth most elec
toral votes. He lost the state to
Democrat A1 Gore in 2000 and
since has visited it more than
any other.
Unions and their members
gave $90 million in donations
in the 2000 election cycle, of
which 94 percent went to
Democrats. Unions made up 1 1
of the 20 largest political action
committee contributors to fed
eral candidates that year.
But Republicans are trying
to reach out to skilled-trades
unions, which tend to be more
conservative politically.
The carpenters union visited
by Bush broke away last year
from the AFL-CIO, a major
Democratic Party ally. The
union, with more than 300,000
members, left because it want
ed the labor federation to put
more financial emphasis on
organizing instead of politics.
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RIVERSIDE, Calif. (AP) -
Two more arrests were made in
the armed kidnapping of a 9-
year-old boy who was found
three days later at a camp
ground, officials said Monday.
Two men were booked for
investigation of kidnapping, bur
glary and assault with a deadly
weapon in the Aug. 28 kidnap
ping of Nicholas Farber, said
Riverside County sheriff’s
Deputy Lisa McConnell.
Nicholas’ mother, Debra
Rose, who is involved in a bit
ter custody dispute over the
boy, had been arrested at the
campground when he was
found Friday.
Using a search warrant, evi
dence was found at the resi
dence of Rodrique Edgar Van
Blake, 27, of Escondido and he
was arrested, deputies said in a
statement. The investigation also
led to Elias Gutierrez, 28, who
was arrested later Sunday, also
in Escondido.
Blake was identified as a
prime suspect. Authorities had
said Riley was not one of the
two assailants who abducted
Nicholas at gunpoint, after beat
ing the boy’s father, Michael
Farber.
Nicholas was found at the
campground east of San Diego
during a freeway Amber Alert.
The alert system, named in
honor of Amber Hagerman, a
Texas girl killed in 1996, is a
way of quickly disseminating
information about a missing
child through news media and
other outlets. It’s used in more
than a dozen states.
When Nicholas was found, a
security officer at the recreation
al vehicle campground spotted a
motor home with Florida license
plates that authorities had been
seeking. Harold Stayton said he
remembered the description of
the motor home from news
reports.
Rose, 38, is in jail for investi
gation of felony child abduction
and Riley for investigation of
conspiracy to commit kidnap
ping.
Fight ’em, Aggies
AUSSA HOLUMON ♦ THE BATTALION
Senior yell leader Scott Goble leads the crowd in a yell at All U- semester to introduce students to members of administra-
Night Monday after introducing the Vice President of Student tion, athletic coaches and student representatives.
Affairs, Dr. J. Malon Southerland. All U-Night is held every fall
NEWS IN BRIEF
Man accused in slaying
afraid for own life
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) - A man
accused in the 1998 sniper
slaying of a doctor who provid
ed abortions told supporters in
a letter from a French jail that
he went into hiding abroad
because he feared he would
be killed.
Proclaiming his innocence in
the death of Dr. Barnett
Slepian, James Kopp said he
fled because he believed he
might meet the same fate as a
high-profile, anti-abortion ally,
Maurice Lewis, who died under
what Kopp claimed were sus
picious circumstances.
"If that's how they treated
Maurice, what about me?"
Kopp wrote in June 2001.
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