European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 09, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse Inflation program attacked Chicago a Al Cio president George Meany carried out labor s Strong est assault yet on the Carter administration s anti inflation program on monday bitterly accusing the inflation monitoring Agency of siding with business against the unions. Meany said Harry Bosworth director Rotthe Council on wage and Price stability has done everything he possibly could to come Down on the Side of the employer " this is without precedence. In All my experience this has never happened be said Meany. We be never had government Agency engaged in this kind of action list of complaints the 83-year-old labor chief said he had sent president Carter a Long list of complaints about Bosworth and requested that labor Secretary Ray Marshall attend the Al Cio s executive Council meeting which began Here monday with the presi Dent s s attack on Bosworth at a news conference was the stiffest criticism yet by big labor on the administration s anti inflation program which counts heavily on labor s support. Meany said his com Points with bos Worth. A major figure in the White House inflation policy were based mostly on his interference in collective the Council on wage and Price stability keeps an Eye on wage and Price trends with the goal of seeking moderation from Bot business and labor. But Meany said monday that bos Orthus been putting most of the pressure for restraint on them put pressure on the corporations to hold the prices Down he , the Fucio Council issued a statement reminding the administration that unions will not moderate wage de mands at the bargaining table unless Price increases slow first. State Federal Aid for residents wednesday August 9, 1978 the stars and stripes Page 7 Homeowner Jackie Tatle of Sacramento Calif., thought there were rodents stuck behind her dining room Wall when she heard strange noises but she was furry Little Wallflower pleasantly surprised. When firemen Cut Bole in the Wall out peered a confused and hungry Kitten. Two other Little cat were also trapped there. Dpi firm to help clean up Poison area Niagara Falls. N. Y. A Hooker chemical co., which dumped toxic Chemi cals into the old love canal 20 years contribute 280.000 to help clean up the contaminated residential area built around the filled in canal. Gov. Hugh Carey says up to 8 million May be available in state and Federal Aid. Although Carey gave few details of the plans he said the state would take control of the land move the residents out quickly As possible and have the state Whan development corp. Provide new musing for displaced residents. Our principal concern now is getting problem said Bruce Davis a vice president of Hooker which used the Hump from the 1930s to the 1950s. The company retains its position that it is notable for any claims of damage or harm wat May result from this unfortunate Davis said the firm would help the state Al it could with technical assistance in cleaning up the monday. President Carter de Clarethe area a Federal emergency. 5youths killed in crash . Spain api five Spanish Juta were burned to death when their Verj crashed into another car near Fusti. A Navarre province town about 15 South of Here traffic police said Carey promising immediate state Aid ofas much As $4 million toured the area with rep. Joh Lafalce leaving Carey said in Albany that the Federal Money May not come until october but our Money will be there to night. It May Well be As much As 8 million50 percent Federal so percent some people already have left with the Promise of housing units at an air base in nearby Are helpless victims of a major tragedy not unlike those who suffer from tornadoes Lafalce said. The state s health department last week urged pregnant women and families with Young children to evacuate the love canal area because High water Levels Over the past few years have caused chemicals buried in the old canal site to Leach out of the ground. City officials closed an elementary school on the former Industrial site. Cleanup work is scheduled to Start aug.15. 63 tons of bombs explode at army s depot in Calif. Herlong Calif. Up sixty three tons of bombs exploded at the Sierra army depot monday severely damaging two adjacent ammunition storehouses but Leav ing workers army said a Board will investigate the cause of the blast at the 37.000-acre am munition storage Post in Remote Northeast Ern Hinman. Depot Public affairs offi cer said 10 bombs weighing 12.600 pounds piece blew up in an open storage area in one single big said the nearest employees work ing about three quarters of a mile from the site of the explosion were two adjacent Concrete and Earth covered magazines were heavily damage although their contents did not explode. He said he was about three Miles away when the explosion occurred and com pared the blast to a sonic Boom magnified eight or 10 the Sierra army depot located near the state line Between Susanville Calif., and Reno. Nev., employs 600 civilians and300 sen iceman. It first became an ammunition dump in iw2.Hinman said the explosion was the first at the 36-year-old installation age pulls support of Carter Bill Chicago a in a protest against proposed wage ceiling the nation s largest Federal employee Union withdrew its sup port monday from president Carter s civil sen ice revision 300.000-Mcmbor american federa Tion of government employees had been Akey supporter of Carter s plan to reorganize the Federal bureaucracy. Some Law makers on Capitol Hill had said the Union s support could be critical in winning Pas Sage of the measure which is designed to make the bureaucracy More has yet to debate the Bill. Age members have been upset with Carter since he proposed in the Spring to limit annual Federal wage increases to 5.5percent in october. Wage restrain the Union contended its members de served larger raises based on the increases comparable employees were receiving in private business. But Carter said he was calling for a smaller increase As part of his anti inflation program and hoped the Pri vate sector would follow the example he was setting by showing wage restraint. Delegates to the Union s convention voted to withhold support for the Bill unless Carter removes the wage ceiling an Grants the Union collective bargaining rights. Carter will Aid demos campaigns Washington up preside Tcarter will Campaign for democratic candidates for three or four Days a month after labor Day and is still the biggest drawing card in America democratic National chairman John White said , talking with reporters following a Cabinet meeting at the White House said the president and members of the Cabinet have committed themselves to 400 political appearances this year in Advance of the november he has talked with White said have expressed interest in Campaign help from Carter vice president Walter Mondale Lillian Carter the president smother and Robert Strauss Carter s chief lieutenant on inflation and world Trade matters. As for Carter s saturday visit to the heart of the North Carolina tobacco Belt White said the visit Drew a biggest drawing card1"the president is still the biggest drawing card in America said party chairman a texan and former Deputy agriculture Secretary said while a the races Are very important to the democrats Are paying special attention to contests for the Senate in the Carolina Texas and Maine and for governor in new York. California. Pennsylvania and emphasized we re there to support a candidate not to overshadow him As he said was the Case when Richard Nixon made the off year 1970elections a referendum for himself and Republican candidates took a also said i believe it s time we started believing sen. Edward . Who said during the weekend he does not aspire to the presidency. Judging from past performance White said. Kennedy has credibility on that subject
