European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 22, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                July 1985 the stars and stripes Page 7 steel workers on strike after talks collapse Pittsburgh a members of the United steelworkers went on strike at sunday against wheelin Pittsburgh steel after contract negotiations broke Down saturday it was the unions first strike against a major steel maker in 26 until theres a liable there will be no employees in this said local vice president John Tirpack of steel worker Jack Orbin of said Wheeling Pittsburgh pay cuts would Force him into if i have to in taking the company Down with he said As he left the Yorkville Plant around the end of the last shift before the strike several Hundred chanting Union and singing god bless gathered outside the Plant and burned copies of the company new the strike came after Paul chief negotiator for approximately employees and about pensioners of the nations seventh largest announced that there had been no movement in facet face negotiations it was the first formal bargaining in More than a hard nosed id say there both pretty much hard said Federal mediator Robert the two sides Are split Over the size of Benefit and work Rule concessions that should be granted to Wheeling Pitts the firm is reorganizing under chapter 11 of the Federal bankruptcy District judge Glen hearing arguments at his Home in Union membership in percent of All workers by employment sector in the d1980 transportation and Putte utilities government manufacturing construction mining wholesale and retail Trade services insurance and real estate Chicago Tribune Chart source department of Bureau of labor statistics rejected a Union request to re Instate the Union contract but asked both sides to submit Legal briefs by bankruptcy judge Warren Bentz last wednesday granted Wheeling Pittsburgh the authority to abandon its labor which was to expire july after his the company said it would impose new work rules and Cut total pay and benefits for its workers by 18 or nearly an the strike deadline was set at nine plants in Pennsylvania and West Virginia for the hour when the company said it would exercise its newly acquired authority to reduce labor at least two of those plants were not operating Over the Union bar gainers offered to delay the walkout if the company would delay its plans to Cut total labor costs pensions and benefits from per hour to per wheelin Pittsburgh declined the offer although Joseph Scalise a company had warned that a strike could be fatal to a company with outstanding debts approaching every minute of delay puts us deeper in the he the unions last offer of per hour was put on the table in the Days before the company filed for Rusen later offered to Compromise but did not reveal a the company says its plan would Cut base wages from an average of per hour to per Union officials claimed base pay would fall under per need to Cut costs company officials had testified that wheelin Pittsburgh needed to Cut total labor costs by nearly 30 percent from to per hour for the next five Scalise said the company offered per hour for six months to avoid a Rusen said the offer proved the company lied to the bankruptcy the last major strike by the United steelworkers was a 116day nationwide shutdown in guru Rajneesha Calls Mother Teresa a criminal up Bhagwan Shree flanked by two bearded guards with machine invited his own assassination saturday and criticized the roman Catholic Church and Mother it was his first news conference since he and his follow ers set up Camp in Oregon four years who Only recently broke a three year Public conducted a news conference attended by reporters from All Over the world at his ranch commune in a desert Canyon in Central the reporters from Australia and the United states questioned the 53yearold guru in a giant Pavilion before an audience of Raj Neeshee All Clad in shades of Rajneesha was guarded by two bearded guards carrying machine guns when he took his place in a chair on the elevated Rajneesha said a gunman was in the room and invited him to make him a Martyr in front of the cameras by shoot it would not be a i have experienced everything that it is possible to he assassinate Jesus missed the Media dont make me miss the in answer to questions about his being the self pro claimed Rich mans Rajneesha said he did not feel guilty for not sharing any of his wealth with the his followers have Given him 90 expensive Rolls Royce he blamed poverty on the refusal of the roman Catho Lic Church and other religions to Sanction birth control and if people continue to produce More and More then we will All he the world needs to have on fourth of its current the Indian guru said the entire population of the world Golf dub Kitchen closed a photo Bhagwan Shree Rajneesha dont make me miss the Media should practice birth control for 20 he said that Way there would be enough wealth for everyone to live and you should Stop giving Praise to that criminal Mother who is Only increasing the poverty by saving the he the a reported that during the news conference Raj Nemesh described himself As the Best showman in the whole history of this is my circus and 1 enjoy it in asked if it was possible for his disciples to coexist peacefully with their neighbors in Rural Central Rajneesha asked about his followers takeover of the town of 18 Miles from the commune City and since renamed City of he if a few people decide to make a dead City Why should i interfere he reiterated his intent to spread his beliefs through out the America is too Small for a the guru also revealed that he is not i am just natural i have loved Many women perhaps no Man has loved so Many he asked about reports the sect plans a move to Rajneesha spread the Rumor that in coming my coming to Australia will create a great turmoil in the whole a his a Anand told Rajneesha there was a Rumor that one of the reporters at the news Confer ence had a gun and planned to assassinate me in front of All these Media a reported Rajneesha i dont want to die in a dismal 81 ill after Salmonella outbreaks in Illinois a two separate outbreaks of Salmonella poisoning were responsible for illnesses reported by 81 people in two the Kitchen at Plum hollow Golf club in the Detroit suburb of Southfield was or dered closed after officials confirmed that 66 Salmonella poisoning cases stemmed from food prepared Robert Oakland county health said the outbreak occurred after a july 8 Outing attended by 196 peo ple at the none of the victims required hospitalize he Locey said he did not know when the clubs Kitchen would be we will go ahead and rapidly proceed with the and at any Point that we feel appropriate to allow them to we will do Locey in Public health officials closed a Delicatessen after corned beef sold there tested positive for Salmonella it was the second time in two months that a food poisoning outbreak has shut Down the fifteen people who attended a july 13 boating party where food from Kaufman Delicatessen was reported suffering food