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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 12, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday october 12, 1988 the stars and stripes Page 5 16-month strike against paper Mills ends Jay Maine a leaders of inc paper workers Union told members Man Day they were ending a if month old strike against International paper co. Mills by some 2,300 workers in three slates. The Union said the move will give strikers first crack at any jobs vacated by non Union employees who no run the Mills in Jay do Pyrc wis. And lock Haven pm. This stage of he War is Over. We have lost this Bailie but the War for jus Tice in the work place is not Over said Felix Jacques executive vice president of United Piiper workers International Union local 14 Here. Jacques said the Union s National leadership had left the local presidents no Choice. He said it was Clear the National Union could not provide the support needed 10 continue the strike much longer. Strikers had been receiving s55 a week in strike benefits and Many of them look other jobs during the strike. Although the Union has taken no Posi Tion on whether members should return to the Mill Jacques said we will stand Here in total support of anyone who goes into that  the workers including 1,200 at the Jay Plant went on strike june 16, 1987. The company Kepi the plants open with replacement workers. About 720 members were striking the Pennsylvania plan and 350 were on strike in Wisconsin a Mill spokesman at the Jay Plant said Union members have first preference for any openings. But he said the Mill was at full complement and hires new employees at an average rate of Only three per Yeck. He stressed that no replacement worker would be asked to leave. During inc strike this Central Maine Lown of 4,000 has been the scene of Bois Crous rallies and marches As Well As occasional violence and vandalism that led to court orders limiting activities on the picket line. A series of chemical leaks and on the Job accidents at the Mill heightened tensions in recent months with the Union blaming the problems on the inexperience of inc new workers. The decision to end the strike does not affect the company s Mobile ala., Mill where More than 1,000 Union Mcm tiers have been locked out. International paper one of the largest paper companies in the world has said that the strike has had Little effect on production. Maine gov. John r. Mckean whose vetoes of legislation supported by organized labor made him a lightning Rod for the strikers anger called the Jay situation i tragedy and reiterated his View that inc strikers were pawns in a fight Between an International company and an International Union. I believe this would have been re solved if the dispute had remained at the local level. Mckean said. We just weren t calling our own shots either at the management level or the Union  an election to de certify the paper workers Union As the bargaining agent for Mill employees has already been Neld in de pure and the results Are under Chal Lenges by both the Union and manage ment. Similar elections Are anticipated at the other two Mills. The strikers lost the right to vote in such elections after one year on the picket line. Hundreds of Holiday marchers Power a replica of the Santa Maria in an unconventional manner High and dry Santa Maria monday s annual Columbus Ray Parade Down Manhattan s 5th Avenue. Judge wants original Rock face suspected in Feen suicide Case Reno nov. A a judge on monday ordered lbs records to turn Over inc master tape of the Rock group Judas priest s stained class album so it can do examined for subliminal messages that May have prompted two teen agers to enter into a suicide pact. Lbs has not been completely cooperating with Dis covery in this Case Washoe District court judge Jerry Whitchead said before delaying trial of a lawsuit against the group and giving the company 30 Days to hand Over inc master tape. Lbs has told plaintiffs in the lawsuit it cannot find the 24-Lrack master tape for the 197s album. The judge said the tape would be a key piece of evidence in separating sounds among the music and lyrics to deter mine whether any subliminal messages exist. Without evidence of subliminal messages. White head said the Case would not go to trial since music and lyrics Are protected by the first amendment right to free speech. If subliminal messages Are found within the stained class album Whitehead said the  concentrate on whether such hidden communication deserves the same first amendment Protection. The Case is the first of its kind to Advance this far in an american court. Judas priest members weren t present in the court room  1986, the families of Raymond Belknap and James Vance both of nearby Sparks filed suit claim ing the music words and subliminal messages in the album drove the two into a suicide pact. After listening to stained class for six hours drinking alcohol and smoking marijuana Belknap is killed himself with a Shotgun two Days before Christmas 1985. Vance then 19, shot and smog by injured himself with the same Shotgun. Volunteers helping immigrants Cope Aurora Colo. Al this fast growing City next door to Denver has set up a Volunteer network of translators to help officials communicate with the asian hispanic and other immigrants arriving Here. Estimates Are that 8,000 residents or 3 percent of Aurora s population Don l speak English causing problems for police at Accident and crime scenes. They include sneakers of i us to Dari Chippewa Spanish czech Farsi French greek hebrew hungarian urdu polish. Russian tagalog ukrainian and sign language. Aurora has drafted an emergency handbook for police and fire officers to communicate with speakers of korean vietnamese cambodian laotian and chinese some of the Volunteer translators recall How it was to adjust to the language and the culture seven years ago when i came Here it s just so difficult you Don t know what people Are talking about said Sun Meeks who emigrated from Hong Kong and now helps translate chinese languages. Anwar Necko emigrated from Afghanistan after inc soviet invasion arriving in Denver in 1982. He has volunteered to help Aurora speakers of Pashto and Dari the official languages of fits Homeland As Well As the iranian language of Farsi. 16 students Hurt As tractor trailer rams school bus Everett a. Aps a tractor trailer truck slammed into the Back of a school bus monday injuring 16 students and both Drivers As the vehicles Tum bled Down an embankment authorities said. Four students were seriously injured. The tractor trailer which was carrying Brewer s Grain flipped Over once to land upright and the bus Slid onto its Side after falling the 15 to 20 feel. The bus carried 20 students Ages 5 through 17 on their Way to inc Everett area elementary school and Everett area High  Driver Randy Mca Klc 33, of Everett and 12 students were treated for minor injuries and released at memorial Hospital of Bedford a nursing supervisor said. Two students were  Driver Anthony w. Ritchie 23, of Criders va., was admitted for observation. Two students were transferred to Conemaugh Valley memorial Hospital in Johnstown where they were admitted in critical condition with head injuries Accord ing to Hospital officials Ritchie s truck hit the school bus shortly after 7 30 . While both were travelling northbound on the Pennsylvania 26 bypass. The bus was hit from behind As it accelerated from a bus Slop a school District official said. He never slopped. I looked in the Mirror and there he was said Markle a bus Driver for seven years. It was chaos. The children were screaming. The careening truck barely missed two students waiting for the bus on the Side of the Road. Floyd Roberts of the Everett Volunteer fire depart ment said some students were taken to the Hospital in a fire truck. In the stars and stripes 40 years ago foe a. Oct. 12, 1948 the Cleveland indians won their first world series Crown since 1920, defeating the bos ton braves 4-3 in the sixth game of the series at bos ton 30 years ago foday. Oct. 12, 1958 the United slates launched the Pioneer the first unmanned rocket headed for the Moon with Hopes that it would return with the first lunar pictures. 20 years ago foday. Oct 12 1968 after a hiatus of two years follow ing the disaster of Apollo 1, the . Launched a manned rocket on an Earth circling orbit As a trial run for the first manned space flight to the Moon. 10 years ago foday. Oct. 12,197s the Berkeley calif., City Council gave final approval to a homosexual rights ordinance which forbade discrimination on the basis of sexual preference in employment credit schools and Nous ins  
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