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Thursday, March 30, 1978
University Daily Kansan
Council approves new contract
WASHINGTON (UP1) - The United Mine Workers bargaining council, its leader felled by a stroke, approved a new contract yesterday for mine construction workers, clearing the way for a final ratification vote next week.
With UMW Vice President Sam Church presiding, the council voted 37-0 in favor of
the new pact after four hours of discussion at UMW headquarters.
The unanimous consent raised hopes that the 14,000 mine construction workers would ratify the contract, in bilingual set for use, which finally brings peace to the soft industry.
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WASHINGTON (UPI) — President Jimmy Carter's anti-inflation campaign, which encourages voluntary wage and price restraint by the private sector, received its first challenge yesterday. Government reaction was swift.
Just hours after U.S. Steel Corp., the nation's largest steel producer, announced a $10.50 a ton price hike, the Carter administration criticized the increase as
Later yesterday, Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel Corp. announced an identical base price increase, also effective April 1 on all steel products.
U. S. Steel said the price increase was needed to cover the cost of the new coal
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which monitors inflation for the White House, disagreed, saying the new contract would add only about $4 per ton to production costs over a three-year period.
In January, Carter urged business and labor to moderate their wage and price demands this year in order to reduce the underlying rate of inflation by one-half percent.
He encouraged the private sector to hold 1978 wage and price increases to a level below the average of 1978 and 1977.
Since then, inflationary fears have heightened considerably. Carter has been strongly urgent to come up with other actions to curb the increase in using holding down increase in federal pay.
mild stroke earlier yesterday and was under intensive at Mount Sinai Medical Center in Miami.
Miller, 54, had been warned by doctors to take it easy after five months of negotiations and the 110-day coal strike, which finally ended last Saturday, church said.
Most of the 160,000 miners were reported back on the job yesterday, but scattered picketing by mine construction workers disrupted operations in Indiana and Illinois. In keeping with tradition, union miners will not cross picket lines.
In Illinois, construction pickets kept about 12,000 of the state's 15,000 miners off the job for the second day in a row. All of Indiana's 21 union mines were shut down by construction worker pickets, idling about 3,000 miners.
Several bargaining council members indicated that expected little trouble with the project was anticipated.
The construction contract was similar to the one approved by 57 percent of the miners. This contract, however, calls for an improvement in the health program. Church said health coverage provided by the company included payment for all prescription drugs, including those needed for short-term illnesses.
UMW and industry negotiators reached agreement Monday night on the contract, which covers workers who build mine shafts and other coal operation facilities.
Bavh denies Korean contribution
Bv Gannett News Service
WASHINGTON -Sen. Birch Bayh, D-Ind,
anngly denied Tuesday that he received a campaign contribution from Korean lobster Tonsun Park.
Bayh made the denial at a hasty-called press conference in his office after the Los Angeles Ethics Committee said saying Park told the committee he "recollected" giving $1,500 to $1,800 to Jay (Jerman) Bayh, Bayh's administrative assistant, during Bayh's 1974 re-election campaign.
"I'm distressed," Baah said. "I'll never worth much from a dollar and cents shirts."
public service is my reputation, and thus barks my reputation."
Bahy admitted knowing the controversial Korean lobbyist, who is cooperating with the House and Senate ethics committees in their investigations of the so-called "Koreateage" influence pedaling scandal. However, he could never received money from Park.
Bayah said Park asked him if he could be "helpful" during a luncheon one time, and Bayah he assumed he was being offered a caiman contribution.
"I told him we didn't want help from who someone was not an American citizen." Jibbs said.
Bayah he said never discussed Korea with Park during any of their encounters.
Bayh told the new conference he believes
ever accepting a contribution from Faaf.
Berman, now a Washington public relations man after serving 10 years on Bayh's staff, flare back to the capital from the office to the union to join Bayh at the press conference.
"I categorically deny he made a contribution to Sen. Bayh, through me," he said. Neither Bayh nor Berman could offer any answers. Park would be about them to the committee.
Israel tries to reopen peace talks
JERUSALEM (AP)—Israel sent defense Minister Eze Wearman to Egypt today to reopen the direct Mideast peace talks that began in October, with rabble and Egyptian sources said yesterday.
Washington. There, the U.S. desire for new
corridor accommodation with the Arabs was made
much harder.
The reports here and in Cairo indicated Israel was undertaking a new diplomatic initiative following a recent tense talks with President Jimmy Carter last week in
Still, Begin vowed in parliament to continue resisting American pressure.
He then saw his supporters beat back opposition attempts to soften Israel's stand on the issue of occupied Arab lands—one of the major points of conflict between Israel
and America and between the Jewish state and its Arab neighbors.
It was assumed Weizman would see Egyptian President Anwar Salad, but there was no word on how long he would stay, military sources said in Caro. The defense minister last was in Egypt on Feb. 1 to attend negotiations in the occupied Sinai Desert.
Carter bill proposes hike in farm income
WASHINGTON (UP)—The Carter administration, under pressure from striking farmers and restive farm-bio congressmen, yesterday proposed a new aid package that Vice President Walter Monroe will provide to farmers in income by $3 billion to $4 billion this year.
Mondale and Agriculture Secretary Bob Bergland said at a White House news conference that if Congress passed a more far-reaching bill pending in a Senate-House conference committee, President Carter would veto it.
Bergland said the administration plan would be put into effect under existing law. It includes a modest program to feed grain and cotton farmers to idle about five million acres of cropland in addition to grain production out of production under existing programs.
Mondale and Bergland also said the administration would back legislation raising the $3-a-bushel 1978 wheat support target price to perhaps $3.40 to $3.50 a bushel.
Other features include expanding a farmer-controlled grain reserve, offering
payments to wheat farmers who use up to 40 percent of their acreage for grazing or hay, and raising the soybean support price from last year's $3.50 a bushel to $4 a bushel.
In addition, Mondale and Bergland announced that the Agriculture Department planned to buy 220 million bussels of wheat from Walmart in an international emergency reserve.
The administration's plan and its threatened veto threats did not appear to derail congressional efforts to provide more information before help than the White House sanctions.
Senate Agriculture Committee Chairman Herman Talmadge, D-Ga., said he was disappointed that the administration did not go far enough to provide real income benefits.
Israeli radio reported that the Israeli cabinet decided Sunday to send Weizman back to Egypt. The invitation from Egypt is still up for grabs. The Israeli-Gamassy reached Israel on Tuesday.
But Mondale attacked the pending congressional farm bill, which could idle up to 46 million acres of land, as ill conceived, short-sighted and unworkable. He said it would add up to $2.3 billion to the federal budget and could set off an inflationary spiral.
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Kansas coal miners vote on agreement
PITTSBURG (UPI)—Members of the United Mine Workers in District 14 yesterday were presented with a tentative agreement worked out with Pittsburg and Midland to vote tomorrow on whether to end a 14-day strike, a union spokesman said.
Most of the miners have been off the job since Dec 6, although some went to work for a few days when President Jim Carter invoked the Taft-Hartley Act. At that time, workers at the P&M Midway coal mine at Amsterdam, Mo., returned to work. However, they resumed picketing when the order court under Taft-Hartley expired.
The strike began Dec. 6.
P&M also operates the Empire mine at Asbury, Mo., as well as other coal mines in New York.
The tentative agreement was reached Tuesday night in Madisonville KS, where the teams met for a final decision.
proposed contract were not immediately known.
More than one month ago, the UMW and P&M reached a tentative settlement with many government and industry officials that they would not further contract between the UMW and the soft coal
Black guerrillas stage incursion into Rhodesia
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operators' association. But the union members rejected the contract.
PAM is not a member of the association and when the UMW finally reached a national agreement with the soft coal operators on the PAM mining operations in Missouri.
SALISBURY, Rhodesia (UPI)—Rhodesian sources yesterday confirmed that black nationalist guerrillas had staged one of their largest incursions ever from sanctuaries across the border in Mozambique.
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But Rhodesian sources confirmed one of the largest single incursions of the war had taken place, which came to light when a small Rhodesian patrol stumbled onto a well-camouflaged guerrilla based camp in Rhodesia, south of the town of Umtali.
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