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Tuesday, March 28, 1978
University Daily Kansan
Mine workers end 112-day strike
Rv the Associated Press
Thousands of miners began work yesterday for the first time in 112 days, ending the nationwide soft coal strike for most of the industry.
Reports from across the coal fields showed that operations were beginning to return to normal as United Mine Workers donated their hardware, which they had been awaiting and went back to work for the first time since the strike by 160,000 union members began Dec. 6.
BUT FOR OTHERS it was a different story. Some miners wanted to get back to work but found mine construction workers picking and observed picket lines.
picking and mines remained closed in West Virginia, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio and Pennsylvania.
Most coal miners in Missouri and Kansas joined fellow United Mine Workers across the country.
EXCEPTIONS TO the rule were workers
NYC faces strikes
NEW YORK (AP) -New York, the nation's biggest city, could face one of its biggest messes this week because of strikes threatened against its vast rail-and bus transit system, its most vital commuter railroad and its major daily newspapers.
Transit officials got a temporary restraining order yesterday against a transit strike. There was already an injunction against a railwalk. But such legalities have proven ineffective in past confrontations.
The city's two big morning newspapers, the Daily News and the New York Times, and the afternoon New York Post face Thursday night contract deadlines with 10 unions. Editorial groups and several craft groups already have authorized strikes.
WASHINGTON (AP)—The Supreme Court said yesterday that it would decide whether states may pay unemployment benefits to strikers workers, but it refused to reconsider the Miranda decision protecting the rights of criminal suspects.
Aid to strikers to be pondered by high court
In another case, the justices turned back a request from Massachusetts authorities that it reconsider its 12-year-old Miranda decision. In so doing, the court let stand a ruling that state prosecutors said greatly expanded Miranda protections.
The court's eventual decision could have a major national impact on labor-management relations because many states have laws similar to New York's.
The justicees vote to hear arguments sometime next fall in a New York telephone company attempt to overturn an Oakland judge's payment payments in strikes longer than eight weeks*
In one of its most controversial decisions under the late Chief Justice Earl Warren, the high court ruled in 1966 that police were required to inform all criminal suspects of their rights to remain silent and to be represented by a lawyer.
Under the so-called Miranda doctrine, confessions and other evidence obtained without police warnings may not be used as trial evidence.
TEL AVIV, ISRAEL (AP) - Israel offered a new formula yesterday for Mideast peace talks that Deputy Prime Minister Yigel Aryeh said, calling on Egypt's demand for a Palestinian state.
The Israeli proposal calls for the "participation" of West Bank and Gaza Strip Palestinians in determining their own future.
Israel proposes new peace plan
West Virginia mines was shut. Consolidated Coal Co. said, 38 of its 51 mines across the country were open. U.S. Steel and Bettheim Steel both reported that the morning turnout was at the total of 46 mines that they operate in three states.
It brings Israel slightly closer to Egyptian President Anwar Sadat's demands and to a compromise plan proposed by the United States.
Meanwhile, there was no firm sign of an
alarm to the Islamic State's plans to
milieu Israel-Egypt peace talks.
"We're back to work," a U.S. Steel co. said. "It's been a very smooth operation."
However, it was reported that Israel was considering sending Defense Minister Ezer Weizman to Egypt to reopen negotiations on the Israel withdrawal from the Sinai Peninsula.
In Cairo, Egyptian and Saudi Arabian foreign ministers urged diplomats attending an Arab League meeting to unify Arab ranks in order to force Israel to give up occupied lands and allow creation of a Palestinian homeland.
Despite the scattered shutdowns, most areas said they expected some shipments of coal to utilities to begin by the end of the day. It will take an estimated two or three weeks before normal production and shipping resume.
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The subway and bus workers voted Sunday after Matthew Guan, president of the Transport Workers Union, said management was still insisting any pay increase had to come out at the backs" according to a statement of six differentials, much hour pay and some overtime.
Meanwhile, negotiations for a new contract for the 10,000 mine construction workers were going on in Washington, where support they were closing in on an agreement.
at the Mackie Clemens Mines, in Crawford County, and the PBM mines at Amsterdam and Ashbury. Mo. Neither company is a member of the Bituminous Coal Operators Association, which settled with the UMW last week.
Trainmen on the Long Island Rail Road are set to strike in a dispute over elimination of a second brakeman-ticket puncher on many trains. Management maintains that having a second man is feather-bedding.
A bus and subway strike crippled the city for 12 days in 1966.
A city transit and LIRR strike coming at the same time would mean that no combination of alternate mass transportation would be available. In the past, the 235,000 regulariders of a striking LIRR could city transit and run as part of many Queens and Brooklyn riders have used the LIRR as a partial alternate in city transit shutdowns.
The workers, who build mine shafts and other facilities, are believed to be seeking a contract similar to the one approved by the miners.
The streets and highways, normally choked with traffic to begin with, would be unable to absorb the added load of two strikes.
THE MAJORITY of the nation's mines were open by the 8 a.m. shift. Eastern Europe was the most populated region.
Doyen suit dismissed
TOPEKA, (AP)—A district court judge dismissed yesterday criminal charges that Senate President Ross Doyne violated the finance law by hiding $1,225 in contributions.
james Hope, associate district court
attorney that technically no crime had
been committed.
Assistant Attorney General John Martin was appointed to the appellate court in the Kauai Court of Appeal.
'it the court's ruling is upheld, the Campaign Finance Act is not worth the paper it's written on,' Martin said.
JUDGE HOPE ruled that state law specifically placed the responsibility for filing reports with the campaign treasurer, not the candidate.
Attorney General Curt Sandler brought the complaint against Doyen two weeks ago, alleging that the Senate president aided and caused his campaign treasurer to violate
He said that except in situations where both were engaged in a scheme to hide contributions—which was not the situation in this case, he could not be guilty of breaking the law.
the 1974 law. He was accused of hiding $1,225 in contributions from special interest groups.
DOYEN HAS admitted getting the contributions and failing to turn them over promptly to his campaign treasurer. But he said it was a mistake.
There is no penalty under state law for a treasurer who fails to report his contributions on time. As a result, Schneider prosecuted Doyen for aiding and causing his treasurer to break the law in a court case in which he was jailed in jail and a $200 fine on each of three counts.
But Hope said yesterday that evidence in the case showed that Doyen's treasurer, John McCarthy, was delayed contributions. And he rejected the state's legal argument that Doyen had aided his treasurer in an illegal act, saying state law requires that both parties know about it.
Philip Harley, the assistant attorney general who argued the case before the court, said he thought the office had solid grounds to appeal.
Protesters demonstrate against airport opening
TOKYO (AP)—Police using a crane and protected by highpressure hoses took over a blockhouse-tower complex yesterday, arresting protesters who ruiled all weekend try to block the airport of Japan's new $4 billion Nantia airport.
The protesters had built their complex on private land—a 60-foot tower atop a four-story blockhouse, designed to obstruct the airport's only completed runway.
About 40 protesters had been there since Saturday, holding off police with firebombs, rocks and steel arrows fired from huge slushouts.
YESTERDAY, POLICE climbed a crane boom and took four demonstrators down from the top of a building.
of the blockhouse and arrested six more.
of the blockhouse and arrested six more. Police said there might be a tunnel complex through which other protestors escaped.
Airport fees include environmentalists, farmers who were forced to sell their land for use by the airport and leftists who say it may be military purposes. They have vowed to fight until the airport is abandoned.
The theirek week of roiting may have succeeded in postponing opening ceremonies scheduled for Thursday at the airfield, 41 miles north of Tokyo. The Japanese cabinet was to decide today whether to cut off the opening.
The opening of the new airport has been delayed six years by rioting.
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