University Daily Kansan, July 24, 1980
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Sweat produces staple
By MARK PITTMAN Staff Reporter
Sweat pockets off the workers. It stains their clothes in a slow arc that extends from the armpits to the middle of the body. The temperature hits to 125 degrees.
The 105-degree day is cool in comparison to the inside of the Stokely VanCamp canning plant at Tenth and Maryland streets.
It is the peak canning season at Stokely. Nearly every one of the plant's 215 workers is working 10 hours a day, summertime staple - pork and beans.
The smell of cooking beans is a pervasive presence. Workers will have to scrub the smell from their clothes at the end of the day.
A young man holds his head in his hands, moaning. He sits on a case of Van Carnets pork and beans.
A WORKER REPORTS to the plant manager that a young woman has been overcome by the heat and is lying in the plant's air-conditioned office. It is the day of week that she has had to drop out of the production line because of the heat.
Tomato sauce bubbles in huge cats in the hot plant. Like red lava, the sauce is spewed into cans full of half-cooked beans.
The noise in the production room is a low-level roar—the combined product of hissing steam, the rush of water, and josse lansing down the conveyor belts.
Stokely, like most industrial plants, is a world of gray flecked with industrial green and rust.
While Stokely workers produce their annual quota of 65 to 70 million cans, they can expect that sooner or later they will be hurt. One-fourth of the workers, 50 people, will be injured this year. There will be cuts, brushes and broken limbs. One worker had a finger cut this year by moving machinery.
Stokely's accident rate, according to
the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, is very low. Stokley measures up to every OSHA standard for heat and noise.
TEAMSTER LOCAL 696 spokesman Bill Moore calls the latest union agreement with Stokley the best he ever seen. But workers were locked out of the plant for three months to get that agreement.
Stokely workers suffer, but there are 800 people willing to take their place on the production line. There are that situations in Stokely's personnel office.
Stokely workers earn an average $4.95 an hour.
Most of Stokley's workers are un- skilled. They need to have the job and they can do little else. Stokely's management, Teamster officials and the workers themselves agree that it is an difficult way to make a difference in people such as laborers to fuel its industrial economy and feed its people.
"It's bad, really bad," said one Stokely employee, Mark Cerney. "The worst thing about it is that there is always the possibility of getting hurt.
"There are open chains everywhere and the equipment is so incredibly old. One machine is from the '48.' "
CERNEY is a KU student. He will probably not have to spend the rest of his life working in a factory. But he said that many of his Stokely co-workers were here for years: 38 to 40 workers have seen at Stokely for more than 10 years.
"Stokely is all they've got," Cerney said.
The American Dream of material affluence is simply a dream for many Americans who belong to a vast class of industrial laborers. According to a KU professor of sociology, upward mobility in American society is almost a myth.
"Given the structure of the American economic system, someone has to perform these jobs," said the professor, Norman Yetman.
"There are some fantastic examples of success," he said. "And Andrew Carnegie is the classic example. Richard Nixon is another one. But the likelihood of upward mobility is much less than the popular conception."
aged the Horta Alger myth, he said their portrayal of the typical American family, in material superabundance, was a distortion of American reality.
Yetman said that the media encour-
Betty Alexander, press officer for the Selective Service in Washington, said 4 million 19-and 20-year-olds were expected to register.
“Everything has been going just fine,” she said. “We don’t have any kind of hard figures yet. Some post daily mail not sending in the forms every day.”
Shultz said Wednesday was much
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slower than Tuesday. As a protest took place along Seventh Street, a lone woman stood under a tree on Vermont Street. A sign attached to her parasol read, "Quakers support conscientious objectors."
ANN MOREO, OF the Oread Friends Meeting, a Quaker group, said members from the team are at the touch of every curious times through the two week registration period.
Humanity needed in animal care
"We are calling attention to the fact that they have a choice," she said. "We are not really taking a stand either way."
"Hello. Would you like to see some of our literature?" she said.
By LAURALUCKERT
HE SAID there was negative public attitude about her job that actually
People have been receptive to talking with her and reading literature about her. The Friends Meeting, she said. While she there a man walked to mail a letter.
Staff Reporter
Linda Decleya has a busy day ahead of her. At 8 a.m. she says goodbye to her husband, Paul, and their two dogs, Toshi and Sugarbear, and walks across her front yard to the Lawrence Humane Society.
One of the happiest experiences in her job, she said, was when she found a home for a kittie that was going to be her pet. That was another job in her job is putting animals to sleep.
"It's just part of the job," Deceler said. "You have to mentally say to yourself that the advantages are greater because it is kinder to the animal to put it to sleep rather than let it suffer."
WITH A STAFF of five, she begins the workday by cleaning all the dog and cages, feeding the nursing mothers and their puppies, feeding and watering the cats and killing all the unwanted animals.
The animals are put to sleep individually in a chamber, a box approximately 3-by-5 feet that kills animals in minutes.
Decelles said last week that she thought the injection method of killing animals, which the Lawrence Shelter is changing to this month, was much more humane.
helped reinforce humane treatment of animals.
"When people realize that uncared for puppies and kittens have to be killed, they take caring for their pets more seriously," Decelles said.
She said that deciding when animals should be put to death was difficult. There are no set rules for keeping or caring animals that are not sick or injured.
"The animals are held three working days and then are available for adoption," Decelles said. "We do our best to try to adopt as many animals as possible." We adopted or the ones that have had temperament have to be put to sleep."
Linda Declares, director of the Lawrence Animal Shelter, shows off Bruno, a St. Bernard-Mustif mix.
THE ANIMALS are kept as long as the Humane Society has room for them.
CHUCK ISAACSON/Kansan sta
Last month, out of 125 dogs brought to the Lawrence Humane Society, 29 were adopted, 41 were claimed by their owners and the next month and 42 were killed, she said.
"We just have to use our own judgment when it comes to killing a sick or injured dog," she said. "We have some medications and ointments, but the animal is very sick, the animal may run into hundreds of dollars."
THE LAWRENCE HUMANE Society is a private, nonprofit organization supported by city funds and private donations. Decies, she began her job
as director for the Humane Society June 1, said the society must depend on free advertising when they want to adopt out animals.
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