Wednesday, August 29, 1979
University Daily Kansan
Clerks' strike stops trains
Rv The Associated Press
TOPEKA--Striking clerks placed packets in to oozers on more Kanaka campers. The road crew has moved the Railroad freight trains in the state and causing concern about movement of the trucks.
In all, about 1,800 Rock Island clerks in, disrupting movement of grain, perishable produce, coal and industrial goods on its 2.90 miles of track in 13 states.
Wayne Baird, traimaster in charge of the Rock Island's main line from Topeka to Liberal, said about 1,000 of the railroad's Kansas employees used to run on the tracks across picket lines.
THE UNION's picket lines were honored by other workers throughout the system and only one train got out after the strike began, said Chris Knapton, vice president for public relations. The strike was called on May 28, down in a long-wavelength wade dispute.
The bulk of those off the job in Kansas area in Herington, the line's Headquarters. Bard said about 400 workers were in Herington and 80 in Topeka.
Pickets also were posted in McFarland, McPherson, Hutchinson, Prentil and Liberal on the main line, plus about five more on the northern line, northern route from Manhattan to Goodlawn.
UNION MEMBERS picked both the yard and roundhouse in Topeka.
The railroad normally operates 100 trains a day in Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, Mississippi, Kansas, Colorado, New Mexico, Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana, Tennessee and Nebraska.
Railroad officials said the strike was expected to shut down the line, one of the nation's largest freight haulers, even though the clerks do not actually operate the trains.
In Washington, D.C., the National Mediation Board rejected a request from the railroad to study the dispute.
CHAIRMAN ROBERT O. Harris said the board did not think that the strike threatened to deprive any section of the country of essential transportation service.
He said he did not expect that a presidential emergency board would be appointed. Appointment of such a board automatically end the strike for 60 days.
Knapton said the current wage rate, which averages about $7 to $8 an hour, was not the issue.
"It's retroactive pay back to early 1978 that amounts to about $14 million and we just haven't let it," he said.
He said the rail line would attempt to get the trains moving again within the next few days.
"WETL HAUL, truck to Kansas City and use other carriers to take it to the Gulf Coast," Knapp said. "Twenty-five percent of all grain we carry is for overseas shipment, a $2 billion annual cost." The company, but some has been stored and waited shipment since 1975.
"It will have an overall effect on us because we are a subterminal and we do ship grain for export," said Earl Crisp, who manages a Dodge C电梯 elevator.
The biggest concern in Kansas was moving the state's first 400 million bushel wheat crop, harvested in June and July.
FAM-MAR-CO traffic director Chayton Manz of Hutchinson said the strike had stranded his firm's hopper cars along the Rock Island land.
"I'll hurt Far-Mar Co, as well as any other major shipper who has private cars," said Martz. "Until the strike is settled, we must have trapped and will not be available to us."
The nation's grain shipments already had been threatened by a strike by grain milers in Nebraska, where they work which has all but halted shipments from Duluth, MN., and Superior, WT. Talks have been ongoing.
Baird described Rock Island's operations late yesterday as "still moving, but very slowly at present."
Scientists find new atom particle
BATAVIA, III. (AP)—An international team of physicists has found strong evidence of a new particle, the gluon, that is being studied at atomic-like scientists said yesterday.
Although the new particle was not expected to have any immediate practical application, its discovery represents a breakthrough in understanding nature; scientists said.
Leon Lederman, director of the laboratory, said the finding supported current ideas about the internal structure of
neutrons, protons and other bits of matter once thought to be indivisible.
"Physicists are estatic," Lederman said. "We're beginning to understand how it's all put together."
Researchers at a physics symposium at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory proposed the use of a gel for the elusive gluon particle, which was first predicted by theory about a decade ago.
The experiments that uncovered the glue were conducted this summer by more than 500 researchers from the United States, England, Norway, France, Israel and China at a new nuclear academic center.
The accelerator made finding the gluon possible by smashing electrons, and it was this that allowed the discovery of any earlier machine. A positron is identical to an electron except that it has an extra proton.
Colliding the two particles produces sprays of other particles, which scientists can analyze to identify their orign.
At very high energies, one of the sprays to travel in an invisible particle though is the electron. The latter had predicted it be emitted by the electron-positron collision if the two collided
The discovery of the gluon also supported the theory that protons, neutrons and other elementary particles called hadrons are formed even smaller bits of matter called quarks.
When their existence was proposed in the early 1905, quarks were thought of as no more than an interesting coincidence in the mathematics of elementary particles.
However, recent evidence suggests that they actually exist.
The gluon is the whimsical name scientists gave to the particle thought to glue quarks together.
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