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Wednesday. Aug. 19, 1987/University Daily Kansan
South Korea soothing laborers
The Associated Press
SEOUL, South Korea — The government intervened yesterday for the first time in strikes that have crippled vital export industries, ending a walkout at the giant Hyundai company by promising workers raises and other benefits.
Han In-hee, vice minister of labor,
told 20,000 strike Hyundai workers at a stadium outside the southern industrial city of Ulsan that the government would do its best to obtain the benefits by Sept. 1.
Although Han said worker demands would be met, he did not specify whether that included freeing labor unions from government control and interference, which are among the strikers' main objectives.
ernment intervention in weeks of turmoil that has hamstruck some of the largest industries and forced scores of smaller plants to close. Hyundai is South Korea's largest auto manufacturer and a major factor in the U.S. subcompact market.
The promises mark the first gov-
Low wages and a virtual ban on strikes have been important elements of the South Korean economic boom that began in the 1970s.
The strikes began after President Chun Doo-hwan agreed June 30 to accept demands for direct presidential elections, freer trade unions and other democratic reforms.
Officials previously urged labor and management to settle their disputes by negotiation, warning that the government would intervene if labor trouble continued.
In his pledge to workers at Ulsan,
Han said he would try to persuade management to recognize a new labor alliance that embraces half the 12 Hyundai companies in Ulsan. He promised to arrange a meeting in Seoul today between management and alliance leaders.
After hearing the ministry official at the stadium, the workers dispersed at shortly after 9 p.m., ending 12 hours of protest on the second day of unrest by Hyundai employees in Ulsan.
"We consider Vice Minister Han's proposal an important breakthrough," one strike leader said on South Korean television. He said workers would return to their jobs tomorrow.
At a rally earlier yesterday, strikers burned an effigy of Chung Juyoung, head of Hyundai.
About 40,000 workers then marched 9 miles along a highway behind trucks, bulldozers, cranes and trailers, shouting "Democratic unions!" and "Down with Chu Jy-young!"
Half of them filled the stadium outside Ulsaen after the march for a four-hour rally, during which Han made his proposals.
Hyundai management has called the six-company labor alliance illegal and insisted on dealing with each union separately, but Chung said. "If they need better treatment, it's no problem. If they return to work, all problems would be solved satisfactorily."
Chung told a news conference
Hyundai paid above-average wages.
Nelson's wife wins custody of son
The Associated Press
LOS ANGELES — A bitter custody dispute over the son of the late Rick Nelson ended yesterday when his mother and her brother, actor Mark Harmon, reached agreement giving custody of the boy to his mother and allowing Harmon visitation rights.
A lawyer said Harmon and the boy's mother, Kristen Nelson, agreed to the settlement because "this was tearing the family apart."
Superior Court Judge Ronel E. Swearinger approved the settlement, which was negotiated behind closed doors during a full day of conferences between Harmon, Kristen Nelson and her 12-year-old son, Sam.
The agreement calls for the entire
family to undergo counseling and specifies that Harmon will be allowed to visit the boy.
"I think the court proceeding was going a little too far," said lawyer Carl Osborne, who represented Kristen Nelson. "I think they all realized this was tearing the family apart and they should stop it before it went any further."
Harmon's lawyer, Lawrence Stone, told reporters that Harmon acted to end the case partially because "Sam wanted it."
"He said he didn't want to come to court any more." Stone said.
Osborne said Kristen Nelson would take the boy on a weekend trip out of town and that, afterward, they would begin psychological counseling.
The attempt to resolve the question of custody outside of court began early in the day when Harmon, whose wife, actress Pam Dawber, had been testifying, proposed a settlement.
Osborne told reporters, "I don't think Pam Dawher wanted to go back on the stand."
Dawber underwent a hammering cross-examination by Osborne on Monday, during which she said that she was told the matter could take the matter over, with his sister.
She also said they had no idea whether Kristen Nelson, recently released from a drug rehabilitation program, was a fit mother for Sam.
There have been no allegations of abuse during the week-old court
hearing. The worst that Kristen Nelson has been accused of is coldness and occasional yelling at her son.
Osborne suggested in his questioning that the Harmons moved to take custody of Sam merely because the boy preferred living with the actor and his TV-star wife.
Harmon, 35, gained on the TV show "St. Elsewhere" and starred in the movie "Summer School." Dawber is the star of CBS "My Sister
Kristen Nelson, whose former husband died in a plane crash on New Year's Eve 1985, testified that she had successfully completed a drug rehabilitation program.
Judge rules PTL donor list is private
The Associated Press
COLUMBIA, S.C. — A U.S. Bankruptcy Court judge refused yesterday to order PTL to turn over a list of 114,000 major donors to a committee representing the interests of the "lifetime partners" during the ministry's reorganization
If other groups obtained the lifetime partner mailing list, the ministry's ability to raise money could be
damaged, said Walter Theus, one of PTL's bankruptcy attorneys.
Judge Rufus Reynolds said the television ministry must help the Lifetime Partners Committee mail information and surveys to the lifetime partners, almost all of whom contributed while Jim Bakker was at PTL's helm.
But Reynolds said PTL was not obligated to give the mailing list or television air time to the partners
committee.
The partners were promised free lodging several nights a year for life at PTL's Heritage USA theme park in return for each $1,000 contribution. But Bakker's ministry sold three times more partnerships than there were rooms, according to the Rev. Jerry Failwell.
The PTL filed for reorganization in U.S. Bankruptcy Court on June 12, and financial officers say the ministry owes $65 million to 1,400 creditors.
Lifetime partners say they are either creditors or owners of two hotels because their donations helped build the structures.
Outer Operating Officer Harry Harra grave said in an earlier bankruptcy court hearing that the lifetime partners had no legal right to the property or to compensation for their donations.
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