University Daily Kansan / Tuesday, November 12, 1991
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Labor leader accuses Bush of ignoring workers
The Associated Press
$^5$ DETROIT — U.S. workers are being "royally stiffed" by President Bush, who campaigned on a promise to create 30 million new jobs during his time in office, AFL-CIO President Lane Kirkland said yesterday.
"Giving him full credit for a small growth in jobs before his recession began to destroy them, he now owes us about 29,750,000," Kirkland told the opening session of the trade union's convention in Detroit.
The meeting is in a city that has a 24.9-percent unemployment rate.
"He has only a year left to come across, and the jobs he proposes to
create in Mexico with his Free Trade Agreement, and in the prisons of his most-favored nation, Red China, do not count, "Kirkland said.
"I have been keeping track, and we are being royally stiffed."
Striker replacement legislation was on yesterday's agenda as the first of three main items that is being discussed during the next three days. The other key issues are national health care and trade policy.
Kirkland's address was interrupted several times by applause from about 700 delegates.
They cheered when he said Bush's whereabouts were not the issue. Bush has been criticized for focus.
ing on foreign affairs and ignoring domestic issues.
"The real issue is not where he goes but where he stands," Kirkland said.
Bush should pay closer attention to the way many foreign governments treat their working class, said Kirkland, who has been president of the 14-million member labor organization for 12 years. Kirkland is unopposed in his bid for re-election tomorrow.
"He might observe that every other industrial nation guarantees its citizens access to health care," Kircland said of Bush. "He might even discover the fact that America's most successful competitors
are far more generous with family leave and unemployment compensation and that the permanent replacement of strikers is virtually unhired of outside the United States."
A bill before the U.S. Senate, and one already passed by the U.S. House of Representatives, would re-establish the pre-eminence of a worker's right to strike over an employer's right to permanently replace workers, which was made possible by a U.S. Supreme Court decision.
Kirkland said the loss of faith in government by U.S. citizens resulted from workers seeing their rights violated and collective bargaining being eroded.
Wichita man dies from gunshot wound after neighbors refuse to call for help
The Associated Press
WICHIH = People living near a suspected crack cocaine house refused to call for help for a fatally injured man from drug dealing, police said.
Residents also refused to cooperate with police Sunday, hours after the man killed to death of gunshot wounds in the house, Lt. Don Deckert said.
Police said Cleveland Oliver III, 21, was found by a friend in the abandoned house. He had been shot several times in the city after died in HCAW Medical Center.
Oliver and a friend had gone to the house, which is frequented by gang members, Deckert said. Oliver went in and the friend stayed outside. When Oliver didn't return, the friend went inside and found him lying on the floor, where police later found crack paraphernalia.
The friend asked neighbors to call for help but several refused, police said.
Finally, one neighbor called around 3 a.m. Sunday but reported the incident as a beating, which receives a lower priority than a shooting, Deckert said. She did not know how much time lapsed between the shooting and the call to 911.
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