Local freight stalled-strike ends
By JIM CZUPOR Kansan Staff Writer
Lawrence Freight Line truck drivers returned to work Wednesday after Tuesday's stall due to Teamsters' union strikes in Kansas City and Topeka.
More than 200 scattered strikes by Teamsters occurred in more than 35 cities around the nation since expiration of the old contract at midnight Tuesday.
Lawrence truck drivers delivered local freight Wednesday which was already in the warehouse, but were unable to transfer freight from Kansas City. The Lawrence truckers were not formally on strike.
Thursday, truck drivers in Kansas City were ordered back to work by the Teamsters Union local on the basis of a report of a retroactive-pay agreement worked out in Washington negotiations.
A tentative agreement was announced Thursday on a 27.5 per cent pay raise over three years, and the union urged striking drivers to return to work.
The agreement, covering 450,000
truck drivers, would provide a $1.10 per hour raise over three years for Teamsters now being paid an average of $4 an hour.
Many local leaders and members have indicated their decision to return to work was influenced by promises from union negotiators that any agreement would be retroactive to April 1.
The action was not officially a strike, a spokesman said in St. Louis, but merely the result of a contract expiration between the Teamsters and the Trucking Employee, Inc.
In Kansas City, a spokesman for the Teamsters local No. 41 reported all 5,000 local members were off the job Wednesday.
Back - to - work movements
Thursday, however, were reported in Kansas City, Minneapolis-St.
Paul, San Francisco, Indianapolis,
Milwaukee and Cincinnati.
Merle Crook, assistant manager of Lawrence Freight Line said he felt it was too early to tell whether agreements would be reached. "There's no way of knowing for sure," he said, "be-
Homemade bomb explodes
An explosion from a homemade bomb ripped at the front door of the home of Douglas County Judge Charles C. Rankin, 801 Tenn., at 11:55 p.m. Wednesday.
No reasons for the bombing or names of possible suspects were released Thursday by Sheriff Rex Johnson and Assistant County Attorney Mike Elwell, who are supervising the investigation.
The bomb exploded, breaking glass in the door and damaging the wooden section of the door. Fragments of the bomb's container, apparently a lead pipe, scattered throughout the living room leaving holes in the walls and ceiling.
Rankin and his son, Paul 18, were nearly 25 to 30 feet from the front door when the bomb exploded. They had left the living room only two minutes before the explosion, the Judge said Thursday.
Elwell unofficially estimated damages at $300.
"About all I can say is I'm very disconcerted about the incident, Rankin said, "but I do suppose it is one of the hazards of my profession."
Judge Rankin described the explosion as sounding like an M-80 firecracker, and said probably black powder was used.
Elwell theorized the device had been placed between the screen and the weather-proof doors, and some form of triggering device activated it.
No estimate as to a possible time lag between the placing of the bomb and its detonation can be made, Elwell said. Footprints were observed in the snow, and photographs were taken of them.
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hour increase the first year, 25 cents the second and 35 cents the third for local drivers who are paid hourly. Long haul Teamsters average nearly $13,000 a year now and local drivers nearly $10,000.
Management and union spokesman refused to disclose the terms of the wage agreement but sources close to the talks said it would provide for a 50-cent an
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Crook warned that if negotiations failed, a strike would affect every business establishment in Lawrence. If wages increase, he said, then freight rates would in-
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