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people injured and 32 ar-
ed, accordiDg to uthoritics.
Boise estimated damages t
$1.3 ..
Democratic Goy. Rudy Per
pich, a de cendant of B t
European stock, reportedly
. d that strife stemmed from
Boise Cascade's reneging on a
promise to hire a St. Louis, Mis-
ouri union contractor who
ould employ out-of-wor
Min.qesota unionists�
On strength of this promise,
the state handed Boise Cascade
a $16 million tax write-off, the
Governor says. T e paper mill
is the single most important in
dustry in the town.
Gov. Perpich sees no racial
conflicts. On Sept 20, he due -
ed out of a side door at the
St.Paul Holiday Inn luncheon
honoring a Black businessman.
Jesse Overton, of Skytech Co.,
to avoid being interviewed by
this correspondent concerning
the fe tering situation on the
northern border.
STO EW ALLI G GOVE -
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The governor stonewalled
repeated request for inter-
t views and finally sent a s -
rogate, P ul W. Goldberg,
Commissioner, Bureau of
Medication Service, who shed
very . Ie light on the situation.
Bill Peterson, president of
the Minnesota Building Trades
Council, told this reporter he
would meet with him, but never
did.
Minnesota AFL-CIO
leader Dan W. Gustafson,
president, and Bernard L.
Broomer, ecrctary/treasur ,
told Me: "BE&K brought no
Blacks ... but a lot of r dn c
in pic up tru with guns in
r c up here ... introducing a
foreign culture" to the area.
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decisions about their drug use."
A halfway measure between
legalization d current drug
policie is decriminalization.
Decriminalization would
eliminate or sharply reduce
penalties for drug use but co -
tinue the prosecution of th
o sell or import dr
"You Ie v the user and
the mall seller alone, Wall
id,
He added that recently
• cocaiee d gone up in the
etherlands, apparently part of
a Europe-wide trend.
Wall id be not it
would be necessary to 1epIize
crack cocaine.
Cr ck is sort of natural
result of th· drug prohibition,"
W said. "If cocaine were
uldn't sell cr "
"It's harmful hether it's
or illepl," CosgrO\1e said.
"l'd lite to be to elimjn, e
ThiS is the area
herded NatM Americans into
reservations hile providing
financial incentMs to lure for
eigners mostly of Scandinavian
and German stock at the end of
the last century.
The area is 99 percent white.
BOASTS DO RECORD
BE&K denied the allega
tions and declared it has 600
employees, including Blacks,
Hispanics and omen at the
work' e.
Leon Goodman, 48, a Black
BE&K official who supervises
some 30 mostly Blac concrete,
excavation and demolition
orkers t the site, told this COf
respondent: "This place i
worse than Alabama, Louisiana
and pi when it comes
to prejudice. To tell the truth, I
didn't think there were places
like this left in America."
"They yelled,' gger go
home,' busted the windshield of
my truck and slashed the tires.
They threatened to burn down
. the building we live in. I have
never seen anything like it. I'm
going to send a report to the
NAACP," Goodman said.
He is from South Carolina,
has been' with BE&K for 12
years. He is a salaried employee
and likes his company very
mu�.Heemp�d:��
people don't want any Blacks
or Indians up here."
Cap. Dennis Leroy Lazen
berry, is a 38-year-old African
Homeless
Co tlDu fro 1
having their houses catch fire.
While few homeless people are
middle-class Americans, most
are not bums or bag ladies. An
nually, four of every 1,000
people suffer a house rue. Yet,
. six of every 1,000 people 10 e
homes because they can't pay
the rent. Wright estimate that
on any given night half a million
people are homeless.
"Addres Unknown,"
Wright's 'second boo on home
lessness, was published this fall
by Aldine de Gruyter Press and
geared to the. general public.
His boo "Homelessness and
Health" (1987 - McGraw Hill)
received a commendation from
the National Press Club. Both
are based on research from $28
million program funded by the
Robert Wood Johnson Founda
tion and ew Charitable Trusts.
'The problem of home le
ness is that there are too many
extremely poor people compet
ing for too few affordable hous
ing uni "Wright says, dding
that as much 75 percent of
homele sness could be
_ prevented.
Remedies include national
rent insurance to prevent poor
families from liding into home
tragedy strikes.
He also recommends low-inter
emergency loans and speed
iDg up the process of granting
Aid to Families with Depen
deDt 0UIdren.
AmericaD . of St Paul. He
is a member of the Minnesota
Dept. of Public Safety, State
Patrol D· . . and since Jan.
18 of thU year has commanded
the �mation Falls City area
District 3100. He heads a unit of
35. He . d, -I would be afraid
to�there (International Palls)
as a tourist." .
AS BAD AS rr GETS
The officer said he 'has been
with the State Patrol for 12
years, and a captain for four, but
on J� 18 when the workers
staged a wildcat strike, "that w,
the rust time I heard racial
epithets aimed at me. 1 was
dressed in plain clothes, driving
a plain car and • wildcatter mis
too me for a BU construc
tion wor ere It was bad as it
gets. I tched and couldn't
believe it."
He said about ISO of the
rioters pushed do a fence
and broke into the main con
struction workers camp.
"They burned portions of it,
pushed housing units from
foundations, smashed windows,
overturned all of the vehicles
and beat up the private security
guards. Unless this occurs on
the highway, we (State Patrol)
are prohibited by law from
makiDg any arrests," he said.
The FBI is reportedly inves
tigating.
Bard eed racist statements
abounded, he aid, quoting
State Rep. BoIb Nuenshwander
as dettaring heard ome of
the wildcatters say they didn't
want their daughters coming
home with spic and nigger
babies."
FEAR MI (MUM WAGE
LEVEL
Capt. Lazenberry sai there
are a few Indians (Chippawas)
in the area. White families are
divided, most are fearful they
will lose higb union hourly
wages which range from $15 to
$18 an hour, go back to mini
mum wages, he said.
In move that seasoned ob
servers call blatant "protec
tionism", the Minnesota Dept.
of Labor and Industry, obvious
ly bowing to state labor union
pressure, -called onthe Office of
Administrative Hearing for a
proposed "permanent rules
making- change relating to
steamfitters.
More than 300, mostly white
union men, crowded the hear
ing room of Administrative Law
Judge Allen E. Giles, an
African American alumnus of
the University of Michigan Law
School.
The huge overflow was sent
to a nearby room in handsome
State Office Building. There
they li tened intently to the
proceedings by intercom. They
said they took off work to attend
the heariDg..it was that impor
tant.
Le than a dozen were
B orWOIDCD.
The panicked union mem
ber , conc::crned with "stand
ards- they feel BK&E· is
Odober 2l-2I, lJI9 MICHIGAN CITIZEN
17.
Gar.age :
Is yours costiilg
you money?
sr. PAUL. - On a hot.
ummer day, Ii coolgarage that
is attached to your home is a
great pi ce to spend few
minut . In winter, though, that
garage is cold, often below 40
degrees F, and during both
time of the year, it could be
robbing you of energy - and
money!
A garage is cool in summer
for many of the ame reasons it
is cold in winter. First, location.
Most garages are located under
a living room or bedroom and
next to a basement or laundry
room, Sun can't penetrate from
the top, nor can it pour through
the small door windows.
Second, gatage.S usually are
exposed on two sides - the
front, and very frequently, on
the north side. In winter, that
means it gets hit hard with the
cold northern winds. In sum
mer, nearby plant&, shrubs, or
trees provide &ha to keep the
area cool.
Third, a garage is not the best
insulated area of th home. It
has a concrete floor, and con
crete conducts cold. The inte
rior walls might be made from
the least expensive wallboard
and might not contain adequate
insulation. The ceiling could be
plaster, cement, or weUboard.
The outer walls are cinder block
or cement.
Cracks and gaps in the
garage structure zap energy
from the rest of the house, while
Iift� money from your wallet
to pay high energy bill . During
winter, heat from the rest of the
house often seeps into this non
living area. During summer, air
cooled by the air conditioner in
another room might find its way
into the garage through nooks
and crannies.
To correct the condition,
energy experts suggest that you
do the following:
- Make sure walls and ceil-
. ings have updated, adequate in
sulation. If you don't want to
tear away wallboard, blo n in
sulation in sufficient. A pro e -
sional contractor will cut a fe
round hole in the waUbo rd,
inject .th insulation and then
plug each hole with a pIa ti I
cap.
- Any exposed heat and
water pipes should be covered
with insulation foam tape.
Simply unroll the' tape to the
desired length, peel away the'
protective backing and adhere
. to the pipes. The tape can be ap
plied lengthwise or wrapped
around the pipes.
- For the garage do r,
cover the entire door with in
sulation. Make sure a rub
berized door bottom weather
seal is attached to the section
that touche the floor. Buy the
kind that stays flexible at
temperature below -20
degrees F and conforms to floor
irregularities.
- Windows usually are
single p ne of glass. Cover
them with the 3M Indoor Win-
. dow Insulato Kit, which con
tains clear plastic film nd
double- ided tape. It will
reduce air infiltration by 97 per
cent Place tape around the win
dow, cut the plastic film to size,
adhere it to the tape and tighten
it by heating with a hair dry r.
- If a door connect the
gar ge with the rest of the
house, make sure it has been
weatherized. us V - eal or inte
rior foam weather strippin
around the frame. Don't forget
to apply an entry door b ttom
eal.
lowering by bringing an in
tegrated non-union work force
into the state, asked the judge
to, among other things, make a
mandatory ruling that requires
three jouneymen to oversee the
participant. The apprentice
must be pretty dumb to need
three journeymen to teach him"
a trade, a requirement unneces
sary at present.
SKIR11NG TIlE I UE
Those appearing at the hear
ing in support, danced around
the main issue, never once men
tioning that it was, as an oPPO -
ing speaker said, "that situation
on the northern border (involv
ing BE&K) th this rulemaking
i aimed at." I
In October, fter hearing op
posing arguments to be led by
George W. H kiDS, executive
director of the Minnesota As
sociated BuiIdcn and Contrac
tors. Inc., an organization
comprised of union and non-
union members, Judge Giles .
expected to make fmal ruling.
No 'matter how it is ignored,
however, raw discrimination in
the building trades is the prime
issue in Minnesota as it is
throughout the nation.
Offending union officials
fudge the issue by p ing it as
"union versus non-union mem
bers."
Trade unions are notorious
ly insular. They bring on family
-member and friends -99%
white - in appr ntice training
programs. Then they piously
shrug tbat a minority can't
qualify because he lac stan
darized training the union at the
outset has denied him. It's a
Catch 22 situation.
Firms like BE&K, in training
. minorities and women on a
large scale and then placing
them on real job , are helping to
put an end to the ons' dismal
historic practices.
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