Page 18-Wednesday, May.14, 1980-The Michigan Daily Unions hope to paralyze Britain I LONDON (AP) - Union leaders4 it a Day of Action. Prime Minis Margaret Thatcher thinks it is a da folly. Some newspapers brand it a, of doubt, others say it will be an( barrassing flop. All were talking about today, the, the Trades Union Congress, the Io confederation of 112 unions, hopes paralyze the nation with a 24-h general strike to protest Thatch labor and economic policies. A POLL conducted yesterday for British Broadcasting Corp. found t 73 per cent of union members oppo the strike and 84 per cent of th questioned said they will try t ge work. The Confederation of British dustry, representing big business, s response to the call for a strike peared "lukewarm" throughout dustry. Still, today may well be chaotic. THOUSANDS OF workers are li to, be missing from their factory t ches, office desks, and shop counter either staying away in support of walkout or unable to get to w because of it. Commuter trains and buses are to be idled and boats crossing Enalish Channel stranded. call Contingency plans were being put in- The union action could cost $684 Parliament to quadruple the numb ster to effect to deal with transportation million, according to government jobs eliminated from civil ser y of disruptions. Some people arranged to calculations. during her five-year administration day stay overnight with friends or relatives. THATCHER SAID last weekend the THATCHER, WHOSE govern em- Businesses booked hotel rooms for em- Day of Action "will not change gover- has already cut 27,000 civil service ployees. nment policies" and is a "job- said the total cuts will be raise day MANY PEOPLE will ride bicycles or destroying folly." 102,000, primarily by attrition. ose will walk and some will hitchhike - a She appealed to Britons yesterday to to rare practice among the reserved shun the call to stay away from work, How successfully the union our British. baying, "I believe the so-called Day of federation can flex its muscle er's Postal workers, milkmen, telephone Action will discredit the unions, depend on how many of its 12 ail operators, zookeepers, police, firemen diminish pay packets and damage members ignore the strike call the and ambulance drivers are among Britain." show up for work. Scores of h that those planning to work. School teachers Ignoring labor objections to cutbacks groups unwilling to lose a day's pa sed and prison wardens are expected to in the government payroll, the prime face possible legal action have ose stay home. minister promised in a speech in they will not strike. t to InWave of self=-mutilationswees ap- in-""" ithrough Georgia, prison facilities kely ben- ATLANTA (AP)-Georgia prison try of southeast Georgia. up litter along a highway, accordin s- officials said yesterday that 10 Since February 11, eight of Green's Sara Englade, a spokeswoman for the prisoners at two facilities have slashed prisoners have slashed their heels with Department of Offender Rehabilitat ork the Achilles tendons in their heels over razor blades to avoid working, officials All had been placed in segregation the past three months in an apparent said. refusing to work when the cuttings due attempt to avoid work details. Two other self-mutilations occurred curred, Warden Green said. the The officials said it wasthe first wave at the Montgomery Correctional In- "They were back in isolation or of self-mutilations in the Georgia prison stitute near Mt. Vernon, also in the ministrative segregation, I for system since 1956 when 40 prisoners at southeast part of the state. which, and they started screamir a rock quarry deliberately broke their A THIRD INMATE at the Mon- Green said, describing the t legs with sledgehammers. tgomery facility attempted to cut his slashing incident involving three "INMATES TODAY JUST don't want tendon Monday but received only a mates on Feb. 11. to work," said Warden Calvin Green at flesh wound, officials said. "THEY WERE IN there for refu the Wayne Correctional Institute near The eight inmates at Jesup had, to work," the warden said. "Theys Jesup in the swamp and pine tree coun- refused to work on a road gang picking the work was too hard." Two other inmates slashed theirt dons at Jesup on Feb. 19, another Feb. 22, and two more on April 25, cording to authorities. During a preliminary internal aff investigation, six of the men at Wa said they had been forced to muti FOLD BACK THIS FLAP & SEAL WITH TAPE themselves by other inmatesv er of rvice in. ment jobs, ed to con- will illion and abor ay or said I 0 ig to the tion. for oc- ad- rget ng, irst in- sing said ten- on ac- airs yne late who I I I FROM AFFIX POSTAGE HERE Circulation Department Student Publications Building 420 Maynard Street Ann Arbor, Mich. 48109 FOL'D threatened to beat them, according to Englade. Peace Corps- chief plans anniversary (Continuedfrom Page3) there was no discussion of how the event might be financed, although Celeste indicated with a smile that the University probably has some loose money around. CELESTE EXPRESSED concern that the Peace Corps has lost visibility in the last several years. He de- emphasized the drop in participation of overseas volunteers - from nearly 16,000 in 1966 to approximately 6,000 now - and was energetic in his espousal of the quality of volunteers. "This country needs to know that we are doing something right," he said, af- ter describing the many achievements of his organization. Although Kennedy first called for the creation of the Peace Corps in 1960, it did not formally begin until he signed an executive order the following Mar- ch. Since then, the organization has seen a steady drop in participation. Celeste said a key to increasing the awareness of the Peace Corps laid in "plugging it into the mainstream of what's happening in college cam- puses." Regional Peace Corps directors will hold a recruitment drive at the Campus Inn iay 20, 21, and 22. 4 I 4 ..