The Michigan Daily - Friday, August 3, 1984-- Page 5
Associated Press
Big bucks
Jerry Kryshtalsky, vice president of floor operations of the New York Stock Exchange, rings the 4 p.m. closing bell over
the trading floor yesterday. Prices soared for the second straight day as trading snowballed to record volume.
Postmaster threatens strikers
Playwright
wins end to
gay version
of play
ARLINGTON, Texas (UPI) - A
community theater yesterday canceled
the last three performances of its all-
male production of Who's Afraid of
Virginia Woolf at the request of
playwright Edward Albee, who denied
he ever intended the play to be cast
that way.
The homosexual-oriented staging,
which was to have had its final perfor-
mance today, tomorrow and Sunday,
already had drawn the ire of three con-
servative city councilmen in this city.
POLICE
NOTES
Woman abducted
An 18-year-old woman, abducted at
gunpoint Wednesday night. escaned her
abductor unharmed when he stopped at
a Stop and Go Store for beer.
Police said the woman, who was ab-
ducted from the 300 block of Fourth
Ave., escaped from her captor by slip-
ping out of the ropes with which he
bound her hands as he went in to buy
the beer she had requested.
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From AP and UPI
WASHINGTON - On the third anniversary of the ill-fated
strike by government air traffic controllers, the postmaster'
general has threatened to fire any Postal Service employees
who walk off the job.
If unionized postal employees "commit an illegal act in
either wildcat or nationwide strikes, I will fire them," Post-
master General William Bolger said.
BOLGER'S warning, which came in an interview with
editors of the Washington Times was published in yester-
day's editions, came one day after the presidents of the two
largest postal unions said they were prepared to go to jail, if
necessary, to achieve a new contract.
Bolger said in the interview that he made the warning
"about as clear as I can make it" to the nation's 600,000
postal employees.
He added, however, that he does not expect any nationwide
action and forecast that any problem could be no more than
moving around pockets of resistance."
"I'm incensed that he's done this," Vincent Sombrotto,
president of the 200,000-member National Association of Let-
ter carriers, said yesterday in response to Bolger's latest
statements.
Sombrotto noted that his union's convention, scheduled to
open Aug. 20 in Las Vegas, Nev., will discuss what course of
action to take and he added, "We will make our decision in an
atmosphere as devoid of emotion as I can create."
BOTH SOMBROTTO and American Postal Workers Union
President Moe Biller made it clear Wednesday during a joint
National Press Club speech that a strike was a distinct
possibility, even though illegal.
"It's like a kid. It's like 'I'll dare you to do it'," said Biller.
"We're not going to be provoked.
Federal employees, under law, are prohibited from
striking. Negotiations on a new three-year contract covering
600,000 postal workers collapsed July 20, and no new talks
have been scheduled.
PROVISIONS of the Postal Reorganization Act providing
for fact-finding and arbitration have been triggered and a
settlement eventually could be imposed on both sides.
A typical postal worker covered by the expired pact with
the Postal Service earns roughly $23,000 a year, not including
fringe benefits.
In the negotiations, postal union leaders demanded pay
raises and benefit improvements amounting to about 10 per-
cent in the first year of a new pact - and totaling close to
$8,000 per worker over the life of the contract.
THE POSTAL Service management is attempting to im-
plement its principal demand in the contract negotiations -
creation of a two-tier wage scale in which new employees
would be paid an average of $5,300 a year less than veterans
in the same jobs. The four postal unions have brought suit in
federal court claiming that imposition of the two-tier wage
plan is illegal.
High schoolers get coaching
(Continued from Page 1) "because it is financially beneficial to
Participants say the worst things the department ... It's like an empty
about the camp include the dorm food, seat at the stadium:- If you have the
bunk beds, curfew, and the pain of ex- facilities, why not use them?"
tensive physical exertion every day. The worst problem the campers have
The high cost of the camp may turn faced this year is "homesickness -
some potential athletes away, but especially the younger kids," Vreden-
Triveline said the prices for the camps burg said.
are "very reasonable." Prices range Campers' ages range from eight to
from $145 for softball to $285 for a week 17, and the average age is 13-and-a-half,
of golf instruction. Triveline said.
Seventy dollars from each camper's Other problems include alcohol, and
check goes to the housing department shoplifting although Triveline said they
to pay for meals, counselors, main- haven't been much of a problem this
tenance, and night entertainment, such yer
as movies, for the campers. The rest year.
goes to the athletics department to pay Unruly students do not go away un-
the coaches and maintenance fees at punished, though. A few are sent home
the athletic buildings. - "those who have broken rules and
The extra money - Triveline hopes it don't care," Triveline said.
will be $8-$10 per camper, or about
$75,00 wil gointotheathltic But those who do care are subjected
$75,000 -- will go into the athletic tvaiumno"pis et," sc
program's general fund. to various minor 'punishments, such
Triveline admitted that part of the as being forced to read Shakespeare -
reason for the summer camps is with feeling - in front of friends.
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