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THE DETROIT VOL. 2 NO. 31 75 CENTS S u n d a yTo u r n a l CONTINUING THE STRUGGLE FOR JUSTICE AND COJHRACTS ©TDSJ a"<* Ire,. " 8°folai-iiv ’ E I»<*, %’ Cked«ot "'“PaperZ lf0nccrt ortl>lth» • DetroitZiaJnar^>. Ready for Action! 'PPorfe J**et*ar Thousands gear up for By Alan Forsyth ^iPaper “It’s such an important march for the “It doesn’t give up till justice is won. Z?rkers Journal Staff Writer dnd fair labor movement,” said John Sweeney, Action! Motown is about bringing that zfWfacts At least 35,000 supporters are national president of the AFL-CIO. message back to Detroit and back to N&S expected in Detroit next weekend as “The fact that thousands of religious employers in Detroit, Gannett and part of a national labor mobilizationleaders and community leaders and Knight-Ridder.” that will focus the spotlight squarely others will be coming out in support Gannett Co. Inc., owner of The on this city’s newspaper strike/lockout.will be an indication of how strong the Detroit News, and Knight-Ridder Inc., Action! Motown ’97, an effort prosolidarity is for the locked-out workers.”owner of the Free Press, are the coun INSIDE: Action! Motown ’97 moted almost immediately after the “Labor does not forget,” said Elaine try’s two largest newspaper chains. happens this weekend in strike began nearly two years ago, will Bernard, executive of the trade unionThey are partners in Detroit Detroit. A special eight-page bring to the home of the labor move program at Harvard who will lead a Newspapers, which oversees all insert features details on ment workers from all walks of union panel discussion during the mobiliza aspects except the editorial sides of one of the hottest labor life. tion. See ACTION!, Page 9 actions of 1997. SPECIAL SPECIAL UNDAY OURNAL 32-PAGE SECTION KEEPSAKE Ford faces INSIDE JUNE 15, 1 9 9 7 SECTION lawsuit over Each one a hero, [HAT CHAMPIOl SHIP the Detroit Red Wings gave their reading test fans a season they’ll never forget. By Michael Betzold Today the Sunday Journal Staff Writer A young man with learning disabilities is suing Journal gives its Ford Motor Co. for denying him an assembly line job readers a keepsake after he failed an aptitude test he charges was dis section recounting criminatory. all the excitement. Benjamin Nadeau, 21, of Newport, charges in a suit filed in Wayne County Circuit Court that the Inside the paper automaker violated the Michigan Handicappers you’ll find 32 pages Civil Rights Act by requiring he read questions on of pictures, stories the hiring test. Nadeau, who works at a restaurant near Monroe, and stats detailing reads at a second-grade level but has a high school the season, the diploma. playoffs, the Finals “This is an extremely important case,” said and the players Barbara Cardinal, an official with United Cerebral Palsy in Detroit. “If he’s denied this job, it’s going to who brought the I photos by REBECCA COOK deny people with disabilities that are even more sig Stanley Cup home /*% On the road to the i| J' He didn’t have to nificant the opportunity to get hired into the Big / Stanley Cup, every man I * % wa>t 42 years, but Joe Adams: Wings were to Detroit after a i*>' was a hero for the Red Steve Yzerman good - and lucky. Page 3. Three and other companies.” Wings, says Paul Harris. finally won his Stanley Cup. Shanahan makes trade The suit charges that Nadeau’s handicap is not 42-year absence. pay off. Page 5. ■ j&mjj; Mike Vernon was a Russians prove their related to his ability to build trucks at the Michigan # Philadelphia had critics wrong. Page 9. f backup goalie during the '■ ’ no goaltending, Wings settle old score Truck Plant in Wayne, where he applied for a job in against Avs. Page 23. I regular season, but he Jm m t and no chance to Old-timers bask in glow 1994. became a playoff MVP. beat the Wings in the Finals. of the Cup. Page 31. “What reading is really used on this job?” asked Jan Leventer, Nadeau’s attorney. See FORD, Page 6 PAGE 2 THE DETROIT SUNDAY JOURNAL JUNE 15, 1997 ROOFING ★ ROOFING ★ GUTTERS S unday o u r n a l ★ ALUMINUM SIDING & TRIM ★ STORM WINDOWS & DOORS The Detroit Sunday Journal is ★ ALUMINUM AWNINGS published weekly by Detroit ★ REPLACEMENT WINDOWS Sunday Journal Inc., 450 W. Fort, 2nd floor Detroit, Ml McGLINCH & SONS 48226. Mail Subscription price ‘‘Three Generations of is $15 for three months, $30 for Dependable Service" six months (no refunds). 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M a r y W a l t o n at Royal Oak’s Beaumont Hospital The golf outing was planned to be Monday*June 23*7:30 PM early Saturday morning due tothe players’ last hurrah together after 1»S«!SSJd injuries suffered in an automobilethe Red Wings won the Stanley Cup by accident Friday night. sweeping the Philadelphia Flyers a jackets towels • businesses Published by Norton sweats caps • clubs Konstantinov, 30, the most seriousweek earlier. t-shirts bags • promotions Meet author Mary Walton as she discusses and ly injured of the two, was in critical Red Wing players Steve Yzerman, polos schools • uniforms signs her book entitledCAP, an astonishing journey condition on a ventilator in the intenBrendan Shanahan, Sergei Fedorov, into the belly of our most important industry. Attention Locked-Out sive care unit because of head Doug Brown, Darren McCarty and Originally, she set out to follow the redesign of the injuries, according to attending physiKris Draper were reportedly at Union Members . 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BOOKS -MUSIC- CAFE which also includes Fedorov, Igor 810-/997-0090 • fax 810/997-0136 Team masseuse Sergie Mnatsa 5 6 0 1 M e r c u r y D r iv e D e a r b o r n Ml 48126 (313) 271-4441 kanov, 40, was in critical conditionLarionov and Slava Kozlov. with life-threatening head injuries, Konstantinov has become a folk hero and was being operated on early in Detroit and has been profiled in f Walter R. Mabry A Saturday as the Sunday Journal wentnational magazine stories because of A n i n j u r y Executive Secretary-Treasury to press. his physical and aggressive play. He is The three men were in a limousine a finalist for the Norris Trophy, which TO ONE IS and the Membership of the coming from a team golf outing at goes to the National Hockey League’s AN INJURY MICHIGAN REGIONAL COUNCIL The Orchards in Romeo. The limoubest defenseman. TO ALL! OF CARPENTERS sine was in Birmingham going south Fetisov is probably the most revered on Woodward just south of 16 Mile atplayer in Russian hockey history. The members & officers of the 9:13 Friday night when it came uponAside from being the country’s great Transportation Communications a stalled pickup truck in its lane withest defenseman of all time, he paved Union stand with the newspaper no flashers. the way for other Russians to play in workers in Detroit. Limo driver Richard Gnida, 28, the NHL by demanding that he be swerved to avoid the pickup and wentallowed to leave the Soviet Union and hurtling onto the median where thecome to North America to play in the I n So l id a r it y ! limo struck a tree head on. It was split league. An officer in the army at the time, he was even threatened with Support in half up to the windshield. Gnida, 28, was in fair condition and wasbeing sent to Siberia if he didn’t relent. Robert A. 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