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PUL LOUT SECTION INSIDE: TV LISTINGS FOR THE WEEK FEBRUARY 23, 1997 S THE DETROIT VOL. 2 NO. 15 75 CENTS S u n d a y Io u r n a l CONTINUING THE STRUGGLE FOR JUSTICE AND CONTRACTS ©TDSJ Unions strike back Officials seek to return worke By Allan Lengel ■ Why the unconditional offer to return Journal Staff Writer has worked in other strikes, Page 8. In an expected shift in battle plans,■ The much-anticipated “Jack the Kicker” the newspaper unions on Friday offitrial starts this week, Page 9. cially sought a federal court injunc■ The fight continues. Editorial,' Page 12. tion to force The Detroit News and Detroit Free Press to honor their offerreplacement workers or keep them to return to work and take back andall make room for the onetime strik workers who have been without theirers. jobs for more than 19 months. The NLRB also could ask reinstate Union attorney Sam McKnight, whoment of strikers the panel believes faxed a letter to the National Laborwere wrongfully discharged for Relations Board in Detroit requestingactions while on strike. Journal photo by REBECCA COOK the 10(j) injunction, said: “I’m going to do everything I canThis to sign carried by locked-out newspaper worker Bill McCoy reflects the change in the “We think this is a very compellingexpedite this matter,” said William labor dispute. McCoy, Julius Tltsworth and Meka Murphy picket outside the News Friday. case for injunctive relief. There haveSchaub, regional director of the been egregious unfair labor practicesNLRB. He refused to be pinned down committed by the Detroit newspapers,on a time frame, although observers and their total disregard for the legalsay it could take up to three monthsMass to rallies set for Detroit obligations under federal labor lawget an injunction in place. has put 2,000 working families at risk.The latest move came just two daysBy Susan Watson on June 13 and 14 for Action! Motown “As far as we’re concerned, workers after the companies and the unionsJournal Staff Writer ’97, a mass mobilization against the who have offered to return to work heldare back-to-back press conferencesAn international show of labor soliactions of The Detroit News and Free being locked out.” espousing very different positionsdarity con will bring thousands of tradePress during the 19-month strike. At An official with the NLRB said the cerning the unions’ offer of an unconunion activists to Detroit and Windsorthe same time, an estimated 100,000 panel would immediately begin itsditional return to work. this June for two days of rallies andCanadian activists will arrive in investigative process to determine At their press conference, spokesmass demonstrations against union-Windsor for Canada’s Days of Action whether it will go to federal court andpersons for the companies put onbusting a practices on both sides of theto bring attention to the anti-labor request the injunction. If the NLRBhappy, conciliatory face. TheyDetroit River. policies of Ontario’s provincial govern were to obtain the injunction, the comannounced they would accept the offerUnion members from across thement. panies would either have to fire See INJUNCTION, Page 10 country will pour into the Motor City See MARCH, Page 10 INSIDE Page 29 CITY & STATE SPORTS ENTERTAINMENT Classifieds Page 14 Dancer Danise The women’s It’s Grammy time Columns Page Perez Prades, basketball team once again. Our Crossword Page 31 left, teaches at Michigan music critics predict Editorials Page 12 area residents State is having who will take home Reel Love Page 26 to let their ener a banner year. this week’s awards. Horoscope Page 25 gy flow.Page 4. Back page. Page 23. Susan Watson Page 3 PAGE 2 THE DETROIT SUNDAY JOURNAL FEBRUARY 23, 1997 u n d a y o u r n a l SIDING community calendar S J ★ ROOFING ★ GUTTERS The Detroit Sunday Journal is ★ ALUMINUM SIDING & TRIM ★ STORM WINDOWS & DOORS Welfare reform hearings published weekly by Detroit adults and $50 for children. A cock ★ ALUMINUM AWNINGS The Michigan House of Repre tail party and supper with Tim and Sunday Journal Inc., 3100 E. ★ REPLACEMENT WINDOWS Jefferson, Detroit, Ml 48207- sentatives’ Human Services and Laura Allen is slated for Saturday. 5052. Mail Subscription price is Children Committee will hold two Tickets are $200. Call 810-253- 3717. General admission tickets to $15 for three months, $30 for McGLINCH & SONS hearings on welfare reform Mon ‘‘Three Generations of the film are available from six months (no refunds). Call day. One is at 1:30 p.m. in Room Dependable Service” 428 of the Capitol Building in Ticketmaster for $20. Call 810-645- (313) 567-9818, ext. 135 to West Lansing. The second is at 6:30 p.m. 6666. subscribe, or, for more infor at the Foster Community Center, mation. 278-2777 200 N. Foster St., Lansing. Call Teen volunteerism POSTMASTER: Send address East Brian Johnson at 517-373-6633. Erin Ann DiSante, minister of 776-8912 Christian Service at St. Sylvester changes to The Detroit Sunday Job fair for Detroiters Journal, 3100 E. Jefferson, 22400 Church, will discuss “How a Senior Detroit, Ml 48207-5052. W. WARREN The City of Detroit will host High School Teen Can Be Involved Circulation/Postal Detroit, Michigan “Project Jobs II,” an exposition andin Their Community” in a Youth job fair aimed at Detroit’s Work Speaker Series talk from 7-8:15 First welfare population, from 9 p.m. Wednesday in St. Sylvester a.m. to 3 p.m. Wednesday in the Church, 11200 12 Mile, Warren. On February 12, 1968, two weeks after two colleagues were Ambassador Room of Cobo Center.Admission is free. Reservations crushed to death by their faulty truck, 1,000 of Memphis' 1,100 Admission is free. Job seekers are requested. Call 810-751-3510. sanitation workers went on strike. The next day, Mayor Henry asked to bring their resumes and Parade fund-raiser Loeb declared the strike illegal. be dressed for job interviews. Call 313-872-1228. Irish singers, dancers and music will be featured during a daylong In the following 65 days, there would be sit-ins, marches, Tim Allen returns fund-raiser for the St. Patrick’s Day demonstrations, even riots. Nearly 5,000 National Guardsmen Tim and Laura Allen will return parade scheduled from 2-9 p.m. would be deployed to help maintain order. Labor and civil rights to Detroit to cohost the premiere ofSunday in Bonnie Brook on leaders would be involved, including Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Allen’s new film, “Jungle 2 Jungle,” Telegraph between Seven Mile and at a fund-raiser for Lighthouse of Eight Mile. Tickets are $10 for This is the story of that historic event. Oakland County Inc. at 1 p.m. adults. Children under 16 are March 2 in the Fox Theatre. admitted free. Call 313-963-5745 or Reserved seat tickets are $100 for 810-879-5779. black history month events Archer to speak p.m. on March 2 in Performance Network, 408 W. Washington in Ann The sixth annual African American Arbor. Tickets are $12 for adults; $9 Male Spirituality Week observance for students and senior citizens. Call ■"•[iTn begins today and continues through 313-663-0681. Saturday at Detroit’s Tabernacle Missionary Baptist Church, 6125 Blues Beechwood. Mayor Dennis Archer will Blues historian and musician M kick off this year’s event which bears Robert Jones, host of WDET-FM’s the theme “Genesis: From the Image “Blues from the Lowlands,” will per AN of God.” Archer will speak at today’s form from 1-2 p.m. Monday in the 11 a.m. worship service. Other speak Student Community Center on the ers include Alfred “Coach” Powell, Macomb Community College South author of the book “Message ’N a Campus, 14500 12 Mile, Warren. M Bottle: The 40 Oz. Scandal” at 6:45 AM Admission is free. Call 810-445-7378. A p.m. Monday; Recorders Court Judge REAL Jeffrey Col-lins, Tuesday; Dr. CarolynSTRESS recalled LIFE Knight of the Interdenominational Winnifred Bethune-Griffin is ex Theological Seminary in Atlanta, pected to discuss her book, “Ibo, the DRAMA Thursday, and 10-year-old motivationUntold Story Behind Mark Clyde February 12 - March 9 al speaker Donte Shackleford Friday. Bethune/Ibo Omar,” which recalls the Each week-night session begins with era of Detroit Police Department’s a 4:30 p.m. dinner. The lecture begins STRESS unit, at 7 p.m. Thursday in at 5:45 p.m. An evening service followsRevolution Books Outlet, 406 W. the lecture. Call 313-898-3325. Willis, Detroit. Call 313-833-7310. Meadow Dance Roots The Beulah Hamilton Dance Com Novelist Richard Goree will discuss Brook pany will perform “The Undergroundhow he traced his family’s roots back For tickets call Railroad” from 7-9 p.m. Wednesday into West Africa at 6 p.m. Friday in Meadow Brook Friends Auditorium of the Detroit Apple Book Center, 7900 W. Outer Supported by the Box Office Theatre Public Library, 5201 Woodward in theDrive at Southfield in the Farmer (810) 3 7 7 -3 3 0 0 Oakland University's Cultural Center. Call 313-833-1440. Jack shopping mall. Ticketmaster Professional Theatre (810) 645-6666 One-act plays Craftsmen’s exhibition michigan Performances of “River Dreams,” An exhibition depicting the artisan- council Presented with the generous support of the story of two slaves attempting toship of slaves continues through for art, March 29 on the first floor of the and In association with the flee to freedom, and “Mary Goldstein cultural Plowshares and the Author,” about the creativityDetroit Public Library, 5201 affairs Theatre Company CORPORATION of women, will be given at 8 p.m.Woodward in the Cultural Center.