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JUNE 28 - JULY 3, 1998 THE DETROIT VOL. 3 NO. 33 75 CENTS S u n d a y Io u r n a l CONTINUING THE STRUGGLE FOR JUSTICE AND CONTRACTS ©TDSJ INSIDE A picture is worth 1,095 days We need your help. July 13 marks the third anniver­ sary of the Detroit newspaper strike. This anniversary, like the first and the second, is not some­ thing we look forward to. But here it is anyway, so why not make the best of it? During our discussions on how the Sunday Journal should cover the event, someone suggested a photo album that includes snap­ shots taken by locked-out workers and supporters. It seems a good way to tell the story of our three incredible years together. If you have a picture you want included, please send it to us for consideration, along with a brief note giving the date, the event, identity of the subjects, name of the photographer and a daytime phone number. We won’t be able to use all Journal photo by GEO RG E WALDMAN the pictures, but we’ll run as many That’s what a little girl asks “Buffalo Soldier” James Mills on Wednesday during as possible. ‘Do horses smile?’Children’s Day at Detroit’s Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History. We are short-staffed so this is short notice: We need the photos by Wednesday. If you want yours returned, put your name, address and phone number on the back, and include a stamped, self-addressed envelope. We suggest you not send Big win for pressmen anything that’s irreplaceable. Mail, or drop it off, to: Sunday Journal Photo Album Booth papers cannot 450 W. Fort St. By Michael Betzold in an apparent show of corporate sol­decision. Detroit, M I 48226 Journal Staff Writer idarity with ' Gannett and Knight-The NLRB recently turned down he National Labor RelationsRidder. the appeal an$ broadened the INDEX Board has ruled that Booth One foreman at the Saginaw News charges against the chain, which City & State Page 3 Newspapers must cease its said he did not “want those peopleowns up almost all the biggest daily three-year practice of black- here damaging my presses,” accord­newspapers in outstate Michigan. It Classifieds Page 26 TDetroit Newspapers press-listing ing to NLRB records. ordered all four papers to stop refus­ men,members of Graphic Shortly after the strike began,ing to employ any pressmen who had Crossword Page 27 Communications International Local 13-N filed an unfair labor prac­gone on strike in Detroit. The deci­ Entertainment Page 11 Union Local 13-N. tice complaint with the NLRB aboutsion was issued without a dissent. Prior to the July1995, when the the blacklisting. In January 1997,The board also ordered the Bay Movie Guide Page 12 Detroit newspaperstrike started, Administrative Law Judge RobertCity Times to compensate the five 13- some DN pressmen worked occasion­Schwartzbart ruled against BoothN members who had worked there, Horoscope Page 25 ally as weekend substitutes at Boothbut ordered only five members of for13- lost pay and benefits, along with Editorials Page 8 papers in Flint, Saginaw, Bay CityN to be reinstated as substitutes at“any other individuals similarly situ­ and Grand Rapids. Booth stoppedthe Bay City Times. ated” who suffered as a result of the Susan Watson Page 3 hiring them as soon as the strike hit,Booth Newspapers appealed the See PRESSMEN, Page 10 PAGE 10 THE DETROIT SUNDAY JOURNAL JUNE 28, 1998 Detroit teacher embraces Chinese culture CHINA, From Page 3 apartment, furnished by the school, was modest but 1,100 students who live in dorms. spaciousAt enough for them. the mayor’s urging, she agreed Theto kitchen was small, and help fund Xiamen Internationalthe bathroom had no show­ School. Until plans for its own adja­er curtain. But Sale point­ cent campus are realized, it uses facil­ ed out: “The average per­ ities at the Ying Cai School. son in China has nothing Sale’s class of 3-, 4- and 5-year-oldslike this. We’re upper was like a mini United Nations. Theclass.” 12 children of foreign businesspeople came from Taiwan, Singapore, Korea,A typical day Japan, Sweden, England, Germany and the United States. The class­ A typical day started rooms were bright and airy, and theearly. “It’s difficult to sleep children energetic yet well-behaved. past 6 o’clock,” explained At first, discipline was a problem. Barbara, “because so much “We had children who were veryconstruction is going on.” indulged,” explained Sale. “Some ofWestern foods are rare in the children had never had ‘no’ saidXiamen. to And shopping has them.” A few children would hitits own difficulties, with teachers on the backside. “I had seenseparate stores for many them do it to their parents, too,” Saleproduce, meat, baked goods said. “I would whirl around and takeand other items. “I have their hands to startle them, look rightoften spent most of the day in their faces and say, ‘Don’t do thaton Sunday getting the food we need for the week,” she again.’ ” Photo by DWIGHT CENDROWSKI said. Some children had never dressed or After a year in China, Barbara Sale and her son, David, plan to move to Tokyo in the fall. fed themselves. “It was a zoo at When Barbara and lunchtime,” Sale recalled. “A few David socialized, it was community she had in Detroit, Saleresolve and religious faith seem deep­ would do everything but feed them­with the other teachers and theirsaid: “In some ways I have grownened with every new challenge. selves. The first couple of days it wasfamilies, a group they call the Expats.closer to God. My prayer is much like a tornado. There was so muchThey met for dinner and sharedmore active now. And I often am Dwight Cendrowski, a Detroit-area misbehavior ... At times we would American movies on video CDs, aaware of how thankful I am to befree-lance photographer since 1978, just keep them in our laps and wrapprime source of entertainment in agiven this opportunity to livewent in to China in April and spent our legs around them to keep themcountry without malls or movie the­another culture and travel.” time with former Detroiter Barbara from running.” aters. They also traveled together. Sale plans to move to Tokyo in theSale, who taught there this past And one child put his fingers in his“I love it here because my life has fall to teach at the American School inschool year. The full version of this ears every time Sale spoke because he slowed down so much,” Sale said. “MyJapan. David will start high schoolstory appears on his Web site at was determined not to learn English.life was such a fast track in the there. She looks forward to her nexthttp:! / w w w . earth scape- Each classroom had an English-states. I appreciate having time. I adventure with confidence. She haspress.com I cendrowski. Cendrowski speaking teacher paired with alove being able to walk places.” weathered difficulties in her life withdoes business as the FocuSing Group Chinese teacher. Sale’s teaching part­ A Westerner is still a novelty here, a rare perseverance and humor. HerPhotography, Ann Arbor. ner was Jenny, a young teacher fromand children even more so. Shanghai who at first had a poor“The Western children have had a grasp of English. difficult time,” said Sale. “The local The situation slowly improved.people grab the kids, even pick them Jenny learned English. Western-styleup and take them away from theirGuild member harassed parents to show their friends.” toilets were connected. Air-condition­ Precinct, and included the name of a ing was installed. The children But Sale was quick to point out theGUILD MEMBER, From Page 5 many similarities between cultures: federal government employee who became more orderly. They began to Wednesday in which water was “Many things are just plain human ... witnessed the event. sing songs in English and Mandarin, dumped from the Free Press building children manipulating parents, peo­ In his letter to Tim Kelleher, senior often accompanied on the autoharp onto a locked-out worker who wasvice president of labor relations for by Sale, who was a fixture in the folkple arguing over high prices in picketingthe below. market, groups of young people walk­ Detroit Newspapers, Guild President group One by One in Detroit. Chris Manoleas was drenched byLou Mleczko also requested a review ing together and laughing at jokes, Barbara’s son David also went to water that he said was poured fromof the security videotape of “this couples breaking up in McDonald’s” the school. At 14, he converses readi­ an upper floor or the roof, about 12:40deplorable act.” (there are three McDonald’s in ly with taxi drivers and shopkeepers, p.m. He filed a formal complaint with Michael Betzold was a Free Press Xiamen). falling easily into the singsong into­ the Detroit Police Department’s First reporter before the strike. nations of Mandarin. For contact with the rest of the Sale is glad her son has madeworld, Sale relies heavily on e-mail friends with children who have livedand the Internet. “Having a lifeline to in Venezuela, India and Africa. “He’smy home and family, having the abil­ come to understand the many differ­ity to communicate with my friendsPressmen win huge victory ent kinds of experiences people canhas meant an extraordinary amount have growing up in different cultures.to me,” she said “It has made my life PRESSMEN, From Page 1 Jack Howe, Local 13-N president, And he’s very respectful of other cul­very livable here.” said the NLRB’s decision is a tures, willing to try to communicate, Sale attended a Catholic church inpaper’s “discriminatory refusal toresounding victory.

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