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iianrijTBtpr lEupittng M m lb MANCHESTER, CONN., THURSDAY, JULY 3, 1975- VOL. XCIV, No. 233 ManchBstBT A. City of VillogB Chorm twenty-four pa g es — two sect ions pr ic e: fift een cents No Talks Slated At Electric Boat NYC Sanitation Men 1 GROTON (UPI) — Police have arrested 17 people since a strike started Tuesday at Electric Boat, the nation’s nuclear sub- marine factory, and there has been no in- End Wildcat Strike dication that contract talks will soon By United Press, International The state lawmakers are considering a resume. their joint statement said. The president of New York City’s plan which would give New York City Groton Police Wednesday arrested an Asked when he expected his men to Electric Boat employe for allegedly hit- sanitation union said today his striking authority to raise another $300 million in return to work, DeLury replied, ting a striker while trying to cross a picket members would return to their jobs taxes and solve a financial problem that “immediately” ending a three-day wild- has forced the layoff of thousands of city “immediately.” A sanitation department line. Otherwise, the second day of the spokesmen confirmed that garbage trucks walkout of 10,000 workers at the huge cat strike which has piled up 70 million employes, including several thousand were getting ready to roll. shipyard was calm. pounds of rotting garbage on city streets. sanitation workers. Almost 3,000 sanitationmen had been No new contract talks have been “I am pleased to announce that a solu- DeLury joined Mayor Abraham Beame among the thousands of city workers laid scheduled since negotiations broke off tion has been reached so that all at a news conference at City hall to an- off by the city in its effort to meet a moun- Monday night about an hour before the sanitationmen may resume work,” union nounce the agreement. "A good faith ef- ting budget crisis. strike began. Both sides said they would President John DeLury told a news con- fort will be made to restore as many jobs In an action directly related to the gar- a.wait a call for resumption from federal ference. However, DeLury cautioned that as possible in the Sanitation Department bage problem, firemen protesting the mediators. “the solution cannot be permanent until through a combination of the application eliminatiion of 26 fire companies began a State police said they arrested one the state legislature enacts the legislation of increased local taxes, uncommitted slowdown and mass sick calls, leaving the striker Wednesday for reckless use of the requested bv the city.” federal funds and additional retirements,” force unable to cope with hundreds of fires highway by a pedestrian and a second for set in piles of trash by youngsters in slum improper display of marker plates oii his neighborhoods. motorcycle. “It’s a hostile situation,” a fire captain Groton police said they later arrested Lebanon Strife Lessens said to^y. “They’re starting fires and two more men on the picket line and barricading streets. We’ve been bom- charged them with disorderly conduct. No barded.” injuries have been reported since the under New Cease-Fire Police in New York voted Wednesday strike started. against a strike. “We will not endanger Tuesday, the first day of the strike, was the public,” said the president of the marked by 12 arrests and charges of police BEIRUT (UPI) — Premier Rashid Kar- officials in Pakistan and was making a mai called in his cabinet today to review, stopover in Beirut en route back to his post Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association, brutality, which police denied. Gov. Ella which has lost more than 5,000 members in security in a Lebanon gradually returning when he was seized by a gang of about 20 T. Grasso was investigating the charges. the layoffs. Burning Garbage in New York City to normal after 10 days of street fighting armed men. He has not been seen since. The arrests came when scuffling broke But the police union called on its that claimed nearly 300 lives and saw an Karmi, who blamed Israel for in- out as nonstriking employes accompanied members to observe all “ safety American army officer kidnaped by a stigating the current round of bloodshed in by policemen tried to cross the picket line. Youths stand behind a burning barricade of garbage at 120th and Second Ave. precautions” on the job and said it would gang of armed men. Lebanon, issued a brief statement after The governor’s chief legal advisor, in East Harlem early today. With more than 70 million tons of garbage piled give “logisti&l support” to laid-off cops Police reported scattered violations of a his two-hour cabinet session, the first full Aaron Ment, Wednesday went to the fac- up in the streets of New York City, residents started the burning. The pile up who have been picketing City Hall. tory, where the Navy’s nuclear sub-, cease-fire arranged between feuding meeting of his two-day-old “salvation came from a wildcat strike by sanitationmen protesting the layoff of fellow rightist and leftist factions, but said the government.” In it he condemned Officials estimated Wednesday that 35,- marines are built, to observe picketing by workers by the city in its attempts to trim expenses. (UPI photo) 000 tons, or 70 million pounds, of garbage members of the Metal Trades Council. uneasy peace appeared to be holding, sporadic fighting that continued in several had accumulated throughout the city, and A union spokesman said the two issues thanks largely to heavily armed security Beirut suburbs occupied by the opposing units patrolling Beirut’s battered streets. factions. the backlog was growing at a rate of 18,000 blocking agreement on a new contract tons per day. were wage hikes and a company attempt The latest casualty figures for the 10 “This sort of thing cannot be allowed to Joblessness Unchanged days of warfare between Christians and Private refuse removal services nor- to change contract language governing the continue,” he said. mally handle another 10,000 tons of gar- workers’ productivity. Moslems showed 290 persons died and 750 Police reported 13 explosions during the were Injured in the rocket, mortar, bomb bage daily, and their operations have been The council turned down a three-year night in Beirut and its suburbs. Fire slowed down by city workers picketing and rifle battles. destroyed a flour mill in the Chiah district offer including a 33-cent-an-hour wage in- Due to Student Influx landfill sites. U.S. Embassy officials said . they still and more than a dozen explosions rocked crease and improvements in health, WASHINGTON (UPI) - The nation’s Although the unemployment rate last In ^Pennsylvania, a string of court in- hospital and pension plans, a company had no word on the whereabouts of shops and businesses in other parts of the unemployment rate dropped 0.6 per cent month w,as not so encouraging as it might junctions has dampened the effects of a spokesman said. American Army Col. Ernest R. Morgan, country to 8.6 per cent in June, but due to an influx appear by the size of the drop from May, it 43, abducted from a taxi Sunday night on Most shops in the city operated normal- public workers strike, forcing thousands DeGregory said the union wants an 89- of pickets back to work in state mental of students entering the labor market the was a signal that rising unemployment the outskirts of the city. ly today and streets were jammed with cent wage increase with a cost-of-living and general hospitals. A powerful labor jobless situation remained unchanged may have halted. Morgan, with the U.S. military com- cars. Green-uniformed military officers escalator built into any multiple-year leader urged other workers to agree to a from May, the Labor Department The six-tenths of 1 per cent decline from mand in Ankara, Turkey, had attended a directed traffjc at street corners, often pact. fact-finding period that would end the reported today. the 9.2 per cent in May was at the lower meeting of Central Treaty .Organization watched by police manning armored per- strike, but there was no response from the end of a scale that government analysts sonnel carriers and jeeps. unions. had estimated would be needed to show Convoys of military vehicles clanked Elsewhere around the nation, other improvement in the jobless picture, which through downtown streets at regular inter- Eastern Jet Crash public employes feeling the pinch of reces- had been deteriorating for the past 14 vals and soldiers armed with rifles and Ford Proposes Uniform sion budgets either walked off tJie job or months. wearing red or brown berets lounged Toll Rises to 113 threatened strikes. The Bureau of Labor Statistics, which around many intersections. compiles the monthly data, said employ- NEW YORK (UPI) - The death toll of In Albany, N.Y., the state’s legislative Pollution Claim System ment held steady at 84.4 million workers the Eastern Air Lines jet crash last week leaders forged a plan Wednesday night in June. Employment rose in the nonfarm rose to 113 today with the death in giving the city authority to levy $300 WASHINGTON (UPI) - President with the federal government in seeking sector but was offset by a matching Jamaica Hospital of a Louisiana chemist. The Lottery million worth of new taxes. Mayor Ford announced today he will submit to new ways to preserve it. decline in agriculture, BLS said. A spokesmen for the hospital identified Abraham Beame, who spent the night in Congress a proposal to establish a uniform “This is not a federal concern alone,” he Although the number of workers held the victim as Norman Van Winkle, 37, of The Connecticut State Lottery number the state capital, was not available for system for handling claims resulting from said.