Police Arrest -Telegram Strikers
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use llnlumt 3D Number 2 Police arrest -Telegram strikers the month-long dispute between the print shop workers and the Telegram writers, who left their jobs to take up the picket signs over a dispute in s volving wage parody with other print - onstabulary. It was said by the shops in town, and a contract (the police that the six were charged with first) for the writers. disorderly conduct when they sat in The strike has been aggravated by front of a driveway to prevent union accusals of strik-breaking delivery vehicles from entering and tactics on the part of Thomson ll'.avin~ the Telegram premises. Newspapers Ltd., the Toronto-based : Some of the 35 workers, striking for conglomerate with a large in higher and more equalized pay, were volvement with the print industry. picketing the Telegram offices when Thomson owns 36 Canadian daily the confrontation developed. The publications and 12 weeklies, in ad arrests met with huge disfavour from dition to such retail stores as Zellers, the crowd which had gathered on the The Bay, and Simpson's. The Evening Water Street sidewalk. Traffic ground Telegram in recent years became a to a halt as approximately 300 to 350 Thomson publication. bystanders surrounded the action. At Union officials charge that the one point the three police officers company has been importing main wrestled and arested a young woman land writers throughout the strike, striker, who gave no easy struggle. housing them in local hotels, and Cries of "Police Brutality" were providing meals and rented cars to heard from the onlookers, all of whom use in order to continue the writing of Musepix: by Karl Moores were angerred at the police action. the newspaper. In addition, an open One striker was arrested by police, leter issued by the strikers claims Enraged bystanders screamed insults at police, as a young booked officially, released. Only then women employees receive only 750() of femaJt) striker was hauled into a car by three of the cops. The to return to the fray and again be the male employees pay rate. incident was the hottest point in the history of· the dispute. It was arrested. Telegram publisher and general said by some that action should be taken against the police. manager Steve Herder had promised City councillor Andy ' Wells and an interview with the Muse,...but later.__....,_________________________________ ~ Newfoundland Federation of Labour , backed down, apparently because the President Tom Mayo was heard to picket-line clash kept him busy. shout, "The police are working for Herder has in recent weeks. been Thomson Newspapers, beating up a ,.. refusing to comment on the entire Library progresses Newfoundland girl!" issue, and has claimed that the affair At press time, no information had received far too much coveage concerning possible action against the than is fair to the company. Construction of Memorial's - new Newfoundland and Labrador." police had been confirme·d. The Evening Telegram has con library "is a couple or three days On January 3 this year Memorial tinued regular publication to date, but ahead of schedule" project engineer University and Corner Brook-based The incident was the hottest point of with somewhat reduced press-run. Adian Kiernan happily reports. Lundrigans Limited signed the · The union notes that the support of the ,' The 150 or so construction workers contract for the Queen Elizabeth II guneral public would be the only aid in presently toiling on the site have Library. ~- their battle, and has been circulating begun pouring concrete on the top University President M.0. Morgan "Boycott the Telegram" buttons, floor and Kiernan said Lundrigans said the contract signing was "a which cost '$1.00. The profits support · Limited, the holders of the $13 million happy and historic occasion towards the strikers. contract, are "fighting against time" which we have been working for a Len Penton, a reporter involved in in their efforts to fully enclose the five long, lont time." story structure before winter. the strike, expects another three to The contract was the first contract four months of picketing before a The project engineer said the safety for major capital construction signed settlement gets underway. record at the site has been "very by the university itself. Formerly. the The circular printed by the union good." province's department of Public iindtcates anger at the strikebreaking Works signed major capital con fmove by the company: "It should be There have been no complaints of tracts. noted that another Thomson any nature connected - with the newspaper, The Sudbury Star, has project, he said, ''and we here in the Planned to house up to a million been on strike for the past two physical planing department are books, the five-story library will months. Thomson did not send its really satisfied with the level of co probably remain the most modern scabs into that strong union town to operation we've received from information center in the province. , publish the Star, but the outfit thinks everyone." Having a total gross floor area of so little of its Newfoundland workers about 200,000 square feet, the struc and readers that it is using a tac;tic in "Everybody has been more than helpful," Kiernan said, "we think ture is almost a perfect square on the this province that is prohibited by law ground. in Quebec." we've got a very good project # going here." Fully air conditioned, planners tell At press time, no union reaction was available concerning Wed "Long heading the list of university us the air conditioning is more for the nesday's police action. needs," a press release from books than the book readers. Former Telegram columnist Ray ·Memorial's public relations depart Although pres,s releases earlier this Guy earlier wrote: "Unless the whole ment understated last year, "the year expected the building to be open of Newfoundland says otherwise, library has become a reality because by October, 1981, project engineer those Telegram workers have not the of the strong support of the university Kiernan said he'd "rather say, chance of snowballs in hell." community a nd the Governme nt of sometime in the late fall of 1981.'' Musep i x : by Karl Moores \ • Editorial _T -homson Newpapers: The Megabucks . - The recent strike and lockout at the himself is a noterious miser and has What is at the issue here is not only gives poor value for the advertisers' Evening Telegram illustrates been quoted as saying that "news is the use of scab labour from the money because· the paper's copy Newfoundland's plight in the face of what· goes between the ads.") mainland, but Newfoundlanders' cheats the reader. outside influences. Formerly the national pride. How long are we going The staff of the Muse fuly support Telegram was owned by a . Newfoundlanders lost jo· bs and were to allow our independance and the workers of the Telegram. We are Newfoundland family, the Herders. left with the mere she I I of what had urging both our readers and our Over the years it built up a strong been a viable focal institution. resourcefulness to be sapped by advertisers to boycott it. To avoid reputation and became imbedded in Ray Guy, whose columns in the power-brokers from abroad? ·the Newfoundland tradition. It em Telegram made him the Newfoun penalizing the carriers, those with The Telegram is currently running home delivery should refuse to take ployed over 200 Newfoundlanders. dlander's Newfoundlander wrote for off ads, wireservice copy, press their paper, but give the carrier the In 1970 the multinational Thomson the Robinson-Blackmore community 25¢ a week profit they should make Newspapers Limited took it over. newspapers over the last weeks. He releases and "stories" rewritten from delivering it. Within a year the payrol I had dropped said, "What we're dealing with now is the Daily News. The present Let's show the multinationals that to 152 as the penny-pincing Thomson a huge, faceless and foreign Thmson Telegram gives proof value to its here in Newfoundland we take care of organization moved in. (Lord Thmson monolith." readers through poor coverage. 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Michael. asked for it but they looked at it as if I my fees to hire these people, at least that they are insensitive critics. More h~d forged it and then started asking they should be a little more careful than any other movement in music, No C(Jfes· Open me stupid questions like where was I about who gets the job. I certainly do disco has integrated electronic music Dear Sir: born and what my parents names not intgend to pay someone to abuse with its structure in such a way as to During Saturday's assigning of were. their power, and intimidate me and be "palatable" to the Western car. timetables there was no cafeteria on As far as I am concerned, none of other students.