/'i i®anrI|F0tFr SiiFutng BpralJi MANCHESTER, CONN., WEDNESDAY, JULY 2, 1975 — VOL. XCIV, No. 232 twenty pa g e s — two sec t io ns Manchester—A City of Village Charm PRICE: FIFTEEN CENTS Strikes Spread Across Country By United Press International Unionized construction workers walked Workers went on strike Tuesday in a con- "Men who work physically react Garbage simmered in the summer sun physically. It’s a gut, heart and yoti-know- off their jobs in Atlanta, halting construc- tract dispute. in New York city, skeleton staffs manned were-else reaction,” he said. tion of the 70-story Peachtree Plaza Hotel —About 50 sanitation workers walked Pennsylvania prisons and mental in- The rank-and-file went on strike without in the downtown district and stalling work off their jobs in Jackson, Tenn., halting stitutions, the presses of Pittsburgh union authorization and has vowed not to on the $47 million Tower Place develop- garbage collections. Workers were pushing for higher wagesik newspapers were halted and some con- return to work unless the layoffs are ment in suburban Buckhead. The union struction was stopped in Atlanta today. rescinded. said the strike affected some 18,000 to 20,- —Thousands of picketing Santa Clara , Tens of thousands of workers — in- In Pennsylvania, a strike brought picket 000 workers, although contractors said County workers in San Jose, Calif., ig- cluding more than 100,00() Pennsylvania lines to almost every government building they doubted more than 3,000 workers — nored a temporary court order against state employes — were off their jobs as a in the state. the total union membership — were on their first strike in coUtity history. The ac- series of strikes spread across the coun- An estimated 90,000 members of the strike. tion by about 4,000 of the County's 10,000 try. American Federation of State, County and Elsewhere: employes threatened to cripple public ser- Some 7,000 New York sanitation Municipal Employes walked out deman- —Management manned tele^one vices in 15 cities. workers staged a wildcat strike in sym- ding higher wages. They were joined by operations for the Central Telephone Com- —City workers in Pawtucket, R.I., pathy with their 2,934 fellow workers laid the 12,000-member Pennsylvania Social pany of Illinois, serving some 70,000 returned to work today after a court order off by Mayor Abraham Beame in efforts to Services Union and the 3,300-member customers in (!1iicago’s northwest sub- halted a one-day orderly strike by about trim the city’s budget. ’The sanitation Pennsylvania Nurses Association. urbs. Some 950 members of the Inter- 265 members of the Municipal Workers workers were among some 19,000 workers Pennsylvania Attorney General Robert national Brotherhood of Electrical Union in a contract dispute. r*? / — including about 5,000 policemen and 2,- Kane filed suits seeking to force about half 000 firemen — laid off by the city. the strikers back to work. In the interim, Health officials w o rrit about the con- prisons and mental hospitals were manned squences of a prolonged strike. As the day by skeleton crews of non-union personnel. wore on Tuesday, overflowing trash cans Negotiations between the Pittsburgh Police and Pickets and piles of uncollected trash bags Press Co., and Teamsters were became common sights — if not smells — deadlocked as a strike by paper truck in the city. drivers entered its sixth day. ’The strike, Tangle at Groton ’The city planned to seek an injunction to staged to protest the reassignment of a order the workers back to their jobs, but a receiving dock worker, has halted publica- GROTON (UPI) — Picketing resumed employes, supervisors and draftsman left union spokesman said he did not if the men tion of the afternoon Pittsburgh Press and peacefully today in the second day of a the yard. would obey any court order. the morning Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. strike by skilled workers against Electric Roy Colville, an officer of the Marina Boat Division of General Dynamics as Draftsmen’s Association, told Gov: Gov. Ella T. Grasso looked into claims of Grasso by telegram that (tonnecticut was police brutality that were denied by state police. “not a police state and we appeal to you as Civil Strife Spreads governor not to let this incident repeat itself.” ^ The governor’s chief legal advisor, Members of the MDA, which struck To Northern Lebanon Aaron Ment, was at the scene to observe Electric Boat two years ago, honored the picketing by the 10,000 member Metal line Tuesday but were asked to return to Trades Council which accused state police their jobs tc^ay. At least one member said BEIRUT, Lebanon (UPI) — Battles row, raising casualties in the bloody of brutality in the arrests of 11 pickets he and others could not. get through the between Moslem and Christian political religious warfare to 250 dead and 7()0 Monday. wounded. picket line. militias spread to northern Lebanon Mrs. Grasso meet in Hartford with State But most of Beirut was calm by “The Connecticut State Police engaged today,'defying an hours-old cease-fire and Police Conunissioner Edward Leonard to daybreak. Radio Beirut said all the city’s in what I call police brutality^ I was threatening the country’s new “salvation” discuss the use of troopers at the struck roads were open by 7:30 a.m. although sickened at the action taken by the state government. submarine yard, the major builder for the streets in southeastern suburbs were still police,” Colville said. “The use of un^ue Bombs and bullets rocked the Lebanese Navy’s nuclear sumarine fleet. Review Insurance Coverage unsafe. force against union members was a capital this morning for the ninth day in a Lranard said after the meeting some of The fighting between the militias of shameful spectacle,” he said. the strikers had been drinking and local Lebanon’s warring Moslem and Christian Colville said the police battered one Insurance coverage for 28 teenagers from Belfast, Northern Ireland, who police asked for help because of trouble in political parties spread northward to young union member’s face against a past strikes. Leonard said he bad 60 police van. will arrive Satu^ay in Manchester, was completed yesterday. Frank Tripoli and the Bekaa Valley near the Board Mission troopers on the scene Monday and this was Mrs. Grasso told newsmen Leonard ad- Sheldon, seated left, Phoenix Mutual Life Insurance Co. agent, arranged for Syrian border. cut down to 20 today. He said he oped to vised her his men would be at Electric full major medical coverage for all youngsters while they are here. An The major political parties in the withdraw all state police within a week if Boat because Groton police had asked for amount equal to the premium for the coverage was treated as a corporate Accomplished divided nation of 2.5 million maintain everything remains peaceful. them. “It was his decision, his judgment,” gift by Phoenix Mutual and an amount equal to the commission on the militias to protect the rights of Lebanon’s Rep. Christoper J. Dodd, D-Conn., in she said. special policy was donated by Sheldon. The policy provides up to a maximum The Manchester Board of Directors ac- two principal religious groups. whose district the shipyard is located, also of $1 million for each participant. Seated right is Dr. Edward P. Flanagan, complished its mission Tuesday night. It The violence flared despite a cease-fire met with the governor to discuss the As for the arrests, the governor said fund raising chairman for the Irish Children’s Project co-sponsored by St. completed all of its business for this worked out by Premier Rashid Karami month and won’t have another meeting un- strike. Leonard told her “state policemen had Mary’s Episcopal Church and St. James Catholic Church who arranged for Tuesday evening hours after he formed a Anthony DeGregory, president of the til Atig. 5. It’s normal procedure is to meet been assaulted.” “salvation government to save Lebanon council, said today the unions will seek |he 14 Catholic and 14 Protestant teenagers to spend the summer months in formally twice a month. Troopers should only be used to protect from further bloodshed.” civil court action on the brutality, charges. !tonchester. Standing is William A. Hunt of Phoenix Mutual. (Herald photo Director Carl Zinsser, who had the “rights of both parties — the strikers DeGregory also charged that at least by Pinto) expressed doubts the board could com- and those who want to work,” the gover- one state policeman dressed in civilian plete its business in one session, was jold nor added. clothes infiltrated the picket lines Monday by Mayor John Thompson to “wait and Dodd Proposes Larry Flaman, a member of the boiler- and was removed when his presence makers’ union at the shipyard and a vice see,” before formally requesting two Busing Workers became known.. president of a New London sessions. “They’ve got troopers here, helicopters, longshoremens’ local, said the state police Town Ends Fiscal Year At 10:58, Zinsser complimented Thomp- and everything. What a way for the gover- would “gang up, five and six to one son on completing the board’s agenda. HARTFORD (UPI) — Rep. C3iristopher nor to waste the state’s money,” picket,” and “haul him away.” A poll of the nine directors Tuesday J. Dodd, D-Conn., said today he’s working DeGregory said. The public information officer of the With $300,000 Surplus night shows four definitely will seek re- . on a plan to bus persons from his 2nd A state police spokesmen said troopers election in November.