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Ohio Student Friday, April 2. 1976 Voice me BG news Volume S9/Number 90 Working truckers face harassment on the road By Cindy Leise and Other trucking companies, including eight to ten days because Detroit auto Associated Press Reports Yellow Freight System. Suburban factories would close if car parts were Motor Freight Inc.. and Commercial not delivered. Despite reports of violence in some Motor Freight, inc.. reported that Drennan said that he doubts the areas of the country yesterday, there despite Union pickets, their terminals strike will continue longer than that was only one report of alleged were quiet and devoid of any incidents because "It can affect the entire Teamster harrassment in Northwest of violence. economy." He said that he believes the Ohio. Both the Wood County Sheriff*! government could step in if the Teamsters nationwide voted to office and the State Highway Patrol Teamsters and the trucking industry strike Wednesday night when the said that highways were clear and they do not reach an agreement. current contract expired and anticipated "no violence whatsoever." Drennan said that he had not negotiators were unable to reach a AT THE WEIGH station on 1-75. witnessed any violence or unusual settlement. James R. Hairis. a load limit inspector gatherings on the highway. But. From a telephone interview with a for the Ohio Department of because he expects 75 per cent drop in sales manager for McLean Trucking Transportation, said truck traffic was truck traffic, he said he would not rule Company, located in Toledo, the News cut in half yesterday. out violence. learned that one driver was harassed Of Wednesday night's total of 900 on the way to his home terminal. trucks on the road, less than 450 "EVERYTHING is peaceful now, Several men, who the sales manager trucks had weighed in on Thursday. but in eight to ten days, if the strike is said were irate Teamsters, threatened Harris said. He said that the total still on. you may see some guys out the McLean driver over citizen's band would drop even lower if the strike here throwing rocks," Drennan radio waves, forcing him to slop at the continued. predicted. Toledo terminal. At a roadside rest area. Kenneth Repealed attempts were made to Drennan. a driver for Commercial contact local Teamster Union officials, ASIDE FROM this incident, the Carriers, said he noticed a great but calls were not returned and • . _, ■ | _ Kenneth Drennan, a truck driver for Commercial Carriers, is still on the job Northwest Ohio area has been quiet, reduction in the numbci of truck! on spokesmen were unavailable for WlOlGHCG * although many of his colleagues have struck. He predicted the strike by Teamster according to reports from more than the mad. comment. truckers to become violent if it lasted over one week. (Newsphoto by Lance Wynn) IS local trucking terminals. "This morning you could go for a \ A spokesman for CCC Highway Inc. mile on the mad without seeing Although trucking companies were said that when his company was made another truck," he said. guaranteed safe passage until midnight aware thai they would have drivers out yesterday. Teamster Union drivers in after midnight Wednesday night, DRENNAN. who drives in Ohio and other States with expired Strikers halt city transit escorts were assigned 10 each of the Automobile Carrier Truck, is umlci | contracts met with violence, according trucks. Consequently, potential contract which is still ill effect. He to Associated Press reports. SAN FRANCISCO (AP)-Picketing SEVERAL thousand city employes up early today at city-owned San trouble was avoided, he said. Midi however, his job could slop after to page five spread to two major hospitals were off the job as nonstriking city Francisco General Hospital and '" yesterday as a strike by 2.000 of the unions honored picket lines thrown up Laguna Honda Hospital, but the move 11 city's more than 18.000 municipal by the 10 unions representing craft came just after a shift change and the _ workers halted all public transit for workers who walked off their jobs effect was negligible. State hiring policies suggested the second day with no sign of Wednesday in wage dispute. "There has been no disruption ' progress toward a settlement. The Board of Supetvisots I* up a whatever." said Thomas Griffin, acting COLUMBUS (AP)-A legislative "Duringconsideration of the budget "The economic situation of the San Franciscans, stung by the third strike headquarters at a downtown administrator 'at San Francisco Investigation, launched by a wave of for the current biennium. the Slate of Ohio dictated thai the layoffs |, strike of city workers in two years. hotel but neither side repotted any General. "We have a strike plan in Democratic resentment over slate administration predicted llial layoffs had to be made," Van Meter added, found alternate means of getting to progress. No talks were undei way and effect to lake care of most employe layoffs by the Republican would be required If stale agencies "and the administration acted in the ' work and around town Tliey also had none were scheduled emergencies." administration, concluded quietly were to operate within their spirit and Idler of the law." . •to make do without city recreation The Service Employes Internjiional The next shift change will occur in yesterday with a bipartisan .'7-page appropriations." ihe report noieil. Some Democrat! contended that i facilities and other public services. Union, representing 9,000 hospital. nudaftemoon and hospital official! rcpoi I. This was based on the assumption lli.il layoff! ol Democratic state workers custodial, clerical and social workers, would not speculate on what might The report of the Joint Select a 19 per cent budget increase would were politically motivated and violated Mayor George Moscone. who has voted Wednesday night to honor happen then. Committee on Civil Service Procedures not cover Inflation and thai the budget civil service procedures. •vowed to stay in his office pickets but refused to join (he strike The halt in municipal transportation neither indicts nor endorses the lining levenuc estimates were too optimistic, A numbci ol appeals based on such iaround-the-clock to serve as a itself affected some 250.000 riders. Slreots and firing policies of Gov. James A. the committee Mid. charge! ire pending before the state i mediator if asked, spent another night weic clogged with automobiles and the Rhodes' administration. 'Hie report ulso cited Rhodes' Older Personnel Boa id ol Review. ' on a cot in City Hall.* A HALF-DOZEN picket signs went number of pedestrians surged. Ii does contain recommendation! for a Iwo per cent across-llie-hojrd aimed at clarifying and tightening up spending cut as further reducing the civil service statutes. funds available for personnel. Cease - fire agreed to in Lebanon All four Democrats and both "ANY GOVERNOR ihal wants lo Republican committee member! do it. can doit, under the law." Weather ■ BEIRUT. Lebanon (API -Moslems The cease-fire was designed to give Agreement has become even more signed the document, the result of a Valiquette said of the layoffs. She said .and Christians yesterday agreed to a him a 10-day period to slep down hut difficult as Moslem forces ncared three-month investigation begun in the panel had not delved Into the Snow flurries and some snow 10-day cease-fire in Lebanon's civil was not contingent on his immediate apparent victory and Junblatl late November. Democratic administration of former si pi. ill- today. Highs in the low to war. with gunmen from both sides to resignation. escalated his demands to include "IT SAYS what we've been saying Gov. John J. Gilligan. hut added in mid 40s. Clearing tonight and 'remain in place throughout the Acceptance by the Phalange parly. abolishing the traditional allocation of all along.'' said Chairman Marigene answer to a question: "I would be tomorrow. Lows tonight in . country. Franjieh's chief political and military government posts according to Valiquette (D-Toledo). "It's very easy hard put to say that it didn't happen thelow to mid 30s. Highs The truce, to begin at noon today. 5 buttress, did not specificially include religion. The unwritten but inviolable to dance on the edge." under the Gilligan administration." tomorrow in the upper 40s and a.m. EST. was announced after intense agreement to the president's departure tradition gives the presidency, the The committee found that 1,762 Another committee member. Sen. low 50s. Probability of I'* international pressure, mainly from and omitted reference to it in army command and an automatic civil service employes have been laid Thomas A. Van Meter (R-Ashland), precipitation 60 per cent today ,> Syria and the Palestinian guerrillas, but reporting the leftist cease-fire offer parliamentary majority to the off since Rhodes took office in said the report was a "complete and 20 per cent tonight. with help from Jordan and the United THE TRUCE in Beirut would be country's 40 per cent Christian January I97S.