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Stakes High In Unprecendented Action Against Unions By VICTOR RIESEL NEW YORK Unwatched, practically unreported, and unfortunately unheralded these politically chaotic days is an unprecedented of fensive launched against this powerful hard- hat establishment by Attorney for the massive Southern District. Whitney North Seymour, Jr. Beefing up his already overworked staff with volunteer legal Seymour has gone into the Federal courts to pry open, by the local building and construction trades and force them to admit black and other minority workers so they, too, can earn $200 to S3(X) a week. If Seymour succeeds, set a precedent for action in virtually all metropolitan areas across the land says the tall, prematurely white- haired Justice Dept, is a carefully planned union-by-union approach to the problem. We are continuing to investigate on this basis (use of the Civil Rights Law Title VII VR) so when we are through every significant construction union will have been gone over, forced into court and opened to minority workers Mike Seymour has already had some key unions in court, others are scheduled for trial in September and later this fall, others are on appeal and one is under the scrutiny of a court-appointed as well as an In all there are some 200,000 unionized construction workers under his jurisdiction.

High Stakes Seymour is fighting for high stakes and at a moment when most of the unions based here and in many upstate and Long Island counties some of the heaviest building areas are striking some $2 billion worth of construction. This is a solid gold strike now. back to the old days of demands for increases of $120 to $150 a man, per week, over a three-year contract. Some of the unions which have token black membership get upwards of $8 to $10 an hour before overtime. And their members take home as much as $20,000 a year, rain or shine.

Thus local construction union leaders, defying their national advice, are smashing at the national Fay Board and the Cost of Living Council with their demands for twice and thrice the national wage increase standards which the rest of the workers must observe. Seymour dryly points out that among the seven local unions he selected for Federal court action on a civil basis is Local 580, Iron Workers. This local has two non-whites among its 1.400 members. And Local 40. whose leader is Rav Corbett, president of the AFL-CIO State Federation, is 3.2 per cent black, 1.3 per cent Puerto Rican and 5.4 per cent American Indian, according to records.

Some Iron Workers locals now are asking for a 48 per cent-a-year pay hike in their new contract. And. says Seymour, there are two key Operating Engineers locals, the heavy earth-moving men who earn upwards of $300 weekly. One is Local 14. It has 1,600 members whom only a few are And in Local 15, with 5,650 members, 768 are nonwhite at the last examination of the books by the U.S.

office. Seymour Infuriated This has infuriated Mike Seymour who comes from a family long deeply respected in judicial circles and venerated in the bar association milieu. His strategy called for first taking action against Wood, Wire and Metal Lathers Ixjcal 46 as far back as May 1968 He succeeded in Federal court in setting a precedent The union was held in contempt for violating a civil rights decree the first time in history. The court appointed a It ruled that back pay would have to be awarded to 75 claimants non-whites who had unsuccessfully sought work in the hiring hall during 1970. It was also ruled that the union must issue during the years 1972-1975 a minimum of 250 work permits on a one-to-one, white non-white basis until the nonwhites comprise 20 per cent of the union.

With this success Seymour unleashed a broad investigation racially discriminatory practices in the entire construction in the network of countries under his jurisdiction. Billions of dollars in work are involved. What he seeks is representation proportionate to the population at large, fair hiring- hall procedures to ensure that non-whites get an equal share of the work, and non-discrimination in admissions to the apprenticeship So he and his staff will spend much of the summer going over the books of union after union, preparing for a series of civil trials. One by one he'll haul them in in an effort, for example, to repeat what he did to the Steamfitters Local 638. The judge ordered 169 non-whites admitted to the -and opened wide for future non-white admissions.

In a tightly held labor market this is an upheaval. For jobs of this sort are top-paying ones which were handed down to blood relatives and close friends in other unions. National labor chiefs, such as the Plumbers president, 53-year-old Ward, it must be reported, have been bucking their regional barons. In the past few years the program has placed 12,976 minority workers of which 8,096 are in non-trowel trades the highest paying ones. All this has been voluntary.

Now Mike Seymour while others are fascinated by the moon over Miami is ripping through the hard-hat screen over this metropolis using the Federal courts as battering rams. (All Rights Reserved) Publishers-Hall Syndicate The NewH-Times FORUM Editorials letters ommentarv PERSISTENT SHADOW Fischer Kind Of Checkmates Self We have seen over the past few days the creation of something new in chess, the Fischer gambit. This is where vou threaten to hold your breath until you turn blue and-or pick up your chess board and go home unless you can have your own way. A true inspiration to the youth of America, Bobby Fischer has shown us that these tactics work in this greed-smudged real world. Fischer's performance, the prelude to the world chess championship match in Iceland, should not have surprised us He has, after all, never said he was sensitive, poised, considerate, modest, generous, admirable or intelligent He has said only (though many, many times) that he is the best chess player around, in Brooklyn, the United States, the world and.

presumably, the universe Let us assume that he is right. The next question is, so what? Fischer seems to be operating under the belief that because we pay our athletes and entertainers outrageously large sums of money, we should do the same for chess players. From his point of view this is reasonable, of course. But from everybody it is super-arrogant nonsense. That we are foolish enough to sanction paying Tom Sea ver $125.000 a year to throw baseballs is no justification for our being foolish enough to sanction paying Bobby Fischer $200,000 for shoving a bunch of toys around for a month.

For one thing, there is the two-wrongs-don't- make-a-right theory. For another, there is the fact that chess is not, either historically or intrisically, an interesting spectator sport. Such vicarious enjoyment as chess games provide comes from leisurely study of the move-by-move account, not from watching Fischer knit his brow in thought or lick his chops in fiendish anticipation of crushing an ego. Maybe at some future time there will be enough fans around to support chess in the fashion to which Fischer would like to be accustomed. But right now there are not And no exploiting capitalist is getting rich on talent.

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M.I), Dear Dr. husband has poor circulation in both legs but he is not a diabetic and the doctor wants to replace sections of the artery with plastic tubing. He says it is a simple operation I have heard of one case where the operation was performed on one leg, and the other leg had to be amputated several weeks later Was this amputation related to the artery replacement in the opposite leg? Dear This type of operation has been performed on literally thousands of people at numerous medical centers and it has been a very successful operation The plastic tubing is a synthetic material, and actually new cells grow through it and provide even a new lining of cells in the tube exactly similar to the cells that lined the original artery. The forerunner of this operation was replacing diseased sections of the arteries with artery grafts obtained from other people. Interestingly enough, these human artery grafts were not nearly as successful as the subsequent synthetic grafts have been.

In properly selected cases I strongly recommend this operation. The person who will do well with such an operation must have good open blood vessels below the blocked area going to be replaced. If the circulation in the foot and lower leg for example is bad because the arteries there are already blocked and obstructed, then putting in a graft higher up in the artery will not do any good. The whole idea is to replace a blocked area of the artery with an open tube which will eventually become a new artery. The operation even too difficult under skilled hands.

I would imagine that the person you mentioned lost his leg because the artery was so badly obstructed in the entire leg that there enough circulation. This have anything to do with the replacement of the blocked artery in the other leg Again we see the importance of fatty deposits in the arteries. Your problem is the exact same process that affects the arteries in the heart to cause heart attacks or the arteries in the brain to cause strokes. Individuals who are prone to having fatty deposits in their arteries because of eating too much of the wrong kind of food, not getting enough exercise and smoking too many cigarettes can have a lot of things happen to them besides a heart attack. It includes strokes, senile mental changes, poor circulation to the legs and, in men, even poor circulate to some sexual organs leading to incapacitation in that area.

You would think that with this long list of things that fatty deposits in the arteries do to people there would be greater willingness by people to adjust their lives to prevent this vast array of medical disorders. (NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE ASSN Sound Off Reader Opinion Ever feel like telling it like it is? Taxes, crime, inflation, highways, politics everybody has an opinion worth evaluating. your chance to steal some of the thunder from the ivory-tower editorial writers and columnists. hear what you think, today. Write care of the News-Times, P.O.

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