The Herald from Jasper, Indiana • 19

Page 19 The Herald, Monday, February 10, 1986 Scu Valentine With Beautiful Few pickets show as Hormel resumes slaughter in Austin Blooming Plants Foliage Plants Silk Arrangements sta $499 BIRD FEEDERS union from blocking traffic or having more than three pickets at plant gates. On Friday, union members from the Twin Cities area organized a car caravan to show support for the meatpackers but only about 70 people made the trip. Charles Nyberg, Hormel vice president, said the hog slaughter would be started on "a very limited basis" because it is labor intensive. The company has the 1,025 people needed to begin the hog slaughter, Nyberg said. About half the employees are former strikers, the others replacement workers.

"We'll be starting up operations very slow, but it will be starting," Nyberg said. Nyberg said the union would violate a court injunction if it tried to keep farmers from bringing their hogs to market. "It's a sad state of affairs if they intimidate our supplies," he said. Huston said the union has "pledges" from several farm groups not to sell hogs to Hormel AUSTIN, Minn. (UPI) Only a handful of pickets showed up today to protest Geo.

A. Hormel Co. resumption of hog slaughtering, idled by the six-month strike, and replacement workers entered the facility without trouble. Two pickets marched down the street and three cars honked their horns at people going to work before 7 a.m.. About 900 members of Local P-9 of the United Food and Commercial Workers met Sunday but leaders refused to say if new strategy was mapped for the strike, which started Aug.

17. "Spirits are still high," said Lynn C. Huston, Local P-9 vice president. "We feel there is solid support among Hormel workers at other plants and among union leaders around the country." One picket carried a sign, "Vegetarians for Local P-9." The two pickets then got in a car out of the 11 -below-zero weather and drove away. Attorneys for the union said they would argue in court today to modify an injunction that forbids the buyers or to take them to the plant.

Hormel reopened the Austin plant Jan. 13 with replacement workers and during the past week about 900 people went to work as the Minnesota National Guard and police kept streets leading to a plant gate open. The union members are trying to regain an hourly wage of $10.69. The local has twice rejected a mediator's offer of $10 in a three-year contract. Meanwhile, a man who did not identify himself told United Press International's bureau in Topeka, by telephone Sunday that Hormel products were being contaminated.

"Write this down," the caller said. "The Hormel corporation cannot continue doing what they are doing. We have contaminated with syringes several packages of lunch meat." The FBI in Minneapolis, which is investigating earlier tampering incidents in the Twin Cities area, said there had been no other reports of tampering threats. 20 OFF Wild Bird Seed Thistle Seed Sunflower Seed Suet Cakes Cracked Corn If It's for The Birds, We Have If GREEN THUMB GARDEN CENTERS Hwy. 162 S.

Jasper, 482-3338 Jaspor-SchnelMIe Rd. 326-2414 OPEN WEEKDAYS SATURDAY 9-3 Tensions rise at strikebound plant Introducing The KINGSTON SERIES The strikers are members of United Food and Commercial Workers, Local 26. The workers feel betrayed by further demands for concessions after they made concessions in the last pact. "The company said, 'You work with us and next time we will try to do better for you," said Gerald Croteau, 32, of Westland. "And they have not.

Now they are trying aan 3 jJ-LjEBo! Bin EBEBsgHMgPP BBKESSBfij "aCsl 515pl "We will stop them." The company, headquartered in suburban Southf ield and a producer of fresh and smoked pork products, including sausage, luncheon meats and bacon, refused to comment on the strike, which began at midnight Friday. The pickets said their contract expired Jan. 18 and was extended two weeks. They said they voted to strike, against the recommendation of their union officials, after the firm asked for several concessions, including a two-year wage freeze for all workers except corned-beef trimmers, who could lose 10 cents an hour; a $24-a-month employee co-payment on health insurance; a delay in the contract expiration' date until summer and revised methods of computing overtime and seniority. DETROIT (UPI) Striking workers at the Thorn Apple Valley Inc.

plant vowed to use their vehicles or bodies to prevent shipments of packaged meats from leaving the plant today. The strike by 500 workers entered its third day today with a company security squad in black military fatigues keeping watch on some 30 pickets from rooftop posts and from within the plant yard. The strikers, who accepted a pay cut in the old contract three years ago, vowed to use their cars and trucks and bodies to prevent shipments from leaving the facility. "There is no such thing as try," said George Wale, 29, a meat boner from suburban Utica who said pickets maintained a 24-hour vigil at the plant. to take away again.

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