The Miami Herald from Miami, Florida • 32

8-B THE MIAMI HERALD Saturday Jan 12 1980 Federal Task Force Will Probe Exploitation of Aliens ment standards complaint load was more than the local office could handle" The task force which begins operations Monday is intended to remove the economic advantages of employing illegal aliens ARE interested in people Labor task force will concentrate on restaurants hotels and motels in Dade and Broward counties "We have found a large number of complaints in the area and a high number of monetary said Donald Elisburg assistant secretary of labor for employ By ILEANA OROZA Herald Staff Wrllar Another federal task force Is being set up to focus on illegal aliens not to report them to immigration authorities but to make sure they're paid enough The 13-member Department of underpaid Elisburg said 85 court actions were filed againt Chinatown employes by the Department of Labor Task force members will be vist-Ing businesses and examining payrolls time-keeping and other records as well as conducting with aliens at businesses and INS detention centers Individuals are often subjected to inhumane treatment illegal and unfair working and living conditions and unreasonably long and back-breaking hours of said Elisburg want to make sure they are not undocumented Nicaraguans and more than 20000 of undocumented Mexicans and Canadians Elisburg said THE TASK force is part of a program initiated in 1978 to protect American workers from illegal competition by enforcing labor laws among employers of Illegal aliens Last year some $246 million in back wages was found due to 161000 employes nationwide About $2 million was owed by Florida employers A federal task force In New Chinatown disclosed almost $100000 owed to undocumented employes who had been illegally New Pay TV Service Is ON the Air who are being paid $150 or $175 an hour who are not being paid for all hours worked and who are receiving straight time pay for overtime work" Elisburg said The task force will not be concerned with identifying and reporting to the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) the names of employes who do not have proper documentation policy is to maintain a confidential relationship in our Elisburg said is not our policy to ascertain someone's status to be legal or illegal our interest is to make sure they are being paid He said undocumented aliens had been turned into immigration authorities by Labor Department task forces but no one outside agriculture has been turned in during the past six months INS officials estimate there are 22000 undocumented Haitians working in South Florida 10000 uimm band and an fractured snippet of ON programming you will find yourself Interested and want to find out going explained Robert Hartney vice president of Oak Industries Inc which owns ON and is negotiating to buy WKID-TV Channel 51 premiere consisted of the movies Bell and and a Seals and Crofts concert Tonight ON will present Night Fever" ON has also obtained exclusive rights to televise four to six Strikers home games ON is on from 7 pm to midnight on weekdays and from 5 pm to midnight on weekends When ON Channel 51 will' broadcast programming receivable by standard television sets By end ON hopes to have 30000 subscribers from southern Palm Beach County and Homestead By MICHAEL SILVER Herald Buiinit Wrlttr Promising John Travolta and the Fort Lauderdale Strikers ON went on Friday night Broadcasting to about 300 South Floridians equipped to receive its signal ON is the first over-the-air pay television service in the South and one of only a handful in the nation Like some services available through cable television systems ON offers current commercial-free movies and a sprinkling of sports and entertainment specials But instead of reaching subscribers by cable ON is broacast on a scrambled signal from the Channel 51 transmitter in Pembroke Park Subscribers TVs are equipped with an electronic box that unscrambles the signal Non-subscribers who turn to Channel 51 while ON is on will receive a wavy tri-color- JapaneseGerman War Relics: Call Frank Junior(305)667-7752 orEveSun 661-8357 RENT A CAR a TRAVOLTA 400 mila I Included CREDIT CARDS ACCIRTf UT NOT RIOUIlfO CAU FOR RICK UR 3777 NW 36th ST ooooeocciip A Save PREVIEW Silver Price Increases Spurring Film Stampede FROM PAGE I suming the 40-per-cent Increase passed through those charges IN OPEN TO THE PUBLIC FURNITURE BEDDING WATERBEDS SALE! 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BEFORE THE GRAND OPENING JAN 20 SATURDAY SUNDAY 10 AM to 7 PM MONDAY 10 to 8 JAN 12 13 14 is would rise $1040 Commercial users may be able to offset some of the higher costs by recovering silver from old X-rays negatives and scrap film and paper and selling it to a private recycler at the inflated market price Ninety per cent of the silver used in photographic materials is recoverable KODAK RECOVERS 20 million ounces a year from its manufacturing and processing operations Kaska said Hospitals and other large commercial users also use recovery units to keep the precious metal from washing down the drain The recovered silver scrap film and paper are sold to silver recoverers or refiners at the market price possible to recover 16 ounces of silver per 100 pounds of X-ray film according to a spokesman for Souteastern X-Ray Corp one of South largest X-ray processing and equipment suppliers Another major silver recycler Dustin Grimes president of A-G Tech Refining Corp 14020 NW 19th Ave Opa-locka estimated that at prices a hospital the size of Mercy Hosptal could be getting somewhere around $125000 to $130000 a year on recoverable sil-f OUR LOWEST PRICES EVER! 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