Miners Pack Bluefield Park for Labor Day Echoes of Politics
More than a thousand miners and residents from southern West Virginia and southwest Virginia gathered at Bluefield City Park for the second annual United Mine Workers Labor Day Celebration Picnic. Politicians including Senator Byrd, Secretary Manchin, Governor Rockefeller, and Congressman Rahall spoke, promising road bond upgrades and labor protections as miners enjoyed gospel and Appalachian performances.
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Bluefield
Robert Byrd
Cecil Trigg
Nick Rahall
Rockefeller
Billy Coram
Daily Telegraph
West Virginia
Southwest Virginia
Bluefield City Park
United Mine Workers
Senate
Warren McGraw
U.S
Robert C. Byrd
Cripple Creek
UMW
District 29
Dennis Saunders
Teachers Weigh Strikes in Philadelphia and Boston
Boston teachers consider a Sept 21 strike instead of Tuesday as pay freezes and layoffs provoke anger. Philadelphia officials anticipate a Tuesday strike amid planned 3,500 layoffs and a 10 percent pay hike suspension for 21,000 teachers.
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Philadelphia
Boston
Associated Press
Boston Teachers Union
Kathleen Kelley
Robert R. Spillane
New York City
Common Sense
Arthur W. Thomas
Philadelphia Federation of Teachers
Welfare rolls shrink next month under AFDC cuts
Washington AP reports new Reagan administration rules will cut 11 percent of welfare beneficiaries next month. About 687,000 families lose or reduce benefits under 20 plus changes in AFDC to save roughly $1 billion, with $728 million from major areas and the rest from admin and regulation tweaks.
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Washington
Department of Health and Human Services
Workers Stage Labor Day Rally in New York
More than 20,000 workers joined a Labor Day march in New York under gray skies, with 4,000 unemployed air traffic controllers among them. Reagan did not attend the parade but visited Mayor Koch to present an $85 million highway project check, Westway. He touted job creation while labor leaders questioned his stance on unions and government actions.
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New York
Reagan
Edward I. Koch
Afl-Cio
Lane Kirkland
American Labor Movement
Los Angeles
California
Edmund G. Brown Jr
Catholic Labor Institute of Southern California
Brown
Washington
Lower
Manhattan
Westway
Koch
Weather outlook and temperature forecast this week
Tuesday features variable cloudiness with a chance of showers and possible thunder showers and highs around 80. Tonight will be partly cloudy with lows in the upper 50s. Wednesday turns mostly sunny and breezy with highs in the upper 70s. The National Weather Service outlook through Friday calls for fair cool weather with highs in the 70s and lows in the 50s or low 60s.
Good As New Turtle Revisited 46 Years Later
Newton West Virginia AP report describes Pearl Ross Dimmick reuniting with a land turtle found by her father Willis Ross in 1955. The shell bears initials W R and the date Aug 35 notches round a lasting family landmark. The turtle has appeared seven times over 46 years at their home.
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Nick Joe Rahall
Reagan Administration
A. James Manchin
John D. Rockefeller IV
Manchin
Chauncey Browning
Browning
Banjo Picker
Rahall
Saunders
Byrd
Raleigh County
Chambers of the
Thomas
Michigan
Sanilac
Decatur
Chicago
Villa Park
O’fallon
Ill
Louis Zeven
American Association of School Administrators
Spillane
Workers
PATCO
Wallaert
America
Powers Crossroads
Georgia
The
National Weather Ser
Vice
Willis Ross
W.R
Dad
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