Polish strike ends as Gdansk workers celebrate victory
Cheering strikers leave the Lenin shipyards after 18 days, praising the government accord granting 21 demands. Lech Walesa signed the pact with Mieczyslaw Jagielski as crowds hailed the settlement seen as a blueprint for wider Polish worker gains and the birth of independent unions.
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Walesa
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John Paul II
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Szczecin-Scinoujsche
Silesia
Edward Gierek
Valesa
Labor leaders praise Polish strike victory on Labor Day
UPI reports American labor unions funded striking Polish workers in their fight for freedom under communism. Fraser Marshall and Kirkland hailed the victory as a sign of trade union courage, leadership, and solidarity with Polish workers.
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Washington
UPI
United Auto Workers
Douglas Fraser
Fraser
Ray Marshall
Afl-Cio
Lane Kirkland
Poland
Labor Day 1980 Highlights Unions Face Long Bad Turn
Labor leaders warn of high unemployment and inflation as they push for full employment programs and resist a new rightward political shift. Fraser King and AFL CIO officials criticize Reagan era policies while urging commitment to jobs and economic justice.
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UPI
Congress
National Right To Work Committee
Howard Samuel
Industrial Union Department
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Suglas Fraser
Fraser
Carter
Ronald Reagan
Robert Georgine
Afl-Cio
Building and Construction Trades Department
Road toll climbs as Labor Day deaths pass 200 mark
The Labor Day traffic death toll topped 200 at the holiday's halfway point as Americans hit the roads for a final summer fling. The National Safety Council estimated 450 to 330 deaths in the three day period, which began Friday evening and ends Monday midnight. A UPI count at 9 p.m. Sunday put highway deaths at 299 since the period started.
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National Safety Council
Cleveland TV anchors Doug Adair and Mona Scott wed
Doug Adair and Mona Scott, prominent WKYC Channel 3 news anchors, will marry this fall in a small ceremony. Scott, with Channel 3 since 1976 and the 11 p.m. anchor since 1979, will keep her surname. Adair joined Channel 3 in 1970 as an anchor.
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Two Davis Besse workers face rare testicular cancer
Two of about 400 Davis Besse nuclear plant workers in Port Clinton Ohio have testicular cancer, a rare disease. Experts say a link to workplace radiation is unproven but warranting further study. officials would not disclose ages or diagnosis dates.
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Toledo Edison Co
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