Word: coppered
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Joggers in Point Defiance Park near Asarco Inc.'s mammoth copper-smelting plant sometimes complain that they can taste the air on windless days. With 575 workers, the 80-acre smelter, operated by Asarco since 1905, pumps some $35 million annually into the Tacoma, Wash., area economy. Unfortunately, the smelter pumps out arsenic, a deadly cancer-causing poison that is released directly into the atmosphere as a byproduct of copper refining. Last week EPA Administrator William D. Ruckelshaus announced details of a new federal air-quality standard for arsenic emissions. However, he left open a tough choice between...
Spearheaded by the activist 23,000-member Copper Workers Confederation, Chile's largest union, the protest movement has attracted support from a broad range of Chilean opinion: labor leaders, conservative and leftist politicians, business leaders and farmers. Its leading figure is Rodolfo Seguel, a 29-year-old cashier at a grimy mining center, who rose from obscurity five months ago to become the chief of the Copper Workers Confederation and is sometimes called the Chilean Lech Walesa. Said he: "We are pacifist in attitude and active in behavior. If they hit us with clubs, we will endure. We will...
...caves," he declared. "If it is necessary to harden the government, I'm going to harden it, push by push." The first push came the day after the demonstrations, when police arrested Seguel, who was taken from a friend's home and jailed for jeopardizing national security. Copper workers staged strikes at week's end to protest Seguel's arrest, halting production at three major mines. In an unusual television appearance, Pinochet adopted a somewhat more conciliatory tone but pledged to keep a tight grip on political activity...
Trouble had been brewing for weeks. Earlier this month students and workers led a march in Santiago that erupted into rioting. The powerful 27,000-member National Conference of Copper Workers called for a national strike. Other unions, arguing that there was not adequate organization for the work stoppage, resisted such precipitous action. Instead, the opposing sides called for a boycott of schools and a traffic slowdown...
This week Chile's largest union, the 27,000-member National Conference of Copper Workers, will mark its discontent with an illegal 24-hour national strike. With unprecedented boldness, the union denounced the government's "weapons of fear and repression." Said President Rodolfo Seguel: "We are heading toward a dangerous point where the Chilean worker will not see any worse alternative to his present situation." Even the general's supporters fear that he has no answer. Says a former minister: "The country is in greater danger than when the Marxists were in power...