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By DON MEYERS A union spokesman expressed hope yesterday that Brookhaven Town would not impose a contract on town workers f oiiowing a legislative hearing on Tuesday. The legislative hearing held Tuesday in Middle Island was the last step in the process provided for in the Taylor Law governing public employes Disgruntled workers and their families displayed their feelings earlier on Tuesday when a picket line was put up at town hall . The brigade included members of The Civil Service Employees Association , their wives and children , many carrying placards . More than 400 persons attended the hearing including the wives and some children . \This was the last step , \ said Brookhaven Deputy Supervisor Phil Giaramita. \The town now has the right to impose a one-year contract. \ Town employees have been operating without a con- tract since December 31 , when a two-yeai pact ran out , according to Hugh O'Haire , Long Island region public rel a tion s director for the CSEA. The number of employees involved is in dispute. Mr Giaramita maintains that the town has a valid contract with about 420 blue and white collar workers in town of- fices other than the highway department. However , Mr. O'Haire says that once the highway department blue collar workers rejected the pact , there is no valid contract. About 290 highway department workers are involved. The CSEA is seeking a multi-year contract with a seven per cent wage increase each year. The increase would not include fringe benefits. The town has offered a two-y ea r contract with five per cent the first year and six per cent in the second year. Also at issue is the use of subconirduloi & foi wm \k which the union says could be done by town employes . \They are doing some subcontracting already, \ O'Haire said. \But what is even more frightening is that as the jobs go -- people leave or retire -- the town dees not fill the positions. (continued on pa ge IS ) Wo rkers oicket at town nan? ^^^ ii • _ i __i « i • ^_ m m m B B B B V B B H B Ba^B B fl B ^Bfc, B B B B If BP\\ B *¦\ «. £ B B B B «- m ^ir%r %# |«# lp^%ss!%, |%^W ^^ifel w ^^ le^^ 1 %f By KARL GROSSMAN TSJ?*«V '! '» *» r\r\ttjrYf \io inct +r»tall\7 insane \ and \ will destroy us...unless the whole thing is scrapped , \ a Suffolk physician told 175 people at a meeting sponsored by the county chapter of Friends of the Earth , over the weekend. Dr. Stephen Sigler said the radiation that has been coming out of the Three Mile Island p lant in Pennsylvania was \doubling the dose for leukemia \ for people in a wide area . There ' s \ no reason , \ said the doctor , \for an in- telligent public to accept \ the \disaster \ of nuclear power \ any further...Th e medical risks are so grea t they raise the question of whether it' s already too late . \ Major attention at the session , in The Springs , was concentrated on the p lanned June 3 rally and separate civil disobedience demonstration at the site of the incomp lete Long Island Lighting Company nuclear p lant at Shoreham. Esther Pank of Smithtown , of the SHAD Alliance , which is organizing these protests , said Shoreham has become an emphasis of the anti-nuclear movement throughout the region because it is regarded as \ stoppable. \ At the meeting this Sunday, speakers appeared at a podium which held a sign : \SAVE OUR CHILDREN!\ and in front of a banner : \LILCO Plans Ahead A Few More Decades Of Growing Profits and 250 , 000 Years of Toxic Radioactivity. \ Dr. Wayne Barker moderated the event , opening it b y saying that for the \first time human beings (have) acquired the power to put an end to the earth and all its creatures , either by the acute destruction of nuclear war or the slow destruction of ' atoms for peace . ' \ A psychiatrist , Dr. Barker spoke of scientists and government officials \in- volved with atoms for war , ' atoms for peace ' \ seeing \themselves in a god-like way. \ Richard Partington , chairman of the Friends of the Earth Suffolk chapter , tol d how the \Dubin Report , \ an analysis of energy needs done by the county in 1975 , \but quietly laid to rest by legislators beholden to LILCO , \ laid out how Long Island could be \ energy-independent \ through solar , windpower , energy from garbage and co-generation and energy- savings. He called for strong political action on the nuclear issue including a countywide referendum on whether nuclear power should be allowed here. Tom Twomey, an attorney who has been representing the Long Island Farm Bureau , the Suffolk League of Women Voters and Suffolk for Safe Energy at state hearings on LILCO ' s proposed Jamespor t nuclear project , said that the initial Shoreham p lant and the two proposed plants at Jamespor t were just the first of from 11 to 19 nuclear plants proposed by the electric industry and LILCO for Long Island. He said LILCO has \ already pur- chased...enough land\ at the existing sites at Shoreham and Jamesport foi \Shoreham 2 and Shoreham 3 and Jamesport 3 and Jamesport 4. \ He said the state \has filed a survey \ showing all 19 proposed nuclear locations , which include Montauk , Sagaponack - \the second choice after Jamesport \ - and a series of p laces along the North Fork. \They ' re dead serious , \ he said. He stressed the huge amounts of water nuclear power plants require , the Jamesport facility 2 million gallons a minute , with \ any interruption \ leading to a catastrophic \ meltdown \ and \the China syndrome. \ Long Island has been \targeted\ for nuclear power because it ' s surrounded by a \lot of water \ and its population is rslativel v low \ so if an accident occurs tnere 'd be a smaller number \ oi casualties , said Mr. Twomey. Mr. Twomey said the Shoreham plant should be \ converted to a coal facility. We can 't allow LILCO to continue that plant and put it on line as a nuclear power plant. \ He said if Shoreham was ever allowed to operate it would have the \ worst record of (continued on page 18) Nuclear powe r 'insane/ says docto r P~fi/\ seeks $$ for repairs , new telep hones • See story on page 21-A. TIRED FEET - Maryann Cashion stops to comfort Judd Classic during a break from picketing outside Brookhaven Town Hall on Tuesday. Workers have been without a contract since December :n. -William II. LeMien photo C ARRIAGE BRIGADE - Florence Bivona was one of about 50 p ickets protesting the lack of a contract. In the carriage is her son , Thomas. -William H. LeMien photo Mostet Pltsn t Paf choesue 'Blu e p rin t f or the 'BO* ' s s e ^^ && s ^^ S 5 S ww S S © 5 ^5 3 ^^ S 5 ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^ e ^^ ^^ Ej y S a s ts s B ^y B B B m \^jr \mr \^ ^m - See story on page 3-A.
