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£ SECTION 2 - PAGE 3 - PLAINDEALER - FRIDAY, AUGUST 31,IMS State News Nation/World Cities buck bargaining law By United Press International SPRINGFIELD -- A Sangamon County judge is being asked to throw out the state's new collec­ tive bargaining law for public workers in a suit filed by a group representing 950 Illinois cities, towns and villages. In a suit brought by the Illinois Municipal League, the group is challenging the law's constitu­ tionality and is asking for an in­ junction to bar enforcement of the act, which took effect July 1. Lawyers for the league also argue that Gov. James R. Thomp­ son abused his amendatory veto powers when he changed portions of the legislation. The new law, approved by legislators last year, gives most public employees the right to bargain collectively and to strike. Two labor relations boards oversee the bargaining process. School workers, who are covered in a separate law, are not included in the act. The suit, filed late last month, did not challenge the teacher's bargaining law. League spokesman Larry Frang said the new law will result in extra personnel costs for municipalities, possibly leading to local tax increases. The league has consistently opposed the plan on those grounds. "Anything that raises those costs tends to raise taxes at the local level," Frang said Tuesday. "We believe that (raising taxes) should be a local and not a state decision." The suit specfically challenges a provision of the law allowing "fair share" agreements, in which nonunion employees must pay the equivalent of union dues. It alleges the provision violates workers' constitutional rights to freedom of association and deprives them of property without due process of law. In addition, the league is argu­ ing that strike rights extended to most workers violate the state Constitution's guarantee of a healthful environment, since Asian elections in South Africa plagued by rioting many municipal workers are in jobs involving the environment, such as sewage workers. In addition, the suit said, the governor exceeded his amen­ datory veto powers by making major changes in the measure, such as deleting educational workers from the bill. Finally, the league argues the law should be thrown out because it was improperly exempted from the state Mandates Act, which re­ quires the state to reimburse local «vernments for some added sts they incur as result of legislation. Stanley Morris, one of the at­ torneys representing the league, said the state attorney general's office is expected to file a response this week. A decision would take at least several weeks, he said. The attorneys handling the suit for the state were not available for comment Tuesday. But Hank Scheff, spokesman for the American Federation of State, £rime bosses feeling the heat Sting operation in Chicago may topple some bosses By United Press International CHICAGO -- The Operation Safe Bet investigation of mob- controlled prostitution in area nightclubs could result in the in­ dictment of some top mob bosses, a crime syndicate expert said Tuesday. But it is unlikely the federal government's four-year investiga­ tion will result in the disap­ pearance of such clubs, said Patrick Healy, executive director of the Chicago Crime Commis­ sion. "They're not going to go out of business," Healy said in an inter­ view. "These places will be back in business, probably today. But their act's going to be cleaned up." A team of 300 federal, state and local law enforcement officials raided 12 suburban nightclubs earlier this month as part of Operation Safe Bet, the FBI's code name for its undercover pro­ be of mob-controlled prostitution. The investigation also included the FBI operation of a northwest suburban Palatine credit card ser- vice, which processed an estimated $30 million in claims for several nightclubs suspected of prostitution. Joseph A. Ferriola, a reputed mob prostitution boss, is believed to be one of the targets of the in­ vestigation, which was aimed at tracing money paid for prostitu­ tion to the crime syndicate. "A paper trail might be tedious, boring and not glamorous, but as long as they (law enforcement agents) can follow it, they might wind up getting a pretty good catch," Healy said. ^Describing Ferriola, 57, as the <rheir apparent" to reputed Chicago mob boss Anthony "Big Tuna" Accardo, Healy said the FBI would be "lucky" if the in­ vestigation resulted in Ferriola's indictment. "He's very high up there, and if they get him, they'll be lucky," Healy said. Even if top mob bosses are not indicted as result of Operation Safe Bet, Healy said the probe could result in new directions to explore. "Prostitution is not the leading money-maker of organized crime, but it leads you into other nefarious deals," including drugs and gambling, he said. The investigation could also result in a race among younger mobsters to gain control of illegal activities, now run by the older mob bosses. Such an inner strug­ gle could further deplete the strength of organized crime, Hea­ ly said. "If there's enough found guilty, you'll have a vacuum, then a rush to fill those spots with not as seasoned veterans, and with inex­ perience-comes mistakes." cd owe rwo "Your Professional Nursery Garden People" ANNUAL FALL m TAG-A-TREE SALE PLANTING TREES • SHRUBS LAWNS • BULBS NORTHERN ILLINOIS' LARGEST SELECTION OF! TREES, EVERGREENS & SHRUBS Featuring Our Exclusive 2 YEAR 100% GUARANTEE Flowerwood is proud and delighted to offer these beautiful trees at such low prices. Buy Direct from the Grower and Save! 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He said collective bargaining already existed in the state's largest municipalites, though not in many of the smaller com­ munities. T h e n e w l a w e x e m p t s municipalities with less than 25 employees which did not bargain collectively before July 1. CONFERENCES The Sixth Annual Training Conference of the National Association of Area Agencies on Aging and the Illinois Depart­ ment on Aging's annual con-, ference will both be held in Chicago and hosted by the Illinois Department, according to Janet Otwell, director. By United Press International DURBAN, South Africa - Anti- apartheid demonstrators opposed to separate racial parliaments threw gasoline bombs and shots were fired at police Tuesday as voters turned out in South Africa's first parliamentary elections for Asians. Police and Indian party sup­ porters using whips, batons and tear gas earlier dispersed a crowd of about 500 demonstrators who hurled rocks near a polling station in the Asian township of Lenasia near Johannesburg. Witnesses said riot police were armed with short plastic whips called "sjamboks" and were join­ ed by baton-wielding party of­ ficials. Police spokesman Lt. Tom Jef­ ferson said four policemen were injured and an unspecified number of demonstrators ar­ rested in the clashes with op­ ponents of the elections for separate houses of Parliament for the country's Asian and mixed race "colored" population. The demonstrators are opposed to South Africa's apartheid race laws, that still exclude blacks from government. Soviet-American relations haunted by airliner incident By United Press International MOSCOW -- One year after a Soviet missile ripped apart a Korean airliner, the outrage has subsided but the memory of the 269 deaths hangs like a curse over Soviet-American relations. 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