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Thereafter, Reagan invoked presidential powers and ordered all workers back to work under prevailing conditions before the strike. The presidential order mandates a 30day fact-finding period and a 30-day cooling-off period before the strike can resume.

Mellon interpreted the presidential order in his own fashion. Claiming that he had lost business because of the strike, he refused work to 1000 to 1500 workers when they reported back. However, the unionists are claiming that Mellon is keeping scabs on the payroll. The BMWE may take legal action to win back any wages lost after the back-to-work order.

Solidarity is growing

"For the first time ever, we had rail unionists from all the different unions on all the different carriers coming together in support of fellow workers under attack," said Dave Walsh, president of the Brotherhood of Railway and Airline Clerks Local 1089 (Amtrak and Conrail) and one of the organizers of the solidarity march.

"This did not happen in New England, at least, during the 1981 rail workers march on Washington over the threatened elimination of Amtrak and Conrail," Walsh noted. "We've been through the huge layoffs on Conrail, several years of stagnant contracts for all crafts and the constant threat of losing Amtrak, so workers are a little more vigilant now than in the past."

Walsh continued, "Mellon's intentions are so obvious that people can see that they will be next if he gets away with forcing concessions on the track workers. We were Name Address City Tel.

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