
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: MONDAY, March 12, 1990                   TAG: 9003123116
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: A4   EDITION: EVENING 
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WORRIED GUARD CALLS POLICE ABOUT STRIKERS

Roanoke police were called to the Greyhound bus terminal this morning after a security guard complained that striking bus drivers were blocking the doors.

No charges were filed. "I explained that we didn't need the police because they hadn't caused any problems," security guard Albert Jackson said.

Jackson said another guard had called police because he apparently thought strikers were getting to close to the doors of the terminal on Salem Avenue. But Jackson, who was in charge of security at the terminal today, said there had been no serious problems.

About 20 members of the Amalgamated Council of Greyhound Local Unions gathered outside the Roanoke terminal today as bus drivers demanding better pay and benefits entered the second week of a nationwide strike.

Today's showing was larger than the usual five or so strikers who have picketed outside the terminal since the strike began.

Earl Boitnott, a striking bus driver, said more strikers turned out because Greyhound began accepting applications today for replacement bus drivers.

Strikers holding signs in front of the terminal handed out literature that urged applicants: "Don't be a strike breaker."

Officials at the Roanoke bus terminal would not say how many applications have been accepted, refering inquiries to a Greyhound office in Texas.

by CNB