Warren Harding fans need lessons in manners

Warren Harding fans need lessons in manners
EDITOR:
I would like to congratulate the Warren Harding football team on a very successful season.
The same could be said for their fans who were successful in making certain that my friends and I never attend another sporting event that includes Warren Harding. I have never seen such rude and inconsiderate fans, both students and adults.
I had the unfortunate opportunity to attend the Harding vs. Ursuline game, and we had tickets for reserved seats on the visitor's side. I was not rooting for either team, I just wanted to see a good football game.
Parents of Harding players were in our seats and would not move, and they had conveniently & quot;lost & quot; their ticket stubs. When we requested help from security, we were told to find other seats. I thought that & quot;reserved & quot; meant that I would sit in the seat that I paid for.
Students congregating all along the walkways ignored us when we asked them to excuse us. We had to be detoured through the stands and through the Ursuline band. The people in the first two or three rows did not stand a chance to see any of the game.
Finally, I was appalled at the rudeness of the students and adults who simply walked right front of us in the concession line, rather than wait their turn. Where are their manners?
Warren Harding and the city of Warren should be ashamed of themselves.
WENDY F. GAVALIER
Poland
Youngstown pipe mill to be affected by closing
EDITOR:
Contrary to what some may think, the closing of LTV's integrated steel operations will have a drastic affect on the LTV/Copperweld ERW pipe mill on Poland Avenue in Youngstown. This plant is the last remaining vestige of the old Republic Steel integrated steel plant, not a Copperweld buy-out. Some of the workers in this plant have been with Republic/LTV 35 years plus, and many are second or third generation employees.
Vindicator reporters should learn to distrust anything and everything LTV Corporation tells them. The Plain Dealer reporters have; so have Mayors White and Angelo; Rep. Kucinich; the USWA; retirees -- both hourly and salaried; active workers and their families; suppliers, contractors, and customers have all learned the lesson. That is what the acronym stands for: Liars, Thieves, Vultures!
For years, our plant has made 8 inch-16 inch electric welded pipe out of coils of steel supplied in-house. Although other suppliers are sometimes used, the quality, cost, and quantity of outside coils is not always reliable. If LTV's motion to close the integrated plants is granted, does that sound like we will be & quot;unaffected? & quot;
The 75 workers represented by USWA Local Union 1331 presently are covered by the Basic Labor Agreement between LTV and the USWA for all operations, including LTV/Copperweld units. LTV has a motion before the bankruptcy court to throw out this agreement as well as the two modifications agreed to by the creditors/USWA in recent months.
If this motion is granted, what happens to the remaining workers here in Youngstown? Living wages, gone; medical and hospitalization insurance, gone; pensions, gone; thousands of dollars in stock we accepted for our concessions during management's last fiasco, gone. Again, "unaffected?"
I think I know who is "unaffected" by this pending ax of doom -- our good ol' boy in Washington -- Jimmy T.
RICK TRENARY
Canfield