The Nation - News from April 8, 1985

Actor David Soul, militant minister D. Douglas Roth and two other labor activists were arrested at an affluent Pittsburgh church for trying to lay scrap metal on the altar in an Easter protest over massive layoffs in Pittsburgh’s steel industry. Soul, who starred in the TV series “Starsky and Hutch;” Roth, Mike Bonn and Darrell Becker were charged with disorderly conduct, failure to disperse and defiant trespass. The scrap metal represented “the mills that have been destroyed because of the actions of your church,” Roth told the worshipers at Shadyside Presbyterian Church. Roth and other activists blame corporate leaders, some of whom attend the church, for contributing to unemployment by shutting down plants and investing overseas.