t, ; PARKING SHORTAGE: HORNS OF A DILEMMA See editorial page SirFi4au D~ait FAIR AND CALM High-82 Low-48 No chance of rain Seventy-Seven Years of Editorial Freedom VOL. LXXVIII, No. 7 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1967 SEVEN CENTS EIGHT PA' ~UAW Strikes Ford, GM, Chrysler Remain Ope Management Refuses Union 's Binding Arbitration Proposal By STEPHEN WILDSTROM The strike immediately affect- Special To The Daily ed Ford's 159,812 hourly-rated em- DETROIT - Employes at 107 ployes. The company said the A, Ford Motor Company facilities in strike will cost its workers over 35 states left their jobs at mid- $5.2 million per day. The 79,200 night yesterday as contracts be- hourly-rated Michigan employes tween the United Auto Workers will loose $2.6 million per day, Union and the Big Three auto according to Ford spokesmen. Fig- manufacturers expired, ures on the cost to the company Work continued at General Mo- have not been made available. tors and Chrysler Corporation fa- Ford ordered all salaried em- cilities, although both firms have ord orer al saried em- refused to extend their contract ployes to report toy work as sched- with the UAW. uled this morning. They were told, Picket lines were thrown up at however, not to attempt to force midnight around, 45 major fac- their way past picket lines if an tories, including the giant River attempt was made to stop them Rouge complex in Dearborn and at facilities. the general parts division in Ypsi- The strike came after Ford re- lanti. jected a proposal by the union -t - - that basic contract issues be sub- mitted for arbitration. Ford Vice- President for Labor Relations Malcolm L. Denise told the UAW, "your proposal is clearly not one which the company could be ex- pected to accept, even if it were to abandon its basic principle that these matters should be resolved in free, collective bargaining." No bargaining sessions between the UAW and Ford are scheduled 'until Monday. A subcommittee will. meet then to determine the time and place of future meetings. No sessions between the union and Chrysler or GM have been set. UAW President Walter P. Reu- ther said early this morning that he is prepared to continue bar- gaining with the two companies. Twice in the past, Reuther add- ed, agreements have been reached with non-struck auto manufac- turers while another company was being struck. Arbitration The union proposed yesterday afternoon that the basic issues in- cluding profit sharing and guaran- teed annual income, two of the union's major demands, be.volun- tarily submitted to an arbitration panel. Under the proposal, the strike would have been postponed for 35 days. During that period, negotiations would continue on non-economic issues, local, issues and the issue of contract duration. In a letter to the union, Denise said the arbitration plan was un- acceptible because the union pro- posed "the economic package should be related solely to Ford's profitability and increased pro- ductivity." Reuther reasserted his conten- tion that the Big Three auto makers were' acting in concert against the union. "The facts are that the industry is acting to- gether," he said. Reuther added he hopes the strike will be' "as short as possible. We don't want this strike," he said. Wages and Salaries Reuther rejected the company * 200 To1 * * * 'U Plant Of f Employes * * * * Walk jobs, Teachers Fail To Report Around State DETROIT (P)-Detroit schools will be closed "until further no- tice," Supt. Norman Drachler an- nounced yesterday as little prog- ress was reported in contract ne- gotiations between the Detroit Federation of Teachers and the Board of Education. Schools originally were to open yesterday, but the start of classes was postponed until today at the request of Ronald Haughton. a state-appointed fact-finder. Over 20,800 teachers were in- volved. Three community colleges -Henry Ford in Dearborn, Kel- logg in Battle Creek and Lake Michigan in-Benton Harbor-were jhit by walkouts. In all, nearly four dozen Mich- igan school districts serving some 500,000 pupils remained shut down in the face of unsettled teacher strikes. Picket lines were thrown up around school buildings in sever- al of the districts to underline teachers' demands for higher sal- aries and other contract benefits. In Lansing, Lt. Gov. William Milliken reported there had been three settlements since Tuesday. No settlement was in sight in the huge Detroit school system serving 300,000 pupils. Milliken predicted many settle- S { t t t t} i it t i "k { i? tt i I I i . k ': Today Claim Ufai Practices on Union Issue Also Contest Regent Suit Against P.A. 37 Hutchinson Act By RON LAND SMAN About 200 skilled tradesmen the University plant departme in protest against alleged unf labor practices plan to "refuse j:work" today. They have also t manded that the Regents wil draw the University's laws against the Hutchinson Act a P.A. 379. The tradesmen's supervisor the plant department, Alfred I ker, said he could not tell b A soon the walk-out might, aff -Andy Sacks University operations. Donald Prebenda, attorney the tradesmen and the Wa, tenaw County Building Tra Council (WCBTC), emphasis that the central issue is alleE University violation of the Uni Labor Practices Act and. the fa 'ure of the State Labor Medlatl Board to act on petitions det mining appropriate bargain agents. -Daily PICKET MEMBERS of Local 898, march at the Rawsonvile, Mich., Ford plant. LEARNING OUTSIDE CLASS: Tutorial Program Pro ects' U Experiences to Outsidet Daily-Richard S. Lee PRESIDENT-DESIGNATE Robben W. Fleming sampled dorm food and student opinion last night at South Quad. Fming Visits Quad Disusses Problems f By MACY ABRAMSON I -was basically a very happy law professor before I was caught in the administrative ambush. I still think of myself as a profes- sor, and I miss the things that go with professoring." University President-Designate Robben Fleming 'yesterday an- swered student questions in an in- foraml discussion following din- ner with approximately 175 people in South Quad. South Quad Coun- cil had planned. the introductory "conversation" since late June. Flemning and his wife spoke separ- ately to groups of over 20 stu- 'dents.. Student power was one of the first issues Fleming discussed with the students. He said he was op- posed to granting students ma- jority vote power, but not to giving them representation. Flem- ing cited the example of a Uni- versity of Wisconsin committee to establish building priorities. Faculty, students and adminis- trators are represented, he ex- plained. Students Content Fleming next answered ques- tions on student apathy. "Much lack of interest is due to relative contentment,"' he said. "Many students don't f e e 1 strongly enough to be active. You have to assume elected representatives do represent the students. But actually, students today are gen- erally less apathetic than they 4 were 10 years ago." While Fleming did not feel the residential college would reduce apathy, he favored the plan. Fleming referred to a University of Wisconsin experiment in which jfreshmen attended classes with the students in their housing units or simply were scheduled into classes as a group. "Almost all of the freshmen expressed satisfac- tion with the project," Fleming said. "The residential college makes it more possible to find a home group, an identity." Although Fleming found "diffi- ition you must have people of a broad spectrum of views that they must be permitted to express." Fleming found the question of overemphasis on faculty research difficult to answer. "The issue is. no doubt more complex than it was 20 or 30 years ago. More funds are available, and first- rate opportunities for exporation are needed to draw top class fac- ulty to universities." Fleming discussed his personal relationship with students, ex- plaining that he was always avail- able at Wisconsin. He said he would like to set up regular meet- in1±o diiU C7U I1LC +4nkii LU argument that the wages of work- ments would be reached before ers should not be related to the the weekend on the basis of re- salaries and bonuses of executives. ports issued by fact finders as- "All of the high towered execu- signed by the State Labor Media- tives together," he said, "cannot tion Board. make the smallest automobile in' Of the 45 districts left unsettled, the Ford line of products without teachers in 34 voted to follow a the skill and sweat of our mem- "no contract-no work" policy. In bers. eight districts, teachers decided to "I think it is a real prospect," he report for duty without contracts.1 continued, "that this'union may in five districts, no decision wasI be tested as it has never been announced. tested before. The rank and file of< The Detroit Teachers Federation this union are up to the test." is seeking a $7,000 starting figure. ___ . ~ - - t' 31" 1 i Fill Libraries, Dorms, i t inswitn sudetaapas explore possibilities during the By JENNY STILLER have to hire high school students next three or four months. Flem- Over 5,000 students are earning to fill in on the evening food serv- ing will take office Jan. 1. $15 or more a week at University ice jobs," he said. Hiring is usually Hiding and Finding part-time jobs, University employ- done by the individual housing Himent figures indicate. units. "I'm just going to hide for The three largest campus em- Even at the current wages of a while, finding out how things p 1 o y e r s. University Residence $1.55-1.60 an hour, it has become are done and what problems there Halls, the libraries and the Mich- increasingly difficult in recent are," the President-Designate igan Union, do their own hiring. years to find enough students will- said, "I'm glad to meet with The various academic departments ing to work, Malanoski added. groups like this." and the University's Part-Time "This represents a raise of 15 The President-Designate ar- Employment Office offer other cents an hour over last year's rived in Ann Arbor Sunday with jobs. rates." he said. "I suspect we may his family. His temporary offices' One out of every five student' have to raise wages again next are in the sevent floor of the Legal employees works in the residence year to attract enough people." Research Building. halls, in either food service or desk deIn addition to food service and "Law has always been my first work. Most work about 10 hours a! esk workers, the residence halls love," Fleming said. He will join week. also employ about 400 students to Prof. Russell Smith of the Law According to Chester J. Mala- act in advisory capacity-as res- School to teach a weekly two- ;noski, business manager of Uni- ident assistants, assistant resident hour seminar in collective bar- versity Housing, the residence directors, and so forth. gaining and public employment. halls often have trouble finding The University library systen Fleming is a veteran labor medi- I enough applicants for the jobs is the second largest part-time ator. available. "In some instances, we employer. It hires some 400 stu- ---- - - CORE Leader Predicts More Riots, Assails White Power Establishment By PEGGY GRANGER 'The problem is to justify to the bucket drive. The project also is As the University's Tutorial and children in the project the aca- involved in fund raising on na- Cultural Relations Project begins demic work they are doing," says " tional and local levels. Cuitsthr yearits original gin Martin Seif, '68, tutor and ad- The project now needs advisors its posixthe year, its unchangedalpur- ministrative advisor for the proj- who have experience either as ad- plyskis nnlege- gained ect. ' 'ministrators or counselors. Inter- ply skills and knowledgelge' Ann Arbor's problems are unique. ested applicants will be interview- at the University to the larger Many of its Negro children who ed for the 25 administrative and community.- The project this year are culturally disadvantaged only 25 counseling advisory positions hopes to involve over 300 tutors in relation to the enriched Ann currently available. Administrative SArbourSumpterTonship, Willow Arbor norm. They are .relatively advisors are responsible for keep- Run andDetroitowslow in the classroom and defi- ing track of tutorial groups and The Tutorial Project emphasizes cient in math and reading skills, planning group activities. Advis- direct individual contact with cul- according to Seif. ors in the past have usually been turally limited children fr o m Dick Sleet, tutorial project di- graduate students, while tutors grades one through 12. rector, explains that "tutoring is a series of catalytic meetings which do not pretend to teach Trainee Meeting the 3 R's as do the public schools, .e j but are geared to motivate chil- The,, time of a meeting for orkiers dren to appreciate knowledge and anyone interested in joining diverse cultures. Tutoring is done. The Daily was incorrectly O ff t hrough individual experiences be- printed in yesterday's paper. O ffices tween the child and a volunteer The meeting will be held at who is interested in children, and 7:15 p.m. tonight in the Stu- in group activities outside the nor- dent Publications Bldg. at 420 dents a year to work as shelvers, mal environment of the child." '. Maynard St. book sorters, desk workers, clerk- Judy Leavitt, '68, advisory co- typists, and exit controllers. It ordinator for the Willow Run In addition, the tutorial proj- also has a full-time staff of an- Project, in explaining desirable ect is also utilizing experimental other 400. qualities for tutors, emphasized the I projects this fall. One project in- Unlike the residence halls, the need for students with "openness 1 volves the use of film as a teach- libraries are besieged by more than to ideas and change. A tutor can ing device. "We are interested in twice as many applicants as they learn a lot from a tutee," she people who want to teach creative- have room for, according to Miss adds. ly, invblving the whole person," Mary Ann Steffans, libary assis- The tutorial project functions in says Alice Hecht, '68, coordina- tant. Applicants are chosen on a cooperation with local churches, tor of experimental films for 'the first-come-first-serve basis for public schools, the University and project. She adds that culturally general positions paying $1.55 an the community. The project until limited children are visually and 'hour. last May received -an Office for aurally acute rather than highly Other University jobs, as well Economic Opportunity grant. It is verbally oriented. - as those in the Ann' Arbor com- now surviving on student contri- Theproject hopes to attract s uiy r ildb h nvr butions made. through its annual more Negro university students. munity, are filled by the Univer- sity's Part-Time Employment Of-. . . fice. 2 Although its official function 1 is to recruit, screen, and refer :. qualified applicants for part-time- and temporary employment in the University, the office also attempts} to match students seeking jobs in the community with employers who have part-time positions to offer. Businessmen seeking student employees call the Part-Time Em- 'ployment Office and leave a de- r: Breach of Discipline The Hutehinson Act as amend ed' by P.A. 379; allows publ employees to use agents for co lective bargaining on wage hours and benefits. The Regen presengtly have a suit filed : Washtenaw County Circuit Cou challenging the constitutionalil of the law, charging that it vi( lates University autonomy. Russell Reister, University pe sonnel oficer, told the workers ye terday that "refusal to report work would, of course, be viewi by the University as a serio breach of discipline." The en ployees, however, are "willing take the consequences," accordir to Prebenda. One worker said, "whatey happens, at least maybe we ci make it better for the next guy In response to Reister's warnir Prebenda said "If they see this a breach of discipline then th ought to consider the human i: terest involved-especially whE 9, out of 11 universities- have doi 'so," 3 'Pay O'ff' Three unions, the WCBTC, t American Federation of Stal County, and Municipal Employe and the International Union Operating Engineers have filed p titions with the State Labor M, diation Board requesting bargal ing rights for certain Universi employes. There is no conflict b tween the three unions' reques yet they have not been act upon in over a year. This.is o of the skilled tradesmen's cor plaints. According to Prebenda the wor ers also charge the Universi with trying to "pay off" wor ers from joining the unions. Af er the petition was filed with t mediation board, Prebenda alle ed, the University improved p rates and classifications to d suade employes from being unio ized. The board views this as unfair practice as defined by t Unfair Labor Practices Act. Prebenda also said that t' courts would have nojurlsdicti to issue an injunction agair the strike since it is about u fair labor practices. Picketing at Plant The workers have decided, a cording to skilled tradesman ID vid Farrington, that if one man dismissed, then all will refuse By ANN MUNSTER The uprisings which have rock- ed Detroit and other large cities for the past few summers are "racial only in the sense that by and large the participants were black," says Ezra Rowry, chair- know it here is either academic, or degenerates into physical vio- lence." Rory says that "when any group in a society is under the impression that it has the full suppoi t of the power structure and the general community. it the reason, but the majority of scription of the job, hours of work, black people are also convinced pay, and other relevant informa- that the establishment is firmly tion. These jobs are then listed on against them. a bulletin board at the office. Rowry is convinced that "there When a student wishes to, apply are bad police-community rela- for one, he fills out an application tions in Ann Arbor, as well as in at the office, which arranges for every other community in the him to take any necessary skill .; . :; >.:.: