PACE TEN THE MICHIGAN DAILY F'RIDlAY. SPTE~MBER 22 M1 PAGE TEN THE MICHIGAN IJAILY L' MLA I. 17G/: 1 Gi.Tl.DE X%, .: Z, LOU i I Ford Picketers Remain Optimistic In Spite of Long Strike Prospect luncheon, Prof. Robert Sklar: "Regis Debray and the Revolutionary Intel- (~D(2AklI7~rlc~t~..l lectual," Sept. 2,1- ~. ul ORGANIZATION House, 802 Monroe, 1p.m N )OT ICES Voice, Work committee meetings, Draft.,Sept, 22, 2 p.m., Guild House; ________Mobilization and War Protest, Sept. 22, _- 6:30 p.m., Guild House. r - I Hi//el DETROIT-Strikers against the Ford Motor Co. apparently fore- saw their walkout coming and prepared for it. Picketers are still optimistic after two weeks, and reports of forced economic belt- tightening are all but nonexistent thus far. Skimpy larders loom in the fu- ture, however, if the strike in sup- port of a new contract lasts the three months which some along the picket lines expect it may. Ken Bannon, the UAW's Ford department chief, estimates the strike will last at least another six weeks. Bannon, expressing hope he was too pessimistic, estimated it will be another month "before the pieces start falling together" in negotiations of a new contract be- tween Ford and the UAW. Then, he predicted, it will take another two weeks to fit all the pieces together. However, Sidney F. McKenna, Ford director of labor affairs, views Bannon's prediction as "a discouraging assessment," but de- clines to make a forecast him- self. Workers say that failure of the company and union to agree on anything in weeks following the opening of negotiations back on July 11 foretold strike. The company and union blame each other for the walkout. It erupted from diagreement on- economic issues, including union demands for a guaranteed an- nual income, a substantial wage increase and no tampering with a cost-of-living escalator on which wages rose 18 cents an hour in ' three years. Union strike benefit payments began yesterday, the 15th day of the strike which began Sept. 7 with the UAW's 160,000 members walking out and closing Ford corporate profits, a "substantial" The UAW International Execu- plants across the country. pay hike, boosts in fringe benefits tive Board meets in Detroit today Weekly benefit payments, how- and improved working conditions. to recommend a strike-supporting ever, run to only about a day's Since the walkout, Ford and increase in union dues paid by normal pay. They range from $20 UAW negotiators have not return- UAW members still working. A for a single worker to $30 for a ed to economic issues and are not ' special convention of the union is! worker with a family. That com- expected to before next week, at set for Oct. 8 in Detroit to act pares, Ford says, with the average the earliest. on the recommendation. weekly gross paycheck of $155.83 While striking Ford. the union Meanwhile, bargainers decided its hourly workers got last year. kept its members working without Tuesday at GM to concentrate Bannon said Thursday the com- contracts in GM and Chrysler immediately on seeking at-the- pany had advised him more than plants, which together employ plant working agreements which 1,500 skilled tradesmen have re- almost 500,000. supplement national contracts, moved their tool boxes from plants thus far, indicating they likely have found employment elsewhere. 0 William Hoffman, president of UAW Local 863 at Cincinnati, Ohio, said some strikers there cLJ17HA L7LU AU speculate the walkout may last until Christmas. Economic side effects of the Food and Entertainment strike against Ford Motor Co. are mounting, and the diagnosis is o the Islands that they'll get much worse. Already hundreds of jobs in supplier factories and in transpor- tation have vanished, along with SUNDAY, Sept. 24 160,000 in Ford plants across the6O country. 6:30 P.M.-Only $1.25 As the strike enters its third week today, industrial spokesmen say that layoffs elsewhere likely 0 NEWMAN -3 31 Thompson will be accelerated. Ford was struck at midnight0 Sept. 6 as three-year contracts ran out there and at Chrysler and _______________} ti-_________________ General Motors. The UAW chose Ford as its target, hoping to use whatever it wins there as the pat- tern for subsequent settlements at. Chrysler and GM, in that order. 0 The UAW struck in support of what it calls its "longest and most ambitious list of demands" in his- VANGUARD RECORD'SG tory, and it was over economic issues, including a demand for guaranteed annual income, that negotiations begun in July finally Singin Playin the BLUES foundered.Snn P' g eL Labor demands include a guar-TU anteed annual income, a share of This FRIDAY, SATURDAY, SUNDAY, Sept. 22, 23, 24 at 8 P.M. onroe $1.50 with goodies gratio HOUSE 330 MAYNARD 'TEMBER 22 2--- -- jUSE OF THIS COLUMN FOR AN- ** * NOUNCEMENTS is available to officially South Quad Council, Smitty's fea- recognized and registered student orga- tures Peter Bowen, Sept. 22, 8:30 p.m., recgnied nd egiterd sudet o G0103 South Quad. nizations only. Forms are available in G . Rn. 111 SAB, * * Baha'i Student Group holds informal discussion, Fri., Sept. 22, 8 p.m., 520 N. Friends of Vietnam Fall, Draft com- Ashley. 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