sWELFARE CHILDREN See editorial page OT 4IkA6 ~~Iait BLAND High-68 Low-52 Partly cloudy and cooler Vol. LXXIX, No. 7 Ann Arbor, Michigan - Friday, September 6, 196 Ten Cents Eight Pages I 0 i SGC endorses 28 'U' students noon protest By MARTIN HIRSCHMAN and LESLIE WAYNE Over 900 students massed on the Diag last night to protest the arrests yesterday of 52 welfare recipients and students as they sat-in at the Washtenaw County Bldg. Before the students adjourned to informal workshops and organizational meetings, they scheduled a noon rally on the "Diag today to prepare to support the welfare mothers. Meeting in emergency session late last night, Student Government Council urged students not to attend classes jailed at protest By PHILIP BLOCK and STEVE NISSEN Fifty-two people were dragged from the second floor of the County Bldg. yesterday by more than 100 law enforce- ment officers under the direction of Sheriff Douglas Harvey. The group was protesting what they termed insufficient county welfare aid. Twenty-eight of those arrested are Uni- versity students. Most of the others were welfare mothers receiving Aid To Dependent Children (ADC) funds. Fifty of the protesters were released on $25 bond late last night after being booked on charges of trespassing, a mis- demeanor punishable by a4 Daley getsa .TV time for reply ' which conflict with the noon rally. SGC also condemned tactics used by the Washtenaw County sheriffs in arresting the demon- stratorsand expressed support for the welfare mothers' demands. SGC President Michael Koeneke commended Acting Vice President for Student Affairs Barbara Ne- well for her "promptness in assist- ing students arrested by the sher- iff's office." Mrs. Newell arranged CHICAGO (A) - Mayor Richard for the Universtiy to post bond J. Daley accepted yesterday an for the students. offer of one hour of prime time Council scheduled a special from two broadcasting companies meeting for 9 a&m. this morning to balance what the mayor term- to finalize plans for the noon ed "one-sided accounts of the rally. network coverage" during the The welfare mothers were ar- week of the Democratic National rested yesterday as they sat-in at Convention. ' the County Bldg. after the normal Daley announced he has ac- closing time when negotiations f cepted the offer from Metrome- with the Ways and Means Com- dia, which has television and radio mittee of the County Board of stations across the country, and Supervisors failed to resolve a dis- from the WGN Continental pute over the size of allotments Broadcasting Co., based in Chi- for children's school clothing. cago and unaffiliated with any 1 At the Diag rally last night, network. there was considerable speculation The announcement said a that students would march on the * documentary program, prepared County Jail as they had Wednes- by the mayor's office, will be day night, but several speakers shown in Chicago, New York, Los urged rejection of such a demon- Angeles, San Francisco, Washing- stration. ton, Denver; Colo., Kansas City, Speaking against an immediate Mo., and Duluth, Minn. march to the jail, Ann Arbor New WGN' has offered to make the Politics Party Chairman Eric program available to any station Chester, Grad, said the move V desiring it. would have the effect of "pre- The time and date of the pro- empting" the welfare mothers gram will be announced shortly, rather than supporting them. the aide said. As reports spread that a crowd Daley charged the television of blacks was massing at the networks presented one-sided coy- County Jail, Chester said he did erage of demonstrations last week not want students to create a in front of the Conrad Hilt on confrontation with police in which p Hotel, downtown convention head- blacks would be the prime target qug.rters. of police. Daley gaid the other side of the "If anyone would be harmed, it picture-demonstratators taunting would be them, not us," Chester and harrassing police--was not said.- Sshown. Another speaker, Bill Ayers, di- Daley also disclosed the Amer- rector of the Children's Com- can Broadcasting Co. joined the' .munity, told students it would be + National Broadcasting Co. in a a mistake to "go down to the compromise offer to Daley's re- jail and peter out like we did last quest for prime time on the three night." networks. Four hundred students marched The Columbia Broadcastin{ to the County Jail Wednesday Company rejected Daley's request, night to protest the arrest and citing a half hour interview with alleged beating of Daily Man- the major during the convention. ale eeating of ail Mn -------See POLICE, Page 2 -Daily-Andy Sacks TWO DEPUTIES FROM the Washtenaw County Sheriff's Department attempt to seize a woman who claimed she was recovering from a recent operation. The deputies first forced the woman's sister and brother-in-law from her. Twenty minutes after she was arrested she was taken by special deputies' car to St. Joseph's Hospital and admitted. ADC mother's platn rejected! By JIM HECK Two proposals for obtaining "emergency welfare funds" to clothe school children were reject- ed yesterday by the Ways and Means Committee (WMC) of the WMC a g a i n this afternoon, the WMC proposal, sat-in at the mother receive the full minimum and announced they would hold County Building after the meet- amount as determined by her another sit-in if WMC continues ing with WMC was adjourned, caseworker; those who have al- to reject their demands.. were arrested by police. They were ready made applications should The proposals were submitted later released on bond. be processed immediately." by a group of Aid to Dependent Children (ADC) welfare recip- Washtenaw ountyBoars.o ients, who asked the grants be Supervisors, given "on the basis of need." The mother's welfare group, who3 The mothers, led by Mrs. Shir- submitted the proposals, agreed ley Haywood, chairman of the late last night to meet with the Ypsilanti Welfare Action, rejected STA TEWIDE: Write-in Mcarty drive organizes i The meeting with WMC was The WMC members argued that the third since Monday. The money supplied by the county mothers have been demanding I on the basis of need would involve more money to clothe their child- i the assistance of the state depart- ren for school, which opens to- ment of welfare "to determine day. that need." At a meeting Wednesday WMC Lundy said, "We can't possibly proposed to distribute $40 per bargain to tell the state what' it child to the 1,200 children assum- should do or how it should deter- ed qualified to receive the funds, mine the need.', The mothers, through the at- torney George ~Stewart, rejected Alfred E. Brose, director of the the $40-per-child proposal Wed- county social services depart- nesday, and the conference w a s ment, agreed with Lundy and said, adjourned until yesterday. "You can't have both your new Five representatives of the ap- policy determined on need and proximately 35 mothers demand- immediate service. It would just ing the funds met with the WMC be impossible." and officials from the social serv- The mothers' committee claimed ices administration yesterday at that qualified persons could be 1:30 p.m. obtained to work on the cases and WMC chairman Fred Lundy that the cases wouldn't take as had closed the meeting to the long as welfare officials claimed press, but approximately a dozen they would. pressmen were allowed to enter R when the mothers refused to Robert Hunter, representing the negotiate unless the press were mothers, said, "This is an af- admitted, fluent community. I'm sure there Stewart presented a counter- would be a number of people who proposal by the mothers asking could assist the workers if the "the amount of clothing supple- need arose." ment be determined on an in- The mothers contended persons dividual need." in need "should be expected to Stewart further asked that "each See COUNTY, Page 2 maximum sentence of 30 days in jail and/or a $50 fine. Initially, police refused to re- lease two of the protesters last night, Paul Haywood and Bruce Thomas. Haywood is still being held for unpaid traffic tickets. Police would not say why Thomas was not immediately released. Thomas is on the full-time staff of the National Welfare Rights Organization and is permanently assigned to Ohio. He was released at 12:30 a.m. Arraignment of the 52 demon- strators is set for 2 p.m. today in Municipal Court in Ann Arbor City Hall. Funds for the release of "Uni- versity students were provided by Vice President for Student Affairs Barbara Newell from the Univer- sity's "bail fund." President Robben W. Fleming personally authorized the release of the funds. Bond money for the welfare mothers was raised within 45. minutes of their arrest from about 20 individual donors. The police raid took place at 5:50 p.m. after negotiations be- tween the welfare recipients and the WMC reached a deadlock. The sit-in demonstration had begun at 5:15 p.m. just before the building was scheduled to close. Sheriff's deputies from Wash-, tenaw and Livingston counties .along with city police from Ann Arbor, Milan, Howell, Saline and Dexter participated in the arrest action. A small group of stunned ob- servers watched as the persons being arrested were shoved, drag- ged or carried to waiting paddy wagons and buses. Late last night a large crowd gathered outside the jail where the 52 demonstrators were being held. A close, ring of deputies was stationed all evening on the peri- meter of the county property with special "riot sticks" and police dogs. No major incidents occurred. The County Bldg. arrests were orderly until the deputies began dragging out the women. The of- ficers became more aggressive as See PLAN, Page 2 Newton trial goes By The Associated Press The eight-week trial of Black Panther leader Huey Newton, charged with the street slaying of a white policeman, went to the jury this morning. Earlier,! on the Oakland, Calif., courthouse steps, Panther leader Bobby Seale told two dozen leath- er-Jacketed Negro militants "if Huey Newton is convicted, the sky's the limit." Inside, Superior Court Judge Monroe Friedman told the jury- to return a verdict "regardless of what the consequences of that verdict may be." The judge told the jury of seven women and five men it could find the 26-year-old Newton geuilty of first-degree murder, second-de- gree murder, or voluntary man- slaughter, or it could acquit him. Newton has been on trial eight weeks on charges of killing police- man John Frey, 25, and wounding policeman Herbert Heanes in an Oct 28 street shooting in which he himself was wounded in the abdomen. Black Panthers, who advocate the arming of Negroes in self'de- fense, have made a nationwide publicity campaign to "Free Huey." Meanwhile, in New York, Mayor John V. Lindsay confirmed -"yes- terday that off-duty policemen were involved in an attack Wed- nesday by 200 white men on about a dozen Black Panthers and white sympathizers in the Brooklyn Criminal Court Building. Lindsay said he had been as- sured by Police Commissioner Howard R. Leary "immediate and vigorous action" would be taken against any police officer who vio- lated laws or police regulations." By MARCIA ABRAMSON A write-in McCarthy drive be- gan to take shape last night asa more than 400 supporters of the movement met to re-organize Students for McCarthy. The group-will distribute paste- on decals of the Minnesota sena- tor to voters. When the decals are attached to their ballots, voters will be able to write-in a slate of McCarthy electors. McCarthy's name cannot be placed on the ballot because the state filing deadline for the November elec- tion was May 13. Students for McCarthy will also consider supporting candidates of' other organizations for state and local offices if the candidates are found to be acceptable. Art Silbergeld, '69, one of the; organizers of the group, explained that other write-in McCarthy groups are organizing in the state and a state convention will be held on Sept. 21 or 28 in Ann Arbor.. ArAnother organizer, Prof. Nor-. man Starr of the mathematics de- partment, said McCarthy sup- porters had been able to place the senator's name on the ballot in 11 states. Starr added that Mc- Carthy groups expected to be placed' on the ballot in twelve' more states "within the next few days." AlthoughdMcCarthy has indi- cated he does not want to be placed on the ballot ,the group's organizers expressed hope that his decision will change. "As of! today, we're hopeful," Starr said. Local representatives of New Politics and the Peace and Free- dom parties challenged the Mc- Carthy movement because it might 'undermine the candidacy of Eldridge Cleaver. However, Sil- By JIM NEUBACHER A seven per cent salary in- crease for the academic person- nel of all state colleges and uni- versities will be the most im- portant consideration in plan- ning state higher education appropriations for the '69 - '70 fiscal year, Gov. George Rom- ney's office reports. The guidelines released July 30 were applauded by administra- tors, worried about the Univer- sity's fiscal future. "A seven per cent increase for University faculty members will leave the University situated competitive- ly with other schools in the Big Ten and 'with comparable insti- tutions across the country," says SEVEN PER CENT BOOST proposes faculty pay,,hike tions, are in the "A" or "AA" rank. "National American Associa- tion of University Professors (AAUP) figures indicated that the average increase for each of the last two years in institu- tions across the country was around six and one half per cent," Smith adds. The average increase in Uni- versity faculty salaries from the '67-'68 fiscal year to the cur- rent fiscal year, including in- creased staff benefits and spec- ial adjustments, totaled slight- ly less than seven and one half per cent. However, the salary increase academic staff by seven per cent, the state would have to earmark an extra $5.39 million for this University alone. Further clouding hopes for the increase of $13.7 million for general fund' appropriations, the state has estimated that it will be necessary to spend an extra $160 million in the com- ing fiscal year to simply main- tain present levels of operation for all state programs. Added to this is the question of salary increases for civil serv- ice employes, expected to aver- age five per cent, and the grow- ing burden of the state welfare programs. Any plans for increasing ap- ing and combining where possi- ble. "It is not expected that tui- tion increases will be used to avoid evaluation of programs in order to meet the funding needs not provided (by this guide- line)," it states. A year ago, when University officials were forced to raise tuition to meet their financial situation, they insisted they would avoid another hike this year. However, tuition was raised again, and the same officials find themselves even more de- termined to avoid the third tui- tion increase in three years. -But this year remain hesi- tant to say it won't happen. See related story, Page 3 I bergeld replied, "New PoliticsI didn't choose the most viable can- didate. Our object is to win."