I TIN THE WAKE OF THE ARRESTS See editorial page u1L gll t !1U11 ~!Iaiiki GROOVY Hih-73 Low-46 Warmer; little chance of rain Vol. LXXIX, No. 8 Ann Arbor, Michigan - Saturday, September 7, 1968 Ten Cents Eight Pages AI f Offer to ha fails clash Ii De utiesj' 170 studen By RON LANDSMAN One-hundred and eighty-two students, welfare r and their supporters were arrested yesterday )by at police after a four-hour sit-in at the County Bldg. lil By PHILIP BLOCK An eleventh'hour offer of supplementary city funds failed to avert yesterday's arrests of students and welfare mothers which followed moments after the proposal Was made. The final offer was made by the Washtenaw County Board of Supervisors Chairman Robert Harrison and Ann Arbor City Administrator Guy Larcom to Mrs. Shirley Hay- wood and several other leaders of the welfare mothers group. The offer stipulated the city would try to supplement the "emergency welfare funds" which the board's Ways and Means Committee (WMC) officially approved at their meet- ing earlier yesterday. The $60 per child allocation was re- jected by the welfare group Thursday. Larcom contended city funds would probably be available A only to city welfare recipients. 150 A similar sit-in over welfare rights Thursday was broken up when 49 persons were arrested. The protesters-including eight welfare recipients about 170 students-were arraigned last night at the Arbor Municipal Court on trespass charges and Ann The charge carries a maximum sentence of 90 days in jail or $100 or both. Bail was set at $50. U attais agreement with union A contract agreement has been reached between the University and the International Union of Operating Engineers Local 547. The contract will run for 16 months, until, December, 1969.. The contract represents agree- ment with one of three University unions who have been negotiating their first collective bargaining arrangement with the University. V Joseph Jordan, business agent for Local 547, plans to call a mem- bership meeting on Sept. 12 for purposes of voting on the agree- merit. Jordan and his negotiating committee indicate they will rec- ommend ratification. The agreement provides for in- 9 creases in pay classifications and improved benefits. Details of the settlement have not been released. Bargaining began in January on the contract covering 34 heating facilities employes at the Univer- sity. Negotiatons are continuing with the two other unions for initial contracts covering 275 mainte- nance trades employes and ap- proximately . 2600 service-main- tenance employes. The massive American Federa- tion of State, County and Muni- cipal Employes (AFSCME) Local 1583 has threatened the Univer- sity with a strike Tuesday laying off dorm kitchen help and some 2,000 other unskilled workers. AFSCME said the strike will be held unless an agreement can be reached at the bargaining session scheduled for Monday. But 'Russel Reister, University personnel officer, said Thursday when the unions threatened the strike that no agreement was pos- sible at the forthcoming Monday session. Reister said the union "had pro- posed no economic agreement." He indicated the University would have to have time to study a pro- posal. "We won't be rushed into this thing," Reister said. The mothers group rejected yes- terday's offer because Larcom -.:. ...". :. could not guarantee the addi- 9 tional funds would be provided. Both he and Harrison asked the - mothers to begin again their ne- - -:,}'::::}.}:::: gotiations over the weekend to avoid the imminent arrests. The mothers had expected to meet with the WMC at their 1:30 a. :t". p.m. meeting, but it was held without them. :: '" The mothers group remained in+ a room across the hall expecting to meet with the WMC after itr had adjourned. However, at the ?::........ conclusionuofnthe meeting,acom- mittee chairman Fred Lunde said that he never promised nor in- Daily Andyas tended to meet with the group,-Sack and that the emergency fund is- More than 150 police removed University students, welfare recipients and supporters yester- sue was settled. The mothers led by their at- day after they refused to leave the County Bldg. at 5:30 p.m. torney, George Stewart, asked to The demonstrators were confronted with police dogs and deputies armed with shotguns, mace, hear the tape of Thursday's meet- ing at which they insisted Lunde tear gas, sniper rifles and 36-inch riot sticks. had promised to meet with them. 'County Administrator Theodore Strunk was ordered by Harrison to play the tape for the mothers. Upon hearing it, they felt Lunde had implied. he would meet with them when he said, "The first item on the agenda will be your counterproposal." They then told some of the protest marshals that they wanted the students to sit-in. Mrs. Haywood also asked Ste- wart to request an emergency meeting with the supervisors on Monday. I The WMC meeting was- con- stantly being interrupted by vari- ous law enforcement officers com- ing in and briefing Harrison on the developments of the protests outside. The demonstrations had started soon after the meeting began. At the beginning of the meeting Washtenaw County Sheriff Dou- glas Harvey told the. committee members, "On the diag, the con- versation was about you, the supervisors. So you are the vil- lians, now. But rest assured you will be taken out safely by my men if they (the protesters) come up here." i During the meeting, the com- mitte examined a report prepared by the Wayne County Social 3erv- ice Department. It detailed how the $60 of emergency aidl per child figure was determined. It was on the Wayne proposal of $60 that the WMC based their offer to the ADC group. As of 1:40 a.m. today, 129 of the 182 arrested had been pro- cessed by Ann Arbor Municipal Judge Samuel Elden. The first person to appear pleaded guilty, but all 128 after him stood mute. They were booked, arraigned and given an extension on their plea. All will have to appear before El- den in the City Council Chambers, 9 a.m. Tuesday. SGC President Michael Koeneke, who was handling ball all evening, said there would be enough ball for everyone. City officials agreed to process everyone last night. Koeneke esti- mated they would finish by 3 a.m. The major contributors to the bail fund included Student Gov- ernment, $1500; and the Ann Ar- bor Chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union, -$1,100. Will Smith, assistant to the vice presi- dent of the office of student af- fairs, raised $2,000 more. Student leaders called an all- night vigil that began at 11 p.m. Approximately 30 students march- ed around the County Bldg. with candles throughout the night. Early in the evening, a sizeable group of Washtenaw County dep- uties and State Police from var- ious posts in southern Michigan were billeted at the Civil Defense Center-Fire Station near Ply- BULLETIN An organizational meeting will be held at 11 a.m. today in the SGC room on the 3rd floor of the SAB for all stu- dents concerned , about recent events in Ann Arbor. Voice-SDS members last night began organizing a leaf- let campaign and "round-the- clock" vigil at the County Bldg. SGC has: scheduled an emer- gency meeting for 1 p~m. today' and may support the vigil. mouth and Beal Roads on North Campus. City Manager Guy Larcom said the building belongs to the Uni- versity but had been turned over to local authorities "some time ago" for use as a fire station. De- tective Lt. Eugene Staudenmaeir of the Ann Arbor police said that as far as he knew, the city police See WELFARE, Page 2 dept. raps draft rules WASHINGTON ()-The U.S. Justice Department said yesterday that in reclassifying and inducting those who burn or abandon draft cards, the Selective Service Sys- tem appears to be using the draft to punish anti-war dissenters. The Department said such ap- plication of delinquency, regula- tions may be contrary to both the draft law and the Constitu- tion. The Department disagreed with Selective Service on all major is- sues in presenting the govern ment's brief to the Supreme Court in the case of a divinity student reclassified 1-A and ordered to induction. OESTEREICH CASE James J. Oestereich,'whose case will be heard' by the Supreme Court next month, is a student at Andover Theological School, New- ton Centre, Mass. He had turned in his draft card to the Justice Department last October along with hundreds of other ;ersons, in protest against the Vietnam war. Registrants are required by law to keep their draft cards in their possession. Soliciter Gen. Erwin N. Gris- wold contended Oestereich had the right to challenge his induc- tion order in a suit prior to in- :uction; while Selective Service said he didn't have such a right. On Oct. 26, t. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey, director of Selective Service, wrote to local draft boards, suggesting "that those who violate the draft act should be denied deferment in the national in- terest." Griswold, in the government brief, told the court that Hershey's letter, "which in effect called upon local boards to °apply, the delin- quency reclassifeiation procedure to 'nisguided registrants" who en- gage in illegal activity' in 'viola- tion of the act or' regulations,' appears to have invited local boards to undertake such reclas- sification in a punitive fashion." "Against this background," Griswold continued, "there is a serious question whether the de- linquency regulations are being applied in a manner consistent with the Selective Service Act 'and the Constitution." DISAGREEMENT Although the government usual- ly speaks wih one voice in Su- preme Court proceedings, Gris- wold was frank to say Selective Service did not agree with the Justice Department's position. Therefore he presented both sets of arguments. Selective Service contended that ministers and divinity students are subject to reclassification as delinquents just like any other registrants. The Justice Depart- ment contended they are exempt from military service by law and by deep-rooted tradition. Griswold said Selective Service contended this exemption was ,justice -Daily-Jay L. Cassidy Diag rally leads to confrontation By LESLIE WAYNE More than 1,200 people massed on the Diag yesterday noon to organize the demonstration at the Washtenaw County Bldg. which resulted in the arrest of 182 stu- dents, welfare recipients and their supporters. Acting upon the suggestion of Mrs. Shirley Haywood, spokesman for the welfare mothers, approxi- mately half of the group broke away for the march to the county building. A rally will be held Monday at noon to help organize continued support of the welfare mothers and to protest police brutality.. rested Thursday night. Money for the welfare mothers was-arranged through the Ann Arbor Legal Aid Clinic. University officials had ques- tioned whether they could release the $1,500 in SOC funds, since they would be used for a- "par- tisan political movement." "This hesitation by the Univer- sity shows that it is still hung-up on legislative considerations rather than humanistic feelings," Bob Neff, SGC executive vice presi- dent, told the Diag rally. Miss Barbara Newell, vice pres- ident of the Office of Student Ar- fairs .warned Neff tha.t SC might to face an angered opposition," Mike Koeneke, SGC president said. Bruce Levine, administrative vice president of SGC, comment- ed: "The not-so-veiled threat of the Administration makes clearer than could any Voice speaker the intimate connections between the attempts of students to control their lives and the fight of" the poor, the blacks, the disenfran- chised to control theirs. "Lines are already being drawn for' the next stage, the likely strike of University employes." The action of the students at the County Bldg. reauired the ap- and into your houses and your families." "Don't let your participation stop on the campus, go back to your middle class ghetto and get involved. That's where the help is needed," Thomas added. Levine then pointed out that the students must aid not only the welfare mothers but Univer- sity employes in their upcoming bargaining sessions. "This university moves towards the people, only when people in- sist and lay their bodies on the line," Levine said. In an impromtu rally, follow- irsc ves*irdav' arrest sahout 200 ...., m