Wednesday, September ZS, 1968
THE MICHIGAN DAILY
Page Seven
Wednesday, September 25, 1968 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Page Sev~n
Crowds cheer Dubcek; Soviets pressure for ouster
9 PRAGUE (A') - Czechoslovaks be pleased if Dubcek and Presi-
cheered Communist party chief dent Ludvik Svoboda resigned for
Alexander Dubcek on the streets health reasons.
of Prague yesterday amid indica- But there w a s more evidence
tions that the Soviet Union was yesterday of how much Dubcek'
pressing to have him resign. has become a national hero since
As if in reply, Dubcei and the the start of his liberalization pro-
Leadership of his party stressed gram last January and the Soviet
their unity and prepared for talks invasion Aug. 20 that has tried to
scheduled to be held in Moscow stop it.
by the weekend on withdrawal of A crowd cheered the party lead-
part of the Soviet-led occupation er as he arrived at the Prague
forces. Communist headquarters. He said
Moscow opposition to Dubcek as in response: "This adulation is
head of the Czechoslovak delega- not for me but for our leadership."
*tion was seen by some Czechoslo- His picture is in shop and apart-
vak sources as the reason for post- ment windows throughout the
ponement of the meeting last country.
week. One informant reported the In another development, the
Soviets made it known they would Communist party newspaper Rude
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Pravo said yesterday, in an edi-
torial aimed at Western capitals,
that revival of the cold war over
the Czechoslovak crisis "can only
harm the normalization of o u r
economy and political, social and
private life."
Neither East nor West would
benefit, Rude Pravo said.
London, Paris, Bonn, Rome and Pravo's statements were widely re-
Brussels," it added, garded as evidence of this pres-
Rude Pravo suggested there is a sure. Moscow also is reported call-
fundamental difference between ing for the removal of additional
the solidarity with Czechoslovakia;d
expressed by West European Com- figures from Czechoslovak public
munist parties and "the pseudo- life as the price for reducing the
solidarity of those who shed tears occupation forces.
over the fate of little Czechoslo- Czechoslovak sources said Mn-j
BLAMES OUTSIDE 'AGITATORS':
California grape boycott Iurts
laborers. former picker claims
In the first such criticism of the v thd atte same time in-
Western powers seen here since voke the cold war spirit." daythe ans have of to
the Soviet-led invasion Aug. 20, The editorial avoided blaming withdraw all but 100,000 of the
the newspaper said there was ris- the Soviet Union and its partners 500,000 occupation troops by Oct.
ing talk of cold war in centers of in the occupation-Poland, East 28 if Prague's leaders make more
the North Atlantic Treaty Organ- Germany, Hungary and Bulgaria concessions to the Kremlin. They
ization and that it seemed to be a -for an increase in East-West
result of cold calculation, tension. reported most of the forces that
"This impression is confirmed The Russians are reported de- remai would be posted along
by the present diplomatic and po- manding stricter controls on the Czechoslovakia's border with West
litical activity in Washington, Czechoslovak press and Rude Germany.
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LANSING ( h- A boycott of Democratic Society and the Peace
California table grapes is hurting and Freedom Party, which he said
laborers, not helping them, con- back boycott leaders. Mendoza
tends a former vineyard worker added that he would speak today
who says he has widespread sup- to members of the House Un-
port among California grape pick- American Activities Committee.
ers. i Mendoza was in Lansing Mon-
Jose Mendoza, secretary of the day for a news conference before
Agricultural Workers Freedom to traveling to Boyne Mountain to
Work Association, also charged address the Michigan Food Deal-
that "agitators" are involved in ers Association, which has refused
union organizing activities that to support the boycott.
led to the boycott. u
He mentioned Student for a
"For three years now, the AFL-
CIO's United Farm Workers or-
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Cesar Chavez, has failed in its
organizing campaign," Mendoza
said in a press statement.
"While they claim to be friends
of the working men, Chavez and
his AFL-CIO bosses are making
the workers suffer because the
workers don't want to join the
union."
"The boycott has already cut
the grape pickers work week from
a normal six days at the height of
the present harvest season kack
to four days," he said.
The average minimum wage for
California vineyard workers is
$1.63 an hour on a yearly basis,
claimed Mendoza. The average
pay in both New York and Mih-
igan is $1.35 an hour.
"If any (areas) need improve-
ment, we should start at the bot-
tom," he added.
Mendoza said many California
vineyard workers ar permanent
residents in the areas in which
they work, not migrants as the
organizing committee would have
backers believe.
"Chavez does not represenit the
people he is supposed to repre-
sent," Mendoza said. He Baid he
would "probably be exaggerating"
to estimate that two per ceit of
California's 200,000 farm workers
support Chavez.
On the other hand, Mendoza
said, some 3,500 attended an anti-
Chavez rally in Kearn County,
Calif., heart of the grape strike.
Mendoza claimed there are some
5,000 farm workers in the count.
The boycott-backed by union
leaders, church groups arid several
mayors of large cities like New
York and Detroit-was originally
called by the United Farm Work-
ers organizing committee.
The g r o u p says California'
growers have refused to negotiate
contracts for pickers and imported
"illegal Mexican nationals" to
break the strike. A boycott is the
only method to help workers, say
committee members.
Relief funds
questioned
LAGOS, Nigeria QP)-The squab-
ble over relief for Biafra between
the Nigerian federal government
and the International ,ed Cross
took a new turn today with a Ni-
gerian accusation that $4.2 million
in cash had been used by the
Biafrans to buy war material 4wn
Europe.
The charge came from a fed-
eral government spokesman who
said the money was provided, by
the West German Red Cross and
by German and Scandinavian
church organizations for relief to
civil war victims.
The spokesman claimed Bhfran
authorities gave the International
Committee of the Red Cross in
Geneva a credit in their , a"
mony orthedoaedcahwb2
they then used for arms purchases.
Spokesmen in Lagos for she Red
Cross and the West German Em-
bassy denied having information
about the money.
Another f e d e r a 1 statement
claimed the Biafrans are buying
chemicals in Europ, and sug-
gested that the "pos ibility of the
rebels resorting to chemical war-_ aei eprto ol o
ruled out."
Informed sources in Lagos F.ay
the federal side, ignoring protests,
has requisitioned Red Cross-char-
tered aircraft in Lagos to ferry
troops, and arms to the, front.
Sources say the Red Cross on the
tailfins was painted out, and the
planes flown at night-when
flights are normally banned-car-
rying ammunition and troops to
Port Harcourt.
isturbance
continues
in 'Syracuse,
SRACUSE, N.Y. () -Three
persons were reported injured last
night as bottles and rocks were
thrown in the third consecutive
night of disturbances in a pre-
dominantly black section on the
city's south side.
There was an explosion at an
auto-repair shop in the area, but
police said they did not know
whether the blast had been caused
by a firebomb.No one was report-
ed injured' here'.
Police said some automobiles
had been stolen and taken into
the area of South Salina and
Oakwood Avenues. The cars were
overturned and one was on fire,
they said.
The area later was sealed off by.
police.
Police said one person had been
injured and hospitalized as the
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