Thursday, May 16, 1968 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Page Three THE MICHIGAN DAILY Page Three + UNPRECEDENTED MEETING: Congressmen, U.S. presents organize to pass 'poor' legislation By The Associated Press Sympathetic congressman shap- !d a task force yesterday to push "poor people's" programs after an W unprecedented m e e t i n g with march leaders on Capitol Hill. About 70 senators and House members met in a one and a half hour session with the Rev. Ralph David Abernathy, , who said the mass demonstrations he plans will turn to civil disobedience only ' as "a very last resort." NO PRICE TAG Busloads of protesters rolled to- ward the capital from Cleveland, Charlotte and Philadelphia to Join 500 marchers already camping in tent-shaped wooden shanties near the Lincoln Memorial. Abernathy mentioned no price tag in sketching for 'congressmen the broad goals of more jobs, bet- ter housing and an end to poverty in America. Sen. Jacob K. Javits (R-N.Y.), said private speculation on the cost ranged as high as $30 billion. Sen. Edward W. Brooke (R- Mass), the Senate's lone Negro,", drew up the framework of a spe- cial House-Senate committee to meet with the protest leaders and mold specific programs. Top leaders of both parties in the House and Senate were noti- ceably absent from the session and one congressmen ,conceded many colleagues have taken a chary at- titude toward the march. "A majority of the congress men today would be opposed to the march if the vote could be taken on that point," said Rep. Augustus F. Hawkins (D-Calif.), a Negro. The Rev. Andrew Bevel told a news conference demonstrations would begin "probably within five or seven days," but gave no de- tails. The second wave of protesters is expected to reach thecapital within a day, with two more cara- vans arriving by Sunday. About 600 persons moved south from Philadelphia to Wilmington, Del. Another 700 on the Midwest leg rolled out of Cleveland for Pitts- burgh and are due here today. About 450 advanced through North Carolina in another cara- van. RECRUITING They added 35 recruits in Cleve- land, 50 in Philadelphia, another 25 in Charlotte. Leaders of the Poor People's Campaign have es- timated 3,000 marchers will be here by next week, and as many as 150,00 persons may take part in a massive Memorial Day rally. With their city of shanties near- ly one-third finished, about 300 members of the Poor People's Campaign have already moved in. "It really looks good," said a volunteer carpenter as he surveyed the neat rows of triangular ply- wood shelters making up "Resur- rection City, U.S.A." HOUSEKEEPING So far, demonstration leaders have devoted their time mainly to internal housekeeping-feeding and caring for the demonstrators on hand. Officials called a "town meeting" last night tolet the campers de- Bide what rules they want to live under until the entire 3,000 arrive and permanent rules can be set. peace proposal Hanoi insists bombing halt most precede further talk PARIS ( - The United States, citing possible areas of agreement, urged North Vietnam yesterday to accept a three point proposal "vital to peace" in Vietnam. Hanoi responded by insisting the Americans immediately halt all bombing and acts of war before other matters "of common interest" could be discussed. The U.S. proposal nvolved restoration of the demili- tarized status of the six-mile-wide buffer zone between North and South Vietnam ---- -Associated Press Life on main street of "Resurrection City, .-.A.- MEANY-REUITHER RIFT: UAW automatic out ., r- -- ANN ARBOR CIVIC THEATRE PRESENTS An Agatha Christie mystery melodrama By The Associated Press AFL-CIO President George Meany and Auto Workers chief Walter Reuther, who united the nation's often fractious labor movement under one roof 13 years ago, have reached the cli- max of a bitter two year quarrel. Only the formality of a letter from Meany remains to suspend Reuther's 1.5-million Auto Work- ers from the "House of Labor" for refusing to pay its dues. The AFL-CIO pictures the situ- ation as "a withdrawal" by the UAW, but a UAW spokesman said "we're being kicked out." TV RENTALS FREE ,SERVICE & DELIVERY Either way, it is labor's biggest schism since the AFL-CIO ex- pelled the Teamsters Union 11 years ago on charges of corrup- tion. The teamsters claim 1.8 mil- lion members; the UAW 1.6 mil- lion. The AFL-CIO is made up of 130 unions claiming 14 million mem- bers. The UAW is the largest af- filiate. SQUABBLE The current split stems from a squabble between two men who. brought together once rival or- ganizations into the AFL-CIO: George Meany, chief of the old American Federation of Labor, and Walter P. Reuther, leader of the old Congress of Industrial Or- ganizations. Dues are a secondary issue. The 60-year-old Reuther char- ges the labor movement is "stag- nating" 'under leadership of the 74-year-old Meany and demands, among other things, an organ- izing crusade.- The 29 member AFL-CIO Executive Council re- peatedly has sided with Meany in disputes with Reuther. CONVENTION' At UAW convention held last week in Atlantic City, some 3,000 delegates overwhelmingly directed' that an estimated $1 million an- nually paid to the AFL-CIO in per capita dues be put in escrow until the federation met a UAW con- dition for continued membership. The AFL-CIO constitution pro-, vides an affiliate three months in arrears may be suspended. Meany, after a Monday execu- tive council meeting, said suspen-- sion would be automatic for the auto workers unless they paid by midnight May 15. In ordering dues which nor- mally would go to the federation put in escrow, the UAW conven- tion provided the money would be paid the AFL-CIO if before next Dec. 15 it "schedules uncondi- tionally a special convention" be- Czech premier seeks closer ties with West fore which Reuther and Meany would debate their philosophies. Meany previously offered Reu- ther a special convention if the UAW chief would agree to abide by its decision and continue AFL- CIO membership. Reuther re- jected this, contending it amount- ed to signing a loyalty bath. The UAW currently is some- thing like $295;000 in arrears in dues. In ordering their held up beyond three months, delegates virtualy challenged the federation to kick out the UAW. and international action to insure the neutrality and ter- ritorial integrity of Laos and Cambodia. North Vietnam's p r o p o s a l spelled out three points, demand- ing the immediate cessation of all acts of war against the North by the United States, including propaganda and psychological warfare, "without putting- any condition" for this before Hanoi. Ambassador W. Averell Harri- man, the chief U.S. negotiator, and Xuan Thuy, chief envoy for North Vietnam, held a three and one-half hour discussion at the French Foreign Ministry's con-j ference hall and adjourned their' preliminary :Vietnam peace talks until Saturday. The two sides had returned to the conference table for the sec- ond full session since Monday. demand wageinke LONDON (M - Three million British engineering workers struck for 24 hours yesterday, delivering a warning to Prime Minister Har- old Wilson of more trouble if -he pushes through his wage restraint policies. The strikers demanded wage hikes in excess of the three and one half per cent ceiling laid down by the Labor government. They paralyzed large sections of Britain's motor and other in- dustries and kept the big national newspapers from printing their usual 10 million copies in London. The strike followed publication Tuesday of the government's bill to hold down increases in prices, wages and dividends for 18.months at least. Prime Minister Harold Wilson's Laborites, still suffering from big reverses in local elections last Week, are steeling themselves for a summer of industrial troubles. Some unions already made plain that they will not accede to tight wage restrictions. But Wilson snrugged off the nationwide strike yesterday and won support from his Labor party legislators for the wage restraint policies. Laborite members of Parliament voted 205-42 in favor of the meas- ures, which run counter to basic principles of the left wing party. NEJAC TV RENTALS 662-5671 I .. -. .__...___. a.__-.. _.._.. _ __. __._.,.._. I British PRAGUE (P)- Czechoslovakia's new premier, Oldrich Cernik, said Tuesday his! liberal government want continued close cooperation with other Communist nations and economic links with the West as well. He said Czechoslovakia is inter- ested in more effective cooperation with capitalist countries and would like to work to remove barriers separating East and West. Both Cernik and Prof. Ota Sik, the architect of planned economic reforms said individual busi- nesses will soon be free to trade abroad with only loose government guidelines and supervision. Also they said the government planned to make the Czechoslovak crown, its main currency unit, convertible in the West, although Sik said this would take' five to seven years. Czechoslovakia's new Commu- nist leaders have been trying to assure Moscow that their country will remain Communist despite the liberalization process. In Moscow, meanwhile, the So- viet bloc's economic coordinating body, the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance, or Comecon, opened talks Tuesday on the econ- omic expectations of the Prague regime. Informed sources said the Czechslovak delegate asked the council to reconsider the. old Stalinist "division of labor" among the one time satellites. By this system each Eastern European nation specializes in producing certain items the So- viet economy needs, but the sys- tem has been breaking down. Romania, for one, has rejected the predominantly agricultural role assigned it. in - World news roundup tal 'aouC Fast! 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BUCHAREST-Romania's Com- munist legislators rose in applause WORK FOR McCarthy' in Friday's MICHIGAN COUNTY CONVENTIONS For Information, Call 663-7076 or 761-1292 for President Charles de Gaulle of France yesterday as he pleaded for the right of each nation to speak its own voice.. Deraulle added he intends to meet Hanoi envoy Xuan Thuy in Paris next week. PANAMA - Panamanians ap- parently must wait at least a few more days to learn who won Sun- day's presidential election. A spokesman for the electoral tribunal says the official returns are being withheld because so many ballots were challenged. With both major candidates claiming victory, neither was ex- pected to accept defeat peacefully. * * 4* NEW YORK - Police barri- caded an entire block in Brook- lyn's Brownsville slums .yesterday and escorted five ousted white teachers back inside. 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