A MATTER OF FAITH See editorial page :Y git gi ~Iadi IGUSTY 'High--64 Low-48 Cloudy and cooler Va. LXXViI, No. 12-S Ann Arbor, Michigan, Friday, May 17, 1968 Ten Cents Six Pages AFL-CIO with Autc George Meany Wa RALLY TODAY: NP candidate campaign for *'ir . sT w-r..r By ANN MUNSTER The New Politics Party will hold a noon rally and bucket drive to- day for Ann Arbor school board candidate Bill Ayers. Last night NP anounced plans for neighborhood organizing to aid the campaigns of Ayers and Mrs. Joan Adams. Meetings will also be set up with teachers and stu- dents in Ann Arbor. Both candidates took further steps last night in outlining their positions. Ayers explained that he is run- ning because "there are too many grownups on the school board." He said, "Although there is a 0 slim chance that I will be elected, my campaign provides a forum to start talking about what's hap- Expect b law' rulngdelay At their regular monthly meet- ing today the Regents are e c- pected to delay action on a con- troversial bylaw revision which Vice-President for Student Af- fairs Richard L. Cutler had ori- ginally planned to submit for ap- proval. Cutler agreed Tuesday to 9sk the Regents to postpone a final decision on the bylaw until ,tu-, dent leaders were able to give it further review. The bylaw deals with the for- mation of a tri-partite university' council to legislate conduct rules for the University community. Also on the agenda for the meeting is a report from Cutler on public forums for recruiting agencies. The Regents have been considering a proposal that would require the University to ask con- troversial recruiters to participate in open forums if a petition signed by one per cent of the student body requested it. pening to which seld board elect! He contii candidates tions and understand Ayers ad .ing to kids pening or From the, New Politic to broaderi Ayers, 23, Children's rimental sc four to eig been active Party for th Mrs. Adan primary re2 that she ho committees they didn't ized that t "real comm on the scho Mrs. Adar organizingf mittees focu of the scho claims is ' She is al cerned Pare ers working volved in t the Jones s areas. Both Ayer be in the Ju two incumbe back, wife o sor of mec and Dr. Har psychiatrist. Robert Do the board, w to his seat. The other Renken, an Aerospace ] Warner, a s ministratora Wood, an Heusel, a mi WOIA-B rac breaks ties sWorkers UAWeyes link with Teamsters WASHINGTON W)-The AFL- CIO officially declared yesterday K the suspension of the United Auto Workers, biggest and richest union in the labor federation, for refu- sing to pay its dues. "We didn't receive a check. They are automatically suspended," said a spokesman for AFL-CIO Presi- dent George Meany, who was drafting an official letter of noti- fication to the auto workers presi- dent, Walter Reuther. Following the announcement, Iter Reuther spokesman for the UAW began _hinting at a shifting of alliances Tin organized labor. "There are going to be a nun- ber of defections from the AFL- CIO and new coalitions will be or- ganized," said an Auto Workers; begin source afterAL-CIO President George Meany officially suspend- ed the federations's biggest union. Sourcesjin both the Auto Work- b oard ers and the Teamsters union hint- relationship, although discounting kids in the schools, prospects of any immediate at- om happens in school tempt to form a new labor fed- ions." eration to challenge the AFL-CIO. ued that "usually, the The break climaxed a two year just debate fiscal ques- quarrel over the leadership of or- other things I don't ganized labor between ReutherI and don't talk about." and Meany, the two principal ded, "What's happen- founders of the AL-CIO 13 years is part of what's hap- ago. ganically to society. SUSPENSION COSTSI school campaign, the The suspension will cost the s Party hopes to move labor federation some 1.5 million issues." of its more than.14 million mem- is the director of the bers and more than $1 million a1 Community, an expe- year in dues'from the auto work-l hool in Ann Arbor for B ers. ht year olds. He has But the final break between the in the New Politics two labor leaders stemmed from ie past year. virtually everything except money.' ns said that one of her It capped a two year Reuther asons for running is attacK on Meany's leadership as as "served onenough undemocratic" and "stagnant" in thst "servd oeno AFL-CIO policies on everything fulfill." She emphas- from wages to water pollution.c here should be more INTERNAL REFORM iunity representation" Reuther had demanded "intern- ol board. al reform and democratization of} us has been active in the AFL-CIO.' He said the fed-{ several steering com- eration "lacks the social vision,c Ising on the problems the dynamic thrust, the crusading ol system, which she spirit that should characterize the completely outdated." progressive, modern labor move-s so a member of Con- ment." nts, a group of moth- Meany said the AFL-CIO hadt to solve problems in- been accused of "failing to dis- busing children from play an adequate sense of social chool district income consciousness-whatever the hell that means."t Auto Workers rejected an AFL-r s and Mrs. Adams will CIO offer to call the special con-t tne 10 run-off against vention to debate the dispute. nts, Mrs. Frances Fel- The final break came when the f a University profes- Auto Workers at their recent con-g hanlcal engineering, vention voted to withhold pay-b old J. Lockett, a child ment of dues to the AFL-CIOs pending possible settlement of thea err, vice president of dispute, but continue to partici-t ill not seek re-election pate in "worthwhile" federationr activities. candidates are Duane The AFL-CIO in the past hasj employe of Bendix overlooked nonpayment of duest Divisions; Cecil W. from unions in financial trouble.s enior engineering ad- "This case is unique," Meanyv at Bendix; Richard M. said of the well-heeled Auto p attorney, and Ted Workers. "We never had anyone ember of the staff of tell us they were going to stayt dio. in without paying their dues."s -Associated Press Renault workers in Flins announce unlimited strike night " their AD HOC GROUP: Students draft By JOHN GRAY An ad hoc group of students met last night to consider draft- ing their own versions ofathe con- troversial bylaw proposals which are to Ve presented to the Re- gents at their meeting today. The group, composed of most Student Government C o u n c i1 members who are in Ann Arbor this summer and other student leaders, criticized thebylaw draft w"hich would set up a University Council and decided to meet again today, tomorrow and Sunday to work on their own drafts. The proposed bylaws were pre- pared by Director of Student- Community Relations William Steude for Vice President for Stu- dent Affairs Richard Cutler in consultation with two students and two faculty members. Their purpose is to implement the rec- ommendations of the Hatcher Commission on the role of the students in Decision Making. The group objected to many specific areas of the University Council proposal. All members of the group agreed that the bylaw was unacceptable as it stands. Among the objections outlined at last night's meeting were that the Council would only make rules for students and that Fac- ulty Assembly would not have any effective veto power. The group also objected to the general tone of the document. SGC member Sam Sherman, '68, said that the proposal "reads like a riot control bill." He objected to what he saw as an overall negative tone to the proposal. After listing all of their ob- jections to the proposed bylaw the group decided that members should work individualy on re- writing it and return to discuss proposed changes. All meetings of the group are to be held in SGC offices in the Student Activities Bldg. The stu- dents will meet today at 1 p.m., tomorrow at 7 p.m. and Sunday at noon. The group disagreed among themselves on precisely what should be written into their ver- sion of the bylaw. SGC member Thomas Westerdale, Grad, said that "it should indicate what we think the students want, not what they'll accept." He added that "there are some sections in the Commission report that I don't think are what we want." Westerdale also argued that perhaps the students should not that he recognized legitimate demands for. Mass hits * countryside Factory strikers take plants in Paris, other" majors cities PARIS ( -- Workers following the lead of Paris's rebel- lious students took control of at least six French factories yesterday welding the doors shut in one. A wave of social disorder spread across the nation. In a nationwide broadcast Premier Georges Pompidou appealed desperately for order, saying agitators are trying to destroy "the very basis of our civilization". He said he spoke after a phone conversation with President Charles De Gaulle who is on a state visit in Romania. Pompidou had told students earlier last unrest French byla w offer any proposals until the Fall Semester. "What will happen when everyone comes back from vacation and says that during the summer we sold out everything they won during the year?" he asked. Other members of the group contended that it was important to have an alternative proposal for the Regents to consider over the summer and that final im- plementation of the Commission's proposals could be withheld until the Fall, when all SGC members will be present. Business decisions: Best and worst, of '67 By JENNY STILLER Mary Wells is the best thing that has happened to American Motors since George Romney. At least that's what most of the 1800 businessmen queried in a Bureau of Industrial Relations survey responded when asked for their estimation of the best and worst business decisions of 1967. The executives credited the ap- pointment of the Wells, Rich, Greene, Inc. advertising agency with changing American's "loser- economy car-Aunt Martha" im- age to that of a comeback- minded manufacturer of cars worth showing off before the neighbors. Other high-ranking "best" de- cisions were the involvement of many companies in inner-city problems, the merger of McDon- nel and Douglas Aircraft, the signing of the General Agree- ment on Tariffs and Trade and the merger of North American Aviation and Rockwell-Standard Corporation. A DAY IN THE LIFE. U' janitors*: Endless war against, grime, These five "best" decisions, plus five "worst" business decisions, were determined by polling high- ranking executives in a variety of industries. The survey was the second conducted by Prof. David L. Lewis of the business adminis- tration school. Lewis, who teaches a course in the history of the entrepreneur, started the survey "mainly out of curiosity. I hope that scholars will find them useful in the years to come," he said. "What I am trying to do is collect fundamen- tal research data for future his-' torians." WORST DECISION The worst decision of 1967, ac- cording to the executives, was the acceptance by auto manufac- turers of an inflationary labor contract. Other business blunders were the prolonged copper strike, Congress's refusal to pass the 10 per cent income tax surcharge, the Defense Department's in- sistence that the Navy and Air Force use the F-111 fighter- bomber and the Federal Commun- ications Commission edict that the Bell Telephone system make an annual profit no greater than 7 to 7.5 per cent. The executives called business' involvement with inner city prob- lems a wise move, and beneficial, for all concerned. "Businessmen are better equipped than anyone else to deal with unemployment in the ghetto," one respondent noted, "and helping the poor and un- trained to help themselves will benefit everyone - whites and blacks, the cities in which they live, and long-range, the partici- pating companies themselves." HITS SETTLEMENT In considering the worst busi- ness decisions of 1967, most of the executives were sharply crit- ical of the auto manufacturers' settlement with the United Auto Workers. The three-year settlement pro- vided annual wage and benefit increases of 6 per cent. "These agreements;" observed one exec- utive, "lit a fuse for similar am- bitious demands in other indus- tries - demands rarely matched by gains in productivity. When such demands are met, everybody university reforms but that the government would not "tolerate the disruption of republican order." As he spoke about one thousand undergraduates marched from Paris's Latin Quarter to one of the struck plants in the capital's industrial belt. He said they would sit in with the workers. In developments yesterday the 2500 workers at the nationalized sud-aviation factory in Nantes, who occupied the plant two days ago and locked up the director in their fight against a longer work week, welded factory gates shut to keep police out. Nationalized Renault auto plants at Rouen, Le Harve, Le Mans and Flins just outside Paris, began sit-down strikes. Entrances and exits were barred at Flins where the red flag flew. Strikers demands range from pay perity with Paris workers to restoration of the forty hour week. The move seemed to be spreading to the main Boulogne- Billancourt plant in Paris and to one at Sandonvile More than 20,000 workers were involved at Sandonville including Bordeaux shipyard workers who are pro- testingcutbacks in ship building. The upheaval, threatening to spread to French farms as well, appears to have its root in econ- omic problems joined with uncer-! tainty, even frustration, about the future. The direct trigger was police action to oust students from a demonstration at the Sorbonne May 3. It led to two weeks of fighting and rioting in Paris' Latin Quarter. Pompidou, who' faces a censure motion in the normally meek Na- tional Assembly, dealt with the crisis yesterday in a statement warning against subversion. The Premier recalled that he "has not been sparing in gestures of appeasement, but the govern- ment will not tolerate the dis- ruption of republican order by attacks on the national heritage and against the legitimate inter- ests of all categories of the popu- lation." "Since in this case university reform would only be a pretext for plunging the country into dis- order, the government has the duty of maintaining public peace and protecting all citizens with- out exception against excesses and subversion," he added. .House iay clear'U' budget bill By MARTIN HIRSCHMAN The House of Representatives is expected today to pass the state higher education appropriations bill reported out of committee last week'with little or no change. No change is expected in the committee's proposed $63.6 mil- lion University appropriation. The bill will then be returned to the Senate which passed a lower total appropriations bill in March, including only $61.3 mil- lion for the University. UNIVERSITY INCREASE While the University would receive the greatest increase un- der the House version of the bill, other schools will also be allotted substantial increases, totaling $2.5 million. Even if the Senate concurs with the House recommendation, the University's appropriation would be $12.5 million less than its original request of $75.8 mil- lion and $1.1 million less than Gov. George Romney's $64.7 mil- lion January request. Action on the bill was expected yesterday but was postponed until today as several representatives made last ditch efforts to increase appropriatio'ns for schools in their districts. In its final form, the bill will still include a provision limiting the number of out-of-state stu- dents at state-supported schools. STUDENT LIMITATIONS The section, also part of the Senate-passed bill, would restrict universities with over 20 per cent out-of-state students, from in- creasing either the percentage or number of such students. Meanwhile, the Senate is ex- pected to delay untfil next 'week action on the controversial open housing bill. The bill first passed the Senate last month but was retuirned to that body Wednesday with the 21 amendments tacked on to it by the ljouse. Many representatives had orig- inally hoped to pass the bill with- out amendment to avoid return- ing it to the Senate which took five days of debate to act on' it last month. By HENRY GRIX No one at the University ever really pays attention to the "No smoking" signs posted al- most everywhere. They light up, tap ashes on classroom floors, and when they are done, squash their stumps of tobacco into the corners. And every litter bit of this hurts their lungs, the floors and University building service em- ployes. Ask a janitor and he is bound to say "Students are a slovenly bunch." "They make one helluva mess," says James A. Jahnke, an area supervisor of custodians in the science and research buildings on the east- ern flank of campus. Although the mess diminishes with the de- crease in the number of students at the Uni- versity in the spring and summer, custodians still have their complaints. Sloppy smokers, coffee spillers, pop bottle collectors, and scribblers continue to interfere with the jani- tor's never ending battle against grime. Over 275 supervisors, tnaintenance mechanics, window and Wall washers, fire extinguisher worked there in two weeks," says custodian Ed Stumbo. Stumbo takes his work seriously. He once locked out a psychology class whose nightly meetings usually turned into coke and pizza parties. He recalls pressure tactics used on Cinema II patrons who refused to stop smoking dur- ing a film. Stumbo said custodians threatened to turn off the power until smokers complied with the no-smoking order. Nevertheless, students and teachers continue. to meticulously avoid ashtrays and waste bas- kets. A janitor in the undergraduate library is "happy if the wastebaskets are one third full." Undergrads are adroit at caching waste in carrels and on library shelves. Albert Taylor, chief custodian in the East Medical Building, blames teachers for "fo- menting" a campus mess. They not only en- courage students to smoke, but dirty the floors themselves, he says. And Taylor is irritated by "teachers whose chief occupation is throwing Seale to discuss philosophy of Black Panther movement Bobby Seale will speak at 4 p.m. today in the KLMN room of the Union. Seale, one of the founders of the Oakland, California Black Panther Party for Self-Defense, will discuss the Panther's phil- osophy and activities, black con- trol of black community institu- tions, and Panther work in elec- toral politics. Mrs. Eldridge Cleaver, wife of the party's minister of informa- tion, will not speak in Ann Arbor today - contrary to rumors. cisco Bay area, visibly carrying fire arms. When a bill was introduced in the California legislature to pro- hibit "instruction in the use of firearms for the purpose of riot- ing, and . . . the carrying of loaded firearms on public streets and in public places by all ex- cept peace officers," the Panthers staged a protest march on the legislature - with arms visible. Twenty-five )Panthers were aft- erwards arrested in a gas station on charges of violating a Fish :r :::r:: .;; .: