THE MICHIGAN DAILY T CRITICAL': Healy Cites Work Rule Issue, By PHILIP SHERMAN Prof. Healy stressed the im- Loose production standards, a k rules and practices are portance of management in deter- result in many industries of man- e critical labor-management mination of the effect of work a people today think they are, rules. agement's failure toyadministe James J. Healy of Harvard i administers and initially de- effectively are the most wide- rsity -declared yesterday. fines the usually general clauses, spread form of makework rules pite the national publicity he said. Review of management's Prof. Healy said. Unions often at to work rules issues in the decision through the grievance. tempt to preserve these practices and railroad industries, procedure and arbitration is the once established, but it is unfai gements and unions in most second determinant of work rule of management to expect their industries have reached a meaning. immediate end. sful accomodation, he told Management alsoplays a critical It is not true the managements onference on Industrial Re- role in formulation of work prac- of non-union companies are free s. tices not specifically provided for from work rules and more efficient ewing the American indus- in contracts. If a custom is con- than unionized companies, he con- scene as a whole, we may tinued for long enough, it often tinued. Unionized companies are ide that make-work rules becomes part of an "unwritten limited by unions, it is true, but he featherbedding. practices contract" and must be continued. personnel policies of the non- encourage are on the de- Management Commitments unionized companies are often as " he continued. In fixing management commit- restrictive. Largely Limited ments under this unwritten con- - y are largely limited to in- tract doctrine, "it is my personal es with shrinking employ- judgement that arbitrators have Fle i g The problem there is fzor- often gone too far in narrowing t1e, but.it must be recognized the reserved rights of manage- " the "basic genesis of such ment, and in dignifying the prac- Find jobs D i and practices is insecurity, tice by giving it the equivalent of completely irrational selfish- contract statue," Prof. Healy com- mented. By PETER STEINBERGER dstance to rules changes in The behavior of management in Workers displaced by automa cases points up the failure the union or non-union shop will ton are havin an extreely df inodusrer socipreso eit determine,, in the long run, the ficult time finding new jobs, Prof itechnol ogical ravneevi degree of efficiency far more than Robben Fleming of the Universit3 declning markets of some will the presence or absence of a of Illinois said yesterday. tries and consequent un- union, he said. The law professor told a labor yment.Management remissness in management relations conferenci developing criteria of ability used that more than half the displaces r in promotion decisions are an ex- workers from meat-packing plant ample of this. It is said that in Chicago and St. Louis were stil unions force promotion by senior- unengployed, a year and a hal ity, but it is often the case that after they lost their jobs. this standard is used by default Prof. Fleming is a neutral mem ° when standards of ability are not ber of a committee set up by th defined. Armour Packing Co. and the twi Less Efficiency . unions with which it has con A short-sighted, militant union tracts. The committee administer t "-nmay force inefficiencies, Prof. a fund to help employes learn Healy admitted, "but the basic new trades when automation take j principle that management's own their jobs. Nix+ ix. conduct-is the key determinant of Studies Aid :~ efficiency is supported by the over- It also is making studies to ais whelming weight of evidence." company-union negotiations it S X:. In the past few years, manage- August when the contract expires In he astfewyeas, anae- Prof. Fleming explained the ment has attempted to remove Prf.lmn epandt menthasattmptd t reovecommittee's efforts to help the 401 excessive work rule concessions of commee effors o hl th4 . h at ecniud former employes of an OklahomE he pat, h con ue .City plant which was closed las This is often a reasonable step year n forward, but it must be remem- "We began our program onl bered that accumulated bad prac- after the plant was shut down an PROF. JAMES HEALY tices and habits can only be cor- this was a great disadvantage. Bu .... on labor disputes restedgradually. we contacted the former worker and offered to finance their re GENTS CAMPAIGN: training in other skills, if test showed they, were capable o learning, and if there were open 1epubhcan Candidate Asks ings in the industries in whic they wanted to work," he said, nreas (, 'U' Appopiaio O te170 Agree mcrease M U Appropriat on Of the 400 former employes, 17 D,+ kr titude teat L id LT7 .S. ip X la St Is to ut rf e- t: of 1- ,Y V r Automation, Recession Cited in Labor Quarrels By LINDA REISTMAN generations as well as today's la- "Automation, the population ex- bor force and the recession which plosion and recession are three will leave us with the same prob- r significant underlying forces of lems after it passes are the, criti- the grievances between labor and cal issues," Simkin explained. , management, William E. Simkin, "The present administration has director of the Federal Mediation a program of emergency measures and Conciliation Service said yes- to meet these situations which terday. must be considered for we can- *Speaking at the luncheon meet- not live through another exper- ing of the Seventh Annual Indus- ience like 1932 when there was no trial Relations Conference, Simkin government intervention." said that labor and management An arbitrator in a number of t must begin to grapple with the important strikes and disputes be- - situations around which their fore his government appointment, problems center. Simk n is optimistic that collec- t Three Items Explained tive bargaining can solve these - "Sharp acceleration in the face problems "even though some s of automation, the population ex- people now are inclined to doubt plosion which threatens future thisa Cites Flexibility . me"There is much flexibility in cl- U nem ployed lective bargaining which enables It to work on an ii dividual basis," he said. "It can develop solutions fficultT o G et4 that would be peculiarly suited to the problems at hand. This con-I trasts sharply to the rigidity characterizing government actions impossible to gauge the success of in such situations. the program.Siknntdfupotsha - He predicted that workers could yi ki nte forgpoints that be retrained for new jobs of their typify collective bargaining: Y choice while the'y were still work- 1) Collective situations vary ing on their present jobs. Even if widely making the flexibility of - there was no threat of losing the such negotiation an important ad- e present jobs, the employes would vantage. d improve their job security by ac- Needplanning s quiring new skills. 2) Planning and time sufficient 1 Prof. Fleming said he took "a to iron out the situation and pre- f dimmer view" of severance pay sent both viewpoints is of the than either unions or employers essence. - usually do. He said that severance 3) Initial agreements can only e pay didn't fulfill the function it be skeletal ones. Neither side can o was supposed to do-helping the spell out all the particulars. They - worker get a new start in a new will clarify themselves during the s job. lifetime of the contract. n Always in Debt 4) Some outside help such as s "Today, with a buy-now, pay- technical advice, time studies and later economy, most workers are nsurance consultation may be dalways in debt, and instead of necessary. their using severance pay, credi- "Over thEffecti ten years the tors take it to pay for things the efcieeso-brann a S. wrker alrady wn.effectiveness of- bargaining has eworkers already own. gradually been cluttered and 0 "Even those who are not in lowered by sub-contracting, sen- a debt lack the experience to han- iority disputes resulting from t dle the large lump sums of sev- technological change and ques- erance pay. In Oklahoma, where tions on whether new or changed one plant was shut down, unem- jobs should be in or out of the d ployment compensation is with- bargaining units," Simkin noted. t held from workers for a certain "Insecurity is the basic motive s amount of time because severance for these discrepancies..We must - pay is regarded as deferred work to eliminate this. is wages.,, Ik He noted that problems in re- HURRY - E - locating workers were especially h severe in the meat-packing indus- try, where a high proportion of the labor is more or less unskilled. 0 3e End of Project SfplR ' Not To Affect - e .i -- _hrstian Science Bendix Force -s; Doors O: ,d President John F. Kennedy's ADULTS WEEKDAY MATINEES. d proposed cancellation of the Navy's ADULTS EVENINGS. .$1.25 C Eagle missile project will not ser- PLEASE NOTE- DOORS O iously affect workers at the Ann - Arbor Bendix Systems Division, d General Manager Roy J. Sand- Diol s strom said yesterday. 2-6264 Le "Eagle is only one of our pro- ol grams, and with other new proj- ects in view, I do not anticipate n any serious layoffs in the Ann it Arbor area at this time," he said. The Navy has decided not to ORDER NO wait for Congressional action on the Eagle project and will start AND HAVE BEST abandonment of the program im- mediately. WHEN YOU RETUR About 400 employes here were working on the Eagle, an air-to- i- air missile for fleet defense. UNIVERSIT f Iitc To Consider Departmer DiSalect Research n Prof. Pavle Ivic of the Univer- al sity of Novi Sad, Yugoslavia, will y lecture on The State of Research s- in Serbo-Croatian Dialects at 4:10 roi licking Corn p.m. today in Aud. A. DIAL NO 5-6290 TWO GREAT ENCORES /"LaughiestT'mo OFiYour ifetime! 8:00 P.M. Lydia , "NoTime For Sergeants" at W d St 1:00-5:25 - 9:45 -~t r SNEY'S "101 DALMATIONS" . -UNIVERSITY PLAYERS EATRE MENDELSSOHN THEATRE ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN' Ichievement Aga__I For Wed. or Thurs. perf Again ___ for (number) tickets for Thurs., Apr. 13, at (check For Fri.i or Sat. performs (number) tickets for (check on I Apr. 15,at,(check one) Q'$ The interior of a sun spot is a quiet area in the most turbulent part of the sun, Prof. Donald Menzel, director of the Harvard College Observatory, said yester- day in the first of two lectures on solar activity. Menzel said that he could find no completely satisfactory reason for the observed 11-year cycle of sun spot activity intensity. He rejected the theory that changes in energy, causing the expansion and slight cooling of the sun, created this cycle, since the slow rate of energy movement within the various regions of the sun make this unlikely. The calm in the center of the sun spot is caused by an intense mantic field which give it magneti il whc gives It PROF. DONALD MENZEL rigidity and stability. RF OADMNE Most Turbulent , . on solar activity Because of the magnetic field taken in balloons 80,000 feet above and solar convection, the area the earth, a granular, mattled con- around the sun spot is the most figuration was noticed on the sur- turbulent. face of the sun, he said. In studyiiig pictures of sunspots 'The granules are found in the outer 10 per cent of the sun. They indicate turbulence and boiling on Lab lat bill the sun's surface." Generate Reactions Pltans D ram a The energy of the sun is gen- erated by atomic reactions very The speech department will similar to those in a hydrogen continue its Laboratory Playbill bomb. "The violence of the H- series with "The Death of the bomb is cushioned by the mass Tintagiles," by Maurice Maeter- of the outer layers of the fireball, SUN SPOT CYCLES: Scientist Rejects Explanations The second lecture of the series, which will deal with the sun's ef- fects on the earth, especially in relation to communication, will be given at 3:30 p.m. today in Aud. B. I Lewis To Criticize Indian Aid Plans Prof. John Lewis of the Uni- versity of Indiana will speak on "Indian Development Planning: A Critique" at 8 p.m. today in the Rackham Amph. .4 q n -t. i ~eat aze autia Ts s. nadvisory board appointed bythe Sixty-five per cent of thes goverorwourdbe drabyendwere found incapable of profitin 1970, twice the present en- governor would be "desirable and from any retraining program net"h mhszs elpful. :fet oji ent;" he emphasizes. "This board should have no con- "They were told, in effect, to jo he responsibility of the Re- trol over our state colleges and the pool of totally unskilled la t, Goebel explains, is "to guide tnivertost ate olya bor." destny o th Uniersiy ~universities. It should act only as destinyof the University in co-ordinating or advisory unit He explained that regular com i a manner that shall provide for all these institutions in pro- mercial adult-education course ier education to all students vldiwg the very best business and ere given tohthose who passe ring such education" andtoacademic administration possible; tests. The committee pain fntain the University's status and assist teisiuin n h most of. the costs of the retrain. a laing educndonassnsist-the institutions and the leading educational institu- Legislature in determining proper yping, auto-mechanics, weld 1" state appropriations ,for Tyineut-mehaicnel Responsibility stitutionsr n these in- ing, business administration an Explainsep tiuin. real estate were among the course A Regent's responsibility to his Institution of the trimester sys- selected by the workers. Soe ty is exactly the same as his tem at the University receives took courses to get a high scho onsibility to all the people of Goebel's commendation'dtoth state of Michigan," he adds, Presents Problems diploma. Vhat about the University's "This arrangement would pre- The poor business conditions imunist propagandist speaker sent the problem of obtaining Oklahoma City, he said, made L policy? qualified faculty to serve over the [ do not look with favor upon longer school year," he noted. T' a one who advocates the over- Goebel has an acqua tanceship aylor >w of our poitical'system ap- with the workings of both practi- ring before our students, even cal politics and higher education. Labor Sp eech ugh equal time is given for He has had experience in the ittal. areas of business and finance and Prof. George W. Taylor, a Uni det I have the feeling that our in public administration. versity of Pennsylvania labor r lents have sufficient intelli- As a Regent, the Grand Rapids lations expert, will suggest "Ne ce and discernment to dis- Republican would devote himself Approaches to the Problem niish between the virtues of to "solving the great problems we Achieving Agreement" in colle own political system and phi- face in handling the expected stu- tive bargaining at 9 am. today e phy of life against that offered dent explosion of the next 10 Rackham Lecture Hall. the Communists. years, and thus maintain the Uni- The lecture is the last sessio [ see no reason why Commu- versity's present reputation as one of the seventh annual industri s, or individuals representing of the greatest institutions of relations conference sponsored b 'other political ideology, should higher learning of this country and the Institute of Labor and Indu speak before the students up- of the world." trial Relations. subjects within the areas in trialRelations. ch they are academically- lified to speak." Plan To S Opposes Board ENDING oebel is opposed to the idea of N TODAYI 'super policy board" t co- New ia nate state higher education. he thinks a "non-political" All-Number Calling, a new tele-P phone numbering system, will be - U introduced into the Ann Arbor area starting Saturday as part -u g of a new telephone company pro-. ject. The old practice of using two IW h DIAL 8-6416 letters and five numerals for each ENDING TONIGHT telephone will be changed to a. system using seven numbers, of- * "As Fine A Crime ficials announced. CHNICOLOR' F~16, rieUnder the new system a num-. Film As You Are ber such as NOrmandy 2-3241 WANERSBOS Likely To See!" will be dialed as 662-3241. New Auntie Mcame at -N.Y. Herald r numbers could be formed with 2:45 and 7:30 only such prefixes as 57 which do not FRIDAY AT 3 P.M.: DIS begin any words. FRIEDRICH PUERRENMATT'S irT. ANN ARBOR CIVIC TH WHA PINID A Classic in American Theatrical A A Play to be Seen Again and. IN BROAD THORNTON zEs B AD TRGNTONWILDER'S DAYLIGHT 1T FROM 1118 STORY I r Po ;F N a, m v r za r fc >r IQ nE linck, at 4:10 p.m. today in the - Arena Theatre, Frieze Bldg. "The Death of the Tintagiles," written 50 years ago in a very abbreviated five-act tragedy form, was originally intended for per- formance by marionettes. No admission will be charged. Editor To Lecture On 'New Society' Martin Glaberman, managing editor of the Detroit newspaper Correspondence will lecture on__ "New Society-New People" at 7:30 p.m. today in Rm. 3D of the Michigan Union. Glaberman's address will be the last in a four-part series on "Mod- ern Marxism" sponsored by the Democratic Socialist Club. 4DS FRIDAY 2 SHOWS DAILY 30 P.M and 7:30 P.M. en at 1:00 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. ....... . ...... ......90 HILDREN UNDER 12 YEARS..50c PEN GOOD FRIDAY AT 2:15 LAST 2 DAYS 'V-BY MAIL SEATS WAITING N FROM VACATION Y PLAYERS t of Speech ere's edy of manners ANDS Aendelssohn Theatre April 12-15 I _I >rmances: Enclosed find $ r (check one) nWed., Apr. 12, I one) p $1.50, Q 1.00 each. I nces: Enclosed find -$ for e) p Fri., Apr. 14 [~ Sot., 1.75, 0~ 1.25 each. I Death of Tiutagies by Maurice Maeterlinck ARENA THEATRE-FRIEZE BIDG. No Admission Charge By PHILIP SUTIN (Author of "I Was a Teen-ag Dwarf" "The Many Loves of Dobie Glis", etc. ;;:, * II T i HAPPINESS CAN'T BUY MONEY With tuition costs spiralling ever upward, more and more under- graduates are investigating the student loan plan. If you are one who is considering the "Learn NowPay Later"system,you would do well first to study the case of Leonid Sigafoos. Leonid, the son of an upholsterer in Strait'ned Circum- stances, Idaho, had his heart set on going to college, but his father, alas, could not afford to send him. Leonid applied for a Regents Scholarship, but his reading speed, alas, was not very rapid-two words an hour-and before he could finish the first page of his test the Regents had closed their brief cases crossly and gone home. Leonid then applied for an athletic scholarship; but he had, alas, only a single athletic skill- balancing a stick on his chin-and this, alas, aroused only passing enthusiasm among the coaches. LABORATORY PLAYBILL TODAY 4:10 P.M. DEPT. OF SPEECH And then, huzzah, Leonid learned of the student loan plan: he could borrow money for his tuition and repay it in easy monthly installments after he left school! Happily Leonid enrolled in the Southeastern Idaho College of Woodpulp and Restoration Drama and happily began a college career, that grew more happy year by year. Indeed, it became altogether ecstatic in his senior year because Leonid met a coed named Salina T. Nem with hair like beaten gold and eyes like two squirts of Lake Louise. Love gripped them in its big moist palm and they were betrothed on the Eve of St. Agnes. Happily they made plans to be married the day after com- mencement-plans, alas, that never were to come to fruition because Leonid, alas, learned that Salina, like himself, was in college on a student loan, which meant that he had not only to repay his own loan when he left school but also Salinas, and the job, alas, that was waiting for Leonid after graduation at the Boise Raccoon Works simply did not pay enough, alas, to cover both their loans, plus rent and food and clothing. Sick at heart, Leonid and Salina sat down and lit Marlboro Cigarettes and tried to find an answer to their problem--and, sure enough, they did! I do not know whether or not Marlboro Cigarettes helped them find an answer; all I know is that Marlboros taste good and look goad, and' when things close in and a feller needs afriend and the world is black as the pit from pole to pole, it is a heap of comfort and satisfaction to be sure that Marlboros will always provide the same unflagging pleas- ure, the same unstinting quality, in all times and climes and conditions. That's all I know. Leonid and Salina, I say, did find an answer-a very simple one. If their student loans did not come due until they left school, why, then they just wouldn't leave school! So after receiving their bachelor degrees, they re-enrolled and took masters degrees. After that they took doctors degrees, loads and loads of them, until today Leonid and Salina, both aged 78, both still in school, hold doctorates in Philosophy, Humane Letters, Jurisprudence, Veterinary Medicine, Civil Engineering, Op- tometry, and Dewey Decimals. Their student loans, as of last 1 ..-.. +r1 . ,,,m A +ltt1 a feighten million 1