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%T Opens Drive,
To Unionize College
Collegiate Press Service
CHICAGO - The American
deration of Teachers, an AFL-
O affiliate which already claims
membership of 115,000 elemen-
ry and secondary teachers, has
unched a drive to unionize col-
ge teachers.
The premise behind the drive.
union spokesman said, is that
llege and university professors
e employes in need of better
laries, improved working con-
tions and a group to defend
.em when their rights are vio-!
bed. The best, if not the only,
ay to accomplish this, the
okesman said, is to unionize.
What the AFT hopes to become,
eaid, is "an active militant!
ganization to defend violations'
academic freedom and to im-
ove the teacher's working con-
tions."
Speaking -was Prof. Israel Kug-
r, president of the United Fed-
ation of College Teachers, an
F' local which has 1,000 New
ark college teachers as members.
The AFT estimates that it hasj
out 50 locals,. .of, which thel
FCT with its 1,000 members is
e largest. The more active locals
are the ones in New York and
California.
St. John's Background
Kugler and UFCT members
made history this year when they
organized and carried out the
first strike ever to be staged
against a college or university. The
strike began Jan. 4, at St. John's
University in New York in protest
of the dismissal of 31 professors
in mid-semester by the adminis-
tration without giving any spe-
cific reason.
Kugler helped draw up the pro-
gram presented by the AFT at a
conference in Chicago recently de-
signed to show the benefits union
membership offers the professor.
Among the things the AFT
pledged to work against on the
campus are the increasing num-
bers of mass lectures, overburden-
ed graduate assistance, and loyal-
ty and disclaimer oaths for stu-
dents and teachers.
The promises in Chicago that
t h e American Federation of
Teachers would try to do some-
thing about the "overburdened
teaching assistant" will be warmly
heard on at least two of the na-
tion's college campuses.
Fledging Movements
Teaching and research assist-
ants at the University and the
University of California at Berke-
ley have already registered their
complaints about the system of
which they are a part.
Last October teaching and re-
search assistants at Berkeley ask-
ed the local chapter of the Ameri-
can Federation of Teachers to in-
vestigate what they called an
"ethical scandal" involving facul-
ty-directed research.
Gary Reed, chairman of the
chapter's academic affairs com-
mittee, has been looking into
charges that "a number of faculty
members have published under
their own names books and arti-
cles which have been prepared
mainly by research assistants."
More recently, reaching assist-
ants at the University formed the
Teaching Fellows Organization
and began discussing AFT affilia-
tion.
The group was formed to pro-
test to the administration what
.they termed low salaries and poor
working conditions. One of the
organizers, Stephen Grossbard,
charged that teaching fellows "are
existing on incomes that are low-
er than the poverty level."
The Berkeley local's investiga-
tions were instrumental in having
the problem of research assistants
and teaching fellows included in
the program outlined by the AFT
in Chicago last weekend.
At Berkeley
The local said it has formally
documented the instances in which
"unethical behavior are known to
researchers." The local said it
plans to release no names, how-
ever, for fear the jobs of the
accused professors might be jeop-
ardized.
The union has asked for a more
clearly defined relationship be-
tween the professor and the re-
search assistant assigned to him.
"Frequently," a union spokesman
said, "a professor will give only
cursory examination to a finished
product to which he signs his
name as sole author. Sometimes
only incidental recognition is
given to the person who has done
the real work."
The University Teaching Fel-
lows Organization, which now
claims armembership of 150, is
asking for:
--Status as academic staff with
library privileges, adequate office
space, staff parking, and a chan-
nel of communication with the
administration; and
--A salary increase from $2,400
to $3,600 with a tuition exemption
and smaller graduate-level classes.
In response to their complaints,
Dean William Haber of the lit-
erary college told representatives
of the organization that the
status of the teaching assistant
was still dual-they were both stu-
dents and staff-and that they
could not be given faculty parking
privileges. He said a new office
building would go up in "about 10
years" and that until then the
teaching fellows would have to
make do with the present condi-
tions.
Haber did promise, though, that
the salaries for teaching fellows
"would be looked at very hard."
The organization said it was not
at all happy with Haber's outline
of the situation and it intends to
continue its efforts to have the
status of the teaching fellow clar-
ified and his salary and working
conditions improved.
AFT Manifesto
The AFT has promised that
through collective bargaining it
will work for:
-Adequate teacher salaries;
-A consistent promotion sys-.
tem;
-Tenure for any staff member
who has served three years and
is appointed for a fourth;
-Establishment of a definite
grievance procedure;
-A sabbatical leave every seven
years for reasons of health, travel,
or study with compensation on the
basis of full pay with no deduction
for a substitution;
-Maternity leave;
-Entitlement to terminal leave
at half pay as result of contribu-
tions paid by the college teacher
into a fund which may also allow
for the teacher to make annuity
payments;
-Unlimited sick leave at full
pay;
-Department chairmen who
have no authority over depart-
ment members and who, in ex-
change for performing the ad-
ministrative chores of the depart-
ment, only carry half a teaching
load;
-Department chairman elec-
tions not subject to control by the
college administration and
-Class schedules made up in
consultation with the teachers.
Strike Aids Organization
Kugler said that the teachers'
strike at St. John's focused na-
tionwide attention on the gross
violation of academic freedom
there and thatthe interest and
publicity generated by the strike
provided the AFT with a ripe time
to start its drive to unionize cam-
puses across the country.
He said that since the strike,
the AFT has been receiving as
many as 15 requests a week from
all over the nation for information
on how to form a local.
The St. John's situation, he said,
has dramatized to the college
teacher that when his rights are
abused he has no group to turn
to for immediate help.
Kugler and other AFT spokes-
men critized the college teachers
organization which has long domi-
Uated the scene, the American
Association of University Profes-
sors, as being inadequate. Kugler
eac hers
said the AAUP, for all of its status,
is slow in taking a stand on griev-
ances with its investigations av-
eraging two and a half years. He
also charged the association with
being "administration - oriented"
and "not interested enough in the
individual injustices done to col-
lege teachers."
The AFT also took a punch at
the regional accrediting associa-
tions and state departments of
education, claiming they have
been captured by administrators
who are largely engaged in ac-
crediting each other's institutions.
SDS Plans
For Counter
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activities, was approached by a
man whosasked for andswas told
the names of SDS officers on that
campus. He said further that he
would cooperate with any official
with proper credientials but
Brown does not have an SDS
membership list.
Here at the University, Vice-
President for Student Affairs
Richard Cutler said yesterday that
administration policy has been and
revealing any names of members
will continue to be that of not
of Voice, local SDS chapter. He
also said that the FBI has not
contacted his office concerning
any federal investigations now.
Summer Inquiries
Mike Locker, Grad, currently on
the Voice executive committee here
and research director for National
SDS, commented that summer in-
quiries into SDS activities will be
part of a full-fledged investigation
of the New Left by the Internal
Security Subcommittee of the
Senate Judiciary Committee. He
anticipates possible open hearings
this summer aimed at finding
prominent members of SDS who
are also members of other left wing
organizations.
While SDS members are not yet
being question here, Stan Nadel,
'66, is currently under investiga-
tion by the FBI for his activities
with the Committee to Aid the
Vietnamese. Nadel is also on the
executive committee of Voice.
Along other lines, SDS is plan-
ning a nationwide distribution of
literature and a "counter draft
test" on each of the three dates
the Selective Service System has
chosen for its examination for
college students.
SDS National Secretary Paul
Booth estimated that two and one-
half million students will take the
Selective Service examination "be-
cause they don't want to go to
Viet Nam." The results from the
tests will be used by local draft
boards to help determine college
deferments.
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BERKELEY, Calif.-Despite the'
noisy eruptions of the Peace/
R i g h t s Organizing Committee
(PROC), political activity at
Berkeley has simmered down to
its usual pace this spring.
The reason is simple: most peo-
ple view the new campus rules as
not bad enough to get angry over.
It is becoming more and more
apparent that most student activ-
ists have tacitly accepted Chan-
cellor Roger Heyns' "provisional"
rules on political activity. At the
same time, it has become obvious
that Heyns feels strongly enough
about his rules to carry them out
to the full extent, which has in
the past -few weeks meant the dis-
missal of three students.
PROC attempted to make its
stand on the issue of non-students
and didn't succeed. It has alienat-
ed a good percentage of the stu-
dents, and most of Berkeley's nor-
mal political activists have not
gone out of their way to jump on
the PROC bandwagon.
Heyns, former University vice-'
president for academic affairs, as-
sumed the role of chancellor last
summer. He replaced interim
Chancellor Martin Meyerson, who
took over when Edward Strong
was forced by the Regents to re-
sign. Under Meyerson, a semblance
of order was restored after dem-
onstrations rocked the Berkeley
campus - and the nation -- over
students being jailed for soliciting
members for a political group in a
restricted area.
However, it was not until Heyns
came in that rules were signifi-
cantly liberalized and students be-
came relatively reconciled to the
administration.
Kerr Directives
At the time of the Free Speech
Movement last year, Berkeley's po-
litical activity rules were in fact
more restrictive than those in use
throughout the statewide system of
the University of California. The
statewide rules-commonly called
the Kerr directives-allow for spe-
cific rules at the local level, but
almost all of the campuses had
more liberal rules than those at
Berkeley.
With the acceptance by the Re-
gents of a new set of statewide
rules last summer, many of the
gripes of the students were allay-
ed: money could be collected on
campus, literature could be dis-
tributed, members could be signed
up, and all organizations were
thrown into the simple designa-
tion of "registered student organi-
zation" if they had achieved uni-
versity recognition.
The one restriction in the new
rules that has become the subject
of controversy at Berkeley, and
the main emphasis of PROC's at-
tack on the rules, is the clause
stating that officers and voting
members of organizations must be
students or that university facili-
ties cannot be used by the group.
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PROC made its appearance sev-
eral months ago as the Viet Nam
Day Committee seemed to be with-
ering away. Some observers said
that a split had taken place in the
VDC and that it was actually part
of the VDC that organized PROC.
It can also be noted that, part
of the PROC leadership is connect-
ed with the Progressive Labor
Party (PL), a group considered far
to the left of the Free Speech
Movement or the VDC.
Unpopular Movement
But in the past few months
PROC has been unable to assume
the mantle of the VDC or the FSM
and become a powerful force on
the campus. Its rallies have not
been well attended (relative to
FSM or VDC rallies) and no real
protest of a broad-based nature
occurred when two PROC mem-
bers were dismissed for illegally
manning tables on the campus.
PROC began its activities with
the intention of coordinating pro-
tests against UN Ambassador Ar-
thur Goldberg during his Charter
Day appearance at Berkeley last
month. It painted signs and mim-
eographed literature but could not
involve any significant number of
Cal students and many of the
signs went uncarried, much of the
literature undistributed.
The university held to a consist-
ent policy with PROC-it enforced
the regulation on non-students, It
would not recognize PROC as a
student organization. It cited ap-
proximately 16 students for man-
ning PROC tables, which are ille-
gal under the rules, as only reg-
istered student organizations can
man tables on campus.
The administration has already
held hearings for three of them-
two of these were dismissed, the
other put on probation.
The decisions on most of the
others are expected to come this
week or next. As in the first three
cases, the hearing body will be
either a faculty-student conduct
committee or a public adversary
hearing where the defendant may
have counsel.
Called a Troublemaker
The administration views PROC
as a troublemaker. It intends to
stick by its non-student rule.
Executive Vice Chancellor Earl
Cheit said, "It's fairly evident
from what's happened that the
organization consciously chose to
have conflict with the Berkeley ad-
ministration as a means of at-
tracting membership and publici-
ty."
Cheit said he would be surpris-
ed if PROC continues as a viable
organization, but he said he had
heard of efforts to drop PROC
and revive the VDC. This was not
confirmed by other observers al-
though they conceded the possi-
bility.
PROC contends that the non-
student rule is unconstitutional,
but the administration says no.
PROC, in its pleas before the
hearing officers in the dismissal
cases, asked that the hearing of-
ficer rule on the constitutionality
of the rules in question, .bu he re-
fused and then recommended the
dismissal on the basis of disobed-
ience of the present rules.
Students Obeying Rules
Cheit said '"there is no ques-
tion in our minds that the pres-
ent rules are constitutional" and
noted that several constitutional
law experts agree with the admin-
istration's position. In general,
Cheit said, there is a "tremendous
record of compliance" with the
rules among the students.
"There's been far too little at-
tention paid to the substantive is-
sues that attracted students last
year," Cheit added. He called the
issue over a "crackdown" on rule
breakers "a completely phony is-
sue."
One student member of the
Chancellor's Rules Committee,
which is working on a permanent
set of regulations, called PROC's
stand "a very principled absolute
stand, but an unprecedented
stand."
This view seems to be generally
held among student leaders and,
thus far, no one is very excited
about PROC or its protestings
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