SEMINAR Adalbert Koestner Speaks On OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY "Mechanisms of Demyelination with Emphasis on Immunemediated Demyelinating Diseases" THURSDAY, Nov. 15-3:45 p.m. Room 1057 MHRI Seminar tea of 3:15 at MHRI Lounge Thano sCo. Now has a H appy Hour Enjoy our Cheese Bar Listen to the Piano 4-7 Tues.-Fri. 514 E. Washington Page 10-Wednesday, November 14, 1979-The Michigan Daily UFW CHIEF SPEAKS A T RA CKHAM Earn 8 Credits This Spring in NEW HAMPSHIRE THE NEW ENGLAND, "LITERATURE PROGRAM MASS MEETING WED., NOV. 14 8 p.m. 2225.Angell Hall for more information PROF. WALTER CLARK Dept. of English 761-9579 Chave By JEFFREY WOLFF Greeted by chants of "Cesar, Cesar, enthusiastic cheering, and a standing ovation, United Farm Workers of America (UFW ) President Cesar Chavez appealed to a crowd of about 600 at Rackham Auditorium last night to support a boycott of Red Coach iceberg lettuce. The boycott, dclared by Chavez in August, is the second step in the UFW's nine-month-old strike against 34 California lettuce growing companies from which the UFW is seeking higher wages and increased fringe benefits. RED COACH brand lettuce was singled out by Chavez because it is produced by Bruce Church, Inc,, the largest of 13 companies which have refused to sign contracts with the UFW. "The companies are powerful, but not invincible, for justice and truth is on our, side, but there is no way we can win alone. Only if the court of last resort (the people) join us, only with your support (can we prevail)," Chavez said. In a powerful description of the union's first major battle against California grape growers in 1966; Chavez reminded the crowd that long strikes and similar boycotts have been a familiar tool for the union in its 17- year history. That strike, .begun in Delano, California, was organized so quietly that when it was declared, the growers "were very surprised" and thrown into a "total panic." BOTH LABOR experts and many workers had thought "iticouldn't be done," said Chavez, but in 1970, after nearly five years, the grape growers agreed to recognize the UFW and sign contracts with it. Chavez stressed the importance of two tactics in the union's successes: boycotts and "total commitmnt to non- A2 train By JULIE SELBST Because of the increased demand for passenger rail service resulting from skyrocketing gas prices, the Amtrak depost in Ann Arbor no longer has am- ple parking space to accommodate all its passengers, cars, according to the Michigan Association of Railroad Passengers ( MARP) . The state organization, a group of rail passengers who wish to promote rail service, met at Community High School last night and discussed remodeling or moving the city's Amtrak depot. AMTRAK, WHICH has seen a 22 per cent increase in demand over last year on its Chicago-to-Lansing line, expects parking conditions to worsen in the future. If plans materialize to extend lines east to New York and Toronto, waiting room space in the Ann Arbor depot will also prove inadequate, MARP members said. Ann Arbor's depot is the second largest boarding point in Michigan. A new parking lot-which would ex- pand the parking area-would have to be lit, and be more readily accessible than the present one were Amtrak customers compete with the clientele violence to counter the growers' violen- ce. Chavez traced the farm workers' dif- ficulties in union organizing back to the 1930s, when . the National Labor Relations Act was approved under President Franklin Roosevelt. Spon- sors of the act deliberately failed to ex- tend collective bargaining rights to farm workers. THIS "one dastardly act put the stamp of approval and condemned millions since then to live a' life of misery, poverty, and deprivation," Chavez said. Farm workers were omitted from the bill for a variety of reasons, according to Chavez. There were the political con- siderations on the part of the bill's sup- porters: Had the bill included the far- mworkers, it might not have passed. There was also the conception held by many Americans that "agricultural workers were not really Americans" since they were often ethnic minorities and migrants, Chavez said. SINCE THE 1930's, Chavez said, the growers and the Immigration Service have worked together in a "series of recruitment drives throughout the world" to ensure a labor pool larger than the number of available jobs for Californian agriculture. This, Chavez said, was intended to "break the back of unions and keep the workers in their place." Such recruitment drives led to migrations of Japanese, Filipinos, "Okies," Mexicans, and undocumented workers .to California, .according to Chavez. In response to the current strike, 21 of the original 34 targets of the UFW, in- cluding Sun Harvest, Inc., the nation's largest lettuce growing company, have signed contracts with the UFW. The contracts are major gains for the z: Aid lettuce boycott Daily Photo by PAUL ENGSTRM CALLING IT the "scab product we're boycotting," Cesar Chavez holds up a head of Red Coach iceburg lettuce while speaking at Rackham Auditorium. last night. The Red Coach boycott is aimed at Bruce Church, Inc., the largest of 13 companies which still refuses to sign contracts with the UFW. union, UFW organizers said. Hourly pay was increased from $3.70 to $5, and will go up to $5.70 in three years. Medical benefits to be paid by the em- ployer were also significantly in- creased. Nevertheless, according to Chavez, the union has already spent more than $3 million on the nine-month strike and has borrowed "hundreds of thousands of dollars" from the AFL-CIO. Chavez' Ann Arbor appearance is part of an intensive personal tour of 20' cities in the United States and Canada to promote the UFW's current s and set up local boycott organizations. i .. It's enough to fry their and blue! What better out of trees. WHAT? You don't have pennant? With Ulrich's need? Buckeyes for Breakfast depot f of the Gandy Dancer Restaurant, ac- cording to Clark Chatnetski, MARP's spokesman. Ann Arbor city historian Wynstan Stevens said the restuarant, the former train station, was built in 1886. With the advent of the automobile, he said,. demand for rail service fell off, and large amounts of space stood idle. IN 1970, restauranteur Chuck Muer bought the old station and converted it to a seafood restaurant. The trains still run in back of the restaurant, but ticket sales and the waiting room have been moved to the space that was formerly ture discussed used for handling baggage. Proposed alternative sites for the depot include the present site on the Conrail freightyard on North Main St. That, however, is too far from the cen- tral business district of Ann Arbor and campus to warrant serious con- sideration, according to Chatnetski. MARP members also suggested various spots near the present depot, and suggested enlarging the depot it- self. Parking, however, would remain a problem. A site directlysbehind University Hospital was also suggested, but presented the problem of interfering with hospital traffic. The proposed location would also involve tearing up a park that presently exists behind the hospital Chatnetski said the hospital had problems with area residents when it proposed construction on the park land earlier. "Officially we're on record as sup porting a site at or near the present one," said Chatnetski, although he maintained that the purpose of the meeting was to obtain consumer feelings. Ph.D. By DAVID MEY The University is turni holders of doctorates than openings, according to G dlay-Lindy, Administrati for Gradaute Programs in] Findlay-Lindy said it w that prompted her to h yesterday's program for graduate students which e job alternatives ER academic alternatives. The conference sh( was held at Rackham's East Conferen- po, ng out more ce Room. de there are job "IN THE 1m0s there were three or do Jerlinde Fin- four job offers (in the academic com- an ve Assistant munity) for every Ph.D.," Ms. Findlay- wa English. Lindy said in an interview yesterday= wh was this fact "This is not the case anymore. You're elp organize lucky if you get one." att Humanities The program, which was co- tar xamined non- sponsored by the Engish department ac and the office of Career Planning and fa( Placement, was second in a series of six 1 designed to help graduate students ex- (ci plore, job opportunities outside the wa academic community. Yesterday's to speaker, IBM representative Lorna ac McGinnis, spoke to an audience of only % five graduate students. me viable state; Findlay-Lindy attributed the small tr, r in size than turnout to "low-key" publicity which "I explored e said was necessary to avoid any ssible conflicts with faculty. But in ense of the program she said, "We n't want people to drop their Ph.D.s d take up business careers, we just nt them to consider alternatives hile pursuing their Ph.D.s." Some of the graduate students who tended the program expressed reluc- once to announce their interest.in non, ademic careers because they said culty members then "write you off." FINDALY-LINDY agreed. "They ,urrent faculty) got their jobs when it as easier to get jobs. They find it hard empathize with students seeking non- ademic careers." Jeff Lee, a graduate student in Ger- an, said the pressure to follow the aditional academic channels exists. t's subtle, but it's there." eyes-a stadium full of maize way to shake a few Buckeyes a U. of M. scarf, cap, jacket, or there eager to fill your every Jordan: the real Palestinian state Run right over. Ulrich's can help you be of good cheer. ' S MORE THAN A BOOKSTORE 549 East University at the corner of East U. and South U. icontinued from Eage 3) plemented at the UN in other part of the world, but the Palestinians became a surrogate for self-determination elsewhere, which transferred support to the Palestinians," Blum said. The self-determination issue then "serves the useful purpose of exacerbating war- fare against the state of Israel," he ad- ded. Since Jordan is a UN member and has defined borders, "the Palestinians can't claim other parts of Israel" without utilizing the self-determination issue, Blum said. He went on to claim that if the West Bank and the Gaza Strip were designated a Palestinian Arab the state of Delaware and couldn't ab- sorb the refugees in neighboring coun- tries." Therefore, Blum said, "it would have to become an expanionist state." THE U.S. IS NOT just doing Israel a favor by supporting the Jewish state, Blum said, because Israel is the only Western democratica nation in the Middle East. "Israel'is the only stable factor in the Middle East," Blum said. He added, 'Israel preserved Jordan in 1970 without interfering in the territory; if Jordan had collapsed, Saudi Arabia wouldn't be there in its present form." Blum pointed to Israel as the "acid test" for other U.S. allies that are wary of American reliability. "The western world has had some disappointments in this area," Blum said. "I'm told (by UN colleagues) the U.S. is not a dependable ally," since diplomatic ties with Taiwan and Vietnam have been severed, he said. WCCAA candidates vying for LSA-SG state, "it would not be a the total area is smalalei (Continued from Pager)' "basically to publicize the i divestment." Kwik view coalition's involvement in the as a way of "increasing av through which the coalition ca for divestment. "I don't think the coalition1 illusions that if they get four m on LSA-SG that it will frigh Regents into divestment. I ju it's another avenue to try." COALITION candidates do phasize the issue of divestm clusively, however. "Public divestment is a reason (for rur said another candidate, N Frumin, "but I don't want it toc Falafil Palace Flyer 44 1 OHIO STATE 27 SMICHIGAN 14 NEVER! IMPOSSIBLE! Is Michigan going to win? You bet your falafil patties they are! HERE'S T HE MHPPY HOUR BET: as the only reason the WCCAA is run- ssue of ning. Certainly it is a reason, but it's not s the the only reason." election Frumin said he thought the people venues" from the WCCAA have a "progressive" an work frame of mind and "want to work on issues that affect the University." has any, Frumin said he would like to see aembers students have a greater role in the iten the University. He also criticized the st think "bureaucratic mire" he claimed existed in LSA-SG. not em- KWIK SAID students should have ient ex- "more of a say" in tenure decisiqJs. city for Kwik said the way tenure decisions ate nning)," currently made is "just another exam- latthew ple of the administration being uncon- come off scerned with the needs and desires of the students." > Kwik, Lacker, Frumin, and Gottfried all said they didn't think any WCCAA member who might be elected to the council necessarily should abstain from voting when a request by the WCCAA for funds comes before the council. Gottfried discounted any possible conflict of interests, "since people know that the WCCAA has a platform of divestment. I don't think it is aconflict of interests to run on a platform and I--- 01 0-!io IF. MICHIGAN WINS: Thrill to the excitement of an Eleg ant DISOATIECUVI -You buy one sandwich of your choice (falafil, eggplant, zucchini) and get one FREE from 5 o'clock until closing EVERYDAY until the end of the semester. I i 1111