I 94C t i ian Bathj Eighty-three years of editorial freedom Edited and managed by students at the University of Michigan Football in 1907: Serious business 420 Moynard St., Ann Arbor, Mi. 48104 News Phone: 764-0552 SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1973 An arrogant refusal TfHE REGENTS yesterday again refused to make public the salary lists of fac- ulty and administrators at the University. We find this refusal in the face of sup- port for Regent Dunn's proposal from students and student organizations, leg- islative action and opinion from the state attorney general to be deplorable. The Regents have arrogantly acted on behalf of an ultra-secretive University administration which claims that pay scale discrimination within the University is being eradicated. However, we cannot take their claims on faith alone. The peo- ple in this state have a right to know how their tax funds are being used. The stu- dents at this University have a right to know how their extremely high tuition monies are being spent. THIS CONTINUED secrecy must stop. The appearance is that the admin- istration and the Regents have something to hide, despite their pious pleas to the contrary. This impression, whether true or not, will continue until the figures are made public. This newspaper has argued editorially in favor of such publication for several years. We have seen the Relents refuse to act in the past many times, even after three institutions in the state, Delta Col- lege, Saginaw Valley College and Michi- gan State University released their fac- ulty salary lists. The Daily, along with Student Govern- ment Council, the local chapter of NOW, Herself newspaper, and several other lo- cal groups began legal action last spring against the University to force release of the lists. Unfortunately this action has been stymied. Then yesterday, in the face of an opin- ion issued in August by Attorney General Frank Kelley that public institutions must release such information, the Re- gents again refused to order it done. WE ARE NATURALLY disappointed by yesterday's vote. However, we will continue to pursue all possible routes to force the University to release the faculty salary information. The lists must come out. C05T OF WVI QGO O IdS ~' \ \ Kpp ' \.. A A AV rPiE MII~ U K!! JOIR"N4I 'I wouldn 't want you to feel guilty because you were in a position to contribute to inflation!' Farah Co. continues to fight unionizing effort of workers E VERY NOW AND then I like to spend a long afternoon poking through the junk and clutter which makes its home in musty corners of old attics and basements. A streak of compulsive anal re- tention in my ancestors has left as its monument, shelf after shelf of queer, dusty old boxes of for- gotten correspondence, tied up neatly with twine and preserved for posterity, as if waiting in anti- cipation of those idle days when I have nothing better to do than wallow in the past. Now mind you, most of this junk chris parks is just that - junk. And the bal- ance of the rest of it is of inter- est only to those of family. But occasionally one comes across the "Gem" - a letter, post card or picture which reaches across the generations and brings a smile of recognition, or "says something" about a place or time. BACK IN THE early 1900s, be- fore kids jetted home on youth fare for spring break and talked to their parents between times on. Ma Bell's generous 5 cents p e r minute, students used to write letters - to mom and dad, sis- ters, brothers, aunts, uncles, you name it. One of my "treasures" is a let- ter from a University law student to his sister who was going to school out east. It is dated No- vember 18, 1907 (that's nineteen aught seven). The letter concerns (what else?) a football game. But :lot j u s t any football game. Michigan has been defeated, which is in and of itself, of course, grounds for deep depression. But what is worse, Michigan has been defeated by one of those (sneer) "Eastern" schools. To his sister out east, the young man writes: "OF COURSE you have had am- ple opportunity by this time of hearing M(ichigan) run down and degraded on account of the game Saturday but . . . I have an ex- cuse for this failure to whip Penn. No doubt had things been Rllowed to take their natural course and progress uninterrupted by the treacherous decisions given by the referee, there would be a jig in Ann Arbor at the present moment instead of gloom." Obviously, effete easterners do not subdue'Michigan without con- siderable assistance from the forc- es of evil and sample luck. First of all, Penn's only touch- down was "a fluke". This act of fate, however, "did not dishearten the players a little bit and they went back into with a fierce de- termination to rip Penn up . " MORE BAD LUCK ensued, how- ever. The Wolverines scored but the play was called back. A n d although "every man in the bleach- ers swears that it was the dirtiest piece of work ever seen on the gridiron," the "dirty little welp had the say and authority as re- feree." As a sort of post script to t h e wholeaincident, our law student adds menacingly, "it was well for that miserable little paid traitor that he sneaked out of town im- mediately after the game." One shudders to think what would have happened if he had stayed on - a man who sold out Michigan to the "Easterners". But the damage was done, and "that dirty piece of work and the knowledge that the official himself was arrayed against us as well as. the Penn team was too much." Of course, it wasn't just a treacherous official that sunk the men of Michigan. Those "Eastern- ers" play dirty - not like t he wholesome, corn-fed sons of the middle west. OUR UNWITTING historian re- lates that the team "came out of the gamde looking like defeated prizefighters for the reputation the Penn men have for dirty-playing is world-wide and they lived up to it to the best of their ability." The thought of those "Eastern- ers" gloating and crowing o v e r their ill-gotten gains was just too much. "I only wish I could be there for a day or two and help defend Michigan against the attacks, from the Easterners ..." But virtue will triumph. "Some day we will show them what a Michgian team can do when she is given a fair chance. That is all she, asks for, a fair chance, and I will wager that the boys will attend to the rest of the program." And (gosh) he almost forgot, "The fudge and stuffed dates went like hot cakes." Congressional inquiry needed THE STATE DEPARTMENT certainly has found itself in an embarrassing situation in the aftermath of the Chilean coup of ten days ago, especially in the, light of the narrow escape of the Ama- teur Athletic Association (AAU) swim- ming team which returned Thursday after' dodging bullets in Santiago. Only through pressure on the State Department from Sen. Edward Gurney (R-Fla.) and Rep. Paul McCloskey (R- Calif.) were the swimmers able to return when they did. The State Department has admitted that it knew of the coup 48 hours in ad- vance, and yet, made no attempt to warn or detour the swim team. An official ex- cused this on the grounds that not every- one in the department knew of the im- pending coup, and that the American embassy in Santiago was ignorant as well. THE CABLES contained in the Pentagon Papers indicate that communication between the State Department and American embassies is usually better than the spokesperson would have us believe. However, if the embassy personnel did not know, one good reason might be that TODAY'S STAFF: News: Dan Blugerman, Cindy Hill, Char- les Stein, Rolfe Tessem Editorial Page: Marnie Heyp, Z a c h a r y Schiller, Eric Schoch, David Yalowitz Arts Page: Diane Levick Photo Technician: Karen Kasmauski the State Department did not wish them to know, to help insure the success of the coup. The American government's antip- athy towards Allende was no secret. In military overthrows of governments a lot of innocent people often are killed in the shooting. The fact that the im- pending coup was known to the State De- partment and the department neverthe- less took no action to protect American citizens in Chile indicates at least a cer- tain amount of callousness on the part of American officials. In previous years, after all, alleged dan- ger to American citizens has been used as an excuse to intervene in other Latin American countries. WHAT IS MORE, suspicions of some form of U. S: government involve- ment in the coup still remain, largely due to the State Department's own state- ments. On Thursday, a senior official refused to answer questions trying to ascertain whether the government had helped fi- nance the coup. The issue of financing the coup, he said, would be discussed only in closed-door session. The question is, of course, what infor- mation can only be discussed behind closed doors? A denial of financial in- volvement certainly does not require closed-door protection. The actions, and the inactions, on the part of the State Department in particu- lar and the U. S. government in general deserve attention and investigation. Pub- lic hearings by Congress would appear to be a proper course of action. By ZACHARY SCHILLER EL PASO, TEX., is a textile town. About 20,00 textile workers are employed in the city, most of them - as with the majority of the city -Chicano. The biggest firm in town is the Farah Manufacturing Co., which employs 14 per cent of the local labor force. And since May 9, 1972, there has been a strike at Farah. What has made the 16-month-long strike the focus of national press coverage is both its resemblance to laborsorganizing movements of the 1930s and its implications for unionizing the South generally. Only 2,200 El Paso textile work- ers are union members; because of what the New York Times calls the ''enormous pool of cheap Mexican- American labor," El Paso has the largest unorganized supply of clothing workers in the United States. The strike at Farah is essential- ly one over union recognition; the 3,000 employees who walked out demand representation by t h e Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America (ACWA). A UNION VICTORY at Farah, it is generally agreed, would be fol- lowed by general unionization of the largely open shop clothing plants throughout thearea. Moreover, attorney George Mc- Almon, chairman of the Committee for Fairness at Farah, believes a union victory would eventually lead to unionization for all the under- paid, unorganizedaChicano workers - retail clerks, car washers, lauin- dry workers, assembly line work- ers, etc. McAlmon says wage rates along the entire border could be af- fected. Company President Willie Farah, with the support of much of the El Paso business community, has fiercely resisted the strike, insist- ing that the company will never be unionized. Through a nationwide boycott of Farah, however, the pants manu- facturer took an $8.3 million loss in the year ending Oct. 31, 1972. SALES, ACCORDING to c o m- pany figures, dropped 21 per cent during the third quarter of fiscal 1972, seven per cent in the fourth quarter, and another 17 per cent in the first quarter of 1973. Thestrike and the accompany- ing boycott, which have been sup- ported by the AFL-CIO and a nan,- ber of prominent national political figures, bearszsomeresemblance to the unionization drives of 4!0 years ago. The way an ACWA publication puts it, the strike is one to protect workers. "from a feudal system that per- mits their employer to fire them for any reason or no sea- son, boost production stand- ards without consultation, spv on their activities, h o u i d them with unmuzzled police dogs,shift them from job to job without any explanation, and indulge in a number of oth- er actions that the National Labor Relations Board has of- ficially called illegal." There is no job security at Farah; wages start at $1.60 an hour. It is, however, more the ques- tion of dignity than any single econoinic issue which brought the workers out on strike. WILLIE FARAH points w i t h pride to the clean, well-lighted plants: the free coffee and rolls available for breakfast; the free bus service from downtown El Paso to the plants; the prescrip- tion drugs offered without charge to workers, and a host of other company practices benefitting em- ployees. But striking Farah workers ob- ject that it is not patronism they need, it is the power to control their conditions and their lives. During the strike, Farah h a s intimidated strikers with the use of guard dogs, maintained close surveillance over their workers, curtailed all conversation among employes during working hours, and threatened workers . w i t .h "harsh treatment' if they became active in union affairs. Partly because of these meas- ures, but more a consequence of the already mentioned low-paid la- bor force in El Paso and neighbor- ing Juarez, Mex., strikers have not brought a majority of Farah employees out of the plants. THE STRIKE has received the support of El Paso's Catholic bis- hop, the Most Rev. Sidney Metz- ger, who sent a letter to all U.S. Catholic bishops asking that they bring pressure on retailers not to reorder from the company. But Willie Farah is adamant: There will be no union at his com- pany. Farah says that foreign competi- tion is creating a grim situation, and that American workers have to learn to work. 'There are two billion foreigners out there willing to work for 10 cents an hour," he said. "We've got to whip 'em with American know-how and the will to work." His superpatriotism is illustrated best by the company's refusal to buy any non-American made pro- duct. Willie Farah also boasts that no foreigner has ever worked for the company. The Federal Equal Employment Opportunities Commission finally obtained a 'court order which re- quired him to hire authorized Mex- ican aliens.- STRIKERS HAVE hopes that the nationwide Farah boycott will eventually force absettlement, pointing to the drastic drop in the value of Farah stock as well as falling company sales. Ann Arbor residents may shortly become aware of the boycott, as several local stores - including the Checkmate Shop and Fiegel's Men's and Boy's Wear - c a r r y Farah pants. Detroit boycott organizers are apparently interested in bringing the boycott to Ann Arbor. Some of our clothing stores - as well as the Farah strikers - could well afford such a move. New Canada law aidsU.S. exiles THE CANADIAN government has enacted an amendment to the Immigration Appeal Board Act that will be of great benefit to the many American war resister exiles living in that country. The amendment provides that every exile in Canada who ar- rived there by November 30, 1972, irrespective of how he came there or under what conditions he remained, may appeal to have his residence in Canada legalized. The action states that this opportunity is for one final, not to be repeated period of 60 days, beginning August 1 and ending September 30, 1973. It is imperative that whatever is done be done quickly. It is expected that the Canadian government will be extemely lenient, this last, single time, in applying the standards for becoming 'landed' and that almost all applicants will quality. An exile who becomes landed under this new law will still have the choice of returning to the United States when amnesty is granted. Contact directly any exile in Canada that you know and urge him to get in touch with the aid center nearest to him. If you have relatives or friends who have a son in Canada write to them immediately advising them to contact their son with this informa- tion. THE CANADIAN aid centers are listed below. Those who do not find an exile aid center listed which would be convenient write to: National Council of Churches, Room 766, 475 Riverside Drive, New York, N.Y. 10027 for information. 1) Toronto Anti-Draft Programme 11% Spadina Toronto, Ontario 416-920-0241 2) Winnepeg Committee to Aid War Objectors 175 Colony Street Winnepeg, Manitoba 204-774-9323 3) Montreal Council to Aid War Objectors 3625 Alymer Montreal, Quebec 514-843-3132 4) Vancouver Committee to Aid War Objectors Suite 204 144 West Hastings Vancouver 9, British Columbia 604-588-9656 5) Calgary Committee on War Immigrants Box 3234 Letters to The Daily I ea OLD\\. handbills To The Daily: I CAN SYMPATHIZE with the author of Thursday's editorial, "An unwarranted crackdown." The po- lice department's efforts can un- doubtedliy be put to better use al- levating bike theft and other more serious crimes rather than park- ing violations. However, I do take exception to the statement that "illegally posted handbills . . . (are) yet another offense (on) the ever-growing list of victimless crimes." We are all victims of indescrim- inate posting of handbills of lamp- posts, windows, trash cans and other more ingenious locations. We are so overexposed to obnoxious advertisements that we have evol- ved a "tunnel vision" which en- ables us to ignore the mess. It is all, the visual pollution of Ann Ar- bor would be reduced. -Lee Katterman '74 Sept. 20 clarification To The Daily: LET ME CLARIFY my role on the Institute for Social Research's studies of delinquent behavior de- scribed in the Sept. 15 Daily. I was not involved in the re- search activity; my contribution was to use the data obtained by Dr. Martin Gold and other Insti- tute researchers to co-author ",he article which, as the Daily account says, was published in the cur- rent issue of Psychology Today. I share responsibility with Dr. Gold for conclusions, interpreta- tions, and recommendations put forth in the Psychology Today ar- ticle but I should not be credited with the conduct of the actual re- search projects from which the data were drawn. -Bill Haney Managing Editor, ISR Sept. 17 x:. ::. ;. Contact your ,, reps- Sen. Phillip Hart (Dem), Rm 253, Old Senate Bldg., Capitol Hill, Washington, D.C. 20515.