UFW" SUCCESS See Editorial Page LATE43U 1 ai1g UFFISH High -26 Low- 16° See Today for details Vol. LXXXVIII, No. 104 Ann Arbor, Michigan-Saturday, February 4, 1978 Ten Cents, 8 Pages Plus Supplement Beicher out:Fifth Ward seat a toss-up By MARGARET JOHNSON paign hands down, but I think we can pG housing responsibility by construct- d a SUE WARNER pull an upset," commented Gold- opposed to that," said Cmejrek Goldberg said the city's housing e o it costs have "skyrocketed," but he With Lou Belcher forsaking his berg. "All we have to do is mobilize a adding, "I think we should have problems are the result of a shortage ing new dormitories. He aso sai said all costs of living have increased City Council seat in his ill-fated run lot of latent support that's there for part-time city council members, I and the expense of building new units ciborwned lPackard Beakpurchased for the including property taxes and upkeep. for the mayor's chair, one of two new the Democratic party." don't think we should have full-time in Ann Arbor. He also said the city aborted Pkd-Bk highway "The landlord has to pass these faces is destined to represent the Cmejrek, a local attorney and lacks "decent" housing for the projec e use or pu ousing. costs along to someone," said Cmej- Fifth Ward come this April' - University of Iowa graduate, said he elderly. CMEJREK, however, said he rek. Republican James Cmejrek or Dem- is "planning to get elected." GOLDBERG, who is president of "d 't k ow n ea, sack Both Cmejrek and Goldberg agree ocratJoelGoldberg. Pine Lake Village Cooperative, a "THEY [SENIOR citizens) can't apatments ow rentahousng" in thle city services such as street repaire Roughly bounded by Pauline "I'M GOING to do everything I can encity. and garbage collection, police and Street, First Street and Miller Road, so the next day (after the election) I citye c o'" have to say there are some bad fire protection, should get more at- the Eifth Ward has traditionally been can say I did everything I could," he landlords in this town, but on the tention. a Republcan stronghold. said. public housing project, said he feels afford to pay the kinds of rents even other hand, I know some good land- Cmejrek said his major concern is housing is the "number one topic" in students are paying," said the 27- lords that are trying to do a good job ACCORDING TO Cmejrek the ALTHOUGH a Democrat has not the reorganization of the city's Ann Arbor. year-old candidate. for their tenants," said Cmejrek. parking situation in Ann Arbor is conquered the ward since 1970, Gold government. According to Cmejrek "For working people, middle class "You hear these horror stories "There are professional tenants inb"terrible." Hr cited such so berg, who manages Tice's Men's the issue is "whether or not we people, everybody but the very rich, about people in places like New York this town," he continued. "There are building more city parking struc- Shop, cmtends he has as good a should change the Ann Arbor city Ann Arbor is not a good housing and Detroit buying dog food to exist some really bad tenants who make it tures and channeling money collect- chance at winning as his Republican government from a weak-mayor market at all," said Goldberg, who on; that kind of problem does exist an occupation to move from place to ed from parking fines into the counterpart. system to a strong-mayor system." graduated from Yale and did gradu- for some people," said Goldberg. place and unfortunately they give the parking fund instead of the city's "I'd be lying through my teeth if I "I think Mayor Wheeler would like ate work in Political Science at the Goldberg suggests the University group called tenants a bad name." general fund as it is now. said I expected to win this cam- to see a strong-mayor system but I'm 'U'. should pick up more of its share of CMEJREK acknowledged housing See BELCHER'S, Page 2 a a f i a 3 Labor commission t o h GEO'U' By SUE WARNER The Ml The Graduate Employes Organiza- states Spe tion (GEO) decided Thursday night the emplo to go along with a Michigan Employ- WHENi ment R e l a t i o n s Commission present e (MERC) order calling for a MERC Assistants judge to hear testimony on whether employes GEO members are employes, en- Sperka w titled to contract bargaining rights, continue.] or students. decided in In addition, the GEO membership 'At that voted to instruct its Stewards Council preme Co to study the feasibility of organizing residentsa a strike for this spring. employes IN DEFEATING a Stewards Coun- entitled to cil recommendation that GEO appeal the Mich the MERC order to the Michigan State Court of Appeals, the member- ship voted 35 to 10 to gather witnesses for testimony on the student-employe U question before MERC judge Shlomo Sperka. The MERC order was handed down in late January and stems from a University appeal of Sperka's August 1977 ruling which found the Univer- sity guilty of an unfair labor practice (ULP) charge. GEO filed the ULP WASHIN charge in November 1976 when the administra University refused to sign a GEO old nation contract pending two grievances asking Un from its previous contract. Arnold Mi GEO Treasurer Bob Milbrath, who meeting of opposed the stewards recommenda- cil with ( tion, said yesterday he is "very point. Mil pleased" with the membership's for Tuesda decision to take the case back to Miller ha Sperka. cil yesterd "THE ADVANTAGE is that if we ations. can get the case together, the MEANW University will be forced to tell some the coalfie pretty good lies or lose the case," yesterday said Milbrath. day nation University negotiator Joseph Katu- critical sta lic said yesterday the administration State tro "feels it has been important to test this question and this provides the opportunity to get a decision." "Our intent is to have some reso-.- lution (of the student-employe is- sue)," said Katulic. ACCORDING to Bill Simpson, who WASHIN presented the stewards' recommen- tion's une dation, Sperka's hearing would be a another n "major court trial" and a decision cent, its o can't be expected for over a year. three yea Katulic said a hearing date has not today. been set. He also said the process Even n could be lengthy because of time slight imp needed to schedule the judge, pre- picture las pare the cases and carry out the confirmati actual hearing. prising di j ERC rka mus yment s Univers vidence s (GSAs , at the would n He said n1973. time, iurt rule at Unive as wel bargai. igan Pt ob status case order specifically Relations Act. its members. Thursday's memb st hear evidence on GSAs who favored taking the case was marked by de status of the GSAs. through the appeals court reasoned stewards presented ity lawyers tried to that the method would bring a resolu- callng for the Counci Graduate Student tion of the issue sooner and force the izing for a strike thi ) are students, not University back to the bargaining GSAs argued the me. e August hearing, table. not vote to support a ot allow them to MILBRATH, however, said Thurs- endum was called. the issue had been day that the chances of winning the- Instead, the memb appeal were "zero. have the Stewards the Michigan Su- Milbrath also said by following gate the ossibilit d that interns and through the MERC procedure, GEO gti p ssgbilcay rsity Hospital were could win increased organizational strike pdgCoucar [1 as students and strength: He said by gathering to study how many G n collectively under testimony from witness, GEO could to sign the pledges b ublic Employment secure definitive job descriptions for feasible for GEO to o ar ership meeting. bate when the, asecond motion, i to begin organ- s term. Several. mbership would, strike if a refer-, bership voted to, Council investi-" of. circulating s.. was instructed 3SAs are needed efore it would be rganize a strike.- -r -. icGUOIAJIV XVt %XL V LV Uri I nIon halts strike talks after Carter's request Ar rMto Dr. Daniel Ringler examines one of the seven baboons to be used in a crash-impact project. The experiments subjects baboons to impacts up to 40 miles per hour. Group protests auto tests using baboons NGTON (AP) - The Carter ation stepped into the 60-day- .wide coal strike yesterday, ited Mine Workers President iller to postpone a scheduled f his union's bargaining coun- contract talks at a critical ler rescheduled the session ay. ad planned to brief the coun- ay on the status of the negoti- (HILE, violence erupted in lds of Alabama and Indiana as negotiations to end the 60- nwide coal strike reached a ge. oopers used tear gas in Oak- man, Ala., to quell a mob of some 200 striking United Mine Workers mem- bers, who responded with a barrage of dynamite, small arms fire, rocks, and firebrands from bonfires. The strikers had held seven non- UMW miners captive in a house and had threatened to kill them before the state police moved in and rescued them uninjured. IN PETERSBURG, Ind., a UMW member was shot to death during a dis- turbance at a non-union mine. Police said John Hull, 32, of Patoka, was killed after about 35 vehicles carrying armed men pulled up to the mine. Police said, however, they did not See COAL, Page 8 By MITCH CANTOR Calling it "a waste of animal life" and unnecessary, a local group is pro- testing the use of seven baboons in an University auto safety experiment which already has killed one animal. The "Committee to Save the Baboon Seven" is distributing petitions and selling bumper stickers in an attempt to halt the crash-inpact experiment. THE PROJECT, conducted by the Highway Safety Research Institute and funded by the United States Depar- tment of Transportation, could subject anesthetized baboons to impact con- ditions simulating crashes up to 40 miles per hour. Results from the experiment are to be used to design more accurate crash dummies. If the animals do not die in the simulated crashes, they will later be given lethal doses of anesthesia and dissected so their tissues may be studied. REVEREND Ervin Gaede of the Fir- st Unitarian Church, one of the commit- tee members, is confident that with the help of local citizens his committee can halt the experimentations before the next baboon is killed. According to Gaede, the group has already collected over 100 signatures and is working to collect 1,000 by next week. "We object (to the experimentation) on the grounds that it's a waste of animal life, it's redundant, and it's un- necessary," claimed Gaede. "It's a flagrant type of thing, and of course it's See GROUP, Page 8 Garter O0 ibless rate falls, again, NGTON (AP) - The na- December, to 6.4 per cent from 6.9 in January, as the overall jobless mployment rate dropped per cent the month before, was not rate for this group of workers re- otch in January to 6.3 per the fluke that some economists had mained at 12.7 per cent and for black owest point in more than feared. males and black youths, jobs became rs, the government said THE LABOR Department said an even more scarce. nore important than the provement in the jobless st month'was the report's ion that the big and sur-' rop in unemployment in additional 270,000 persons found jobs in January, raising total employment to 92.9 million. The number of unem- ployed persons remained at 6.2 million, about the same as in December. The 0.1 per cent drop in unemploy- ment last month meant the Carter administration already is near the upper end of its goal to reduce the nation's jobless rate to between six per cent and 6.25 per cent in 1978. However, the job picture for blacks and other minorities remained bleak The 'Labor Department said the jobless rate for black adult men rope to 9.8 per cent in January, up from 9.1 per cent in December, while the rate for black youths rose to 38.7 per cent, up from 38 per cent in December. There was an improvement for black adult women, whose jobless rate de- clined to 10.8 per cent from Decem- ber's 11.5 per cent. The Labor De- partment gave this additional break- down on unemployment of various categories in January. 'U' warns hospital move if no new roads, By BRIAN BLANCHARD and JUDY RAKOWSKY The University is threatening to move its hospital elsewhere if local citizens and planners don't recognize "the reality of the automobile" and build three miles of new road to carry neonle Proposed bill to cut state pot By DENNIS SABO A proposal to lower the penalty for possessing sma'll amounts of mari- juana - identical to a measure Ann Arbor Representative Perry Bullard failed to get through the State House last year - will come up for consideration in the State Senate this vear. penalty 41-58 vote after an emotional debate climaxed by Bullard taking a round- house left, delivered by Rep. Rosetta Ferguson (D-Detroit), who hit him with an ash tray. The two Senators said the debate this year is not expected to cause any sparring matches, and are confident the hill will receive annrnvai v ;. ' :. . ... ' r .. .: : .. ; : . r' X :. r r, : ... .s :. :'. .,,a,.t ...: .. ....:..... r! .... s;t :.{ vz8}K _... 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