See editorial page E 40 ai tI SOGGY See Today for details Vol. LXXXVIII, No. 48 Ann Arbor, Michigan-Wednesday, November 2, 1977 Ten Cents 12 Pages Carter approves 35IC base pay hike effeetive Jan. I WASHINGTON (AP) - President Carter signed into law yesterday the biggest increase ever in the mini- mum wage, requiring most employ- ers to pay their workers an annual minimum salary of almost $7,000 by 1981. The current minimum ;is $4,784. The law raises the minimum wage from the current $2.30 an hour to $2.65 on Jan. 1, and then in three annual steps to $3.35 an hour by Jan. 1, 1981. Based on a 40-hour week, that is $6,968 a year.. CARTER SAID it will pump an extra $9 billion into the pockets of America's low-wage workers, who will "use it for the necessities of life.'' "The impact on our economy will be very beneficial," the President said during a brief ceremony in the White House Rose Garden. Among the labor and congressional leaders on hand were AFL-CIO President George Meany, Sen. Jen- flings Randolph (D-W. Va. ), and Rep. John Dent, (D-Pa.). Each also was there in 1938 when President Frank- lin Roosevelt signed a law establish- ing the first minimum wage at 25 cents an hour. it is a little better way of life." The labor Department estimated that,4.3 million workers would re- ceive increased wages totaling $2.6 billion from the initial 35-cent an hour increase that becomes effective Jan. 1. -AP Photo Geronimo! Innovative Denver schoolchildren weren't about to let the unexpected snowfall go to waste. Trays weren't available-thus the birth of a new sport-ja cketing. ATTACKS UN'S HUMAN RIGHTS POSITION: Carh WASHINGTON (AP) - President Carter pulled the United States out of the International Labor Organization yesterday, marking the first U.S. withdrawal from a United Nations agency since the world organization was founded in 1945. Carter said the ILO is no longer committed .to its original purpose - to improve the lot of workers around the world. Critics say the agency has increasingly fallen under Soviet and Third World domination. AS HE WAS withdrawing U.S. support from the ILO, Carter criti- cized the United Nations sharply for a "disappointing" record on human rights, but he pledged his full support to the world organization. "The U.S. remains ready to return whenever the ILO is again true to its proper principles and procedures,"~ Carter said. His statement was read to reporters by Labor Secretary Ray Marshall. The secretary gave these four rea- sons for Carter's decision to with- draw from the agency: - The ILO has not applied labor standards equally among all of the nations of the world. -' The agency frequently issues condemnations "without adequate investigation." *Politics often enter into the ILO's considerations and nations are con- demned for "extraneous political" )r puils U.S. out o f ILO reasons.: " As, originally established, ILO delegations contained representa- tives of labor, industry and govern- ment. Each represented its own con- stituency. Now too many delegations represent "governments almost ex- clusively." THE ILO IS a U.N. agency formed to improve world labor conditions, living standards and economic and social stability. The agency has been a main source of statistics on hours, pay and labor safety. In recent years, it set up technical training courses in former colonial areas of Africa and Asia. It received the Nobel Peace Prize on its 50th anniversary in 1959. When the ILO was formed inA119l9 under the League of Nations, govern- ment, labor and employer represen- tatives from each country were inde- pendent delegations. But since the ILO became the first specialized agency of the United Nations in 1946, communists and some Third World states have blurred this distinction. LAST SPRING the ILO shelved a report by independent jurists con- demning human rights violations in eight countries, including the Soviet Union and Uganda. In 1974, Israel was condemned on grounds of rac- See CARTER, Page 2 0,/ BULLETIN AMSTERDAM, The Nether- lands (AP)-Police announced late last night that Dutch mul- timillionaire Maurits Caransa, who was kidnapped last Fri- day, was released unharmed by his abductors. See page 7 for details. CARTER NOTED that each time Subsequent increases will affect the minimum wage was increased, it another one million workers at a cost brought predictions of higher infla- of $6.3 billion over the following three tion and catastrophe for the econ- years as the minimum wage rises to omy. But, he added, Congress never- $2.90 in 1979, $3.10 in 1981. theless "acted, perhaps belatedly, but wisely in each instance" in FARM WORKERS, whose present raising the federal pay floor, minimum is $2.20 an hour, will "Every President who has signed receive the same rate as most other the minimum wage has signed it with workers under the new law. heavy opposition," Dent told Carter. He added, "All that ever came out of See CARTER, Page 2 ::"a; !g_:'v+": - : - cntie w ih.ee nte.lnad.oprtng ourcarshean g our.CCCCCCCC.. relae te wthgs n olsu- oes ndoertigou ac . .C }: :?...:.:CC2' '. 'MSA ends space controversy byapproving re comini By PAULNtE TOOLE gard to our own priorities we made a The Michigan Student Assembly turn-aroudn. It was preferable to (MSA) ratified the recommendations give as many organizations as pos- of the Student Organization Board to sible office space so they could be grant office space to all but seven heard." organizations which applied. The assembly also approved guidelines "WE HAVE several groups the board devised for governing tie doubled up into office space. This is possession of MSA office space. something we wanted to avoid but de- Jasper DiGuiseppe, vice-chairman, termined it was a necessary evil." of the board, said, "We (the board) The organizations which were de- reevaluated our procedures. In re- nied office space include Students for nendations Local Motion, the Ann Arbor Folk Dance Club, Program for Education- al and Social Change, Organization for Arab Students, Chinese Bible Class, Navigators, and the Campus Crusade for Christ. The main reasons for the denials were that these organizations either do not have enough students to qualify .for recognition as a student organization, or they didn't need See MSA, Page 7 - - - - - - - -A .r Turnout hearty at blood drive 3y DAN OBERDORFER supply hospitals in all five counties of the southeastern Michigan region for at cold and clammy, sophomore least twenty-one days. B Hands Mark Belcik fidgeted in his seat while waiting to donate blood for the first time. Many of his more experienced hallmates sat beside him, spitting sub- tle threats his way. Over 1,000 students, each giving a pint of blood, are expected to pass through the week long Alpha Phi Omega-Red Cross sponsored blood drive. The blood they collect would ALL POTENTIAL donors are screened and tested for hepatitis and venereal disease, "We (the Red Cross) have taken over all other .blood banks and as the sole 'supplier of blood for the southeastern Michigan region we are responsible for See BLOOD, Page 12 'f ' .C.'9 4 , AC''CC '