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SUNDAY-THURSDAY
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1000 Hill Street
House fights for post offices
WASHINGTON (A') - The ad-
counting arm of Congress soft-
ened its position yesterday on
closing 12,000 rural post offices
in the face of strong opposition
from members of Congress..
"When a community loses its
post office, it also loses its iden-
tity. There is no road back,"
Rep. Keith Sebelius, (R-Kan.),
said.
A REPORT of the General Ac-
counting Office (GAO) has said
that. $100 million could be saved
by closing the 12,000 rural post
offices. It also said there would
be no cutbacks in service be-
cause of the closings.
Testifying on the report before
a joint meeting of two House
Post Office subcommittees, Wil-
liam Anderson of the GAO said:
"If we issued the report again
today, we wouldn't write it the
same way."
ANDERSEN said the report
has been "misinterpreted to
make it seem we are in favor
of wholesale closing of post of-
fices."
He suggested a "compromise
that would allow something oth-
er than the status quo situation
of uneconomic post offices."
Rep. James Hanley (D-N.Y.),
termed the GAO testimony "an
admission of fault by the GAO
on the wisdom of its report."
ANDERSON spoke after four'
members of Congress who rep-
resent primarily rural districts
testified against the GAO pro-
posal. The accounting office in
June recommended that Con-
gress change the law to allow
the closings as long as the qua-
lity of service is maintained.
Present law forbids the Postal
Service from closing small post
offices solely to eliminate de-
ficits.
"For business and industry to
locate in rural and small-town
America, there must be a foun-
dation of basic community serv-
ices. The community post office
is the cornerstone of this foun-
dation," Sebelius said.
ALSO testifying against the
GAO proposal were Reps. Patsy
T. Mink (D-Hawaii), Alvin Bal-
dus (D-Wis.), and Clair Burg-
ener (R-Calif.),
Postmaster General Benjamin
Bailar has said that the Postal
Service has not increased its
closings in rural areas "primar-
ily because of the concern ex-
pressed by members of Con-
gress about such closings."
When a rural post office is
closed, service is provided by
rural delivery or by the Postal
Service contracting with a pri-
vate store owner to operate a
community post office.
Clericals fight over
proposed bylaws
By ELAINE FLETCHER bargaining team, when asked if
A proposal for union bylaws the negotiators would block such
went to the rank and file of the an action.
University clericals yesterday, CDU objections to the pro-
but a faction of the local is try- posed bylaws center on provi-
ingto loc pasae o th plnsions which would vest the ul-
aiming t hpassagen embersp timate authority of the local in
has not had a chance to contrib- a representative council, and al-
ute input, lot the local president a $14,000
sa;larv - twine that of an nver-
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Members of the clericals bar-
gaining unit which last month
negotiated a contract between
UAW Local 2001 and the Uni-
versity drafted a set of bylaws,
but a group called Clericals for
a Democratic Union (CDU)
hopes to prevent approval of the
proposal at a meeting to be held
Sunday night.
CDU seeks a membership vote
to name a committee to write
the bylaws. Last week the group
presented the former bargaining
team a petition with 319 names
supporting their position.
CDU plans to present a motionI
at the Sunday meeting asking
for an election of a committeeI
to write a new set of bylaws be-
fore the bargaining unit's pro-
posal is voted on. The move is
an attempt to prevent consider-
ation of the bylaws written by
the negotiators.
"It's a democratic procedure
to allow the assembly to decide
what business they are going to
take care of," claimed Carolyn
Weeks, a CDU member.
"IF CDU makes such a mo-
tion and the membership agrees
to it, then we would follow the
rules of the motion," responded
Jean Jones, head of the former
"IT WOULD take away all the
power from the membership by
only having two membership
meetings," objected Sue Han-
son, a CDU member.
Dan Byrne objected to the
proposed president's salary say-
ing, "When you make that much
money you become unaccount-
able and isolated from your
membership."
Jones countered that, . "The
president of a local has to rep-
resent over 3,000 people, the sal-
ary should be commensurate
with what people would expect
from an executive type job . .
I see the CDU not as trying to
build a viable local, but saying
'elect me, I'm cheaper'."
age clerical.
T w o general membership
meetings would also be held
each year, replacing the month-
ly gatherings staged previously.
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