Eighty-Six Years of Editorial Freedom
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Demownstrate with AATU
W. Europe: Reacting to reactors
W ESUPPORT THE Ann Arbor
Tenants Union (AATU) in its
drive for decent off-campus housing
at affordable rates.
It is no secret that the city's ten-
ants are treated disgracefully by their
landlords. Poorly maintained units
without such necessities as heat, ade-
quate locks and hot water are much
too commonplace in the Ann Arbor
rental market. Just ask anyone who
rents from Sunrise Management.
The AATU has been recently de-
voting much time and energy in
seeking the reforms tenants in this
town frequently do not enjoy.
About 50 Sunrise units have joined
the current rent strike against the
management company and its youth-
ful owner, Dewey Black. In addition,
about twenty more tenants have
promised to join the strike by with-
holding their February rents.
Ever since the group organized the
rent strike in November, outside sup-
port for their efforts has been in-
creasing. Already, the LSA student
government council, the steward
council of GEO and State Represen-
tative Perry Bullard have offered
their encouragement.
NOW, THE AATU culminates its
first organizing drive this after-
noon with a demonstration in front
of Sunrise's 512 Packard headquart-
ers at 3 o'clock.
By MARTIN BROWN
(PNS) - In legislatures, halls
of science, and even in the
streets, nuclear power in Eu-
rope is today facing well or-
ganized - and in some cases
militant-opposition.
THE PROTEST MOVEMENT
has intensified in recent months.
Here is a cross-section of cur-
rent anti-nuclear sentiment in
four key European nations:
. France: The French gov-
ernment, committed to the most
extensive nuclear power pro-
gram in Europe, wants 40 nu-
clear reactors running by 1985.
But in late 1975 anti-nuclear
demonstrations erupted through-
out the country, drawing 20,000
people in Paris alone. Two thou-
sand French scientists had ear-
lier signed a letter calling for
.a drastic reappraisal of the
country's nuclear program.
* West Germany: West Ger-
many had planned to construct
an enormous four-reactor nu-
clear power plant in the Ruhr
Valley city of Whyl. But the
plant has been stymiedsince
early last year, when 20,000
area residents first occupied the
proposed site in protest. Police
were unable to forcibly remove
the occupants, many of whom
have remained and forced the
government to delay construc-
tion.
" Great Britain: In Britain,
opposition to nuclear power has
been centered in an unlikely
source - the House of Lords.
A recent house of Lords com-
mittee report contained an ex-
haustive study of the environ-
mental hazards of nuclear
plants, and warned of the pos-
sible loss of control over Eng-
land's rich North Sea oil re-
sources in a collective West
European nuclear policy is
adopted.
* Sweden: While Sweden now
has nine reactors operating or
under construction, recent pub-
lic opinion polls here show that
65 per cent of the Swedish peo-
ple oppose further construction
of nuclear plants. Opposition
now includes two of Sweden's
major political parties.
THE WAVE OF European
protest was originally sparked
by a 1974 report by the Euro-
pean Economic Community
(EEC) - or Common Market
- calling for a crash nuclear
development program. Alarmed
by Europe's heavy dependency
on Mideast oil, the EEC pro-
posed 150 new 1000-megawatt
nuclear reactors in EEC coun-
tries over the next decade.
There are now only 100 reactors
in EEC countries, most of them
smaller than today's standard,
1000-megawatt size.
Like the U.S., the nuclear de-
bate in Sweden has beenrcon-
centrated in verbal tugs-of-war
among legislators, environmen-
talists and scientists.
Nuclear opposition groups
have conducted a vast public
education campaign on nuclear
power over the past two years.
A well known American nu-
clear critic, Arthur Tamplin,
has co-authored a series of
pamphlets with Bjorn Gillberg,
the "Swedish Ralph Nader."
Renowned Swedish scientist
Hans Alfven, a Nobel prize
winner, has also spoken out
against nuclear power.
EVEN THE MAJORITYtSo-
cial Democratic Party, criticiz-
ed by the Center and Commu-
nist parties for allowing some
nuclear construction, favors ze-
ro energy growth for the coun-
try by 1990 - and limiting new
nuclear construction to 13 plants.
Sweden currently has nine nu-
clear reactors planned or In
operation.
The Center and Communist
parties picked up significant
public support after recent nu-
clear votes in Parliament, and
the nuclear issue is expected
to play a major role in the
September 1976 Swedish elec-
tions.
West Germany's major oppo-
sition party has also lost sup-
port over its backing of nu-
clear power. As a result of the
Whyl episode, many local farm-
ers have left the Christian Dem-
ocratic Party and have begun
organizing their own slates of
candidates for state govern-
ment.
Opposition to the Whyl plant
had been brewing for several
months before local German
farmers, fishermen and peas-
ants - joined by supporters
Baden-Wuertemberg state gov-
ernment, whose president and
minister of economics sit on
the power company's board of
directors.
When the government ordered
a go-ahead on construction, 300
local residents occupied the site.
Police were sent in and more
demonstrators joined the pro-
test. A battle erupted. When
police unleashed dogs, the dem-
onstrators fought back with
stones and repeatedy charged
the police lines, eventually forc-
ing them to withdraw. A truce
is now in effect, with construc-
tion stalled.
The wave of European protest was orig-
inally sparked by a 1974 report by the Euro-
pean Economic Community (EEC) - or
Common Market -- calling for a crash
nuclear development program. Alarmed by
Europe's heavy dependency on Mideast oil,
the EEC proposed 150 new 1000 megawatt
nuclear reactors in EEC countries over the
next decade. There are now only 100 re-
actors in EC countries, most of them smal-
ler than today's standard 1000 megawatt
size.
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preciation.
THE FRENCH government
responded by banning an anti-
nuclear film from television and
banning nuclear opponents from
an international conference it
sponsored on nuclear energy.
Widespread protest demonstra-
tions in Paris and other cities
erupted soon after.
French nuclear opponents
have gained support from the
minority United Socialist Party
and a number of French trade
unions who have formed a coal-
ition to formulate an alterna-
tive energy policy for the coun-
try.
Reaction to nuclear power in
Britain has been comparatively
mild. But the House of Lords
report attacking nuclear safe-
ty is regarded as a possible
focus of British opposition to
EEC nuclear expansion plans.
The outcome of the nuclear
debate in Europe could have
important consequences for the
future of nuclear power in the
U. S.
Some major U.S. companies
have a large financial stake in
European nuclear power devel-
opment. For example, Frama-
tome, the major supplier of nu-
clear power to France, is un-
der license to Westinghouse un-
til 1982. A cut-back or delay
in the French nuclear reactor
program could cool West-
inghouse's commitment to U.S.
nuclear power.
PERHAPS MORE important,
the European nuclear debate
could influence U.S. public opin-
ion -- which could prove the
final arbiter on the nuclear is-
sue here.
Martin Brown, a science edi-
tor for Pacific News, is a Cali-
fornia representative for the
Scientists' Institute for Public
Information.
Dewey Black
We hope a good number of strik-
ing tenants, non-striking tenants and
concerned community members take
the time to show up at today's event.
It is imperative that even those not
involved with the strike attend and
show their support. Only by building
a strong and democratic union move-
ment can tenants match the power of
the landlords in this community and
achieve the basic goals of any ten-
ant - housing that meets up to
maintenance and safety code at rea-
sonable rates.
Attend the demonstration and help
lick the landlords.
from nearby regions of France
and Germany - began their
protest occupation. The resi-
dents feared the plant would
add pollution to the Rhine riv-
er, lower the local water table,
and cause a man-made fog from
evaporating water that could
damage climate and crops.
ALLIED AGAINST the occu-
piers were the huge South Nu-
clear Power Plant Co. and the
In France, nuclear opposition
had been relatively quiet until
2,000 scientists - many employ-
ed by the French Atomic Ener-
gy Commission - called upon
the citizenry to "refuse to ac-
cept nuclear power plants until
there is a clear understanding
of the risks and consequences
of this policy." The scientists
singled out key risks as trans-
port and disposal of nuclear
materials and nuclear plant de-
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be assessed automatically on PIRGIM. These people were victims
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To The Daily:
In the light of the recent Cler-
icals for a Democratic Union
(CDU) victory in the UAW Lo-
cal 2001 elections, I want to re-
ply to the January 9 letter to
the Daily by Pat Ardner, leader
of the decertification drive.
Ardner argues that CDU leaf-
lets are "extremely biased."
CDU leaflets ARE "biased" -
towards the interests of the cler-
icals working here. Since June,
CDU has waged an uncompro-
mising fight for two basic prin-
ciples: 1) a democratic, mem-
bership - controlled union, and
2) a militant, competent strug-
gle for better wages, benefits,
and control over our working
lives. We haveconsistently cri-
tized the "Unity" caucus, for
its sell-out contract, and its
unwillingness to communicate
with the membership.
CDU has also criticized the
decertification drive, since,
whatever the motivations of its
leaders, it serves only Univer-
sity management. Decertifica-
tion would make us, once again,
victims of management's eco-
nomic and supervisory abuses.
Ironically, Ardner expresses
BOTH University Management's
position, and the position of
the UAW Regional bureaucrats
when she says: "I hate to sit
back and watch a lot of inex-
perienced clericals trying to do
something none of them knows
anything about." Both mana-
etters
Pat Ardner, is motivated by
self-interest. These people en-
joy their favored positions and
sorely miss the benefits they
received under the unfair and
competitive merit system. As
management's favorites, they
feel no sense of community with
their co-workers. Then, having
risen to "the top," they urge
the rest of us to "pull ourselves
up by our own bootstraps."
Needless to say, only a few
clericals, even C-6's, are this
near - sighted. The second and
larger group of clericals for
decertification recognize the
need for a union but are justly
outraged by the lousy contract
negotiated by the old Bargain-
ing Committee bureaucrats last
summer, and are frustrated by
the total lack of information
and democracy in our local.
Decertification is not the ans-
wer to management's abuses,
to the rotten contract, nor to
the chaotic, undemocratic state
of the local. We, as clericals,
must take the control of this
local out of the hands of the
bureaucrats and give it back to
ourselves, because we ARE the
union. We can and must use
our union with each other, to
begin to struggle against man-
agement's control over our
working lives.
THE CDU VICTORY in the
recent Executive Officer elec-
tions is one of many steps
needed to create a strong, mem-
bership - controlled union. Allj
union members must come to
to
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more on CDU
To The Daily:'
I am writing this letter in re-
sponse to CDU flyer no. 16. I
am a member of Local 2001,
and the flyer just recently came
into my possession. It speaks of
an attempt by members of the
former bargaining committee to
"preserve their $15,000 -25,000
jobs." Yet every member of
that committee that I have ever
met works here as a clerical
and certainly makes nowhere
near that amount.
The CDU claims their candi-
dates represent "the most mili-
tant, dedicated, capable and
experienced leadership coming
out of the struggle we, as union
members, have waged against
. . . university management."
Can this be true when their em-
ployment at the university rang-
es from 4 to 1S months?
THE CDU TALKS of using
means beyond the contract to
enforce it. What are these
means, and why don't they de-
fine them?
I find it interesting that CDU
wishes a "one-year contract so
that we can try again soon to
win what we do not win this
time." They seem to admit that
they cannot possibly win in the
next contract all the demands
listed in their flyer. Many of
these demands were made bait
not won by the former bardain-
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committee for the same reason!
Sounds contradictory to me.
Lisa B. Gumtow
Jan. 27
Res College
To The Daily:
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IN RESPONSE to Stephen
Kursman's letter of Jan. 23,
dorm dues collections in East
Quad are in trouble, and the
future of any activities in EQ is
severely threatened. However
the one-sided, anti - Residential
College picture presented by
Mr. Kursman is, at best, some-
what inaccurate.
It is true that the budget was
not approved until Nov. How-
ever, a tentative budget (pend-
ing adequate dues collection)
was formulated last April. Al-
though this budget must be sub-
mitted for approval by the Rep-
resentative Assembly, whose
members are selected at the
beginning of the academic year,
it is crucial to collect dues in
September in order to finance
dorm activities during those
first few months. Such activi-
ties this year included: a dance
in the first week of school: an
RC.EQ Retreat: a Halloween
dance and midnight breakfast:
a lecture series; three RC
Plqvers' productions, as well
as the opening of the new home
of Benzinger Librarv. Without
these and other activities the
community would stagnate.
RC/EQ community as well as
from without. Furthermore,
their performances are open to
all free of charge (the RC Play-
ers have one performance of
each production free of charge.)
Finally, there are a number of
expenses incurred by the Resi-
dential College that go towards
the financing of activities for
the benefit of the entire com-
munity. The College pays to
have all lounge and practice
room pianos tuned regularly.
The College pays the salaries
of the RC Singers librarian and
piano accompanist,,the salary
of the coordinator of madrigal
and chamber ensembles, the
slary of the faculty director of
the RC Players' productions, as
well as the auditorium main-
tenance costs for these per-
formances. The college also fi-
nances the lunches given to the
l ngliage teachers to hold the
foreign language lunch tables
(Snanish, French, and German)
four times each per week.
The Residential.:College adds
a dimension to East Quad that
is equalled by no other dorm
on campus. The culturally en-
riching and educational pro-
grams that have grown out of
the energy and creativity of the
Residential College are a .bene-
fit to the entire comrntnity.
Parhans the sobition to the de-
f"iency in the present dues col-
lection and distribution is for
more members of the commun-
itv to become involved in the
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