Summer Daily
Sumiimr I dition of
TI MIt'llIGAN DAIlIY
Edited and managed by students at the
University of Michigan
Wednesday, June 20, 1973 News Phone: 764-0552
Soviet Jews
deserve freedom
BEFORE PRESIDENT Nixon and Russian leader Leonid
Brezhnev sign any important trade agreements we
would hope that Nixon will have exacted from his Rus-
sian guest a promise to grant free emigrationtrights to
_the Soviet Jews.
It is indeed shameful that religious persecution con-
tinues in the world today, even after the moral outrage
which was felt after the extermination of six million
Jews by Nazi Germany in World War Two. Yet, in Rus-
sia, freedom of religion remains quite limited. Jewish
schools, books, films, and other forms of cultural ex-
pression are forbidden.
There are thus over 100,000 Soviet Jews who have
expressed their desire to leave Russia, and to emigrate
to Israel. An expensive emigration tax imposed by Rus-
sian authorities has successfully prevented many Jews
from leaving the Soviet Union. And many of those who
have announced their intent to leave have been fired
from their jobs, and have been subjected to other forms
of harassment.
BREZHNEV, AWARE of American antagonism towards
Russian' anti-semitism, and also eager to receive
favorable concessions from America in the current Nixon-
Brezhnev summit, recently announced a "suspension" of
the emigration tax. Furthermore, he stated in his defense
last week that some of his best friends are Jews. He
also noted that 29,800 Jews have left Russia last year,
and that as many may leave this year.
However, this would still leave many tens of thous-
ands of Jews seeking to get out of Russia. Furthermore,
what guarantee does the American public have that the
emigration tax will not be reinstated once Brezhnev has
secured the trade agreements he seeks, as is widely sus-
pected by many?
Though it is not up to the United States to act as
moral arbiter for the world, we note that about 77 Sena-
tors and 281 Congresspeople have pledged to deny "most
favored status" to any nation that limits free emigration
of its citizens. Though this country has been totally de-
void at times of justice for its own citizens, it does still
remain a country based on the principles of recognizing
human rights.
WE CAN ONLY hope that the President will be able to
convince Brezhnev of the moral wisdom of allowing
free emigration for Russian Jews.
Contact your reps-
Sen. Phillip Hart (Dem), Rm 253, Old Senate Bldg., Capitol
Hill, Washington, D.C. 20515.
Sen. Robert Griffin (Rep), Rm 353, Old Senate Bldg., Capitol
Hill, Washington, D.C. 20515.
Rep. Marvin tsch (Rep), Rm. 412, Cannon Bldg., Capitol
Hill, Washington, D.C. 20515.
Sen. Gilbert Bursley (Rep), Senate, State Capitol Bldg.,
Lansing, Mi. 48933.
Rep. Perry Bullard (Dem), House of Representatives, State
Capitol Bldg., Lansing, Mi. 48933.
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HRP is still alive and kicking;
A roundup of party activities
By BETH BRUNTON
TS IT TRUE that Hippos hibernate
in the summer? Not in Ann Arbor
they don't! Although h a If our
membership and constituency dis-
apears every May, there is still
enough energy in the Human
Rights Party for some activities.
HRP recently finished a school-
board campaign. Our candidate,
Diana Autin, was the only one who
called for an end to institutionalized
racism, sexism and tracking, abol-
ition of the property tax, creation
of community control of schools
with more input from the students
and staff, and student rights and
protection from the discipline pol-
icy and proposed segregated
schools. It was a rewarding edu-
cational campaign; but everyone is
happy that there will be no more
elections until next' spring.
THE CITY Committee is spend-
ing the summer drafting propos-
als for citizens' grievance proced-
ures, especially against the police,
and a way to review and change
police priorities. They are re-
searching alternative policies on
handling rape cases based on New
York model units. There will also
be resolutions forbidding employ-
ers to require that job applicants
submit to a lie detector test. The
committee is also trying to reach
out to find new problems by hav-
ing precinct meetings. If you would
like a meeting with the city council
members in your neighborhood
please let us know.
Beh Brunfon is Coordinator for
IIRP.
In case you are curious about
what became of the mass transit
bond, it's going to take a while.
Meanwhile, the rent control study
committee is still meeting. And
the reason there are still nonre-
turnable bottles around is that the
city ordinance has been appealed
in court.
One of the major activities of the
party labor committee is support
for the lettuce-grape-and A&P boy-
cott. The United Farm Workers
Union is still struggling for t h e
right to collective bargaining, as
well as safe, decent working and
housing conditions for the pickers.
But the growers, with the help of
the U.S. govt. have been abla to
bring in scab labor and continue
marketing the produce. So it is not
enough just not to eat non-union
grapes and lettuce; the stores that
sell them must be boycotted. A&P
and its western counterpart Safe-
way sells the most and is also the
largest grocery chain in the coun-
try. So all across the U.S. it is
being picketed in hopes of forcing it
to change the policy of supporting
scab growers.
IN ANN Arbor alone, four stores
are being attacked and we need
you out there. The statewide party
also decided to circulate a gen-
eral anti-strikebreaking petition
that would aid new and weak un-
ions (the big ones already have
such a clause in their contracts).
It is also trying to support the ef-
forts of local waitresses and U.
clerks and secretaries to organize.
Members of the party women's
caucus have continued working
hard on the Community Women's
Clinic. This summer most of the
activity is fund raising and dis-
cusion about types of services, how
it's organized, etc. The caucus is
also having a series of dinner
discussions in relationship to the
gay movement and sexism within
the party.
OF COURSE, the Human Rights
Party should be doing more, but
considering the general tranouil-
ity of the campus lately, this isn't
completely within our control. Last
April only 3 per cent of the regis-
tered voters in student precincts,
bothered to-vote. Also, although our
country has been bombing Cam-
bodia daily for several months, and
although the University is raising
tuition and has not complied with
hard-fought-for BAM demands, stu-
dents are quiet. Although wanes
have remained stable, prices and
corporate profits have been zoom-
ing, and although the economy is
booming, unemployment is hitting
the young, old, and unskilled espec-
ially hard this summer - no one
seems to care.
It is certainly disappointing that
the only issue that has gotten a
rise out of anyone is the reieal of
the five dollar marijuana law
which is far from a revolutionary
issue! It seems that people lately
have preferred to istrivert and get
high rather than have collective
consciousness and action.
So perhaps the local HRP shuld
also spend this summer discussing
what we have been trying to do,
to what extent it has succeeded and
why, and what we might do instead
in the future. And so the hippo
may emerge with a clearer direc-
tion (and better tacti:s) by next
fall.
Letth
Irate citizen
To The Daily:
I LIKE THE colossal gall of
Paul McCracken, past chairman of
the President's Council of Econom-
ic Advisors, now Prof. of Business
Ad.
At a time, and a long one, may
I add, that the Great American
Public has been financing his and
other Prof's, -trips around the
world, in donated cars and planes
(which use a hell of a lot more
gas) while in their role of ad-
visers to the President, to the
Legislature, from Federal, State,
County, to Townships and public
education (which is one of the
largest, most costly businesses in
the world) on how to play, how to
work and how to die,' just take a
good look at the stinking mess they
have made of all of it!
We have a war no one wanted,
which is still going on in spite
of the so-called "Honorable
Peace", and a drug culture, -that
not only cost a fortune to support
it, but another to kick it, and that
a small percentage!
Our buck is not worth the paper
it is written on. Our government
is so full of administration, we
can't afford it. We can't pay our
taxes now or buy meat. Our crops
are manipulated so we have con-
trived shortages. The Railroads di-
versified to the point of bankrup-
ers to The Daily
tcy, and air freight and ma i I
rates are so high, they lose pat-
ronage.
Utilities, a monopoly, go up and
up and Blue Cross, blue shield, and
any type of insurance is priced out
of reach! Any other scheme t h e
Honored Prof. might dream up,
we will be sure to be saddled
with!
We have people movers and mind
manipulators and worst of all we
allow it, like a flock of stupid
sheep!
McCRACKEN'S OWN statement,
"We have elaborate government
machinery and a large bureau-
cracy', is just the point I'm trying
to make; it is too big and has
too much power and all on our
money!
In case he wasn't around in the
30's, gas was five gallons for a
buck, in Ann Arbor! Since he is
an authority on the 30's, he'd bet-
ter remember the depression!
Note an old saying, "You can
lead an elephant to water, but you
can't make him drink it." So
when the prices go up to where
working stiffs decide they have had
enough, they might unite and all
decide to quit working! For when
you get"no'fruit from your labor,
why labor? I believe it is called
passive resistance. The young al-
ready have it, now we older people
need to let go! What then will
happen to the McCrackens???
-Dorothy Hunawill
June 15
Hamill column
To The Daily:
I WAS wondering what prompted
you to change all the references to
New York in Pete Hamill's col-
umn (Daily, June 14) to references
to Detroit and Ann Arbor. Speci-
fically, I had difficulty understand-
ing why you would have us be-
lieve that Mr. Hamill, who writes
for the New York Post, was look-
ing into the future imagining a
scenario that included Mr. Flood's,
the local newspapers mentioned
(i.e., The Daily) and Metro airport.
Is this a token of future things
to come - will we be reading Mike
Royko columns about Mayor Rich-
ard J. Stephenson and Herb Caen
columns about how the BART tun-
nel to Windsor is still not in use?
-Jonathan Kahn
June 14
Editor's Note: The changes
were made as part of a one-
shot experiment - which dras-
tically failed. Sorry.
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