i page three afr A E4r4gtnfl jt MUGGY High-85 Low--65 Hot, humid. chance of showers I AV I Saturday, June 12, 1971 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN News Phone 764-0552 POLITICAL LEGITIMACY 'Third parties seek ballot positions By CHRIS PARKS Daily News Analysis As radical organizers are increasingly considering electoral politics in their struggle foresocial change, their efforts to gain ballot recognition for third parties is taking on crucial importance. On Tuesday, June 15-the fate of one such attempt may be decded, as the Ann Arbor Citizens Committee on Third Parties and Related Matters will take a final vote on its recommendations to the city council. The commission was appointed earlier this year by Mayor Robert Harris in response to sharp criticism by the newly formed Radical Independent Party (RIP), that re- strictions placed on ballot recognition w e r e undemo- cratic. Specifically, the commission is considering a proposal to per- mit locally formed third parties on the ballot if they submitnise signatures equal to one per cent of the vote of the winning can- didate in the last mayoral elec- tion. At present it is necessary to have recognition as a state party to be allowed on the city ballot. By ROSE SUE BERSTEIN If the proposal is approved. The University's Commission it will go to the city council on Women Wednesday praised which will consider placing it on education school Dean Wilbur the next ballot as a referendum Cohen for his "forceful stand" to revise the city charter. in barring the honorary frater- The movement from confron- nity Phi Delta Kappa- (PDK) tation to participation among from the school's facilities. the radical community had one Two women became associa e of its first manifestations when members of the local affiliate the Peace-and Freedom Party last March, but the Interna- formed three years ago. tional headquarters refused to Since then third parties have accept them as bona fide mem- grown up around the country. bers. beginning at the state level and "In view of the recent action becoming increasingly popular of the international PDK re- -A siseress in university communities. oftdinernaisal PD re- The eac an Fredo Paty, garding retusal to accept wom- The Peace and Freedom Party, en initiates from the Univer- running Black Panther leader- sity," Cohen said two weeks ago, ry on his way Elridge Cleaver for president in "no space, time or money of revocation of 1968, conducted a campaign any staff member of the School his ppea of which was more educational of Education . . . may be used his appeal of than practical. As the party to support any PDt business had little- organization, it was until their policy has been - forced -to run a write-in cam- changed." paign in most states.c The Women's Commission Since then, the party has con praised Cohen for his ircogni- centrated its efforts on gaining tion of the "inherent wrong o1 power through recognition on a national professional society the ballots of various states and that discriminates," and his coordinating efforts with other actions of "withdrawal of rnas ash University financial and moral Meanwhile, other third parties £ j U , across the nation have developed When the two womenfs name, on the stale level, including the were submitted, along wit b New Mexican Independent Par- those of the male initiates fox ty, the D.C. Statehood Party official certification however and Michigan's Human Rights the - entire list was returnet ged Pedit "came Party with an explanation calling fox perform certain The Human Rights Party was the removal of the women', ot performed by formed in the fall of last year, names. es working as as an alternative to the state's The local chapter then sen sb" he concluded Democratic a n d Republican back to the international or 4 the time and parties. ganization the list of new init of these duties, Although no party platform tates, excluding Keefer a n appropriate for or set of officials have yet been Rice, but pledged to challeng med." chosen, such prestigeous person- the international constitutiona has c, ed, ~ See THIRD, Page 10 ban on woman. Scale goes back to court Black Panther Party Chairman Bobby Seale confers with his attorney, Charles Garr to a hearing in Oakland, Calif. At the hearing, action was postponed on a possible Seale's probation on a 1968 gun possession charge. Seale is also awaiting a ruling on a contempt sentence stemming from the Chicago conspiracy trial. 'UNFAIR LABOR PRACTICES:' Publications dg. woI to file charges agains a By ROBERT SCHREINER was a "student" or "temporary" Thiry acknowledi A student employe in the print' employe - in which case he to occasionally 1 shop at the Student Publications would be excluded from union tasks that are n Bldg. announced yesterday he membership under AFSCME's student employt will shortly file charges against present contract with the Univer- pressman helpers the University for unfair labor sity. that "in view o practices, stemming from his dis- In addition, the union asked for skill requirement satisfaction with the University's , we find his pay response to his labor grievances. the work perfor Bern Pedit, '72, announced his Pedit, however intention to seek a lawsuit that he has been against the University after a siderable duties meeting yesterday with Charles his capacity as McCracken, president of local helper, almost 1583 of the American Federation working at the p of State, County, and Municipal ing two years a Employes (AFSCME . maintained he s Pedit said yesterday that the fied as a full-tit lawsuit "is the only course of granted union m action open to me, since the Uni- are the professic versity obviously is not going to the print shop. give in without pressure." Pedit'a decisi Pedit's decision came two days is his latest m * after the University issued a de- the Unversity i cision regarding-two matters re- case. lating to Pedit which were dis- Last week, he f cussed in a special conference with several sup: between AFSCME and the Uni- Bern Pedit the publications 1 versity May 10. tempt to force th AFSCME called for the con- a ruling on a charge by Pedit dent Publication ference - despite the fact that that he was performing duties of labor grievan Pedit is not a member of the during his' job which were' not in & leaflet he p, uniofi - because they believe his commensurate with his pay. his- protest. positiOh as pressman's helper Responding Tuesday for the The board -cot falls within the realms of its col- University. Manager of Employe cial operations o1 lective bargaining jurisdiction. and Union Relations James chity student publicat The union asked the University ruled that Pedit was a temporary the Michiganen to rule on whether Pedit was a employe during that time and Gargoyle humor full time employe from Oct., therefore not eligible to- join eration literary 1970 to Feb., 1971, or whether he AFSCME. Furthermore, although See PUBLICA7 t t' a f 1 d s rx tt f Y is f tl h r r, d it t- d re performing con- over and above a pressman's since he began ublications build- go. He has also hould be classi- ne employe and embership -as nal employes in on to filu suit ve to pressure ito acting on his astedi and, along porters, picketed building in an at- ie Board for Stu- s to act on a list ices 'nuneraitd assed out during ntrols the finan- f the University's ions-The Daily, tsian yearbook, magazine, Gen- magazine and the TIONS, Page 7 Asian delegates to attend U' ecology conference Twenty Asian nations-includ- ing the' People'g Republic of China - have been invited to send observers to a Conference on Asian Environments, June 14 to 17, at the University. Organizers say the conference will focus on ways Asian nations can avoid the ' environmental problems of the West in the course of their economic and technological growth. Hamilton Shirley Amerashin- ghe, Ceylon's ambassador to the United Nations, heads the list of distinguished speakers at the conference. Other speakers include: Y.P. Mei, president of New Asia Col- lege; Dr. C. Chandrasakaran, president of the International As- sociation for Scientific Study of Population of the United Nations; Ro-Chung-hyun, director of the Institute of Urban Studies and Development. Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea; and Milton Bender. president of the Asia Institute of Technology, Bangkok, Thailand. About 100 Asian scholars now at North American universities have been invited to participate in the sessions, which will view Asian environmental concerns from an interdisciplinary and multi-national perspective. Representing the University at the conference will be Stanley Cain, director of the Institute for Environmental Quality; Prof. Rhodes Murphy, director. of the Center for Chinese Studies; and Prof. John Bardach of the School of Natural Resources.