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THE MICHIGAN DAILY
Thursday, July 9, 1970
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Thursday, July 9, 1970
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FIVE-YEAR FIGHT
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LOS ANGELES (A'- After
five years of battling grape
growers, the farm workers union
led by Cesar Chavez suddenly
is making giant strides in or-
ganizing California's t a b 1 e
grape industry.
In the last three months the
United Farm Workers Organ-
izing Committee has signed con-
tracts it says cover 25 per cent
of California's 78,000 acres.
California produces 90 per cent
of the nation's fresh grape crop.
Grape pickers now are paid
$1.75 an hour, wth a 25 cents
a basket incentive pay, both in
union and nonunion fields.
Union fields kick in an extra 10
cents an hour for a medical'
fund. The wage five years ago
was $1.15 to $1.20 an hour plus,
in some cases, 20 cents a basket
incentive.
Growers, individually and in
groups, have abandoned hold-
out positions and come to terms
with the AFL-CIO group. Earlier
this week, 50 more growers in
the San Joaquin Valley area,
long a center of resistance, of-
fered to conduct talks.
Some observers say Chavez
may unionize the entire indus-
try within a year or two and
ultimately organize all farm
workers in California, where the
$4.6-billion annual trade in
agriculture is the state's largest
business.
Chavez isn't claiming he's
won the war, but he calls the
batch of contracts winning "the
big battle."
"There's a lot of hope and an
electrifying feeling around here
that after five years our efforts
are paying off," he said in an
interview.
success
"We're hopeful all growers will
want to recognize the union, But
it's up to the growers. If they
want to continue the struggle,
we'll be only too happy to con-
tinue also."
The union owes its sudden
progress in great part, to an
international boycott against
eating nonunion grapes by those
sympathetic to the cause.
The union says the boycott
has cost growersk20 per cent or
more of the market, with grapes
going unsold or being replaced
by imports. Growers dispute the
figure, but concede they have
been hurt. Total sales of Cali-
fornia tables grapes were $36
million last year. That's a drop
of 6 per cent from 1968 and 17
per cent fron 1966. the year
before the boycott started. Gov.
Ronald Reagan saidrrecently the
boycott could destroy the in-
dustry.
For Chavez, 43, success is
sweet indeedl. Starting as a
union organizer, he has devoted
his life to trying to upgrade the
quality of life of California's
hundreds of thousands of Mex-
ican-Americans, many of whom
are farm workers.
In 1965, he led a strike in
Delano, in the San Joaquin val-
ley, that still goes on, seeking
contracts and higher wages.
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By The Associated Press
SERVICE RESUMED on three major rail lines yesterday
as a presidential panel prepared to investigate the cause of a brief
selective walkout by the United Transportation Union (UTU).
About 18,800 UTU members streamed back to work in 16 states
hours after President Nixon agreed to a management request to
temporarily end the strike under emergency provisions of the Railway
Labor Act.
The President ordered the men back to work for 60 days while a
three man emergency board- tried to settle the dispute over restoring
thousands of firemen's jobs on diesel engines.
* * *
BY A VOTE of 40 to 25 the Senate yesterday approved a
$20,000 limitation on farm subsidies for wheat, feed grains and
cotton.
The bill's sponsor, Sen. Ralph Smith (R-Ill) contended only a
tiny fraction of super corporate farmers receive more than $20,000
a year under present circumstances.
* * *
SIGNS OF INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION in an effort
to reduce airline hijackings were reported yesterday.
Robert P. Pat Boyle, FAA deputy assistant administrator for in-
ternational affairs, told a reporter that last month's Montreal con-
ference of International Civil Aviation Organization showed a re-
markable unanimity of purpose in seeking security measures.
communist
BANGKOK P -The Thai government an- the aler
nounced yesterday the capture of the highest infiltrati
ranking Thai Communist and said the arrest that the
would severely cripple the clandestine Communist ed the a
movement in Thailand. to recen
"The capture of this man destroyed the heart sales tax
of the Communist party," Thailand's top police nearly a
official, Gen. Prasert Ruchirawong, told newsmen. Some
"The Central Committee now 'has no one bigger much as
than him." the rich,
The man was identified as Prasert Iawchai, mediatel3
50, a Thai national. The general said he was be- creases i
lieved to be the most senior member of the Cen- Sever
tral Committee-of the Communist party and that ernment-
he had masterminded the financing, supply, and announce
planning of the Communist movement in Thai- when it
land. The movement has about 5,000 full-time approval
guerrillas and a possible 25,000 supporters, mainly Unive
in the impoverished areas of the country. have crit
Prasert said the man was captured in Bangkok Politi
last Friday after evading police investigators since measure
Aug. 31, 1967. On that date, Thai police and se- ment woi
curity forces rounded up 30 men, many of them But the]
Chinese Thais, who were said to compose most governme
of the Central Committee of the party. Prasert Parliame
said the agents seized Communist propaganda, almost 1
books, leaflets, instruction manuals, a pistol, a gime has
radio receiver, $2,500 in cash and gold bars worth 1957.
about $10,000. The n
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ranking Communist came in the midst of a full spokesma
military alert. for sendi
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of staff of the supreme command, told newsmen sition in
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Generation gap
cited in race riots
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'Troop vithdracvals'
GI's of the First Air Cavalry Division return from Cambodia
where their unit had been operating for the past two months.
They set up a base one and a half miles inside the South Viet-
namese border where they will guard against infiltration by Viet
Cong and North Vietnamese troops.
ASBURY PARK, N.J. (P)' -
The gap in Asbury Park, high-
lighted by three days of dis-
turbances, may be as much one
of generations as races .
Talks with young and old re-
veal a division among the black
residents of this seashore com-
munity, although they agree
there are many things the city
must do for blacks.
There is a sizable black mid-
dle class, chiefly older people
who have worked many years to
achieve respectability and com-
fort.
Police Chief Thomas Smith,
52, a veteran of 29 years on
the police force, is perhaps the
most prominent example, Smith
is a college dropout who started
at the bottom.
But to a group of black teen-
agers, some of whom partici-
pated in this week's disturb-
ances that have led to about
100 gunshot wounds and an es-
timated $1 million in property
damage, Smith is "super Uncle
Tom, the head cat selling out
black people in Asbury Park."
"That's not true," said a
former railroad porter, one of
the older residents of the West
Side where most of the trouble
has been. Standing next to a
boarded up building across the
street from the youths, he de-
clared "Tom's a good man. He's
human but a good man."
Unlike the older residents, few
young people responded favor-
ably to queries about their police
chief.
"How do you feel being called
a pig?" David Parreott, a black
Asbury Park detective was
asked.
"I understand," he replied
softly, "but they won't stop
calling me that until there's
decent housing, recreation and
jobs for everybody."
One of the youths yelled at
Parreott:
"Why don't you pull off that
pig uniform, pig?"
Parreott replied:
"Would you rather have all
white cops out here?"
There was no answer.
Parreott had approached the
group in what appeared to be
an attempt to establish a line
of communication while nearly
50 white policemen lined nearby
Prospect Avenue. The detective
was made visibly uncomfortable
by the youths' claims of alleged
inequities in Asbury Park. They
blamed his generation for not
having made the town deliver
on its promises.
A list of 21 black complaints
was presented to the City Coun-
cil Tuesday .They included de-
mands for adequate police pro-
tection, a rehabilitation center
for drug users, appointment of
a black educator to the school
board, establishment of a black
dominated police review board
and the hiring of 100 youths for
the summer at $1.60 an hour.
On the streets there were
other incidents of violence.
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Francois Truffaut's
"The Bride Wore Black"
By DEBRA THAL
Regent Otis Smith (D-Detroit> yesterday
made public his decision not to stand for
election when his term ends in December. In
March 1967, he was appointed to complete the
term of a Regent who resigned,
Smith, an attorney for General Motors, said
he was leaving only because he could not spare
the time from his job. He stressed that he was
not leaving because of any "disenchantment"
with the University.
"I could see where demands on time were
quite large. As much as I like my association
with the University, it has become quite clear
to me that I just cannot do a decent job at
both," Smith said,
The decision not to seek election to a full
five-year term "was my own idea. It was in-
itiated, .discussed and decided by me," Smith
said. "No one ever suggested it. Several people
have called to ask me to reconsider my deci-
sion-it's very flattering.".
Otis Smith
Board to consider
Union ban on GLF
House set
Coo per-C h-
WASHINGTON (/Pj-House lead
schedule for today the first test of t
on presidential action in Cambodia.
Opponents of the Cooper-Churcl
they could beat back an attempt to
advance to the language adopted in ti
nearly two months of debate. House
their hopes on a sizable vote.
'ne issue will be joined in th
drawn late yesterday, when Chairma
of the House Foreign Affairs Comm
eign military sales bill to conference
ure contains the Cooper-Church at
off U.S. spending for Cambodia.
A motion is scheduled to be ma
instruct the House conferees in adi
Church language. Morgan then plat
these instructions and a vote would fo
The plans were unveiled after a
the move would be made today or t
exact procedures to be followed.
Just prior to the final decision,
publican leaders met in Speaker J
By BILL ALTERMAN
Despite the action of Union
G e n e r a 1 Manager Stanfield
Wells Tuesday banning the Gay
Liberation Front from using
Union facilities, it is still un-
certain whether or not GLF will
be allowed use of the Union.
Other sources contacted in-
dicated the matter would be de-
cided-at the next meeting of the
Union Board - scheduled for
Tuesday, July 21.
Wells' action was apparently
in reaction to the guerrilla thea-
ter performed last Wednesday
in front of the Union by a group
including members of SDS.
Women's Liberation, and GLF.
Yesterday Acting Vice Presi-
dent for Student Affairs Bar-
bara Newell, Student Govern-
ment Council Executive Vice
President Jerry De Grieck and
Jim Sandler, President of Uni-.
versity Activities Center and the
Union Board, all expressed
doubts concerning permanency
of Wells' ban.
Mrs. Newell said a final ruling
will be reached at the Board's
meeting and added. "I expect
the Union will be available for
their (GLF) use until then."
Sandlers met with Wells yes-
terday and asked him to allow
GLF to use one of the lounges
in the Union for its regular
Thursday meeting. Wells de-
clined to reveal the outcome of
this meeting.
De Grieck, the SGC member
most involved in the case, said,
"The Union directors have a
policy of allowing all SGC-rec-
ognized student organizations
the right to use all Union facili-
ties. Mr. Wells went against that
policy without even consulting
the board. The directors will
most assuredly overrule him."
According to Bill Harris, UAC
vice president, only two people-
the General Manager and the
Union Board president - may
revoke the space rights of any
student organization. This deci-
sion is subject to change by a
vote of the fourteen-member
Union Board.
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day. A spokesman for the Allison Division of General Motors, which m
that they might be part of a U.S.-Israeli arms agreement made last year
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