Page 12-Saturday, July 22, 1978-The Michigan Daily CONTRACT STILL TENTATIVE Postal pact averts strike WASHINGTON (AP)-The mail was moving normally in most parts of the country yesterday after the Postal Service and unions representing 554,000 workers agreed on a contract that avoided a possible nationwide mail strike. The agreement will increase the current $15,877 average salary paid to postal employees by 19.5 percent over the next three years, including estimated cost-of-living adjustments. President Emmet Andrews of the American Postal Workers Union said. "I THINK IT'S a little bit over Mr. Carter's program," Andrews said in Postal workers analyze pact (Continued from Page One) living payments and consider the current benefits to be too small. Schaefer would not exclude the possibility of a local walkout if the members viewed the new contract inadequate. A national meeting of NALC mem- bers is scheduled for the first week in August. "There should be additional discussions there. By then, we should be able to consider all aspects of the agreement," Schaefer said. reference to President Carter's proposal for a 5.5 percent annual ceiling on federal wage increases. Barry Bosworth, head of Carter's Council on Wage and Price Stability, said through a spokesman that he would have no comment on the in- flationary effects until he has studied the agreement. Bosworth and other White House inflation fighters had urged the postal unions to moderate their pay demands. Postmaster General William F. Bolger said the contract, if accepted, would mean postal rates will not have to be increased for 2/2 to 3 years. Labor costs are crucial to what consumers must pay for postage since seven dollars of every eight spent for postage goes to labor costs. THE CONTRACT includes periodic cost-of-living increases plus a 2 percent general wage increase in the first year, 3 percent in the second and 5 percent in the third year, Andrews said. The agreement is subject to ratification by members of the four unions in mail balloting that will take several weeks. Andrews, who heads the largest union, said the settlement is "the best we can get" and ratifiction is expected. The negotiating breakthrough came in the final afternoon of three months of talks, and only a few hours before the old contract expired at mignight Thur- sday, when management withdrew its demand that a no-layoff clause in the old contract be dropped from the new pact. UNION MEMBERS had signaled a willingness to strike on the job security issue unless management backed down. After that happened, the wage part of the agreement was negotiated with the help of federal mediators. Management had wanted to eliminate the no-layoff clause to gain greater flexibility in adapting its work- force to automated methods of handling mail. Bolger said retention of the clause might hinder that effort in the future, but would not have any immediate ef- fects. Bolger was called in by federal mediators at about 2:30 a.m. for the final bargaining over wages. James LaPenta of the mail handlers division of Laborers' International Union called the contract a "historic document because the unions have had to show that employers cannot take away items won in previous contracts." (Contin bits of esoteric who are unable counsel clients, o Seligman's pr calls for a stepp education in lega law professors, r from the academ top law schools,I classes and clin bastard children and pass that students. Books: The High Citadel uedfromPage9) Although he does not question the Considering the va legal knowledge, but utility of teaching first-year law studen- people who see lawyers toegaf ontradgebt, s by the case system, Seligman argues, matters as wills, divor eto draft contracts, as others also have observed, that the transfers and probatej rescription for reform system reaps the greatest benefit ference is inescapablet ecrip role for clinical during the first year and causes of legal advice largel d- training. e srysnhat classroom boredom in the second and province of the very ric 1 training. He says that third years. As I will gladly testi ost of whotare chosen In contrast, Seligman notes that in siderable force to Selign typically treat clinical medical school, the professional school of law school. I distinctl yical educators as the most often compared to law school, ting in a civil proce in law school families students begin with a rigorous and dreary day last March,l message on to their largely academic routine, but row of glazed eyes an gradually assume greater clinical had to be a better wayto responsibilities as they near What seemed excitin graduation. Seligman's argument is the breakdown of cases Brown" that law school should also be pattened cepts and doctrines, wa this way. - routine. At that point, tI Z Seligman's final criticism is that law over. Talking to friend school fails to prepare law students to we all concurred on one re provide legal representation for the losing your virginity,i hn Theatre poor and for the middle class, most of sooner or it may happ( CURTAI T 8mr whom also cannot afford legal services. had all come to feel thes CURTAIN 8Pn As astonishing statistic is contained classes. are $100 off the near the back of The High Citadel. Ac- And a large part of t weds., July 26 cording to a 1971 American Bar that inevitably sets in i through Association survey, 23 per cent of all wholly academic aspec Sat., July 29 Americans need to consult an attorney Talking to friends work 12 pm-showtime each year. Yet, in their lifetimes, only this summer, anoth one in three adults ever sees a lawyer. opinion emerges: pet "You're a Good Man, Charlie based on "Peanuts" by Charles M. Schulz presented by Ann Arbor Civic Theatr July 26-29 Lydia Mendelssoi Tickets: $4.00 Weds. & Thurs. $4.50 Fri. & Sat. Children 16 and under who are accompanied by an adult regular price. Man., July24 Box Office (in the theatre lobby) will be open: Tues., July 24 10am-6 pm ast number of for such routine 'ces, real estate matters, the in- that other types ly remains the h. fy, there is con- man's criticisms y remember sit- dure class one looking over the d thinking there o learn the law. g in September, s into legal con- is now painfully he romance was ds, I discovered point: just like it may happen en later, but we same way about he stultification s related to the t of law school. ing in legal jons er concensus ,ple like doing "WHY DO THE HEATHEN RAGE?" Psalms 2:1 and Acts 4:25 in the Atlanta Papers a few years ago, a Lester Kinsolving Column was headed "Every One Quiet on Abortion." Did not read the Column that being enough for this reader. However, thought much about this much of it, and wish to bear witness and testify of some of the things that came to mind. First, four verses of Scripture from God's Word: "BUT THE WICKED ARE LIKE THE TROUBLED SEA, WHEN IT CAN- NOT REST, WHOSE WATERS CAST UP MIRE AND DIRT. THERE IS NO PEACE. SAITH MY GOD, TO THE WICKED. 'CRY ALOUD, SPARE NOT, LIFT UP THY VOICE LIKE A TRUMPET, AND SHOW MY PEOPLE THEIR TRANSGRES- SION, AND THE HOUSE OF JACOB THEIR SIN.' YET THEY SEEK ME DAILY, AND DELIGHT TO KNOW MY WAYS, AS A NATION THAT DID RIGHTEOUSNESS, AND FORSOOK NOT THE ORDINANCES OF THEIR GOD: THEY ASK OF ME THE ORDINANCES OF JUSTICE; THEY TAKE DELIGHT IN APPROACHING TO GOD!" Isaiah 57:20 - 58:2. Another passage of Scripture that came to mind was the 38th chapter of the Book of Genesis. "WATCH GOD WORK HERE!" The Almighty slew and killed a man, and his brother, that displeased Him. What angered God was their destroyjng and wasting the "SEED OF HUMAN LIFE!" Not a body already formed in a womb, but preventing the human seed having the opportunity to develop new life! These two men were both the grandsons of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, and the sons of Judah the man chosen of God Almighty to be one of those ordained to produce Christ after the flesh! Consider also this revelation of The Almighty in this P. O. BOX 405, DE chapter regarding God's attitude concerning a new life: A heathen woman who had the lawful right to be a wife and mother was denied the right. She "played the whore" to ob- tain this right. It appears that under these circumstances God approved ofther act, accepting her and her son into the Messiah Line-- and her name is on the first page of the New Testament, Thamar, Matthew 1:3. The 17th chapter of The Gospel of John has 28 verses; quoting the first three. "THESE WORDS SPAKE JESUS, AND LIFTED UP HIS EYES TO HEAVEN, AND SAID, FATHER, THE HOUR IS COME; GLORIFY THY SON, THAT THY SON MAY GLORIFY THEE: AS THOU HAST GIVEN HIM POWER OVER ALL FLESH, THAT HE SHOULD GIVE ETERNAL LIFE TO AS MANY AS THOU HAST GIVEN HIM. 'AND THIS IS LIFE ETERNAL THAT THEY MIGHT KNOW THEE THE ONLY TRUE GOD;AND JESUS CHRIST, WHOM THOU HAST SENT!" "ETERNAL LIFE" means to know the True God, and Jesus Christ whom He hath sent. If we know the True God and Jesus Christ whom He hath sent, can we be silent and quiet about blocking and destroying The Seed of Human Life, The Gift of God, and more especially-if that Seed is already developing into the body of a Little Child, of whom Christ said "OF SUCH IS THE KINGDOM OF GODI" "I THOUGHT ON MY WAYS, AND TURNED MY FEET UNTO THY TESTIMONIES. I MADE HASTE, AND DELAYED NOT TO KEEP THY COMMANDMENTSI" Psalm 119:59-60. ATUR, A. 30011 work that is like practicing law, draf- ting briefs, doing research and preparing for court. They dislike law school.because, they get no"feedback and quickly sense how divorced it is from the practice of law. If ther is any major flaw to The High Citadel, it is the undercurrent of moral exhortation , present whenever Seligman discusses lawyers who choose to represent poor people. Granted law schools do everything to prepare prac- titioners to represent corporations in court, and very little to represent other classes of individuals, it still becomes tedious to be hectored. Seligman graduated from law school in 1971, which means he probably graduated from college in 1968 or 1969. The era in which he went to college shows; this is' definitely the work of a former 1960s person, right down to the implicit moral superiority of telling people how they ought to spend their lives. If people in law school want to pursue that type of career, that's fine, and law schools should make classes and facilities available to those who opt for such a choice. But nobody who has made it through the rigorous ad- missions procedure needs any further advice on what to do with a career, especially when it's delivered like a sermon from Mount Sinai.