Letters: Blue magic storydistorted I WOULD LIKE to respond to tions as being defeated by a were trying to keep the lid on ical refusal to make even the theless forced to accept an eco- The Daily's highly inaccurate Republican-HRP coalition was any meaningful investigation of most modest conciliation to the nomic package much closer to coverage of Monday's City Coun- a substitute resolution submitted police behavior and method. clerical workers, the University the University's than to their cil action on the Blue Magic in- by the Democrats because they There is no certainty that the has indicated its intention to own modest demands, while ie- cident. refused to support HRP's origi- report will be publicly released continue the offensive against treating on their non-economic Although the article gives an nal resolution. This substitute or any further action taken. campus unions. Feeling the per- demands - class size, affirma- acceptable account of the actual resolution simply asks the chief This indeed was the whole in- iodic strains of the capitalist tive action. The GEO retreated incident, nowhere does it men- of police and the city adminis- tention of the Democratic sub- system to which it is integral, on one after another of these tion that the reason the issue trator to present a report to stitute resolution. the University seeks alleviation issues because it failed to ag- was before council was because council. The Police Department I suggest that The Daily re- through layoffs, cutbacks, tui- gressively pursue the one stra- HRP presented a resolution to has already prepared a report porter responsible for the article lion hikes, reduction of r e a ltegy capable of defeating the have council investigate Ann for the county prosecutor. There stay awake the next time he in- wages, and ultimately crippling University: a campus-wide Arbor police misconduct in the is no reason to believe that the tends to report accurately on the union to impotence. strike by all campus unions. incident. HRP's resolution call- report to council will differ to any council action. ed for a tri-partisan ad hoc any significant degree. This re- --William Wilcox THE SPARTACUS Youth Lea- ONLY THROUGH labor coli- c o m m it t e e to investigate port according to Chief Krasny, June 18 tue pledges its full support to darity can the working class charges of police misconduct maintains that there was no the clerical workers in their defend itself, and this funda- and to make "recommendations misconduct on the part of Ann strike-a-thon struggle against the University, mental lesson applies with full of possible disciplinary ection if Arbor police present at the in- Fo The Daily: and calls on all unions, left or- force to the CCFA/UAW. The warranted, as well as recom- cident. T.Tanizations and individuals to illegality of public employees mendations for handling similar THE DAILY ARTICLE dis- THE UNIVERSITY of Michi- make a similar commitmnent. In strikes, a means by which the complaints in the future and torted the situation to make it gan, having waged a month-long order to exert maximum pres- capitalist class protects s pri- for procedural changes which seem that the Democratic party solon-busting stack on the GEO sre on University, we urge vte property andinstutions, might prevent such incidents and particularly the Mayor had last winter, has not finished its an early September strike as must not be allowed to restrain imdaio oearlyong y septer ostrikngas rkmust olbeallweity esra from occuring." taken some kind of initiative in intmdation of that y tactically superior to striking worker solidarity - for t n e The resolution The Daily men- the situation when in fact they union. The hearings on the tres- fmmediately: in addition to all ro and unconditional right to passtg charges against 44 GEO the other departments of the strike for public employees! In ptketers 'ed tonegin. University (hospital, payroll, periods of economic collapse, thie etc.), the registration of 30,- defensive character of unions is - Typically, the University bha- D00 students could be brought put to :a decisive test, The M ichigan D aily law laeofboris t at while ear t "- hu, the call for a campus- law and order" so as to crush to a haIt, while greater ten- ditethe faintest signs of militance tial would exist for st-adent sup- wide strike must be linked to the Edited and managed by Students afth the f hsca1lltn port. demand for one campus union in the face of this challenge t~ ordeadfroecmu onn University of Michigan the union's right to strike, all In discussing what road for- i order to inure naximum n- militant workers, and students ward for the clerical workers, ity against rolng class eon- must rally to the defense of it is instructive to study the les- stluits. We urge the other Friday, June 20, 1975 GEO, and demand that the char- sons of the GEO strike. Though casnus unions to mobilze :n ges be dropped! the GSA's won substantial eco- solidarity with the clericais News Phone: 764-0552 This defense is especially ar- nomic gains compared with the when they walk out. gent in view of the impending poverty-line wages they had -Craig Travis CCFA/UAW strike. In i's cyn- been receiving, they were none- Spartacus Youth League fA& 'Gk Af°PhT1W. THE NDo SENSE OF HOHOfR- N~O 66-r . op Nip2 6)0C,.~f~ FZ)R WIJ TENANT'S CORNER Revitalized TENANT'S CORNER is a weekly Editorial Page column devoted to the discussion and dissemination of issues pertin- ent to tenants and the problems and policies affecting them. Any local tenant wyishing to share a gripe or present a pro- position for improving the plight of Ann Arbor area tenants is invited to submit material for publication in this column. -Paul Haskins Editorial Director By LARRY COOPERMAN and STEVE DOWNS FN LAST week's column we discussed the development and impact of the All-Ann Ar- bor Rent Strike in 199 and 70. This week we will briefly ek- plore the reasons behind t failure of the Tenants Union maintain the momentum g erated by the strike until final demand, that of collect bargaining, could be achieved a large scale. We will alsoo amine the reasons behindt recent resurgence of tena Union activities. The loss of momentm w engendered by the leng court process involved in s tling some of the rent stri (some cases were still in co two years after the initiation the strike) and the high rate transiency in the student co munity. This became evid when many strikers settled - their landlords outside. oft auspices of the Tenants Unio This loss of momentum, by TU organizing re the self, does not wholly explain ' effective Tenants Union is great- to the demise of either the rent er now than it had been at any en- strike or the Tenants Union it- time in the past, both because of the self. The other important factor the continued decay of the Ann ive was the lack of an organiza- Arbor housing market and be- on tional structure which could cause of the anemic state of the ex- maintain Tenants Union activi- economy. the ties, noah as rent strikes. The m ;.urtat tvm.7 - nts combiation of these two fac- tors, loss of momentum and "The combined ef- was lack of an organizational struc- thy tare, resulted not only in the fects of loss of momen- set- disintegration of the rent strike, turn and lack of Organ- kes but also in the lapsing of the urt Tenants Union into a sporadic izational structure re- of counseling service for two suited in the Tenant's :- Union's lapsing into ent LAST FALL approximately Union' l ith twenty-five people got together sporadic counseling the to discuss plans for revitalizing Seryice for two years." n. the Ann Arbor Tenants Union. it- They felt that the need for an r. :. <;s . ,,:":: ners Since November the main thrust of the Tenants Union ac- tivities has been towards build- ing the organization which will be necessary to establish the Tenants Union as a permanent fixture on the Ann Arbor hous- ing scene. At present the Ten- ants Union is engaged in an or- ganizing drive whose ultimate aim is the creation otf such an organization. A dozen more vol- unteers could make a great deal of difference in tha suc- ces of this drive. If you are in- terested in helping, contact the Tenants Union. Larry Cooperman and Steve Downs are staff mem- bers of the Ann Arbor Ten- ants Union.