I -- The Mi%4chigan al Vol. LXXXV, No. 60-S Ann Arbor, Michigan-Saturday, August 9, 1975 Ten Cents Twelve Pages GoVt may call for testimony in Hoffa search DETROIT (A) - Justice Department officials are consider- ing bringing witnesses before a federal grand jury in the investi- gation of Jimmy Hoffa's disappearance, department sources said yesterday. The FBI has conducted numerous interviews trying to locate the ex-Teamster president who vanished July 30, but at least one key figure in the probe has refused to cooperate, according to other sources. A SPECIAL U. S. grand jury has been sitting in Detroit to hear evidence of corruption and organized crime. It was under- stood that a decision would be made in Washington on whether to subpoena witnesses in the Hoffa case and bring them before the panel Mayor plans new Human Services-unit By DAVID WHITING Mayor Albert Wheeler yester- day announced plans for a new Human Services Department in city hall immediately after he received official letters stating that Ann Arbor has received a $2.4 million federal grant. Wheeler received a personally s i g n e d congratulatory letter frmn President Gerald Ford and a notice from Housing and Ur- ban Development (HUD) offi- cials that the city had been granted the money they applied for in the form of Community Development Revenue Sharing (CDRS) funds. BUT THE MAYOR explained that the CDRS funds would not make up the lions share of the budget for the still-to-be-formed See MAYOR, Page S T h e Justice Department source said the move was being pondered yesterday by top de- partment officials in Washing- ton, where the labor-manage- ment section of Justice's Crim- inal Division has taken respon- sibility for the case. A source close to the investi- gation said that Anthony "Tony Jack" Giacalone, a reputed un- derworld kingpin, has refused to talk to the FBI Hoffa told his family he was going to meet Giacalone the day he dis- appeared. Giacalone has denied that he was ever supposed to meet Hoffa. M E A N W H I L E, the probe of Hoffa's disappearance showed no signs of progress yesterday. U. S. Atty. Ralph Guy said the investigation was "pains- taking," and added that he foresees no quick break in the case. An FBI spokesperson said on- ly that the probe is continuing, and declined to comment on its progress. A high state police official said Michigan investi- gators had no new information to go on. See JURY, Page 10 Thirty years ago today Thirty years ago today, the United States sent a mushroom cloud billowing 20,000 feet over Nagasaki after dropping its second atomic bomb on the civilian town of 253,000. The first atom bomb was dropped two days earlier on Hiroshima, despite indications that Ja- pan was ready to surrender. 'U' could challenge GEO By TIM SCHICK University officials brought to life once again yester- day questions regarding the Graduate Employes Organization's (GEO) right to represent various cate- gories of Graduate Student Assistants (GSA's). However, the questions cannot be raised until the union brings unfair labor action against the University to the Michigan Employment Relations Committee (MERC). JOHN FORSYTH, GEO contract administrator for the University, maintained that it is 'likely" the University will raise the issue should GEO appeal a dispute to MERC. But GEO member Daniel Tsang maintained that the representation question was a tactic to hinder the union. "They're just trying to scare us," he said. "It's just another tactic to destroy the union. THE QUESTION of GEO's right to represent all grad- u10e employes was raised last spring during a MERC hearing over an unfair labor practices complaint. The issue was dropped when GEO withdrew its complaint. Tsang added that the University was holding the threat against the union since "it is embarassing that the University has no affirmative action." The issue was raised yesterday when Forsythe questioned GEO's legal status in an Ann Arbor News story. LAST NIGHT Forsythe maintained that he was only trying to explain the complexities of the GEO griev- ance procedure regarding affirmative action. He said that it is difficult to draw conclusions from data concerning the employment of women and minor- ities, since many GSA's require a certain amount of work experience to receive a degree, making it ne- cessary for the University to hire them thus re- ducing the number of minorities the University can employ. This, says Forsyth, could allow some GSA's to be classified as students rather than employes, prevent- ing GEO from representing them. AN ADDITIONAL factor in the University's favor is a ruling that the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) made last winter concerning Stanford Univer- sity. The NLRB ruled that theStanford administration union status was not required to bargain with their graduate em- ployes because they were students, not employes. But, he added, MERC could also decide that all GSA's are students or that all are employes. SANDY WILKINSON, GEO secretary, blasted the University, and said, "This flies in the face of what they have been doing for over a year. By their actions (in the past year), they recognize us as employes," because the administration has signed a contract with the union. "The fact that they considered all the outcomes shows that they wish GEO would go away," Wilkinson added. Forsyth denied this charge, and chided GEO for releasing the figures on the utilization of women and minorities. "THEY TOOK data which we were under no obliga- tion to give them and released it with a statement without even discussing the information with me," he said, GEO filed a grievance in June= charging the Uni' versity with failing to meet affirmative action obliga- tions set down in their contract.