Ninety-Two Years E of Editorial Freedom E Lii i~au IEIIQ WARMER Today will be partly cloudy, a little warmer with a high intthe mid-20s, and a chance of light snow. Vol. XCII, No. 111 Copyright 1982, The Michigan Daily Ann Arbor, Michigan-Saturday, February 13, 1982 Ten Cents Ten Pages Cellar labor stages 1-day sick-out By JANET RAE Employees of the University Cellar yesterday staged a one-day "sick-out" to protest what they term "salary discrepancies" between themselves and management per- sonnel. U-Cellar officials said close to 100 percent of the union members, who make up about 85 percent of the regular daily work force, called in sick. NANCY SIOVERROD, a spokeswoman for the Industrial Workers of the World labor union-the official bargaining body for U-Cellar workers-declined comment on the high rate of absenteeism, noting only that "a lot of people didn't seem to feel well today." Neither U-Cellar management personnel nor employees indicated any connection between the sick-out and the U- Cellar's announcement earlier this week of its impending move to a new site. Members of the U-Cellar's Board of Directors joined with managerial staff to keep the store open and functioning nor- mally yesterday. "I THINK IT will prove to be just a one-day flu streak," U- Cellar manager Bob Carlson said. "It's been a heck of a good experience for us. It's worked out very well." According to several employees, who asked to remain unidentified for fear of reprisal, the catalyst to the walk-out Pdates back some time. Employees say there is no rationale behind the tendency to pay management as much as twice what labor personnel earn. In the past two years, they said, management has received raises of up to $2,000 in one year. THE FINAL ACTION that lead to yesterday's sick-out was the Board's decision Wednesday to pay managerial staff a~ $250 bonus based on retained earnings of the year before. "Management has been given a certain responsibility that warrants the higher pay," said Mary Anne Caballero, chair- woman of the U-Cellar Board of Directors. "They have more responsible positions. For instance, they didn't have to work today. (But) a number of board members skipped a number of classes to keep the store open. That's the kind of commit- ment we're talking about." But employees say there is little difference between the See CELLAR, Page 2 Auto talks focus on job security From AP and UPI DEARBORN, Mich. - Ford Motor Co.'s practice of subcontracting work to non-union plants and overseas sup- pliers is the major stumbling block to a contract concession agreement bet- ween the company and the United Auto Workers union, UAW vice president Donald Ephlin said Friday. "It's the cornerstone to the whole agreement," Ephlin said at an after- noon news conference. "Our goal is to keep in house all work that traditionally has been done in-house." According to Ephlin the UAW wants to keep at union plants all union work originally performed at U.S. plants and to halt all new subcontracting. THE UAW bargainer said a moratorium on plant closings and profit-sharing for hourly workers also will be a part of any agreement reached with the No. 2 U.S. automaker. Ephlin also told reporters the negotiators were making progress on an industry-reviving contract and were prepared to work into the night. The UAW and Ford agreed Thursday on the economic portion of the contract. The cuts in wages and benefits will save Ford a reported $1 billion-plus over the 31-month life of the proposed pact - an amount about equal Ao the automaker's 1981 losses. FORD WORKERS now earn about $21.50 an hour in combined wages and benefits. A $1 billion economic set- tlement would mean cuts of around $2 an hour. Sources said rank-and-file orkers were successful in' eliminating from Ford's original proposal a one-week cut in vacation time. Senior workers now get up to four weeks off each year. However, they said the union had to See UAW-FORD, Page 2 Economy blamed for growing city vacancies Twisted path Daily Photob The stairway twists its way to the first floor to the University's Museum of Art. Fighting in El Salvador escalates By KATHLYN HOOVER Local rental agents blame rising tuition and housing costs and a generally poor economy for the unusually high vacancy rate of 13.7 percent last fall and for recent changes in the Ann Arbor housing market. Although the agents said the vacancy rate-which they attributed primarily to students "doubling up" on their leases-decreased by mid-October, several said they see the situation as part of a trend which is creating a more competitive housing market and for- cing agents to make some changes. "PEOPLE (.rental agents) could charge whatever they wanted before, within reason, because of the housing shortage," explained David Copi, an independent agent. "But now there is more competition. I'm sure people will have to start making compromises to get these places rented." Several agents faced with empty units last fall have already begun to compromise. Many lowered their rent or shortened leases, and at least one agent sold a building that wouldn't rent. A spokesperson from Ravalp Management Co. said he started to price his units on an individual basis last fall, and plans to continue to do so. "If, after showing it to a number of people, aiplace didn't rent out, I went in and reassessed it and lowered the rent accordingly," he said. THE SPOKESPERSON explained that this is an unusual practice, because agents typically increase rent for apar- tments in one building by equal percen- tages. In an effort to attract more tenants, See LANDLORDS, Page 3 From AP and UPI SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador - Heavy fighting was reported yesterday in the southeastern Usulutan province of El Salvador where crack American trained troops pressed a campaign against leftist guerrillas, an army source said. Over 1,000 soldiers from the army's Atlacatl and Atonatl regiments, specially trained by the United States in anti-guerrilla warfare, launched a pin- cer operation before dawn Thursday in an attempt to trap leftist guerrillas near the town of Juacaran. MILITARY sources estimate there are 1,000 guerrillas in the area. The Usulutan area has long been an in- surgent stronghold.. In a related development, a White House spokesman in Washington said the administration wants to question a group of American military advisers photographed carrying M-16 rifles and other combat equipment in an area of El Salvador frequented by guerrillas. Spokesman Larry Speakes said the Pentagon told him the group included a warrant officer and four enlisted men. Defense officials in Washington said the Americans in El Salvador are allowed to have M-16 rifles in their quarters to protect themselves, but they are not supposed to take the weapons out with them on jobs. THE AMERICANS were shown on a television tape shot by Cable News Network. Speakes said the men were on a project to train Salvadorans to build temporary bridges. President Reagan, asked yesterday about the CNN report as he was preparing to leave Washington, said he thought it was "understandable" that the U.S. troops would be carrying M- 16s. "The only thing I can assume is they were for personal protection and I think that's understandable. I'm asking for a full report and we'll have one from the Defense Department," he said. Sen. Paul Tsongas (D-Mass.) told CNN the tapes may have triggered a provision requiring the president to report to Congress whenever U.S. military personnel enter, situations where imminent involvement in hostilities is clearly indicated." The senator said he would ask for a report on the status of U.S. military personnel in El Salvador as soon' as Congress reconvenes on Feb. 22. THE PENTAGON issued a statement which stressed that U.S. military per- sonnel shown on the television tape were not and have not been involved in combat activities, nor were they ac- companying Salvadoran combat for- ces." But the statement added that "it would appear from the video tape that at least some of the trainers were carrying M-16 rifles." Not long after the statement was distributed, aides visited reporters' desks to try to get it back, but it was too late. Congress proposes alternate budget plans 50 activists retrace historic march to Selma SELMA, Ala. (AP)- About 50 people retracing the steps of the 1965 voting rights marchers laid a wreath on the grave of a slain black hero yesterday before parading through rain into this landmark city of the civil rights era. The marchers, clad in orange ponchos against a steady drizzle, sang and chanted on the way into Selma, the rallying site of the 1965 march to Mon- tgomery that helped give birth to the Voting Rights Act. THEY LEFT Pickens County in western Alabama Feb. 6 for Montgomery-a 150-mile march and motorcade. The 1965 march to Montgomery originated in Selma-50m iles away. Joseph Lowery, president of the Atlanta-based Southern Christian Leadership Conference, organized the event to urge Congress not to abandon the federal law that guaranteed ballot rights for Southern blacks. The Voting Rights Act is now under review by Congress and could be changed or terminated. THE DEMONSTRATORS, who rode in cars and vans for most of the 30-mile stretch from Marion yesterday, planned to depart Selma Sunday on the final leg to Montgomery, retracing the steps of the 1965 march. "Whether we have rain, sleet, or snow, hot or cold, we're determined to continue the journey begun by Jimmie Lee Jackson and those like him who gave their lives for freedom," Lowery said in a rain-swept ceremony at Jackson's grave in a small cemetery outside Marion. Jackson, 27, was shot to death during racial turmoil at Marion several weeks prior to the Selma-to- Montgomery march, led by the late Martin Luther King. Jackson's gravestone is pocked with several bullet scars. Local black leaders said shots were fired at the monument and someone tried to pull it down after it was erected several years ago. THE MARCH, which concludes Feb. 18 with a rally at the state Capitol, was inspired by the vote fraud convictions of Julia Wilder, 70,, and Maggie Bozeman, 51. The two women, both active in Pickens County civil rights causes, are now work-release inmates in Macon County. Wilder is serving a five-year term; Bozeman is serving four years. March organizers said they will devote the weekend to voter registration work, with evening rallies highlighted by speeches from civil rights figures Julian Bond, a Georgia state senator, and John Lewis, former director of the Voter Education Project. LEWIS WAS clubbed on the head in 1965. as he helped lead the first attempt to cross Selma's Ed- mund Pettus Bridge on a voting rights march that was routed by mounted troopers withbilly sticks. After that rout, a federal judge granted a parade permit and King led a second parade that made it all the way to Montgomery. Unlike the 1965 demonstrations, the march and motorcade that is crossing rural Alabama has been peaceful. A convoy of state troopers and local law of- ficers have escorted the marchers. WASHINGTON (UPI) - Treasury Secretary Donald Regan said yesterday the administration is open to new ideas for reducing budget deficits but remains opposed to either raising taxes or cutting defen- se. Noting that President Reagan has talked of giving Congress "running room" to consider alternative budget proposals, the secretary told a news conference, "We are always open to a better plan." "BUT I WANT to re-emphasize," Regan said, "that we expect that plan to be constructive, and not one that destroys the very fabric of the Reagan program." "Running room' requires that we define the width of the track. And the Reagan track is not wide enough for tax increases or defense cuts." "We will not balance the budget on the backs of taxpayers," Regan said. "Nor will we jeopardize the security of this nation. But we cen- tainly welcome any better ideas about how to cut federal spending.' REGAN criticized a proposal by Regan ....open to suggestions Sen. Ernest Hollings (D-S.C.) to freeze spending for social and defen- se programs at 1982 levels, delay this year's scheduled income tax cut and reduce next year's planned tax reduction. See CONGRESS, Page 2 TODAY Keep on busing EST EASY, North Campus residents. Rumors that there has been a change in the University bus schedule are completely false, according to Bob Kepler, foreman of the University's tran- sportation system. Kevin Ireland, a resident of Baits housing on North Campus, said residents of Bursley and flnfc, ° pr in annit" this weepk when an inacurate bus said that "Penelope P.. for Pinchpenny Piper, who is a pleasingly plump, paunchy protuberant, and perennially provocative person, ate Peter Piper's peck of pickled pep- pers in the postprandial period. Penelope Pinchpenny Piper is probably prematurely pregnant by Peter Piper, who picked Penelope as a precipitant participant for premarital play, prompting Papa Pinchpenny's parental protection from Penelope and promises of Pow ! Pow ! Pow! to Peter if he procrastinated proposing. Plausible? Perfectly." Pier- ce's winning entry appeared in December's "Four Star D.,nnvlarNa cam tha . +'. n~nhan vc. to ,,rit "a n newr with brawl, authorities said. "The lady's just real lucky she got out" safely, said Assistant District Attorney Jeff manning. About eight other inmates discovered she was in the cell and "they all wanted a piece of the action, so to speak," he said. Manning said he woman faces a sentence from six months to four years if convicted, but the usual sentence is one to two years or probation. EC Thne Daily almanac ri #1.fi+ '"..a. ~.I£Y In14nUixinci P cDntc ra4f mpd to after a brief fact-finding mission. In his farewell statement to government leaders, Humphrey said he was "sure vic- tory will be won." " In 1914, rare animals, curiosities of all kinds, gypsy for- tune tellers, and many other attractions were featured in the annual Women's League Circus in Barbour Gym- nasium. Other activities included the Women's Dramatic Association's presentation of "Ici On Parle Francais" in Angell Hall. Popcorn, horns, ice cream cones, and confetti was sold from booths and the entertainment closed with an i I I