Page 2-Saturday, October 9, 1982-The Michigan Daily Michigan jobless rate hits 14.5% ~ .i',"s , DETROIT (AP)- The building where Madonna Davis works has a dir- ty brick facade with a sign reading Employment Security Commission, but job security often seems far away in the Motor City. The nation's jobless rate exceeded 10 percent yesterday for the first time sin- ce the Great Depression, but double- digit unemployment is no stranger to the neighborhoods of Detroit. The rate here went over 10 percent exactly three years ago. As car sales plunge ever further, the rate climbs even higher. 'Michigan Employment Security Commission today reported the Sepi' tember unadjusted employment rate in Michigan unchanged from August at 14.5 percent with 684,000 out of work. A year ago, the September jobless rate was 10.7 percent, with 460,000 out of work. 'MESC Director S. Martin Taylor blamed lack of growth in the automobile industry and continued weakness in the state's economy. During normal times, he said, the jobless rate would drop as the automobile industry entered a new model year. Detroit's figures, which are several weeks behind the federal ones, showed an unemployment rate in August of 18.3 percent. -Mrs. Davis processes unemployment compensation claims at a Michigan Employment Security Commission of- fice. Its doors swung open at 8:30 a.m. sharp Friday for the start of another in a seemingly endless chain of desperately busy days at one of Detroit's busiest unemployment of- fires. 'Nearly 100 of Michigan's jobless ,cizens waited in serpentine lines in- .,7 AP Photo Commission Hundreds of people wait in line in a suburban Detroit branch office of the Michigan Employment Security, where double-digit inflation has been an accepted fact for over two years. side a packed, smoke-filled room at the office. "We try our hardest," says Mrs. Davis, looking up from her cluttered desk where she handles dozens of cases a day. "You know, sometimes we kid around back here. but sometimes, they, the unemployed, don't want to see us laugh. But we have to do it. That's the way we deal with pressure." Mrs. Davis and the rest of the over- worked staff tackled a mountain of paperwork yesterday and processed 200 unemployment checks in little more than an hour, office manager Maria Woods said. Ms. Woods said she cannot say exac- tly how many people the office serves, but she displayed seven file cabinets that were full of applications from the newly unemployed. The office is on Michigan Avenue in a blighted neighborhood near General Motors Corp.'s Cadillac assembly plant.. Michigan's jobless rate has been 10 percent or higher Since February 1980; the city's cleared 10 percent in October 1979 and has stayed in double digits Double digit, Jobless list soars past 1941 rates (Cofitinued from Page 1) of women entering the labor force and competing for available work. -Statisticians also noted that figures for the third quarter ending Sept. 3 showed that 59 percent of the unem- ployed Americans were in households in .which there as at leastoneother wage-earner. NONETHELESS, the latest figures produced post-war highs within several individual population categories.. Treasury Secretary Donald Regan said the administration's program has set the stage "for an economic recovery which will reduce the unemployment rate and create real jobs," but declined to predict when the jobless rate might start down and saying further increases are "possible." Labor Secretary Raymond Donovan called the fact 11 million cannot find jobs "a social tragedy." "OUR CONCERN is less with a double-digit statistic than with the hardship dship and frustration of every American man and woman who is out of work," he said. Annual Average Unemployment Rate / * Figure for September, 1982 25 Percent 20 I X 4 4 19 0 S I I * 151 .. , NNN *10 5 0 . . . . . . . . . . . 1~r~ -1 ri 40 5[ 0 5 0 5--1 70 5V~ rtrrry~rT) ' ' ' f API So ico, L taor Doo ., I The jump in unemployment had been anticipated but administration critics sought to capitalize on the dramatic impact of the highest rate since 1940. Democratic National Chairman Charles Manatt accused Reagan of "total abdication of his responsibilities as president."' House Speaker Thomas O'Neill called for hearings before Congress returns from its election recess Nov. 29, and said Democratic leaders will push emergency recovery legislation. ABOUT 35 members of a Washington, D.C. group that assists, the im- proverished, demonstrated at the Labor Department building, some chaining themselves to a door. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy termed the unemployment rate a "national tragedy" - and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce used exactly the same wor- ds. Kennedy blamed Reagan but the chamber said Reagan had the right solution. "THE NATION'S work force is for- tunate that the Reagan administration is pursuing policies to curtail the growth of federal spending and taxes," the nation's largest business group said. "In time, these policies will stimulate economic activity and expansion in the private sector, the only source of real, permanent jobs." Kennedy, recalling that Reagan had asked the country to "stay the course," said the American people should "tell the president that his administration has flunked the course.'' ever since. Many of those seeking help at the of- fice are what Mrs. Davis calls the "ex- perienced unemployed ... from the Big Three" -GM, Ford Motor Co. and Chrysler Corp. "They know about unemppyment," she said. "They're the easiest to deal with. Sometimes it doesn't always come off. Sometimes we get behind and that person out there gets mad, frustrated.' Nationally, the Big Three automakers have 233,100 workers on indefinite layoff. Polish vote ends Solidarity union (Continued from Page 1) the swift, independent growth that the 10-million-member Solidarity enjoyed. IT WAS NOT clear how the vote af- fects Lech Walesa, the Solidarity national chairman who has been inter- ned since martial law was declared. Many other union leaders also remained in internment, while others have been released after signing loyalty oaths. There were only a few dissenters during the Sejm debate on the bill,drawn up by the Communist Par- ty's ruling Politburo. "Like it or not, Solidarity became a symbol of the post-August renewal and we should revive its activities under condition that it avoids political mat- ters," said Janusz Zablocki, head of a group of lay Catholic deputies suppor- ting Solidarity. He was alluding to the Aug. 31, 1981 strike-ending accords in which the government agreed to allow indepen- dent trade unions. Solidarity, which had its start in the Gdansk shipyards, grew out of those accords. The term "renewal" is applied to the reforms it pushed through, such as relaxed censorship, secret balloting in Communist Party elections, and radio broadcasts of Mass in this heavily Roman Catholic nation. DEPUTY EDMUND Osmanczyk, equating Solidarity with the Polish people, said, "It is not the nation that has gone bad. It is the state." He com- plained that workers had no say in writing the legislation "and I will vote against it. At present, the chances for dialogue are perilously restricted." Piotr Stefanski, deputy chairman of the Communist-allied but moderate Democratic Party, argued that "Solidarity was an instrument in the fight against our system." The Communist Party Politburo had ordered its 261 members in the Sejm to support the law, and both the Democratic Party with its 37 deputies and the United Peasants' Party with its 113 deputies added their support. Opposition apparently came from among the 49 non-party deputies, in- cluding members of the pro- government Roman Catholic lay groups Pax, Znak and the Christian Social Association. . r Ja IN BRIEF Compiled from Associated Press and United Press International reports Fire destroys Israeli church; Jewish arsonists suspected JERUSALEM - A Baptist church was destroyed by fire believed set by Jewish zealots yesterday and its American-born pastor charged there was some "condonement of fanaticism" by the Israeli government. "Everything's gone. A house of worship founded 50 years ago was burned down in an hour," Rev. Robert Lindsey, of Norman, Okla., said as he sur- veyed the charred wreckage of his Narkis Street Baptist Church. The building stood only 600 yards from Prime Minister Menachem Begin's of- ficial residence. Begin issued a statement saying, "If it was arson ... committed by Jews, then it is a malicious crime that must be condemned in the strongest terms." Lindsey, 65, who has seen his church vandalized by Jewish anti- missionary zealots at least twice since 1972, was not mollified by Begin's comment. Interest rates cut to 9.5% WASHINGTON - The Federal Reserve Board is cutting its interest rate on loans to banks and other depositors one-half point to 9.5 percent, the lowest level in more than three years, the board said Friday. In apparent response, at least one bank, Mellon Bank in Pisstburgh, im- mediately lowered its prime lending rate from 13.5 percent to 12.75 percent, the lowest among big banks, most of which went to 13 percent on Thursday. The Fed announcement came amidgrowing reports that its governors will continue to ease its once-tight grip on the nation's supply of money and credit. And the new move will do nothing to quiet such reports. By itself, a reduction in the discount rate wouldn't necessarily affect any bank rates for corporate or individual customers. But it usually has a sub- stantial effect since it lowers borrowing costs for banks and other financial institutions. UAW rejects tentative contract with Chrysler DETROIT - Six more United Auto Workers locals buried the tentative Chrysler Corp. contract in an avalanche of "no" votes and a top union of- ficial said the pact is a "goner." Rejection of the agreement coupled with a short strike could threaten the no. three automaker's two-year journey from the brink of financial collapse, industry analysts said. Workers were angered by the lack of any immediate wage hike in the pact which covers economic issues for a year and non-economic issues for two years. It also ties pay raises to the company's future profitability and restores cost-of-living allowances that workers conceded 18 months ago. If the agreement fails to win worker approval, the UAW could resume negotiations with Chrysler, or it could, with approval from its executive board, order workers to accept the contract, an act sure to antagonize workers. The 54 Chrysler-UAW locals complete voting on the two-tier agreement next Thursday but the pact was failing nationwide by more than a 2-to-1 margin. Mexican crisis is subject of Regan summit meeting CORONADO, Calif.- President Reagan met with President-elect Miguel de la Madrid yesterday to explore ways of helping Mexico solve its economic crisis and exchange views on the growing conflict in Central America. The major issue before the two leaders was Mexico's staggering economic problems, which also are affecting border areas of the United States dependent on substantial business from Mexican customers: Facing a foreign debt of $81 million, the largest in the world, outgoing President Jose Lopez Portillo has devalued the pso, imposed currency con- trols and nationalized banks. Half the country's 20 million workers are unemployed or under-employed and the oil-rich nation's economic growth has stalled. U.S. officials, who called yesterday's meeting exploratory, were also looking for an indication of whether the Harvard-educated de la Madrid will carry the policies of Lopez Portillo to the left or right. They clearly hoped for moderation, especially on Central America. Tennessee judge rules 'moment of silence' illegal NASHVILLE, Tenn.- A federal judge ruled yesterday that a 1982 Ten- nessee law requiring a daily minute of silence in public schools is uncon- stitutional because the Legislature's intent was to put prayer back in the classroom. The law is similar to statutes before federal courts in Alabama and New Mexico, said Jack Novik, assistant director of the American Civil Liberties Union. The U.S, Supreme Court earlier this year struck down a Louisiana law calling for prayer in the classroom. The ACLU said all four state laws violated First Amendment guarantees against establishment of religion. The Tennessee law required each school day to begin with "a period of silence, not to exceed one minute in duration... for meditation, or prayer or personal beliefs..." Vol. XCIII, No. 27 Saturday, October 9, 1982 The Michigan Daily is edited and managed by students at The University of Michigan. 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