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Page Two TH« Min 1. The meeting was called to order by Christina Spence. SAL€MIT« Monday, October 30, 1972 GOP Denounces Demo Welfare ! II. Dr. Hill, Mr. Thompson, and Mr. Mangum will be in Bitting at 12:45 October 24th to answer any questions about the Interdisci plinary Program offered next semester. 111. Meals will be served buffet style this weekend from 12:00 to 1.00 on Saturday and from 12:30 to 1:30 on Sunday. From now on all weekend suppers will be served buffet style from 5:30 to 6:30, except this Saturday when supper will be served at 5:00 in the Club Dining Room. IV. Students may now cash checks in the Book Store. V. Margaret Brinkley presented a proposal from Executive Finance Board giving married day students the option of paying IRS fees. The proposal was passed and will be submitted to the student body for approval. VI. With no further business, the meeting was adjourned. Respectfully submitted, Mary Ann Campbell SGA Secretary Where does Senator McGov ern really stand on Welfare Re form? No one knows today but we can look back and see where he’s been. First, there was Mc Govern’s plan to reform the mess that our welfare programs have become. Then there was McGovern’s scheme to revise his plan to reform the mess that our welfare programs have become. And then there was McGovern’s proposal to clarify his scheme to revise his plan to reform the mess that our welfare programs have become. You may recall McGovern’s Welfare Plan Number One. It McGovern Talks About Labor LABOR Senator McGovern has been a strong, persistent, and consistent supporter of organized labor and the working man. Since entering Congress, Sen ator McGovern has had a 93.4 rating from COPE. In seven of ten years in the Senate, he has had a perfect rating of 100. The UAW have given the Senator a cumulative rating of 96.5 per cent. President Nixon is no friend of labor. As President, he has vetoed thirteen bills that would have aided the working man, all of which were supported in the Senate by Senafor McGovern. The Senator’s voting record in the Senate is strong. He voted against compulsory arbitration of railroad profits, and favored, if necessary, government seizure of the railroads in the 1967 strike. In 1970, he voted against compulsory settlement of the railway strike. He has supported enforcement of the Davis-Bacon Act on low-income housing con struction and voted for stronger unemployment compensation standards in 1966. He supported a higher minimum wage with in creased coverage in 1966, and again in 1972 when he returned from South Dakota to cast the tie-breaking vote on an Admin istration substitute designed to severly weaken the bill. The Senator favors work men’s safety legislation and would propose to the Congress an 8-point program to “guaran tee the American worker’s right to health and safety on the job.” The Senator supports Cesar Chavez and others organizing unprotected American workers. The Senator feels that the de velopment of a vital, healthy la bor movement in the United States has not only provided a balance to corporate power, but has also created a national cli mate for social and economic de velopment that has contributed to the high standard of living en joyed by most Americans. Senator McGovern was the first member of Congress to speak out against Phase I of the President’s New Economic Plan. He immediately perceived its weaknesses and the fact that it is drastically biased against workers in favor of big business. Its weaknesses have now been proved by the policies them selves. They have not worked. A year of the Administra tion’s New Economic Program has demonstrated that it is noth ing more than a device to make . the average worker and consum er the victims while banks and big business pile up increasing profits. Phase I did Not work and Phase II is not working. One of Senator McGovern’s primary concerns is the use and abuse of private pension plans. The Senator feels that the best way to help the supposed bene ficiaries of pensions would be to take the management of pension money out of employers hands, and permit each employee to select a fund in which to estab lish a retirement account. This proposal was orginally made by Ralph Nader. Employers would still contribute toward their em ployees’ retirement, and they would still get tax deductions for those contributions. But in stead of creating their own funds, they would pay into funds selected by the employees themselves. was the $6,500-for-a-family-of- four scheme proposed by the National Welfare Rights Organi zation. McGovern told a crowd in July 1971 that he would sup port the battle for this plan, and he introduced the $64 billion plan in Congress that very day. It came out during the Cali fornia primary that McGovern never really supported Welfare Plan Number One. So, his advi sors concocted Welfare Plan Number Two. You remember that one - the $ 1,000-for-every- man-woman-and-child scheme. George McGovern was never sure exactly what it would cost. National Review calculated that the plan would add $138 billion to the U.S. budget. Senator Humphrey said during the Cali fornia primary that proposing such a plan “doesn’t make you a liberal, that makes you a fool.” This plan went into hiding after the Democratic Convention and was substituted on August 29 by Welfare Plan Number Three: the $4,000-for-every-fam- ily-of-four scheme, which resem bles Welfare Plan Number Two and would cost at minimum $14 billion. No matter how McGovern numbers his plans, they all miss the point of welfare reform. They would not reform the wel fare mess. They would aggravate it and incur billions in budget deficits. They would add mil lions of people to the welfare rolls - and encourage no one to join the payrolls. The Washing ton Post said it all in commen ting on Welfare Plan Number Three (Aug. 30, 1972): “Senator McGovern’s new proposal would perpetuate all that is most fundamentally wrong with the current categor- ical aid program; it would offer no income floor to the working poor, and it would maintain a dis-incentive to work for those now on welfare by permitting them to keep very Uttle of what they earned.” Biy contrast. President Nix on’s welfare reform proposal which has been before Congress since August 1969 - more than three years - would attack the welfare mess head on. It would strengthen job train ing programs; it would increase payments for the elderly and disabled; it would equalize pay ments throughout the country to discourage “welfare migrants” from seeking better deals in rich er states, and it would require all adults applying for welfare to register for work and to accept work or training when available. McGovern’s welfare plans - like most of his campaign prom ises - are subject to change, but all three schemes have one com mon assumption. As, the Senator put it on Jan. 20, 1970: “It sounds like something for every one - it is.’ President Nixon’s attitude is just the opposite: “provide each person with a means of escape from welfare into dignity.” Working men and women are being deprived of the fmits of our productivity. A McGovern Administration would stand be hind the Senator’s pledge to re store full-employment and as sure all ■ Americans their fair share of our national income. SGA Reports URBAN AFFAIRS Senator McGovern recognizes that America’s cities are in seri ous trouble, trouble which is in creasingly beyond the control of the people who live, work, and try to mn them. People who have escaped to the suburbs are finding the same problems fol lowing them across city limits: crime, dmgs, lack of adequate transportation, inadequate so cial services and schools, and an increasing inability to solve any of these problems. EDITORIAL STAFF BUSINESS STAFF News Editor Laura Turnage Feature Editor Dee Wilson Layout Editor Cori Pasquier Copy Editor Kathy Bacon Fine Arts Editors. . . .Barbie Pfiieger Marcia Garrett Photographers Barbara Perry Beth Wilson Senator McGovern has pro posed and committed himself to “comprehensive policies” de signed to give immediate relief to some of the more urgent pro- lems of our beleaguered cities. Circulation Manager. Lane Crawford Maiiing Manager Evie Yancy Muse of inspiration Mr. Bernhard von Nicolai Contributing this week .... Jan snivel Mary Dorsett Winn Currie Member U. S. Student Press Associa tion intercoilegiate Press Alternative Features Service Advisor Mrs. J. W. Edwards Published weekiy, excluding exami nations, holidays and summer vaca tion, by Students of Salem College. Subscription Price $5.00 yearly. Mailing Address P. O. Box 10447 Saiem Station, Winston-Saiem, N. c 27108. THE SALEMiTE Is the Uncensored Voice of the Salem Community. Application to mail at second-class postage rates is pending at Winston- Salem, N. C. 27108. Fiscal Relief - Cities are ap proaching the limits of the taxes they can raise and the debt they can manage with no indication of when the demand for munici pal services will stop growing. To provide an immediate infu sion of money into cities. Sena tor McGovern supports the House Revenue Sharing bill He also believes that general reven ue sharing should be accompan ied by greatly increased funds tor special purpose programs with broadened local options as in the case of the Senator’s proposal that the federal govern ment should assume one-third of the cost of elementary and sec ondary education. Twenty-nine student govern ment representatives met at the First Presbyterian Church Wednesday, October 18th from 6:30 to 10:00. The purpose of the meeting was to evaluate the progress made by student gov ernment since the student gov ernment conference held in Sou thern Pines the first weekend of school. Each goal listed by those present in Southern Pines was discussed with regard to how much had been accomplished and what future steps could be taken if necessary. Of the thirty-eight issues mentioned, fifteen have been acted upon to date. These fif teen include topics such as cash ing checks on campus, expan ding intra and inter dorm and class activities, improving the student center, petitioning to carpet Babcock, simplifying the numerous announcements at meals, and reducing SGA fees for Day Students. Many other issues were dis cussed, and various people at the meeting volunteered to work on specific projects. For example, Kathy Bacon will be investiga ting the possibility of modular assemblies, where students under the supervision of a faculty sponsor could receive academic credit for attending assembly programs. Sarah Dorrier and oth ers will be working to provide a wider variety of activities on campus during January, as well as more unique and diverse Jan uary programs. Clark Kitchen will be looking for ways to pro vide more weekend entertain ment on campus. The Junior Class and Susan Phillips plan as a class project to organize rides for those interested in taking courses at Wake Forest spring term. Student Council appreciates the support of the Campus Min istry in organizing this meeting, As a result of this meeting, w® now have definite plans to ac complish our remaining goals.
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