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'AO 1 TWO TH6 DAILY TAR HIEL WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1959 No Joy In Durham Today Juli.in S liter, stalf writer for the Cliar l .ir News, "larn-st rvenin'.; newspaper in ihr two Carolinas". said in his front ac lnmii last Saturday that "it is reported t Ii.it i In Dailv Tar I It-el, 1'NC. student nevvs j).ijer, will hein an anti bi time football inip.'ii'ii .In soon ;is die editois return to s hool 1 1 mii Thanksiv iiv; vacation. The i loiv caught the editors unaware. Theie h:is In ( it no need to ccn mention loothall in lli- papei thi veai lnt now, ;c!i, a ju i 1 1 ink It- lor the editors." Mr. S heel is correct on only one point. Indeed the vitlois ennoht us unaware; It .niyht a lot ol j.eop'e un ware, in hiding ( anions oihers a la rye portion of ih: nation wide video audit nee and the Duke Athletic hepi. I ven the piior oilauht aiinst the h iless Virginia sipiatl yavc no indiratiui ! the complete pounding and liuinili.ili- n the Hint- Deils weu- to take that alteinoou. I oi one hour on Th.inksyiv i 114 l)av the T.11 Metis weu- the most potent football squad in Ainei i( I liU was the same Duke team which had lost 10 ( '.leiiw n bv oiilv f-o. had beaten (. 101 Howl bound (icoria I e h io-7 and been l.'u inoie on inciii'.' in deleatin- Wake Kor est than had Carolina. I his w.s a'so the ame I'NC team whit h had won only (our '.tines all vt-ai. It had looked reallv joot mi- : It one time. 1h.1t bt iny the dav we beat South O.iiolin." M.fi in as m.iiiv inches of hum) as Kenan Nudiiim had seen in veais. This was the Carolina team ol destiny eiiteim its last yauii' with a r", 1 n ord. lint, on this one afternoon, the sleeping Carolina vi.mts onie to lile and proved to tjie satisfaction ot one and all just what type of performance they weie capable of ivin;. Somehow .dl ol the bittei memories of the sV".is w ere ei aed. The live losses tlin't count mviHoie. I ithtr do the other four wins. On IV the Duke yame ;"n be remembered now. (; uinminys. Klochak. Stalling. Hawkins, (.olirlstein and others were yieat as individ ual mid ijreat as a team. Nut. the best of all was a filth string sophomore fullback named (ieoiye Knox who scampeied 12 yards on the finest 1 un we've seen in tlnee years. Duke defenders seemed to iMiiiiue off of Knox as Eie rammed up the middle of the entire Mine Devil team lor the seventh and final toiw ! down. , No. we're not on any anti-hiy; time foot ball, kick. There aie a few changes we'd like to see in the ::liletif structure here at Cart) rnia. Hut an editorial celebrating the demoli rion of out Durham neuldors is not the plate for that. (Generally thou;li, we're fiappy with the way athletics are handled. here. Hut. (iiost (.1 all. we are pleased with Jim Ilickev in his lirst season a coach. Hit key has done a line job under almost impossible circum stances. Just as the live losses belonged to him, a f,oo smash ovei Duke is also Jim Hit key's, and 110 one rises. ( Duke Band 1 1 . )wc must also take this opportunity to oiiyiatulatc the Duke University Hand for lis line perl'm manct lar Thursday. It i i;rily the bcM baud we've seen all year, and deserves to o to a bowl. Merry Christmas 1. The nation 1 at wr. 2. The nation it losing It. wr. badiy. 3 The nation muil a vOlv uetr ffrt The orr.i'.-l stu.Vnt publication of thtr Publication iut d of Mie University of North Carolina where it u pijbli'hed duly eiirrt M1.nJ.1y ar- exafiuuaUon period arid ummpr ttims rarer -d js nerond etas nia'Vr hi the post office in Chapfl Hill, N C. nrmr the ar of March 8. i87U Subscription r- $4 0(1 per se tWr. $1 00 per tear Th. Uaity Tar Hofl is printed by the New. 1 no Carrboro, N. C .11. : iri '.-jMirthljifut...- . 1 s-'iirfK' : "i n Kd.tor AshOtlaU Rditor Editorial Asst. Managing Editorn BuMiess Manager . DAVIS B. YOUNG FHANK CROWTHEU ... M'LOU REDDEN VIRGINIA ALDIGE CHUCK ROSS IwRRY SMITH WALKER BLANTON Assittant Editor , rqm SHUMATF. Nev Edittira Srwirts Editor feature E'tor Niijhl Milor DEE DANIELS IIDWARD NE.VL R1NER u()T17)dpER AJASY ALICEROWLETtT Labor Unions -Good Or Bad? John Snyder Very few people know the rea sons for and the implications of a union. And yet most people feel that they know enough to juJge whether unions are good or bad. A gioat many people nowadays it-el that unions are a bad in-UiK-nte. are corrupt and com nmnL4ic. and are a constant menace to the progress and suc cess of a capitalistic t-conomy. They feel that all, or nearly al! union leaders, are open to graft and'tmoery. They feel that all unioiueaders have communistic leanings, are pover-mad, ant have commuted many lawless acts. Slick lawyeis find loopholes in the law to tree union leadeis from the tew crimes detec.ed. 1 do not fet-'l that unions are perlect or are the only answer. I do not think ihat we are juotilicd in condemning a woih.hi.e or ganization ot'vaust; in the hinvu.n we.knests ot a le.v l.jor liatl ers. Sen. John K e n n ed y l)t r,i. Mass. said ,"The union move ment, like any part 01 Anu-iicaii Lie, has its .share ol vvrongd .e.s and corruption. When -we lu.r aaout bankers who embezzle tuiKls (r linaneier.s who use money eiitiil.Med to tne.n lo luriher tli-.ir oaii interest or politicians who betray the public trust, we don't condemn all baiikers and ail fi nanciers and all politicians. So I hope American people will keep perspective about this investiga tion, lu'.s a job that should be done, but it's a job that slu-u.d bo considered in the light ol the great contribution that Laoor has made. Our committee has investigated the tiniest fraction of two million labor leaders." The Public Affairs Committee ol the YMCA-VWCA has uiviuU Mr. hoyd E. 1'uyton, dromeis director ot the lexiLc V.o.kwio Union ol Ameiica, to Coine to .lu campus on December 8, and la.k to us about organized labor's position In regaru to limiting the power and growth of unions. We "Charles Says it Will Be Our Short-Cut ToGlorv'' Her blue k w uuuy due to illness Copyriant lJ rtM Pulltiet uotisnin St Uuu Pul DumIU Some Reflections On Freedom Volker Berghahn Freedom it belongs perhaps to the paradoxes of this world that we will know what it means only when we have lost it. have invited representatives o the management of the Harriet Henderson Mills to come and givv management's view of movement in general strike at Henderson in particular. They have consistently refused to come at any time or to give us any information as to someone who would be interested 111 com ing. We wonder why. The critical observer might agree that this is particularly true for the universities of the so-called Free World. We study in Chapel Hill, in Tokyo, the labor in Munich, and yet there is the serious question of and the whether we really recognize the implications of this word, whether ve really exhaust the tremend a vague expression to ous advantages we re given. Freedom is it not many students? Football? define it thus, we are certainly Television? To wrong. It must be something more, something more original. However, "ince most of us have never What is a union? Why do we faced its contrast, nlver felt violence and oppress- have them? Who wants unions? Are unions good or bad? I shall try to answer these questions in this and the following articles. ion, we seem to find it hard to reveal the funda mentals of this word. And many never think of it; they take it for granted. A few months ago newspapers and especially the student-press in Germany got a new headline: Students-Show-Trial at the Pre.vj.-n Institute of Technology. On l'eb. 10 the Secret Service of the East German Government had t: admit another imprisonment of a group of students in Dresden for political reasons. The official authorities la conically miblished the arrest of "several nprsnn; " bers. A union provides a means Not until the opening of the trial on April 13-18 01 expressing workers grievances was it passible to get any detailed information about to management an.' provides a the "crimes" committed by those students. It was, means of disciplining workers. however, known that the students could not be charged because of "crimes,"' which in the termin The employee, through the un- ology of H? regime could be regarded the "classi- A union is a democratic organ ization of workers which has been formed to oilset the inequality between an employer and an em ployee. A union strives to obtain benefits and security lor its. mini- ion, has an assurance of coni cal" ones: "Capitalistic subversion, counter-revolu- paruble pay lor comparable work. linary sabotage, facist propaganda." They certain He knows that he will not be re- ,y were not "bourgeois elements," vv'10 had praised l'.dl 1'ortrr places! by someone who is willing to work lor a smaller salary. He knows that his job is secure as long as the concern pn.pers an.i is ihe.elore a ha.ver and more eoii.stjeui ions worker. 1 know of a nun who worked lor the Charlotte branch of a nation-wide coiporation ,or 23 years and was removed lor not making his quota for several nioid..s. Wi can imagine the impact on Ihii family man with limited skills and on the morale ol the o.her employees of this action. The loyalty and extra etion, of the employers was se. iously ; damaged by a concern big enough to use ibis man in another p,s.ioii. But the big thing a union does for a worker is that it makes him into a human being. A union gives to a man with limited eduction and skills a say so about his working conditions and therefore gives him a sene of pride in h m self. A union member has a closer loyalty and bond to the oth er woikers. A union member is better disciplined since he is also responsible to his le.low worke s. A union member has a sense of human dignity. and collaborated with the West. But and this was enough they had switched eff from the of ficial "socialistic camp" and sympathised with the Yugoslavic Way of Communism, today a "crime" which is t. be punished under the Additional Crim inal Code of Mr. Ulbricht's stale. And so the Dies den Criminal Court on April 13, sent five students to jail for a total of 37 la years. What were the facts the show trial of Dresden brought out? The five students had been members of a small group calling itself "National Communist Student Group." The material, carefully collected by the attorney, was the result of the meetings and discussions of this group. There were three letters, which read (in part): "We demand: Freedom for our fellow-students (following the names of 9 students). Freedom of thought and word at all uni versities of the'GDR. Freedom of faith and Weltan schauung for every citizen of the GDR. Freedom of free-movement from one university to the other. Freedom of self-determination to unite all equal minded students . . ." There was a "fundamental programme" demanding a change in the economic policy toward free competition, dissolution of the Secret Service, reduction of the People's Army, and disorganivation of the SED, the party of Mr. Ul bricht . . . There was finally "fachist literature" such as "Readers Digest, Aug., 1955, a few issues of the "Spiegel" (an extremely liberal and nonconform ists Western German weekly), A. Rosenberg, "Myth of the 20th Century", Jaspers, "Origin and Goal of History, a reproduction-machine, gas pistols, chemicals . . . (One of the students was in chemis try). All this, properly shown in a case at the trial, was sufficent to result in penalties between five and ten years of prison. And so these students share the lot of 300 other professors and students in Eastern Germany. However, neither the accusations nor the actual confessions in the trial revealed its real background: Jurisdiction as expression of force and oppression of freedom in a state where this is a legal means of . power; jurisdiction in a state where power is the only means to keep control; jurisdiction which, to exercise this control, cannot tolerate a deviation of opinion. Observers to the trial unanimously stated this. The students were no "counterrevolutionaries." Even before the court they professed themselves expressively in favor of a socialistic society. They de manded only a fundamental human right: Freedom of though and expression. They recognized the value of this word, and were sent to prison. We have got freedom, but I doubt seriously, whether we know its value. American Attitudes Because Of Faulty Syntax To the Editor: Certainly the American people want peace. No one can really Dear Editor: doubt this who knows them. But por aU yQu who had tQ turkey and T v they also want jobs in order to u at hQme j hQpe you WQn.t and maybe even feed, clothe, house, educate and appreciate it if x ten you some of the impressions provide for the general welfare q the gamg T manage(i t0 get a side-line pass and of their children and themselves. almost got worn down running up and down the This is equally true of other peo- lines j tried t0 be under the goal posts when Shu pie, especially of the Chinese and pin kjckecj au tnose glorious points. See, I promised Soviet people. tne folks that they could see me on television if The American government al- 1 didnt go home to see them. In spite of running so wants peace, but the govern- ross the field during the quarters and handing ment is not certain that the peo- a11 the bounced out balls back to the umpires, it seems 1 aiun 1 mane 11 uu me tdnicids. dul wuu pie will accept the tax burdens necessary for full employmsrit cares? We the team, that is, did make it, and it'c uihat'c inciHo th ciHplinp that cmintt unleae they are frightened by some external "enemy." Unfortu- First 1 must girlishly confess, I on't get fodt nately, the internal enemies: Po- bali very much, I just like the playes, and ours verty; ignorance; bigotry, are vvere magnificent! Within the first fii minutes, not adequate to the purpose. These they were an bloody and panting and rearing like constitute the familiar faces, and big beautiful beasts. They were sweaty and, muddy many seemingly intelligent peo- while the Blue Devils looked as if they were, liner pie still iasist that one one worthy up to sing "Nearer My God To Thee" in some Boy's of h s hire need be without ade- choir. One big Duke Guy, 75, kept yelling and hit quate food, shelter, clolhing, edu- ting his buddies on the fanny to try to bring the cation and medical care in pros- sick angels down to reality. Well, after a while, perous Ameiica. those dark blue uniforms did get a little grassy- . looking . . . mostly on the back sides, though. In the cpinion cf many, th.s is the di.ermria: Full employment 1 was so afraid at halftime that the Tar Heel through tear of the class.cul animals might turn into football college boys when "enemy at the gates," or unem- they had to go talk and sit down or whatever thev- ployment with peace under the do in the dressing rooms . . . but no, they came out Nazarene's concept. The fact that as wild as ever. Klochak would have made an iinl employment is clearly obtain- African Safari hunter lick his chops. But then aijle with proper planning, under everyone on the U. N. C. side had the BIG Game conditions of real peace, does hot Stuff ab ut them. alter the fact that this is more DlI,n,; t!l0 lhird ter when th(? difacult to achieve,, especially 35.0 , me,ltif,ned t0 om? of the firgt slringers that emotionally. For there wih oe no Duke ,ookt,d wQrse than yirginia ..,t.s nQt Qver bands playing, no Hags waving. yet he sak, fl he took am)ther hoseful Qf oxy no enemy to hate, in an economy An:, tnat was it Nobody stopped t0 think about building homes, schools, hospitals, what was happening . . . that Duke . was bein? playgrounds, parks, cultural cen- slaughtered. The team that came over from Chanel ters, while at the same time. Hill just wanted to keep on doing whatever it was they vvere doing. If that fuss about Hickey send ing in the first string to get more points at the petent students think, which is " " h .jum worn 10 say max caro- ., , , ... . t- lina couldn't know what lettinz un or sneakina it J 4 meant. They just kept doing more and more miracles. tearing down slums. It is this dilemma, many corn- responsible for our Government's ambivalent attitude towards peace. While we do not dare make peace, we, also, dare not Being a girl, of course I was very impressed by fight a thermo-nuclear war; there- the way they blocked a pass. The line tore in there fore, the Cold War must go on. before the passer could hit anybody or anything but We mast hate the enemy, but we the ground, dare not destroy him lest we, in r, , turn also, be destroyed. "e d nme other ground , and that was in the stands. I don't go for all the scolding It is only in this context that of wat poor spirit U. N. C. shows at a game. our conduct of foreign policies in When we slump down in our seats or the boys post-war years can be understood. siP deeper in their flasks, it's because we feel that How else explain the issuance of bad- Nobdy is going to make us believe that hand the Presidential proclamation of claPPinS and tonsilitis is going to change things. a -National Slave Week" of pray- When we 'e11 "We wa"t fifty!" or "Go to Hell, er for the Soviet people and Duke!" lVs because we mean just that. Last Thur..- -satellites" to coincide with Vice duay' Duke tinned to act like the bunch of culls President Nixon's trip to the So- they re by king up the Sunday School Spirit. viet Union, summer of 1959. and PKUnding the drums and singing little songs with the Executive agreements to same monotonous "MY, We-Are-Good-Sports" furnish thermo-nuclear informa- l' ?hey showed they were almt as far out , t. as their team, tion and weapons to eight NATO countries, including Wet Ger- Duke fans may have been cheering with fajse many, just as the Foreign Minis- reasons, but I'm sure there were lots cf meanin ters were meeting to consider the in the graces said around the Chapel Hill tables Berlin crises? How else can we after the 50-0 feast. We are thankful for this dav. explain the AEC's disclosure in this food, our country, our home . . . and HICKEY'S January of this year (1959) of BOYS. Oh bless their pig-skinned souls, "unforeseen difficulties" in de- M tecting underground and high- Name w.thheld because of faulty syntax above-ground nuclear explosions after the scientists had agreed they were detectable, and just as the Geneva conference for the cessation of bomb testing was as sembling; or the insistence of the late Secretary of State. Mr. Dul les, at London August 1957) that the cessation of bomb production be "packaged" with testing, ' just as Mr. Stassen was nearing agree ment on ending the tests? 1 Is this the bureaucratic and "Power Elite's" method for sa botaging the President's peace program? The answer, in my opinion, is "Yes". And the great est service any American can ren der his country now and in the immediate future is vigorous sup port of President Eisenhower's efforts to achieve psace in a world gone completely mad with war plans. Hugh B. Hester, Brig. Geii., U. S. 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