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The Peace Vigil By STAN SWOFFORD Why do UNC students, faculty members and local residents participate week after week in the Vietnam Peace Vigil? Are they accomplishing anything? Do they really think they can affect U. S. foreign policy? Are they merely protesting, or can they offer solutions to the prob lems in Vietnam? These are some of the ques tions asked 15 of the participants of the weekly vigil. Each person interviewed ex pressed a deep and personal commitment against the war, but their views varied consider ably on the effectiveness of the vigil and solutions to the war. "Everyone participating in this vigil has his own reasons," said Richard Cramer, UNC stu dent, "but underlying all other reasons is a conviction that this war is illegal and immoral." "Participating in this vigil is Vol. 74 UNC Group Sets Aid To Strikers By MIKE McGEE A group of students and fa culty at UNC this week have been organizing a drive to raise funds to support a strike by tex tile workers in Whiteville, North Carolina. The employees of National Spinning Company have been on strike since May 4 in pro test against unfair labor prac tices by the Whiteville plant. The Whiteville local of the Post-Exam Party Set Phi Mu Alpha will sponsor a post-exam party Saturday, July 15, in the Rendezvous Room at Graham Memorial. The Dartv which will fea ture the Soul Survivors Com bo and the 706 Boys will be from 8:00 until 12:00 mid night and will be open to all U.N.C. students and their dates. The party is being ar ranged by Ronald White, Phi Mu Alpha warden. Until Next Session The Tar Heel will not$ be published next Twes-g $ day, because of the exa-g $mmation period and reg-1 i&istration for next ses- ftsion. $ The next issue will be $ 'published Friday, July $21. I my own personal way of protest ing this war," said Mrs. Dan Young, Chapel Hill housewife. "I feel that it's a personal commitment that I have made and that 1 must maintain," said Lucy VVynn, a graduate student. Comments concerning the vigil's effectiveness ranged from the assertion by Mark Rous seau, sociology instructor, that "Certainly the government is aware of our vigil and we will continue until our foreign policy changes," to the statement by Robert Gwyn, professor in the RTVMP department, "No, I don't think we have much of an effect. The government is plan ning a military victory anyway." Most of the participants ad vocated a negotiated and sys tematic withdrawal of our for ces but at least one, Adolphe Furth, bearded and bespectacled professor of chemistry at St. Augustine College in Raleigh, who called for immediate re (Star FRIDAY, JULY-14, 1967 Textile Workers Union of Amer ica has charged the company with discrimination in wage le vels between their plant and other National Spinning plants; interference in union activities, including coercion of those who joined and worked for the un ion; and refusing to bargain good faith with union represen tatives. National Spinning Company came to North Carolina from New York State seven years ago. It is of a type of indus try known as the "runaway": relocate in the South to bene-, fit from considerably lower wag-' es and no backtalk from la bor. Just last week, the National Labor Relations Board ruled that charges made by the union against the company are legiti mate and has scheduled a hear ing for August to determine the guilt or innocence of the com pany, An ad hoc committee of stu dents and faculty members will work to raise money to go into the strike fund, as money seems to be the greatest need of the strikers at this time. A mass meeting will be held this Friday afternoon at 4:00 at Wesley Foundation. Some of the strikers and union organizers will be present to discuss the strike and how students and people in the community might help. Also to be discussed will be a country and western music concert planned for next week. Several of the strikers are ex cellent musicians and singers and the concert should provide quality entertainment of a kind rarely heard in concert at UNC. Commitment Expresses moval. Squinting at the sun and pulling on his beard he said, "After all, it's a civil war and none of our concern." All of the interviewed partici pants agreed that the U. S. was the aggressor in the Vietnam war but not an intentional aggressor. Don Egvall, UNC student, expressed the senti ments of the group. "The U.S. is in Vietnam because our gov ernment is operating under the mistaken belief that it can police the world. This just isn't possi ble. Communism might very well be the best type of govern ment for South Vietnam. But at least one person on Franklin Street disagreed with the Vietnam vigil keepers. James V. Lacock, proprietor of the College Shu-fixery, has a sign in his window which reads: "We are Against Communism Wherever it may Appear." "That peace group is all 'V' M V" ) I I As the speakers on Vietnam come and pro, the weekly peace vigil continues, every Wednesday noon. It is an accepted part of the Chapel Hill scenery. Student Government Views Are Exchanged By JOE SANDERS Students from 15 other cam puses exchanged views with members of U. N. C.'s student government in Tuesday night's "Bull Session" held at Graham Memorial. A total of 25 students register ed at Graham Memorial be tween 6:30 and 7:15 and then met in groups outside the build ing. Student Body vice presi dent Jed Dietz said that the stu dents, some of them student leaders at their own institutions, showed more of an interest in learning about Carolina than in talking about their own colleges. Dietz said that the students, most of whom are enrolled in summer classes here, showed particular interest in the ex perimental college, membership in the National Student Associ ation (N. S. A.), and the Tar wrong," Lacock mumbled through the shoe tacks between his teeth. "I'm a World War II veteran and I know the best way riter What is the real story on the front lines in Vietnam. . . How effective is the leadership there. . . Why are the "Red Guards" on the wild campaign that is bringing death to mil lions. . . ? Noted veteran correspondent George B. Dewey will disucss these and other pertinent ques- No. 9 Heel. He has promised to visit East Carolina to discuss the N. S. A. with student leaders there this fall. Dietz said that one student from Goddard College in Plain field, Vt., illustrated the possi bilities of the experimental col lege system. " "They have no grades, there," he said. "They have no class rooms, but meet, in dorm lounges. Instead of final exams, the student prepares course evaluations that demonstrate his knowledge. In spite of this ap parent laxness, however, t h e college has an excellent record for placing its students in grad uate schools." Dietz said that no notes were taken of the session, but that the participants gained valuable information. Vietnam to win that thing is to get in there and fight with all we've got. We'd better stop messing around." Sets TP Tfl laik tions about the war when he speaks here at 7 p.m. Wednes day (July 19) in the Carolina Inn ballroom. Dewey has recently returned from a five-month assignment with Das Ostpreussenblat, Hamburg, Germany. World Wide Press and other news me dia in Vietnam, covering the War which he calls "an enig ma. "Extraordinary things are go ing on behind the scenes of vis ible events in Vietnam," he ob serves. Dewey, whose by - line from the Congo was for years an important part of World Wide Press's African coverage, believes there has never bien anything quite like the present Southeast Asian situation. "The war in Vietnam," he says, "is known to the men of the press as the 'newsman's nightmare'." He calls it a strange, baffl ing, frontless war that defies all powers of comprehension. Through his 22 frontline miss ions, Dewey has been able to welch the fast-shifting scenes of the tangled military and politi cal fronts. His evaluation of the leadership in Vietnam is based upon repeated personal inter views. "Our men serving in Viet nam are the cream of our coun try," he says. "During a six and a half hour night fighting flight aboard 'Puff the Magic Drag on,' I found five out of seven crew members (three of them gunners) University graduates." From personal observation he will report on some fantastic sacrifices and accomplishments by the U.S. Armed Forces. Drawing from his close assoc iates, pressmen and interna tional investigators in Red China, Dewey is confident that he knows the real reason why 10 million young people, known as "Red Guards," are on the wild campaign that is bringing death to virtually millions of others. He will discuss what and who is behind it and why this unbridled rampage is going on. Also during his three days here, Dwey will meet with sev eral political science classes. There will be a luncheon Thurs day (July 20) in his honor sponsored by the YM-YWCA. His address, to the Chapel Hill Rotary Club, is open to che public. 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