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Pi Eta Sigma Bus Tickets go on sale at the Union information desk today for the Phi Eta Sigma-spon-sored bus to the Dec. 2 performance of the Stockholm University Chorus in Raleigh. Cost of bus tickets is $1. Heel Howl Carolina's first Heel Howl, with Bill Currie, Coach Dooley and the Tar Heels and a host of other surprises, is only one day away. No one will be admitted to the 4 p.m. Kenan Stadium affair without a flask, full to the brim. 77 Years of Editorial Freedom Volume 77, Number 56 CHAPEL HILL, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1969 Founded February 23. 1893 villi ZIp S f Mard i Hopes For 600 articipan ts m Nearly 600 marchers are expected to participate in the Walk Against Hunger Sunday, according to the Walk Co-Chairman, Bill Brieger. The march, whose route will criss-cross Chapel Hill and Carrboro for about 25 miles, is an attempt to raise money to combat hunger both locally and abroad. "We'll walk rain or shine," Brieger said. Marchers have collaborated with sponsors, who will pay a pre-arranged amount for each mile walked. Participants will carry sponsor cards to be punched at the ten check points along the way. Donations by sponsors range from six dollars per mile to ten cents per mile. "Anyone who cannot participate can be a sponsor and can donate any amount per mile," Brieger emphasized. He said there is still time to sign up. Sponsor cards are available at the YMCA from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. today through Friday and from 10 a.m. to noon on Saturday. Cards can also be obtained from a booth in front of the undergraduate library. Brieger said 500 walkers, mostly students agreed to participate. He said an average of 25 per day have signed up. Proceeds will go to the Chapel Hill-Carrboro Inter Church Council for its loan and grant fund and to the American Friends Service Committee for agricultural development in Mexico. The walk begins at 8:00 a.m. Sunday morning at Morehead Planetarium parking lot. TT By GREG LLOYD DTH Staff Writer Mayor Howard Lee charged residents in Chapel Hill and the university community to "recognize they are prejudiced, get together to establish communication, and to break down resistance to the treatment of prejudice as a sickness." In a talk at Granville Residence College Tuesday night, Lee asked that "everyone to work together and measure people as people, instead of by the color of their skin." In other parts of his speech, Lee said he was "probably interested" in running for Congress, but felt that he did not have enough experience. Lee also announced he was taking a hard line on drugs and would use any means available to control the drug problem in Chapel Hill. He expressed a special contempt for the pusher" who gets kids hooked on drugs for his own financial benefit. Urging Chapel Hillians to break down racial prejudice, 77 7 n By STEPHEN WALTERS DTH Staff Writer A survey of campus opinion concerning the Daily Tar Heel will be held soon after Thanksgiving and undergraduate pictures will be included in this year's Yack as results of resolutions passed Tuesday by the Publications Board. During the board meeting it was resolved that the chairman establish a committee to set up proceedures to assure that the Tar Heel opinion sample be carried out in such a manner as To 777) 4 X 1 Arlo Tatum Tatunn: De-escalate Draft By ANN ROTHE DTH Staff Writer Arlo Tatum, Executive secretary of the Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors, spoke of the selective service system before a draft conscious student audience Tuesday night in Gerrard Hall. The speech was marked by low-key criticism of the system but burst into biting humor at times. "If the internal revenue were run like the selective service is run, your fathers wouldn't put up with it for 48 hours," quipped the conscientious objector. In his introductory comments, Robert Gwyn of the Radio, Television and Charges Community ecognize Prejudice Lee continued by saying he believes Chapel Hill has been fortunate so far in terms of racial violence because of the high amount of interaction between whites and blacks in the community. This interaction has not stopped Chapel Hill from heading toward racial polarization, however, Lee said and it won't stop it until all the people get out and work together. He remarked some of the reasons for the polarization were the apathetic attitudes of black parents and the locked in attitudes of white parents which enabled them to see their way as the only good way. To combat this polarization in the community, Lee pointed out that there is a Big Brother program and hopefully will be a Mayor's Youth Council in which university students can interact with and get to know other Chapel Hill residents. Lee said the rush for interaction and participation is part of a "citizen participation revolution" in America. The black man is right in the to get an accurate idea of the student body's feeling towards the newspaper. The decision was made in response to charges against the DTH which have been voiced to the committee and after discussion among the Pub Board and officers of the Tar Heel. The Pub Board also passed a resolution which will force the Yack staff to include in the yearbook "mug shots" of all persons who paid two semesters' tuition this year. These pictures will include all undergraduates, fraternity 77 Trhn iril j ! I j holds forth Motion Picture Department explained that Tatum was studying music at William Penn College in Iowa when he first declined to join the army and became a temporary "guest of the government" instead. He was convicted for non-cooperation a second time several years later. Since then, Tatum has worked with War Resisters International and the American Friends Service. "This gentleman knows more about the selective service system than General Hershey himself," commented Gwyn. Tatum began his talk saying, "I've never seen my name on a draft card and this is very precious to me." Interpreting the draft in middle of this revolution, according to Lee. For years the system has left him out of the mainstream of economic activity, Lee said. Now, Lee commented blacks are beginning to combat this exclusion by becoming more confident in themselves and ridding themselves of their bad self-image.. He said this self-image has been the result of many years of learning American history which portrayed the Negroe as a "peanut-eating, water melon -sip-' ping idiot." Lee said courses in black history are necessary for young blacks to find an identity. Programs in which young blacks get together with older blacks are also necessary in that they provide a model for the young kids. "Today's leaders will not be those who are concerned and hung up on politics," he continued, "but rather they will be those who want to get with people and work with people as people and give them a chance to participate in activities that influence their lives." ? . i ... i Undergrad Mugs Put amis and sorority members, and graduate students who wish to have their photographs in the annual. Yack editor John James said the resolution will be followed, but "It will ask Student Legislature to increase the Yack's budget to what it was last year." James opposed the late date of the decision. "I want the pictures to be in the yearbook, but it makes me mad that I have received three month's notice to entirely change the format and the. budget at this point." SAGA By AL THOMAS DTH Staff Writer SAGA Food Service has threatened to reduce the number or full-time employees irom 14 to iuu wnen normal operations resume but striking workers here replied "we won't let them do it." SAGA, the firm contracted by the University to provide food service on campus, announced through a full-page ad in the Chapel Hill Weekly that the number of workers will be reduced when the cafeteria workers' strike is over. Mrs. Elizabeth Brooks, a striking SAGA employee and one of the leaders of the strike, said, "WTe are going to fight this view of the generation gap, Tatum explained it as "an institution of the hostilities of middle aged men towards young men. We who are now middle aged grew up during the Depression. When a war came along, we fought it with enthusiasm and a sense of accomplishment. The attitude of the youth of today against today's war is fiercely resented. "At least if we can draft you, we can get your hair cut or if you go to prison instead, you get your hair cut anyhow. W7e've got you either way," he added jokingly. In a wry tone, the conscientious objector predicted, "If we do not de-escalate and end the draft, there will be many more wars like that in Vietnam there are many little countries who need us to 'help' them decide on a government." c: ! -w ' Back Into Yack DTH He added, '"This is poor planning on somebody's part." James said the trouble arises from the Yack's contract which was made last year and allowed exclusion of the pictures, James said the Pub Board misunderstood that t he decision would only delete freshmen's Dhotographs. The Pub Board decision demands freshmen be included. "This makes the Blue Book a $2000 error," charged the Yack editor. "It was designed to provide freshmen picture." The Pub Board also discussed the Dailv Tar Heel at But Strikers Threaten (the firings). We'll ask the University to break its contact with SAGA if SAGA won t come to terms. "If that won't work," she continued, "We'll increase pressure on the University and possibly march in front of the Governor's office in Raleigh." SAGA's announcement came only two days before a secret, supervised election among SAGA employees on the question of unionization is scheduled to be held. The election is set for Friday and will determine whether the cafeteria workers join the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Union (AFSCME). Approximately 245 SAGA employees began striking Nov. To End As a draft counselor, Tatum works with young people on an average of 80 hours per week. "My function as counselor is to give a young man facing these problems as much of a choice as possible, so he won't feel quite so pushed around. Everyone is channeled being put in prison or even going to Canada," he said. But he emphasized, "the. problem is temporary and there is no permanent solution." "We're going to have a lottery that ought to conceal the basic inequalities of the draft, but it won't save them," Tatum told his audience. "No matter what anyone says, available manpower is a tremendous treasure and it is so tempting and so vulnerable to exploitation," Tatum explained, pointing out that 6 . . out of mv tree ... 9 Opinion length with several officers of the paper. Todd Cohen, DTH editor, asserted his responsibility for the paper as editor because, "The editor is electer! by the democratic process of the University to represent the students." Dr. James Litilefield. Pub Board member, said this might be the case, but there would probably be those who would disagree. Littlefield said the board needed to conduct hearings to determine the responsibility behind publication of the Vow To Figlit Firings' s Employee 7 demanding unionization, job classification and an increase in salary from SI. 80 to S2.25 for full time employees. There are 120 full time workers now striking. Richard W. Ward, regional director of SAGA, explained SAGA will hire back only 60 or 70 of the striking workers. He said this method will be used instead of attrition to reduce the number of workers. SAGA has maintained that labor costs here are 90 per cent above their national average. SAGA's ad in the Weekly also contained answers to many of the workers' grievances: No regular full time employee is paid less than $1.80 an hour. Vietnams this was a major cause for our involvement in Vietnam right now. "W7hat can be said when a General Westmoreland exclaims, 'Some people are saying that the draft is not necessary ... so what? It's a good thing."? "I am concerned about the guy who never went to college, who is not a conscientious objector. The best way to help him, the only way, is to end the draft," Tatum concluded. The UNC Moratorium Committee secured Gerrard Hall for the speaker, but donations were made at the door and draft literature was sold to pay for Arlo Tatum's expenses. Any extra moneyis to be forwarded to the Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors. .r. .! r . j ' newspaper. He stated, "I would like some sort of public hearing so the student body can say whether they're happy with the paper." He continued, "This is not an attack by the Pub Board against Todd Cohen. For several years now we have had a feeling we netd some control. We're involved in the paper, and feel as if we are somewhat responsible." Littlefield added, "We are grasping for some sense as to what rf'sponsibihties we have." (Continued on page 5) ey Workers feeling they can be assiged only to an extremely narrow range of work (classification) is one of the reasons for high labor costs. Some wish to serve only one item of food. "If I serve hot dogs I can't serve peas." Since taking over food serve operations on May 19, 1969, SAGA has shown a deficit, through Oct. 31, amounting to $86,486. Mrs. Brooks responded to SAGA's claim of paying full time employees $1.80 an hour by saying "all employees might be getting $1.80 now, but it wrasn't true when we w ent out on strike. I have a list of names in my pocket to show them (SAGA officials). They might have changed this in the last week ..." When asked about workers not putting in a lull day s Injunction Aid To By CAM WEST DTH Staff Writer A temporary injunction forbidding the student body treasurer from issuing a $200 check to the non-academic workers fund was issued Monday by the Student Supreme Court. The appropriation had been authorized by Student Legislature in a special session last week. The restraining order was granted by Chief Justice Bo Bishop after a telephone conversation with student Michael Steven Bailey. "Bailey seemed to think he could make a case that the legislation (appropriating the $200) violated the Student Constitution," Bishop explained. Bailey could not be reached for comment Tuesday or Wednesday. Informed sources said, however, that in requesting the injunction, Bailey probably referred to a clause in the Constitution stating that "the by-laws of all organizations receiving funds from the Student Legislature shall be subject to review and approval by the Student Legislature yearly." The workers do not have a constitution at the present time, according to Jim Pierce, southern director of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Unon (AFSCME). He noted, however, if the workers voted to unionize in the Friday election, they would be governed by the international constitution of the AFSCME until a local constitution could be written. Bishop said he granted the injunction because of a clause in the Supreme Court Act permitting a party to file a motion for a restraining order "until the rights of the parties may be adjudged." "The injunction is just temporary until the court can meet to decide the validity of the claim," Bishop noted Tuesday. "If the formal complaintant and defendant papers aren't filed this week, then I don't see how this injunction can be continued another week," he said. Bishop said Wednesday, however, "the plaintiffs are shooting for a hearing next Tuesday." "Even if the court doesn't choose to extend its restraining order, it may well be that Alan (Albright, student body president) would want to delay payment of the money until the court resolves the issue," he added. Albright has been out of his office all week due to illness and was not available for comment. Student Body Treasurer Guil Waddell said Tuesday he had not yet written the check when he received the restraining order from Bishop. The reason, he explained, was he had not received a copy of a bill exempting the workers' fund from a provision requiring an organization receiving money from Student Government to deposit all its funds with the Student Activities Fund office. That bill has not reached Waddell because Albright has not yet signed it, according to a reliable legislative source. "Speculation earlier in the week linked the injunction request with Rep. Joe Beard (Craige). Beard refuted the charges Tuesday. "I have formally nothing to do with it and in fact nothing to do with it," Beard said. "The only way I'm involved is in helping Mike (BaUey) to obtain the services of two law students to represent his case before the court." Law student John Freeman said Wednesday he was considering representing Bailey's case. He said he knew of no other student who had consented to represent Bailey. bonder By LENOX RAWLINGS DTH Staff Writer An elderlv food service employee stood beside his bicycle early one morning near the picket line in front of Lenoir Dining Hall. He seemed confused. James Sutterfiele, wearing a green army jacket over his white uniform, felt caught between strikers and management. "I sympathize with the strikers, he said, but I need money for me and my wife. It's hard to live without food and heat." The strike began at 4:30 a.m. Friday over employee demands for unionization and the rehiring of 10 employees allegedly fired for pro-union activities. Approximately 60 workers Cm work for a fair day's pay." a charge printed in SAGA's ad, a chorus of workers drowned out Mrs. Brooks' reply. "Many of us have to do the work of twice as many workers," several workers said. "We don't get the breaks they say we're supposed to and they put us (women) on mens jobs." Mrs. Brooks added, "SAGA thinks they can win you over with a smile. They put out all this good stuff, and it sounds good, but they won't follow through. "If they won't keep all the full time employees and come to terms," Mrs. Brooks continued, "then we'll have to start some action. Pressure will be put on the University, they'll have to call out the National Guard, and then maybe we can get something settled." Workers and sympathizers had gathered outside Lenoir by 8 a.m., with only a handful of the 310 non-mana2ement employees working. The lines in Sutterfiele's face deepened as he pondered his position. "This is an insecure job," he said. "When people are fired like this it makes you wonder if youll be next. I guess I hope the strikers get something done. "But," he continued, shifting his feet to stay warm in the freezing temperatures, "I don't make but $57 a week take-home pay. That doesn't buy much meat and vegetables. "I can't stnke for more than a week. Me and my wife just can't make it after that." "I don't know what to do, he added softly. "I just don't know." Who's Next ?
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