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"People need the help of people" reads the
leaflet.
"The boycott is useful to get ordinary people to
have a large effect," says Kathleen McGonigle, 26,
leader of the Chapel Hill boycott.
Boycott? What boycott?
There is, in Chapel Hill, a very active, if small,
boycott on lettuce. Organized in June of this year,
this small organization has been leafleting
restaurants and manning a table outside the
undergraduate library.
The boycott, simply a primary one (meaning
they only want people to stop eating the lettuce,
not boycotting the stores that sell it), is largely
misunderstood and unexplained.
The Chapel Hill boycott, part of the national
boycott on lettuce, is explained by Kathy, a
graduate student in political science, who has
instigated the local movement.
'The boycott is part of an effort ainued at
getting recognition of the UFWOC (United Farm
Workers Organizing Committee) as the
representative of the farm workers."
This includes buying only "Aztec," or "United
Farm Workers" lettuce, recognizable by an Aztec
Eagle on the cartons that the lettuce is shipped in.
However, the only way to tell if it is the "right
lettuce is to check the crates, mostly because the
produce managers don't, for the most part, know
the difference, and also, because the cartons
change every week.
Part of the boycott effort includes checking the
stores and restaurants in the surrounding areas for
the types of lettuce so the buying public will know .
whether it is the "right" lettuce.
The right lettuce does not include such items as
romaine, escarole, or bibb, the variety lettuces.
The lettuce that most of us are familiar with is
called iceburg lettuce. This is all lettuce, but there
is only one type of iceburg lettuce that is not
being boycotted and that is the United Farm
Workers lettuce. It does not include the Teamster's
lettuce.
And what does this mean for the average lettuce
eater?
Well, Kathy answered, "if one person will not
eat the lettuce for one year, it will cost the
non-union growers approximately SI 5 for that
year."
And why should the salad eaters care? Again,
some interesting statistics. The workers who work
for non-unions have an average life expectancy of
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49 years as opposed to the national average of 65
years. More than one fourth of the labor force is
under 16. There is a death rate three times higher
than the national average from influenza and
pneumonia. A man's back gives out after six years
because of continual stooping. Low wages, long
hours, migrant camps and a continual danger from
pesticide poisoning - all are part of the slogans on
the leaflets. Sounds like something out of
Steinbeck's "The Grapes of Wrath."
So to help these workers, the United Farm
Workers Union is trying to organize the people so
they have some kind of say over their working
conditions. But for the most part, the workers
aren't allowed to organize, or strike if they arc
organized. Hence, the boycott.
There is no price difference between the "right"
lettuce and the non-union lettuce. These workers
are in California, not in North Carolina. The
boycott is being led by a man named Cesar
Chavez, a Chicano, who made the cover of Time
magazine during the grape pickers' strike (similar'
to this one), but who is relatively unknown by
most lettuce eaters. Many other groups are being
"exploited." And besides, what can one person
do? What difference will it make, anyway?
"Well," Kathy says, "The fight can definitely be
won. Even if it takes five years like the grape strike
took.
"This is something the ordinary person can do;
bringing economic pressure is some indication that
nonviolence and change can work.
"We are the non-political elite, but this is
something we can change."
Kathy is outspoken, disillusioned by politics,
yet still very active in this sort of social change.
She is a dark-haired, average looking grad student,
yet with her low pitched voice, she makes a strong
point for the boycott and the theory of
involvement.
"What I like is the small things. Things the
averager person can change. But the point is, when
i teach my students, I've got to hold on to
something."
Even sf Ka tin's activism is a bit outdated in this
age of apathy and silence, and "lettuce is not
exactly the kind of thing that Tires the
imagination," she ski! has adequate reasons for her
activism.
"I'm a part of the system that supports those
workers. I feel we must be aware of the pkasant
life we live. We eat lettuce, but where does it come
from?
Yet, Kathy 's feelings are not all altruistic. "The
more aware you are, the fuller your life is." She
feels society is in a constant state of change. "This
is a continuity of tradition of change, thus making
society a better place to Irve."
"I never thought of myself in terms of an
ineffective human being. All people can be
effective."
One of the leaflets reads, "Support the people
who pick your food in their fight for social
justice."
The next time you eat your salad at the Rat, or
the Zoom, (who use up to 90 cases of lettuce in a
weekend) you might think about the people who
picked that lettuce.
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Waiting to register in Woollen
Voter registration:
a first for Woollen
by James Cuthbertson
Staff Writer
The usual events were occurring
Monday on historic Woollen
Gymnasium's main floor: basketball, ping
pong and gymnastics practice.
But in the lobby at 4 p.m., amidst all
the old trophies and memorials of past
Carolina triumphs, another unique "first"
occurred in old Woollen.
About 21 students and teachers
participated in the first campus voter
registration by the Orange County Board
of Elections since 1 8 year-olds were
allowed to vote. The last registration was
in 1969 during the mayoral election. At
that time mostly seniors and graduate
students could register because of the age
limitation of 21 years.
Five registrars were busy registering
undergraduates, graduates and professors
from 1 until 9 p.m.
Most of those participating were not
registering for the first time. The majority
were changing their registration to Chapel
Hill from other counties and other states
as a matter of personal convenience.
Janet Opp of Falls Church, Va., was
registering in Chapel Hill because she
plans to live here permanently.
"I am registering in Chapel Hill because
I won't have time to go home," said
Susan McKaughan, 20, of Cherryville.
Many students are following Susan's
example. Although excuses from class are
permitted on election day, some live too
far from Chapel Hill to go home to vote.
Cherryville is 200 miles away.
Barbara Becker, a 19-year-old
sophomore from Charlotte, explained,
"It's a lot easier to vote in Chapel Hill
than it is to get an absentee ballot from
Charlotte. You have to send three letters.
It's just too complicated."
McGovern in Montana
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Chapel Hill, North Carolina, Tuesday,-September 26, 1972
Founded February 23, 1893
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by Cathey Brackett
Staff Writer
UNC-Chapel Hill will present a
request for funds totaling more than
$168 million for 1973-75 before the
state Advisory Budget Commission at 2
p.m. today in the State House in Raleigh.
Of the total, $89,359,651 is being
asked for the continuing operations of
the academic and health affairs divisions,
while $65,567,000 is being sought for
capital improvements.
The Chapel Hill campus budget
proposals appear in a larger report,
requesting $570.1 million in budget
appropriations for the 16 constituent
campuses of the University of North
Carolina.
This budget, the first to be prepared
under the unified state higher education
system, was approved by the 28-member
Board of Governors at its meeting August
14.
According to UNC President William C.
Friday, in the address delivered to the
Board of Governors, the budget
recommendations "serve to incorporate
and stabilize temporarily the current
policies and statewide plans governing the
role, scope and function of our
institutions and constitute a rational basis
upon which essential planning and
decision-making may proceed."
The budget report is divided into three
major sections: base budgets, academic
salary increases budget and change
budget.
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BILLINGS, Montana - Sen. George
McGovern Monday denounced the
"sharks" and "hogs" of big business and
said they had opened a "revolving door"
connecting regulatory agencies to
corporate boardrooms.
McGovern said two Nixon appointees
to the Federal Power Commission (FPC)
were now serving as executives of big oil
and coal companies, two others had come
to the FPC from top jobs with oil and gas
companies, and the assistant interior
secretary of water and power, James
Smith, had been a lobbyist for private
power, big grain and barge shippers.
He said the agency had been "literally
loaded" with the friends of industries it is
supposed to regulate. "ls it any wonder
why the Federal Power Commission has
repeatedly handed down rulings favorable
to powerful special interests?" he asked.
"I object to this revolving door, double
play, game of musical chairs in which
members of the regulatory commissions
are trading jobs with the people they're
supposed to be regulating," McGovern
said.
McGovern campaigned in the Northern
Rockies, and was greeted by the first
snowfall of the season. Ice on his
campaign plane delayed his departure to
the West Coast for an all-day swing
through Seattle, Wash., and San
Francisco.
McGovern was greeted by several
hundred enthusiastic supporters at
Seattle-Tacoma Airport, despite arriving
more than an hour late because of the
delay in leaving Billings.
Among the signs waved at the airport
was one reading, "President Nixon has a
secret plan to end the war he's going to
vote for George McGovern."
PRESIDENT NIXON touched some
political bases Monday, meeting" with
members of his re-election finance
committee, inviting in one of his labor
supporters and announcing plans for a
fund-raising speech in New York
Tuesday.
After the President's session with the
Finance Committee of the Committee for
the Re-Election of the President, the
White House announced his arrangement
for the midafternoon meeting with
Thomas W. 'Teddy" Gleason, president
of the International Longshoremen's
Association who announced his backing
of Nixon earlier in the day.
Press Secretary Ronald L. Ziegler said
the President thanked the finance
committee members for "a good job" in
raising campaign funds.
today
Included in the base budget is the
operating budget of the University
General Administration, the Educational
Television system, matching work-study
funds and funds for upgrading developing
institutions.
The third budget section is arranged
according to schedule of priorities which
cover both current operations and capital
improvements. Arrangement in priorities
insures each of the 16 campuses more
equitable treatment in the budget
appropriations.
One of the principal requests in the
change budget for the Chapel Hill campus
involves the restoration of the 13.6
faculty-student ratio of 1970-71. This
proposal, if granted, would call for the
hiring of at least 60 new faculty
members.
Enrollment change requests for this
campus call for a proposed increase in
resident tuition rates "to reduce the wide
variations in charges at the public
institutions and accommodate a modest
increase in overall tuition income as a
means of offsetting some of the increased
costs of instruction due to inflation."
Top priority request in the capital
improvements budget is for emergency
utilities expenditures of $326,000.
Emergency repairs to Memorial Hall
and to Murphey, Saunders, Bingham,
Alumni and Hill Halls are the second and
third priorities.
The largest request in the academic
affairs division of priorities is $8,800,000
for the construction of 400 additional
units of married student housing on
campus.
The largest health affairs request is for
$12.3 million for a laboratory office
building for the faculty of the medical
schooL Renovation of the power plant
and MacNider Hall are the next two
priorities.
Also included ; in the request is
$3,750,000 for the construction of
multi-level parking decks in the medical
complex vicinity.
Tanaka dines with Ckou
PEKING (UPI) - The prime ministers
of China and Japan pledged Monday
night to establish diplomatic relations
between their two governments. They
agreed to bury the past and look to the
future, bringing an end to three decades
of hatred.
Japanese Premier Kakuei Tanaka, who
served as a soldier in the Japanese
Imperial Army when it began its invasion
of China in the 1930s, said he repented
Japan's aggression. Chinese Premier Chou
En-lai, in a speech at a banquet, glossed
over them.
Although Tanaka called the death and
destruction that Japan inflicted on China
an "unfortunate and unhappy" episode
that calls for deep "reflection," his
oblique apology was softer than had been
anticipated by some observers in the
Chinese capital.
So too was the manner in which Chou
passed over what he described as a half
century of Japanese militarist aggression.
The emphasis, Chou said, should be on
the 2,000 years of cultural contacts and
friendship between the two countries and
on the opportunities that lie ahead for
renewed friendship and exchange in every
field.
"It is the common desire of the
Chinese and Japanese peoples to promote
Sino-Japanese friendship and restore
diplomatic relations between China and
Japan," Chou said. "Now is the time for
us to accomplish this task."
Chou spoke at a banquet he hosted for
Tanaka Monday evening, seven hours
after the Japanese leader arrived for a
five-day visit aimed at normalizing
relations the first visit to China by a
Japanese government leader since end of
World War II.
After Chou spoke at the banquet,
Tanaka offered a toast in which he
regretted the past and declared that it was
"absolutely necessary" for Tokyo and
Peking to establish normal relations.
To do this, the Tanaka government will
have to dump the Taiwan government of
Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek, with
which Japan signed peace treaty 20 years
ago.
Tanaka made no direct reference to
Taiwan but he did make an oblique
reference to Japan's ties with the United
States and the security treaty that the
two countries have.
China and Japan, he said, should
respect the friendly relations each has
with other nations and not let those
relations stand in the way of normalizing
Sino-Japanese ties.
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enjoy watching the crowds. People are interesting to watch but
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