Mondav. March 6,1978
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Farmer foresees desperate parity battle
Staff Writer
By CAROLINE TROWBRIDGE
Starvation may be the only route to achieve parity, Robert Biggsy, Jr., a local attorney.
"It tings don't improve, it will get to the point where there's a nationwide panic among us," she said.
There's only a three-day supply of milk
a one-week supply of milk in the
process.
IT MIGHT take such drastic measures as dairy farmers dumping their milk and cattle farmers shooting their stock to make them more reliable in the farmer's economic situation. Biggs said
"You have to get to, but in the long run, you gain." Bibsby said.
Although striking farmers have not yet resorted to such measures, the strike movement is picking up momentum, Lyle Davidson, Kansas strike coordinator, said.
FARMERS TOOK their grievances to the U.S. Senate Agriculture Committee last week, marking the culmination of a two-month period marred by strikes across the
Davidson, a Johnson farmer, said he thought the trip to Washington placed the farmers one step closer to obtaining their objectives.
"We have been waiting for the delegates we sent to Washington, D.C., to weed through about 60 bills important to the cause," Davidson said.
One of the bills, which the delegates support, is the Flexible Parity Act of 1978, sponsored by Sen. Robert Dole, R-Kan. That bill would provide the opportunity for wheat, feed grain and cotton producers to receive parity prices for their 1978 crops.
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TODAY! THE CAMPAIGN BRAND DRIVERS all day in the Kansas Union Bathroom. The RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION FOR THE HANDICAPED is all day in FLEISHERS master classes are at 9:30 a.m. and 2 p.m. in Swarthout Recital Hall in Murpah Hall. MICHAEL SHAW presents a classics colloquium, "Interior Scenes in Homer and Sophocles," at 4:30 p.m. in 411 Wuestele College. He presents a physics colloquium, "Tornadoes," at 4:30 p.m. in 332 Malott Hall.
TONIGHT: ANGEL FLIGHT meets at 6:30 in the AFROT LOUCHE in the Military Science Building. The OAKLAND BALLET and Aaron Copeland, at 8 in Houch Auditorium.
TOMORROW: MONROE BEARDSLEY of Temple University will present a philosophy lecture, "Speech Act Theory and its Applications in Aesthetics," at 2:30 p.m. in the Museum of Design. BLY will attend at 4 p.m. in the Union's Forum Room. The AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CIVIL ENGINEERS will meet at 6:30 p.m. in the Kansas Room of the Union. Anyone interested in ballet, modern dance or music will be welcome. p.m. in Robinson Gymnasium's dance studio. The Science Fiction Club will meet at 7 p.m. in Parlor A of the Union. State Rep. MIKE GLOVER and HARDOË VOTH will meet at 7 p.m. in the University Theatre, Murphy Hall. JOHN R. SEEALR of the University of California at Berkeley will present a humanities lecture, "Mind and Lecture," at 8 p.m. in Woodside, Calif., and Tricia Unger, soprano, will present a recital at 8 p.m. in Swarthout Recital Hall.
Parity, which the striking farmers are demanding, is break-even price between the cost of production and the price farmers receive for their products in the market.
THE PARITY PRICE for a bushel of wheat is $0.90 and the current price received by farmers is $2.47, according to figures released by the Department of Agriculture.
Should delegates be unsuccessful in Washington, there is some indication that other Kansas farmers are willing to implement direct courses of action, Bigsby
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Frank Pollak, a Hays wheat farmer, said the farmers in his area were willing to plow
up wheat that had been planted if farmers did not receive parity.
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"As soon as the weather allows it, I'll destroy what I've planted," Polifka said. "The loss would be less than if I harvested this summer."
L.J. STONEBACK, Route 4, a wheat and
water was specific about the losses he
had incurred in
"In 1977, Stoneback said, 'I made $8000, but my cost of production was $800."
"I've applied for food stamps and, because of my losses, it looks as if I have a
Airlift supplies stranded Indians
WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. (UPI) -- Army and National Guard helicopters yesterday airlifted food, water and hay to 8,000 Navahos stranded on the country's largest Indian reservation by week-long rain and snowstorms.
**Army Huey helicopters from Fort Carson, Colo.—along with four helicopters from Phoenix and Miami, AM—were being supplied to Nebraska living in isolated areas of the reservation.**
"The people can't get out," Rex Johnson, a coordinator for the airlift, named "Operation Mudhole," said. "The mud is just too thick."
THERE WERE no casualties reported as a result of the rain and snowstorm, which turned most of the dirt roads that dot the reservation into impassable mudholes.
The helicopters were ferrying 60-pound food boxes to stranded families by hovering above hogans and dropping the supplies to waiting Navahos. In other areas, the helicopters and ground crews were hauling hax to sheep, cattle and other animals.
The airift was expected to continue for three to four days, depending on weather conditions. However, the forecast called for a storm in Arizona and New Mexico through today.
2nd Annual Guild Film Series presents The Memory of Justice a film by Marcel Ophuls (director of The Sorrow and the Pity)
"Ophus presents his belief that the Nuremberg trials were an attempt to establish an ideal justice. The Memory of Justice describes our lapses from the principles of that ideal state, and shows how Americans, furthermore, have all forgotten, or chosen to forget, What Nuremberg wurged all about." — M. J. O'Kelly, *10.1977*
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Strike act allows cooling period
where comfortable Jayhawks live
Passage of the Taft-Harley Act in 1947 followed a wave of postwar strikes by workers who were determined to make up for the perceived weakness of "no-strike" pledges. Mine workers' strikes in 1943 and 1946 contributed to the anti-lander sentiment that led to passage of the
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offer. The attorney general is required to seek an end to the injunction within five days after the election.
In effect, the act provides for an 80-day "colling-off" period during which striking workers could be required to return to work if the strike affects all or a substantial part of an industry and if it is "imperil to the national health or safety."
Under the act, the president's first step in dealing with a threatened or existing
strike is to establish a fact-finding board to look at the situation behind the dispute.
AFTER RECEIVING the board's report, the president can order the attorney general to seek a federal court injunction against the strike. Once an injunction is granted, the mediation service has 60 days to work out an agreement with the business management. Meanwhile, striking workers must return to the job.
If no agreement is reached within 60 days the management's final offer must be presented to the union's rank-and-file membership. The National Labor Relations Board then has 15 days to hold an election upon the acceptance of the
Thus the act provides at most an 80-day return to work during a strike and leaves the workers free to resume their walkout immediately afterward. Presidents have invoked the act 34 times since enactment. The last use was in 1971, when President Nixon ordered the end to a 101-day West Coast dock strike.
One of the main reasons Carter had not been prepared to move swiftly to order the miners back to work was concern that such an injection would be ignored.
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