THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
80th Year, No. 33
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Wednesday, Oct. 29, 1969
Strike riot kills one
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio (UPI)
One truck driver was shot to death Tuesday and at least five persons were wounded in a violent confrontation between Teamster Union members and striking independent steelhaulers who were picketing the Republic Steel Corp. plant here.
Police said at least 50 carloads of Teamster Local 377 members attempted to escort a nine-truck convoy of Stoney Trucking Co. tractor trailers through the Republic plant gates "when all hell broke loose."
When the Teamster Union members approached the plant gates they were met by about 140 striking members of the Fraternal Association of Steelhaulers who
were armed with guns, baseball bats and rocks, police said.
The independent truckers had struck the Stoney firm last Oct. 17 and were picketing the Republic gates to prevent loads of steel from moving into the plant. The Stoney firm is a principal hauler for Republic.
Between 100 and 150 shots were fired during the half-hour melee, police said.
All available police and Mahoning County sheriff's deputies were called to the plant on the city's southside. The area was sealed off and police used tear gas to restore order.
Six persons were arrested. One person was charged with disturbing the peace. Five were held on open charges.
Mahoning County Common Pleas Court Judge Forrest Cavalier issued a restraining order Tuesday night against the independent haulers prohibiting the truckers from gathering when such action would "present a threat of harm to the safety and welfare of the public."
Some of the independent haulers said they would return to the Republic Steel plant today, despite the restraining order.
Truck driver John J. Gorsline of Cleveland, an employee of Stoney's was shot to death. It was not known whether he was a member of the Teamsters Union.
The strike against Stoney's began Oct. 17 when a driver was suspended for too many traffic violations.
University Senate to meet
Decision due on ROTC
The University Senate will meet at 3:30 Thursday in Swarthout Recital Hall to decide whether to reject the ROTC program on the KU campus.
"There is no possibility that ROTC will be retained in its present form," Peter George, Tuckahoe, N.Y., law student and Senate member, said. "It is a question of changing it or throwing it out completely."
George said the Senate can either accept the majority report of the University Senate Committee on ROTC or the minority report of the committee.
The majority report provides for the integration of most courses of the program into other departments of the University and the elimination of credit for drills and marching. The minority report strongly rejects the presence at KU of ROTC in any form.
Unless one of these two courses is followed, George said, the pro and anti-ROTC members of the
is not desirable to the Pentagon. Should the Senate vote to oust the ROTC program, the proceed-
Senate will have to reach a compromise position. He pointed out that even the compromise represented by the majority report
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Docking asks public restraint
Governor Robert B. Docking said Tuesday citizens must cope with the impulse to overreact to student disorders.
Special to the Kansan
The governor said in a speech at a forum at Washburn University in Topeka, civil disobedience and disorders are nothing new.
"Once more we must cope with the impulse to overreact. Before we yield to such emotions, we ought to consider how foolish we will look if we do precisely what the extremists anticipate we will do, and what they want us to do. Before we act on impulse we ought to learn again from the experiences our predecessors bequeathed us," Docking said.
He said problems generated by disorders must be solved according to the "ground rules of a free, Democratic society" with the courts, and by solving the causes of unrest.
Tuesday night Docking urged the younger generation to take part in political decision-making, "within the context of our political heritage, our most valuable legacy."
In a speech before a youth banquet sponsored by the reorganized Church of Latter Day Saints
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UDK News Roundup
By United Press International
Chinese down 19th plane
TOKYO-A Chinese Communist fighter plane shot down a pilotless U.S. reconnaissance plane over South China, the New China News Agency said today. The dispatch, monitored in Tokyo, said it was the nineteenth such pilotless U.S. plane downed over China since 1964.
Meir coalition elected
JERAUSALEM—Advocates of more militancy toward the Arabs dealt Premier Golda Meir's ruling labor alliance a slight setback in Israel's first national elections since the 1967 war, incomplete returns showed today.
Mrs. Meir's alliance swept to four more years in power, according to the returns from Tuesday, but with a majority in parliament reduced by perhaps as many as seven seats.
Franco changes cabinet
MADRID — Generalissimo Francisco Franco has reshuffled his cabinet to make way for younger men and new progressive policies aimed at giving Spain a more active role in the European community.
Political sources said today the shuffle, to be announced Thursday by the 76-year-old ruler, is a clear victory for the Roman Catholic lay order Opus Dei and signals the defeat of Spain's pro-Falangist Facist forces.
Committee to close doors
WASHINGTON—Secretary of State William P. Rogers was invited before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee today to answer some questions the committee decided would best be asked in private.
Rogers originally was invited to tuture before the panel on Vietnam in a public hearing, but the committee postponed its five-day session when Nixon decided to address the nation on Vietnam Nov. 3. The panel decided to have Rogers in a closed meeting instead.
Photos by Ron Bishop
The Mount Oread Book Shop opened Monday offering 20,000 titles to interested students - see story page 2