THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
80th Year, No.7
Tuesday, Sept. 23, 1969
UDK News Roundup
By United Press International
ROTC building taken
ANN ARBOR, Mich.—Nearly 60 anti-war demonstrators, calling themselves the "Committee to Smash ROTC," barricaded themselves inside the University of Michigan's North Hall for nearly five hours before leaving peacefully early today.
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
The takeover of the university's main ROTC building came after a mass rally in the student union and was the latest in a series of campus disruptions aimed against the Reserve Officers Training Corps.
Three rule China
MOSCOW — Three ranking Politburo members are ruling China during the grave illness of Chairman Mao Tse-tung, Eastern diplomatic sources said Monday.
Premier Chou En-lai, Defense Minister Lin Piao and Chen Pota, a veteran Communist leader, assumed provisional power after Mao suffered a stroke earlier this month, the sources said.
Mexico loses Mateos
MEXICO CITY — Former President Adolfo Lopez Mateos, 59, died early Monday at his suburban home in Mexico City. He had been in a coma more than two years following brain surgery in May, 1967.
One of Mexico's most popular presidents, Lopez Mateos was chief executive from 1958 through 1964.
Attorney joins defense
SAIGON—F. Lee Bailey, the attorney who defended the Boston Strangler, Dr. Sam Sheppard and Jack Ruby, agreed today to join the defense of one of the six green berets charged with murder.
"I'll be more than happy to be in the case," he said in a telephone conversation from New York. "I'll be there as soon as possible."
Marine death probed
PARRIS ISLAND, S.C.—A husky athlete was inducted into the Marine Corps suffering from a kidney ailment that later proved fatal. He apparently was beaten by fellow recruits because he couldn't "pull his weight," a preliminary investigation indicated today.
The Marine probe was begun when Pvt. Stephen E. Melson, 18, of Millsboro, Del., died in a civilian hospital at Charleston Sunday after telling physicians he was beaten because he couldn't keep up with other recruits.
Little contraband found
SAN DIEGO, Calif—The government's crackdown on drug smuggling has turned up little contraband as the new policy of carby-car and person-by-person searches went into its third day. There were delays of up to six hours in traffic jams.
Chicago police begin preparations for trial
CHICAGO (UPI) — Federal authorities will deputize Chicago policemen as marshals to handle security and keep peace during the trial Wednesday of eight persons charged with conspiring to incite riots during the 1968 Democratic National Convention. Radical leaders, meanwhile, continue to organize demonstrations.
U. S. Marshal John Meiszner said Monday some Chicago policemen would be deputized and federal marshals would be brought here, though he did not say how many, for duty at the Federal building during the trial. It was
not known how many Chicago policemen would be used.
Meiszner's announcement came after a meeting between U.S. Atty. Thomas A. Foran; Marlin Johnson, chief of the Federal Bureau of Investigation here; Police Supt. James B. Conlisk Jr.; Chief Judge William Campbell of the U.S. District Court; and Meiszner.
Seventy-five newsmen and 100 spectators will be searched before entering the courtroom and the newsman will have to enter through a cloakroom, he said.
Leonard I. Wienglass, one of
the attorneys for "The Conspiracy"—the name taken by the defendants—said the defense will ask a larger courtroom be assigned. "One-hundred spectators is a virtual lockout," he said.
Indicted with Yippie leader Abbie Hoffman are fellow Yippie Jerry Rubin; Rennie Davis and David Dellinger of the National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam; Black Panther Bobby Seale; Tom Hayden, a founder of the Students for a Democratic Society and university professors Lee Weiner and John Froines.
Strike commission formed
WASHINGTON (UPI)—President Nixon Monday created a commission of labor, industry and government representatives to deal with strife and tension in the construction industry. He authorized it to intercede in any labor dispute likely to have "significant impact" on construction.
Nixon said the commission will not force compulsory arbitration or limit the right to strike or lock out. He explained in an executive order, it is "designed to develop voluntary tripartite procedures to be followed in the settlement of disputes over the terms of collective bargaining agreements in the construction industry involving the standard labor and management organizations."
The commission, named the Construction Industry Collective Bargaining Commission and headed by Labor Secretary George P. Shultz, will be composed of four representatives from labor, four from industry, two from the public at large, plus Shultz and Director J. Curtis Counts of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service.
Shultz, who recommended Nixon establish the commission, told newsmen the building industry was singled out because of its high strike rate and the rapid rise in construction costs.
"Labor-management relations in the construction industry reflect numerous signs of strife and tensions and the national interest requires an improvement in the procedures and performance of collective bargaining in this sector," the President said.
Citing rapid increases in construction costs, he said, wages in the building industry went up 15 per cent during the first six months of 1969, compared to 7 per cent for other industries.
Thirty-one per cent of the labor contract settlements in the construction industry so far this year were preceded by strikes, he said, compared with 13 per cent for industry as a whole.
"... Industrial strife tends to disrupt construction operations
and adversely to effect other sectors."
Nixon said one commission "is authorized to intercede in any labor dispute in the construction industry whenever in its judgment the labor dispute is likely to have a significant impact on construction activity in a locality."
Also, he said, it is authorized to develop a voluntary procedure under which labor and management would observe a 30-day cooling off period before a strike or lockout is called.
In addition, Nixon said, the commission may seek to mediate labor disputes or investigate them and recommend solutions.
Photo by Burt Lancaster
Too much fiddling around . . .
A KU coed trundled her overgrown fiddle away from Murphy Hall on a warm Monday afternoon. More than likely the musical young lady is accustomed to the stares of surprised onlookers.