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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1948
The Editorial Page-
The campus cops are handing out an average of 80 tickets a day for traffic violations. Most of these are for parking in the wrong zone, parking in "no parking" zones, and parking without permits.
Why are there so many violations? The answer is simple. There are 1,200 applications for permits. The parking committee had 600 available spaces for which 700 permits were issued. This was possible because there are a large number of car pools for Sunflower residents. But there were 430 students, employees, and faculty members who did not receive permits.
Parking Inefficiency
Most of these disappointed applicants believe they have as good a reason as anyone else for parking on the campus. If they did not need permits, most of them would not have applied. At least a thousand other campus car owners did not apply because they knew their chances of getting a permit were too slim.
Cases have been reported where student and faculty members living more than a mile from the campus with no bus service available have been denied permits. One instructor who did not get a permit lives outside the city limits on a dirt road which becomes a sea of mud when it rains.
A large number of the violators are faculty members who were denied permits. The status of these violators is not clear. The tickets instruct students to present them at the parking office where they pay a fine or appeal to the student court. Visitors are told to ignore the tickets. Faculty members receive no instructions.
Most of the faculty members are parking anywhere they can find a vacant space, permit or no permit. The resulting tickets are either torn up or collected as a hobby.
The parking problem is not new. It just happened to be a little worse this year. The parking committee has authority only to allocate the space given to it. It is up to the responsible officials to see that more space is made available. They have had several years in which to act, yet no action has been taken.
The problem is not insoluble. Failure of the administration to provide more space is the result of negligence and nothing else. A continuation of the same bungling, inefficient, and incompetent handling of the parking problem is inexcusable. —J.L.R.
Cost Of Labor
At the Briggs plants, 25,000 workers were idle. At Chrysler and Packard, 33,000 were not working. Thousands of others in smaller supply shops were inactive.
In Detroit last week, 60,000 automobile workers went back to work after 15 days of idleness. The plant guards in eight Briggs Manufacturing company factories had gone out on strike. These 170 men threw more than 350 times their number out of work.
Fifteen productions days were lost. More than $10 million in wages were gone forever. Thousands of motor cars which could have been produced did not come off the assembly lines.
The strike occurred when the Briggs company refused demands of the United Plant Guards Workers. The guards demanded pay for fifteen minutes dressing time daily and premium pay for weekend work.
Seven million man-hours of production will be needed to make up the 15 days of lost production. The 170 guards will have to work 200 years before the increase in pay won by the strike will replace the 15-day loss in wages. Jim Morris
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