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Friday, Sept. 11, 1970
University Daily Kansan
Teachers Continue Walkouts
By United Press International Philadelphia teachers played hooky in a contract dispute on the first day of school Thursday. A judge issued an injunction ordering the schools reopened, but postponed the effective date pending a hearing Monday.
Members of a black militant group in East St. Louis, Ill., threatened to hold teacher and school board negotiators in the school board offices until they settle a feud that has delayed the opening of schools by two weeks
More than half of the public school teachers at Hammond, Ind., stayed away from their classrooms in defiance of a court injunction and Toledo, Ohio saw its 2,500 teachers idle for a second day.
Members of the Black Egyptians, an East St. Louis militant group, appeared at a board of education meeting and said they were prepared to keep board members and teachers in the building until a contract agreement was reached.
Frank Smith, "defense minister" of the Egyptians, said the group would open schools themselves if the dispute was not settled. They chanted "negotiate, negotiate, negotiate" as the board met. But after four and one-half hours the militants relented and let the negotiators go.
East St. Louis' 22,000 pupils have missed almost two weeks of classes. Schools in the Connecticut communities of Stamford, Bristol and Milford were
closed. Schools were open but only partially staffed at New Haven, West Haven, New London and Somers. Middletown pupils were dismissed early as contract disputes with teachers continued.
The Philadelphia school board ordered its 270 public schools closed until a settlement is reached with the Philadelphia Federation of Teachers. Several thousand pupils attended classes conducted in their classrooms by volunteer teachers and residents of their communities.
Volunteer schools were also set up at union halls, churches and recreation halls, mostly in Negro neighborhoods.
Unsettled contract issues include salary, length of the school day and whether teachers should be held accountable for a pupil's academic progress. Teachers
were asking a starting salary of $8,500 a year and the board had offered a minimum of $8,100, up $800 from the 1969-70 pact.
Hammond's teachers picketed school buildings and marched to the school administration offices in open defiance of an injunction issued late Wednesday restraining them from continuing their walkout. The walkout was in its third day, postponing the return to study for 24,000 pupils. Negotiations resumed Thursday but no progress was reported.
Nearly 96,000 pupils were idled in several Michigan cities, including Kalamazoo, while 4,500 teachers were on strike.
Agnew Chastises Senate Liberals
Teachers in East St. Louis, Ill., continued their work stoppage, refusing to report to their classrooms until their contract is settled.
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (UPI) Vice President Spiro T. Agnew accused congressional Democrats today of "a whimpering isolationism in foreign policy, a mulish obstructionism in domestic policy, and a pusillanimous pus-
Fund Director Plans Session In California
Todd Seymour, director of the Greater University Fund, has been named head of a training school to be held Feb. 14-17 in San Francisco for people new to fund raising on the university level.
Seymour served on the faculty of the school at the last session, which was held in New York in March. He said at this session it would be his responsibility to find eight faculty members and to set up a program.
Seymour said he expected 100 to 200 people, representing approximately that many schools, to be present at the session.
syfooting on the critical issue of law and order."
"Your country just cannot afford any more ultra-liberals in the United States Senate," Agnew said in a speech prepared for a party rally here kicking off an intensive campaign schedule for the vice president in behalf of Republican candidates.
"There was a time," Agnew said, "when the liberalism of the old Democratic elite was a venturesome and fighting philosophy—the vanguard political dogma of a Franklin Roosevelt, a Harry Truman, a John Kennedy.
"But the old firehorses are long gone. Today's breed of radical-liberal posturing about the Senate is about as closely related to a Harry Truman as a chihuahua is to a timber wolf."
Campaigning on behalf of Sen. Ralph T. Smith, who is in a tough race with Democrat Adlai E. Stevenson III, Agnew said: "Ultra-liberalism today translates into a whimpering isolationism in foreign policy, a mutil objectionism domestic policy, and a pusillanimous pussyfooting on the critical issue of law and order.
LHS Assembly Held; Unity Need Stressed
Two students advocating unity among Lawrence High School students and the reinstatement of four blacks suspended Sept. 2 spoke before a student assembly Thursday.
Dwight Thomas and Mark Wray, both students, spoke to the assembly following the school's B-Team cheerleader tryouts. The black and white candidates tried out separately and were voted upon separately under a quota system.
Thomas said he represented the
student body when he said "the four suspended students should be reinstated."
The audience applauded the suggestion of the reinstatement, but heckled some of the white cheerleader candidates.
"We're all together now, we're not going to have any more fighting." Wray said, attempting to halt the jeering.
After the assembly an announcement was made that black candidate Cathy Hamm had been selected head cheerleader by the newly-elected squad.
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