University Daily Kansan
Thursday, Sept. 10, 1970
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Kansan Staff Photo by MIKE RADENCICH
KU Students Support Women's Strike
Rail Strike Postponed
. . . group joins march for fair practices
WASHINGTON (UPI)Four railroad unions agreed Wednesday to postpone their midnight strike deadline for five days at the request of the government.
Assistant Labor Secretary W. J. Usery Jr., announced the agreement less than 9 hours before the strike deadline set by 600,000 workers in their year-long wage dispute with the railroad industry.
Usery reported some progress was made by the two sides in renewed negotiations, but said they were "still a long way from consumating an agreement. They are still a considerable distance apart."
Usery, the top government mediator, appeared relieved by the agreement to extend the strike deadline. He said "we feel an emergency board is not the answer."
As the two sides met again, C. L. Dennis, president of the Railway Clerks Union, denied that the unions, as well as the railroads, wanted the President to step in and block a walkout.
Students Join Picket Lines Attempt to Aid Women's Strike
The gold Cadillac convertible stopped abruptly as it reached the picket line.
"Mr. Moore, we'd like to talk to you," Norman Forer, assistant professor of social welfare, said. He and 35 KU students and faculty members were picketing Wednesday in support of women strikers at the C. M. Moore Plastics Co. in Overland Park.
C. M. Moore, the driver of the car and owner of Moore Plastics, drove past Forer and through the students and parked in a space marked "Reserved." He got out of the car and waved to the strikers as he walked to the front door.
"What a showboat!" one of the girls said.
The women strikers at the Moore plant this week have contacted KU students through AFL-CIO Local No. 605 to organize the Workers Support Committee, which held its initial meeting Tuesday night at the Kansas Union.
At the meeting, representatives of the strikers said they worked under bad conditions at Moore Plastics and accused Moore and his foremen of encouraging and participating in sexual abuse, unfair labor practices, health violations, and safety violations.
When asked about the alleged violations, Gene Ewing, a negotiator for Local No. 605 and advisor for the strikers, said that he had investigated the alleged violations and was convinced that they were true.
"The man runs this place like a little tyrant," Ewing said. "He comes in in the morning, sits down at his desk and starts punching buttons to get his supervisors in to report to him."
At 8:50 a.m., a group of six students, faculty members and relatives of strikers entered the building to speak to Moore and were told to wait.
Finally Moore walked out.
"What can I do for you?" he asked.
Forer started to explain why the students were there. A Kansas photographer snapped a photograph of Moore from the corner of the room. Moore told the photographer to leave and sent everyone except Forer out into the parking lot.
Forer said he talked to Moore for two minutes. Moore then turned his back on him, raised his hand in a gesture of disgust, and told Forer to leave, Forer said.
"The first thing he said was 'This whole country's going to hell,'" Forer said. "I told him, 'That's precisely what we're here to talk about' and tried to enumerate some of the accusations made against him.
"He asked me how I knew the accusations were true and I told him, "This is what we're here to
find out.'
"These issues are the concern of many students and faculty members who are opposed to social injustices and believe that the way to overcome them is to sit down and calmly discuss the issues involved with all parties concerned," Forer said. "Moore said it was no concern of ours and refused to talk to me further," he said.
At one point Moore came out of the building with a camera and took pictures of the picketers.
"Stand on your head for us, Moore," one of the students cried.
"This is really a circus," one said, as Moore continued to take pictures.
Picketing continued throughout the day. Picketers convinced several truck drivers not to enter and attempted to talk to the strikebreakers on their breaks.
"The course was initially offered during enrollment but nobody enrolled in it," said Richard L. Spear, associate professor of Oriental languages and literatures. The course was reopened with the hope that additional publicity would encourage students to enroll."
Bill Black, Kansas City, Mo. junior and one of the organizers of the Workers' Support Committee, said the group would meet at 7:30 p.m. Monday in the Kansas Union.
Miss Kim taught Korean last year as an assistant to G. Cameron Hurst, assistant professor of history.
Korean Course Offered Late
The course will begin Sept. 13 and will carry five hours of credit. Kim Ho Soon, a Korean graduate student, will teach the course.
A beginning course in Korean is being offered by the department of Oriental languages and literatures.
"Excellent hard rock side by side with clean and authoritative baroque music . the interweave of idioms was never jarring or gimmicky; just simply music timeless, anonymous, living music."
N. Y. Times
saturday, september 12 8:00 p.m.
hoch auditorium
in concert
tickets:1.50,2.00,2.50 available at: sua office information booth,kief's the sound,richardson's,bell's
new york rock ensemble
Use Kansan Classified
From the 1970 Summer Season THE UNIVERSITY THEATRE
presents
"THE MIRACLE WORKER"
by William Gibson
William Gibson TONIGHT
the stirring dramatization of Helen Keller's story
Experimental Theatre-Murphy Hall Sept. 9,10,11,12-8:20 p.m.
Ticket Information
UN 4-3982
$1.50 Admission
75c with KU ID
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