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Thursday, October 4, 1973
University Daily Kansan
Kansan Photo by RIC RAPP
H. L. Mitchell Reads Union Pamphlet
Clinton Lake Landowners Debate Planners' Intention
The Lawrence-Douglas County Planning Commission has been insensitive to the needs of landowners in the Clinton Lake Community and to Association Association told the commission last night.
The complaints came at a public meeting called by the commission to get comments on the Clinton Lake comprehensive plan being developed by the commission. The commission's third draft of the plan was briefly outlined.
The plan deletes part of a controlled access road previously planned by the commission, which would have run from the highway north to U.S. highway 40. Dragstrip Road north to U.S. highway 40.
The commission said that part of the road should be deleted because development already undertaken along Drapestrip Road (the footbridge) has been replaced with the necessary 300-foot wide right-of-way.
THE PLAN also makes changes in the size of residential areas being considered.
Discussion by about 75 people attending the meeting did't deal with those revisions, however, because the commission didn't draft printed to distribute.
Instead, the audience asked questions about the intentions of the commission. Some expressed dissatisfaction with the commission and the present landowners in the Clinton area.
"We're not talking about landowners," countered commission chairman Bill Wormack. "We're talking about a land use plan."
“You're planning for unborn people who are going to use this land some day,” one landowner told the commission. “Let's not forget the present owners.”
MOST OF THE LANDowners seemed to MOST of the commission was forcing demolition, but the landowners said that farming soon would be economically unfeasible in the area. Wonack said the commission was being used to irrigate agriculture in the area as much as possible.
Although the commission has no authority over the roads around the Clinton dam site, several complaints were voiced about the deterioration of the roads in that area. The Army Corps of Engineers has control over the roads surrounding Clinton now.
The commission was asked about its statement in an earlier draft of the plan that no urban development be permitted in areas with a slope exceeding 15 degrees. Womack said that in response to public concern, he was working on the plan, that statement had been amended to read "in general" no such development would be permitted.
CHI EPSILON, honorary civil engineering fraternity, will meet at 4:30 today in 210 Learned. All members should bring their pledge keys.
ALPHA DELTA SIGMA, professional advertising society, will meet at 7:30 tonight in the Regionalist Room of the Kansas Union.
Legislators Meet At KU Med Center
KANSAS CITY, Kan.—Members of the Ways and Means committees of both houses of the Kansas Legislature spent three hours here yesterday receiving a status report on new courses and on expansion plans at the University of Kansas Medical Center.
Russell Miller, dean for medical center administration, said yesterday that the legislators were especially interested in establishing a physical facilities at the medical center.
Chancellor Archie R. Dykes also attended the meeting.
Womack said the commission would further revise the third draft of the plan. The meeting was adjourned until Wednesday, Dec. 12, Womak said, at which time the commission will have at least 100 copies of the third draft available for public distribution.
Socialist Labor Chief Broke Race Barrier
By JEFREY HILL
Kanwan Staff Reporter
H. L. Mitchell, who battled for farm workers against unfair labor practices and racism long before Cesar Chavez ever heard of it, is as outspoken about his past as he was in the 1980s about the plight of southern tenant farmers.
Mitchell, cofounder of the Southern Tenant Farmers' Union (STFU) in the 1930s, is visiting KU this week as a guest of the department of history.
The 67-year-old Mitchell helped organize the STFU in Arkansas to improve the lot of sharecroppers who Mitchell said had been exploited by Arkansas landowners.
"We began in the '30s when everybody was poor and some were poorer," Mitchell said yesterday. "We grew crops out something like a set of dollars to not grow cotton, it ended up in the hands of the landowners, and none of it went to the tenant farmers. So I decided to do
"The man who rilled the filling station next to my cleaning plant felt the same way I did.
A SOCIALIST, MITCHELL HAS REMAINED. From his Arkansas union, which originally consisted of 11 whites and seven blacks, Mitchell obtained a charter from the American Federation of Labor in 1928, and he was one of the National Farm Labor Union. (NEFL).
"Out of that came the United Farm Workers (UFW) of today," Mitchell said.
The STFU was the first integrated union in the United States. Mitchell said the mutual plight of black and white sharecroppers overcame racial hatred.
'long before there were any civil rights movements, we broke the color barrier in 1978.'
Mitchell met violent opposition while
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MITCHELL
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organizing the STFU, and the opposition continued throughout his early involvement
Two attempts to assassinate Mitchell were made in the 1930s.
"WE HAD ALL kinds of things happen to us," Mitchell said. "Our meetings were broken up. They looked for me on the high street and I was alone, I knew where the bell I was. I finally had to move out of Arkansas to protect my family." "Two attempts to assassinate Mitchell
"One time I was speaking at a meeting and I heard something behind me that said, 'You're not my name' man named Duffy had taken a shot at me, but another man had knocked his gun in time. I'm willing to bet that one of the landowners paid him to do it'. Mitchell said."
"I found out back then that Richard M. Nixon was an S.O.B., and I haven't had a problem with it."
"Out of all this agitation we finally got a presidential commission on farm tenancy. That helped us, but it was one of the first casualties of World War II."
AFTER THE WAR Mitchell established NFLU in California. "We raised hell up and down California and it earned us the Commission on Migratory Labor." Mitchell
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"We were in the midst of a strike in California. Nixon was head of a committee investigating the strike. In his report he stated that farm workers didn't have the right to organize or bargain. We lost that battle and struck a cotton picker the following year."
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