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Reporter fails to discover nirvana
By United Press International
MIAMI — A newspaper reporter posed as a down-and-out drifter to be recruited for the central Oregon commune of an Indian guru and concluded the promised "pie-in-the-ground" real - but with some drawbacks.
"What's also there, to be sure, is a dark-souled, us-against them, kingdom-full of beaming, soft-singing storm troopers, a fortress of a place that is part warmed-over Woodstock and that's not so, the base camp," wrote Maeder, who took the name John Edward Holt for his odyssey.
women. "They weren't lying. Sure enough. It's all there, just like they said," wrote Miami Herald reporter Jay Maeder in a story published yesterday.
THE COMMUNE, RUN by guru Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, sent recruiters to distant cities to bring back more followers. Some 3,500 street people were recruited nationally for the first time in 1881 in Wasco County, central Oregon.
"The homeless were offered
"haven, harbor, shelter from the storm, surcease from woe and sorrow, free room and board forever,
a can of beer and a pack of smokes a day, no work, no hassles, no complications, no blades in the back, all the women a man could ever want to love up, pie in every sky, paradise," wrote Maeder, who took time off as The Herald's people columnist to make the trip.
Maeder described the ranch as a large encampment 33 miles from the nearest "respectable highway" where "incoming bums and thieves changed our entire personalities overnight."
ORIGINALLY, THE GURUS followers, called Rajneesh, promised round-trip transportation in case
people did not like life at the commune in central Oregon. That offer was discontinued, and recruiters made that very clear.
"We must be very precise what we say," recruiter Swami Chaitanu explained to Maeder in Miami. "The nation is watching us very closely. The media are watching us."
The busload Maeder joined eventually included street people from Jacksonville and New Orleans. Also on the bus was a Rajnesh named Sagar, who told the recruits what to expect.
"SAGAR ASSURED US that, yes indeed, there were many nubile young women waiting for us at Rancho Rajeesh. But we'd have to be in sexual quarantine for the first two weeks of our stay at Rancho Rajeesh, and we are scared to death of communicable misunderstandings, particularly AIDS."
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... Some of them wear rubber
gloves while having sex. These people are a lot of fun," Maeder wrote.
"... Aside from the temporary no-free-lovin' situation, the Rajneeshes kept every promise. There was food, good nourishing vegetarian fare, all we wanted, and there was a Blitz dinner at every evening, there was a pack of cigarettes apiece every morning, we were never asked to lift a finger in labor."
The only drawback, Maeder wrote, was the gung's personal secretary, MaAnard Sheela, who he described as "shrill and abrasive. . Some of us figured Sheela wasn't coloring inside all the lines."
The followers were sometimes assembled to be harangued by Sheela, who would call supposed "traitors" onto the stage.
Maeder soon decided to leave. "Never got out of quarantine," he wrote. "So it goes."
Bias at job may result from cancer
By United Press International
NEW VORK — Job discrimination by bosses or co-workers greets 84 percent of successfully treated cancer patients who return to blue collar jobs, and more than half going back to white collar jobs, a report said yesterday.
Employers discriminate in ways ranging from demotion and denial of advancement to forcing the recovered patient to give up group status, which is the price of keeping the job, a study cited in the report showed.
The report titled "After Cancer: Trouble on the Job?" in the autumn issue of "Cancer News" put out by the American Cancer Society summarizes the study conducted by Dr. Frances Feldman, a University of Southern California social work professor.
PRESSURES FROM FELLOW workers range from giving wellmeant but misguided sympathy to avoiding the cancer patient out of groundless fears that cancer is contagious and that King public affairs department. Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.
She said Congressman Mario Biagi of New York thought discrimination on the basis of "cancer history" was a civil rights issue. Biagi has called for expanding the Federal Civil Rights Act to prohibit discrimination on account of "cancer history."
Hearings on the proposed amendment will be coming up this fall, King said. If the proposal becomes law, cancer patients will be protected against discrimination protected against discrimination because of race, age, sex or national origin.
KING SAID THE discrimination was even more severe when cancer patients sought new jobs.
"Both the blue and white-collar workers in the California study got the same excuses from prospective employers," she said, noting the recovered cancer patients were told:
- "This job will be too stressful."
- "Come back when you've been symptom-free for five years."
- "You'll be absent too often.
- "Our group insurance rates will rise if we take you."
Fields ripe for union battles
SANTA CLARA, Calif. — Amid fears of the same union vs. union labor violence of a decade ago, the Teamsmons union has returned to California farm fields' demanding representation in competition with Cesar Chavez's United Farm Workers
The Teamsters have refused to extend a 7-year-old non-competition pact with the UFW, setting up conditions for a confrontation
The UFW beat the Teamslast week in a vote by 211 workers at Merrill Farms in Salinas, one of the Valley's largest lettuce growers. The Teams received only 30 votes, but nearly as many workers voted for "no union" as for the UFW, and a runoff election is likely.
By United Press International
Herman Levy, a University of Santa Clara School of Law professor, said he and other labor experts were
IN A HEAD-TO-HEAD contest at Ralph Sensen丘, firms in so-called, the teamsters received only one vote, the UFW four Both unions were overwhelmed by the 62 votes cast for "no union."
Neither union proved popular last week during two union representation elections in the lettuce-growing Salinas Valley of Monterey County.
heartened by the peaceful elections but still fearled violence ahead.
"My hope is still that they would continue the truce." Levy said.
This time, both sides have sworn themselves to peaceful organizing.
continue the tour.
But without the 1977 jurisdictional pact, which gave field workers to the UFW and food processing and packing workers to the Teamsters. Levy said competitive angling for workers would return and be "non-conducive to peace in the field."
Jurisdictional battles between the two unions in 1973 led to the arrests of 10,000 workers. Three people were killed. Camon said.
"There's always a potential for violence when you have this kind of confrontation," ALRB spokesman William Camp said.
"WE HAVEN'T SEEN any problems for seven years because of the pact," Levy said. Its absence, he said, "is going to stir up the farm area."
The state Agriculture Labor Relations Board is also watching the valley closely.
WILLIAM GRAMI OF THE Western Conference of Teamsters said: "We're not going to get into the same
Grami said the Teamsters this year refused to extend the agreement, as they had twice before, because "after seven or eight years of the pact we find less than 10,000 workers organized by the UFW or any other union out of probably over 300,000 in California.
situation that is alleged to have happened in the past."
The ALRB, according to an insurer, has turned into "an agency that doesn't prosecute people who break the law."
He strongly denied another reason sometimes given for the Teamsters renewed interest in field workers = a move to take their BOB to take labor complaints to courts.
Before California Gov. George Deukmeijer took office and appointed new members to the board, the source said, the ALRB was taking about 137 unfair labor practices complaints to court each year. This year, under new ALRB leadership, only four have been issued.
"Our locals were pleading with us to let them go out and organize in the fields." Grami said.
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The Teamsters, he said, saw the change and interpreted it as an opportunity to make inroads among field workers.
Firm loses government contract
WASHINGTON - The Justice Department canceled a consulting firm's contract worth more than $700,000 because of complaints of "irregular employment practices" at the company.
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The firm, Washington (C&U) Consulting Group Inc., employed Vice President George Bush's cousin, Mary Bush. He served in the position before the contract was terminated.
Firm owner Armando Chapelli, 37,
belonged to the same civic group as
James Wooton, deputy administrator of
the Office of Juvenile Justice and
Departmental agency that awarded
the non-competitive contract.
WOOTON SAID it was through the Decade Society, which raises money for children's causes, that he sug-
reed that he inquire about the contract.
OJJDP Administrator Alfred Regency, who oversees a $70 million budget, said he would not describe the complaints because he did not investigate them and could not guarantee their validity.
"SO I GOT CHAPELLI over here and confronted him with it and he agreed that there were some employment problems in the place, and, based on that, we agreed to terminate it," Regeny said.
Chapelli confirmed he met with Regerny about the allegations but refused to talk about them. He said the allegations were false and that on them on a couple of people helpless on destroying my company."
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Before joining Chapell's firm as a $24,000-a-year staffier last fall, Mary Bush was a $16,159-a-year temp office in the juvenile justice office.
Reginny said he ended Chapelli's contract Oct. 5 because there were allegations of irregular employment practices — sufficiently extensive concerns that they might be a problem as time went on doing the work.
dent's office and Mary Bush said her relationship to the vice president had nothing to do with her winning either job or with the contract.
**GREGORY SAD THERE** was "no contact whatsoever" with the vice president or White House officials about Mary Bush joining his office. Ms. Bush said a friend who worked at her company had given me of an opening — and I applied."
subcommittee chaired by Rep. Ike Andrews, D.N.C., investigated the contract, focusing on charges of politically inspired personnel selections and the use of high priced but unqualified consultants, a panel spokesman said.
Chapelli, Regnery, the vice presi-
Chapelli acknowledged his firm had virtually no experience in juvenile justice matter and said Mary Bush was a "catalyst" for his company to gain the knowledge for the work.
Ms. Bush said her resignation and Chapelli losing the contract are unrelated.
"The vice president had no in- involvement in or knowledge of Mary Bush's job at justice," said Shriridh Press secretary "president's deputy press secretary"
CHAPELLI. A CUBAN- AMERICAN, was given a four- month, $48,899 contract in September 1983 under a program for minority-owned firms that did not require competitive bidding.
Three months later, the contract was increased by $660,581.
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