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Brennan resigns post
WASHINGTON - Secretary of Labor Peter J. Brennan submitted his resignation Thursday and said he planned to return to New York where he expected to reassure the leadership of the Building and Construction Trades Council.
A Labor Department spokesman said Brennan has asked that his termination be made effective in mid-March.
Bremnan's resignation came a day after administration sources disclosed that President Ford will nominate John T. Dunlop, Harvard economics professor and former director of the defunct Cost of Living Council, to head the Labor Department.
Jackson off & running
WASHINGTON -Sen. Henry M. Jackson of Washington formally announced his candidacy for the 1976 Democratic presidential nomination Thursday night by pleading to use the White House "to help the people in this country, who are getting hurt."
Jackson, who is considered by many Democrats to be the closest thing to a front-rower in a growing, wide-open race, has already raised at least $10 million for his campaign.
He thus joined Rep. Morris K. Udall of Arizona, former Gov. Jimmy Carter of Georgia and former Sandi L. Harris of Oklahoma in a field meeting at the State House in Atlanta.
House favors bingo bill
TOPEKA- The Kansas House resumes consideration of a bingo bill today with indications that a majority of its members favor holding state legislation.
If the proposed amendment is adopted today, it would leave a bill that would have the effect of allowing bingo to resume legally in Kansas. It would continue in the same manner as it did illegally before then Atty. Hahn, but with the exception of the constitutional prohibition against lotteries as applied to bingo.
Last November, Kansas voters approved a constitutional amendment that excepts bingo operation by omit fide nonfide religious, charitable, and religious organizations.
Auto layoffs continue
DETROIT—General Motors Corp. announced Thursday that it would keep four car assembly plants closed next week and that it would shut a fifth plant as well.
Earlier Thursday, Chrysler Corp. said it would shut a second car assembly plant for a week starting Monday, idling another 2,000 hourly workers. Layoffs industrywide this week affected 275,000 workers, 40 per cent of the auto companies' 684,000 blue-collar workers.
Reporter roves unnoticed despite Capitol security
WASHINGTON (AP) — The agency responsible for protecting federal buildings from bomb terrorists expressed dismay but little surprise Thursday to learn that a bearded man carrying a suspicious weapon has penetrated tough new security precautions.
Vawter said that he had warned his agency just two days earlier to "tighten up like hell because we would be tested again."
"We have said all along that anybody who is determined to make violence can do so," said Rich Vawter, spokesman for the General Services Administration (GSA).
He was referring to the first AP experiment in 1970, when another bearded reporter with a shoebox roamed at will and shot him. But then he was stopped at the Supreme Court.
Four years and three bomberies later at
Pentagon and State Department, the lesi
This week the reporter strolled unchallenged past uniformed guards at public entrances to the Capitol, the commerce department and GSA, the agency that trains and deploys 3,500 guardes across the country to protect federal property.
"Oh not I can believe it!" a young woman exclaimed when the newman told her about his parents.
Arthur F. Samson and explained what had happened. Samson was the man who issued the new security measures in the last week's State Department explosion.
Guards were told to deny entrance to anyone who didn't display a government ID card and submit his briefcase or package for inspection.
The reporter slipped past three guardposts in the Justice Department and FBI building before he was stopped by a police officer. In your tour guide, a clerk returning from lunch.
At the State Department, with the help of a newspaper working inside, he prowled the corridors and carpeted reception area Secretary Henry A. Kaisinger's office.
The reporter was stopped at the Pentagon and Supreme Court. The Interior Department, still on guard against another Indian takeover of its Bureau of Indian Affairs building, wouldn't even accept a photographer's White House press card, which is issued only after a security investigation.
Explaining the gaps in the latest crackdown, Vawter said that federal guards "are human beings and you can expect human reactions from them. They're not perfect."
There are no easy answers for union men who are losing the battle against the recession, but some have found a way in the form of modern-day mercenaries as hired pickets.
By DEBBIE GUMP
Kansan Staff Reporter
Unemployed men find work on picket line
Waymire's Butcher Block at 9th and Rhode Island has been picked this week by men wearing signs that say the business doesn't comply with Meat Cutters Local 768 employment benefit standards. But the company, which are actually unemployed members of a grocers union, they earn $3 an hour doing what the store's employees won't.
The men, who asked not to be identified, said Thursday that they had been hired by George Hart, a business representative of the meat cutters union in Kansas City, Mo. They said they didn't know why the store was being picketed.
"We just do what we're told to do by the union," one of the men said.
Hart would not comment on the pickets.
"I don't think that's any of your business."
"You're not," he said.
Picketing by men who aren't members of the same union does not constitute an illegal
The manager of the store, Larry Waymire, said the pickets could remain for as long as they wanted if they didn't harass customers who have preferred to tell about it.
by itself, according to Raymond Goetz, professor of law. Goetz said he couldn't determine whether the picketing at Wayne's was illegal without specific evidence.
"Of course the picker is under the right of free speech," Waymire said, "but I don't think it's really fair in some ways that nobody contacted the employees or
Hart said that he had been under no compulsion to talk with Waymire before sending in pickets and that the union's only responsibility was to inform the public.
"We have our way of doing things," he said.
Waymire said he knew it wasn't a union picket and didn't question its legality. But he said be objected to the signs carried by the pickets, which suggested that his employees were treated worse than union members.
"We have better benefits than they have
"beard," he said. "We pay a higher percentage of income to salaries than anybody else."
If the picket action were based on just an issue, other stores in town would have to deal with it. The police have
largest nonunion store in Lawrence hasn't been.
He said that the action might be because of his meat prices.
"I have been told in a round-about way that if we didn't raise prices we'd have some trouble," Waymire said. "And I guess we have."
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