ILA Leaders Seek Revote Try 'Educating' Stevedores
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NEW YORK—(UPI)—The International Longshoremen Association (ILA) sent educational missionaries out among striking stevedores today with hopes that a thorough explanation of a once-rejected contract would lead to settlement of the East and Gulf Coast dock strike.
The ILA leadership plans to submit for a revote the proposed four-year contract which longshoremen in the port of New York rejected last Friday. The unexpected "no" vote caused negotiators to abandon efforts to prevent the strike which yesterday idled ports from Maine to Texas and began bleeding the nation's economy at the rate of $25 million a day.
ILA President Thomas W. Gleason announced yesterday he again will ask the 16,000 union members on the New York-New Jersey waterfront to approve the contract which embodies the industry's first guaranteed annual wage. First, the union embarked on a major "educational
The rank and file turned down the proposal against the advice of their leaders, who expected it to serve as a pattern for contracts on both coasts.
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NO DATE FOR the revote was set, but it was expected that it will be put off for about a week. No negotiations were contemplated until then because shippers believe the offer was a generous one and it is now up to the union leaders to "sell" it to the rank and file. The government's chief mediator concurs.
Gleason commended the terms to the membership as the best ever negotiated by the union in its 72-veal history. He believes a lack of understanding of the safeguards against job loss to automation resulted in the negative vote. Part of the job of union representatives sent out to promote the contract is to find out what the membership does not understand or is opposed to.
campaign" to advertise the benefits of the agreement negotiated by the ILA and the New York Shipping Association (NYSA), bargaining representative for 145 steamship companies.
Signs carried yesterday by the pickets here indicated areas of confusion. Some pickets appeared to equate the guaranteed annual wage with socialism and other decried "flexibility," a reference to a management demand that was dropped from the final draft of the pact. The shippers originally had sought flexibility in size and assignment of dock work gangs.
In New York, 200 supervisory employees carried luggage and other cargo from the luxury liner United States, which docked last night. Normally 275 longshoremen perform the work but none was in evidence when the trans-Atlantic liner with 1.013 persons aboard arrived.
The proposed contract authorizes management to reduce the size of the crews from the traditional 20 to 17 by October, 1966. In exchange, the dock workers are guaranteed 1,600 hours of work a year, assuring them of a rock bottom minimum of $5,860 a year in wage and a substantial pension boost. Vacation, holiday and health care improvement also were offered.
AS THE EFFORTS to re-sell the contract began, another 5,000 longshoremen in the South joined the strike last night, increasing the total to about 60,000 and sealing every port from Portland, Maine, to Galveston, Tex.
The first legal action resulting from the strike was filed yesterday in New Orleans, Standard Fruit and Steamship Co. sought a court order to force longshoremen to unload $60,000 worth of bananas now in the hold of a docked ship.
Traditions Committee Co-ordinates Pep Clubs
For the first time in several years, the Traditions committee of the ASC is active, Mike Lemoine, Leawood senior and chairman of the committee, said last night.
Lemoine pointed out that this year his committee has been involved with the planning the annual traditions rally and dance jointly sponsored by the ASC and the Student Union Activities early in the fall.
The main purpose of the committee as outlined in the ASC constitutions is to coordinate the activities of the three pep clubs — Frosh Hawks, Jay James, and the KU-KU's.
The pep committee includes the presidents of the groups, the advisers of the Frosh Hawks, the head cheer-leader, and the student that wears the Javhawk costume at the games.
The committee has also organized a pep committee this year to serve as the coordinating body for the three clubs.
THE COMMITTEE also organized the pep rallies for the football teams and the relocation of the Frosh Hawk cheering section to the upper level of Allen Field House for the basketball games.
ANY MAJOR undertaking by any of the clubs is cleared through the pep committee, Lemoine said. The
committee is trying to get some cooperation and interaction with the budget.
Since money for the pep clubs is allocated in a lump sum for the three units, there is need for a central control, Lemoine noted.
The traditions committee itself also receives an allotment equal to that of the pep clubs and efforts are being made in the committee to make arrangements to get full use from both the allotments.
For the immediate future, Lemoinie said the committee plans to sponsor a series of rallies for the basketball team after semester break if KU is still in contention for the conference title.
Lemoine pointed out that under the present arrangement, the traditions committee is primarily responsible for the organizational tasks in projects like pep rallies and parades. The pep committee is working as the coordinating unit for the groups.
Also in the plans, Lemoine added, is an idea to convey in some form, perhaps a pamphlet, "The KU Traditions and School Spirit" to students.
Twenty Soviet doctors and engineers have been in Kansas City the past week setting up the exhibit. The display will be opened formally at 4 p.m. today and continue through Feb.9, then be taken to Cincinnati.
Soviet Ambassador Opens KC Exhibit
The exhibit attracted an estimated 15,000 viewers in a recent 30-day stay in Pittsburgh.
Dobrynin, 47, and his wife will stay overnight. They were scheduled to host a reception with Dr. Valdimir F. Rudko, director of the exhibit, after the formal opening of the show.
Color films, photographs, drawings and other displays in the exhibit illustrate advances in Soviet medical instruments and equipment and explain how the Russian public health system works.
The exhibit was arranged under an American-Soviet cultural exchange agreement.
KANSAS CITY, Mo.—(UPI)—Anatoly F. Dobrynin, Soviet ambassador to the United States leaves the diplomatic circles of Washington today to open a Kansas City exhibit extolling the virtues of the USSR medicine and public health program.
Yevgeni Y. Ruzhnikov, deputy director of public information for the exhibit, said Dobrynin's visit is the first time a Soviet ambassador has been to Kansas City.
The gregarious diplomat arrived in Washington in 1962 as ambassador and has since made it a point to get to know as many Americans as possible.
Once Dobrynin and his wife toured the U.S. by car from New York to California.
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American Society Class, 7:00 p.m. 24N Strong. Speaker—Jim Kline. Public welcome-purpose it to teach about American society.
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Classical Film, 7:00 p.m. "Dr. Caligari."
Fraser Theater.
Student Nat'l. Education Assoc., 7:30 p.m. Discussion by panel of student teachers and faculty on "Integration in Public Schools." Jayhawk Room, Kansas Union.
Faculty Recital, 8:00 p.m. Richard
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Student Peace Union Open Meeting 7:30 p.m. Student Union
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