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Summer Session Kansan Tuesday, August 2, 1966
Airline strike may be portent
WASHINGTON — (UPI) — The airline strike may be the forerunner of a series of big strikes during the next 12 months as organized labor and the administration duel it out over President Johnson's wage "guidelines."
At stake in big labor's challenge to the "suggested" federal ceiling on wage increases are the stability of the economy and, in the view of Labor Secretary W. Willard Wirtz, the future of collective bargaining.
IN JANUARY, Johnson's economic report to Congress set an
Stormy week ahead for Labor party
LONDON — (UPI)—The government of Prime Minister Harold Wilson faces its stormiest week since coming to power in 1964 as it prepares to push through through Parliament the deflationary prices and income bill.
Opposition Conservative and Liberal party members of Parliament were set to launch concerted attacks on the Labor government's stringent austerity proposals which Wilson hopes will restore confidence in the pound and rescue Britain's ailing economy. Leftwing Labor M.P.s also oppose the program.
THE NEWLY AMENDED bill, imposing a year-long freeze on prices and wages, will be placed before the House of Commons sometime this week. It is expected to pass within two weeks despite loud opposition. Wilson has a 96-vote majority in the House.
The National and Local Government Officer's Association (NALGO) yesterday became the first union to feel the pinch of the freeze proposals. About 230,000 members of the union were to have begun receiving a 7 per cent pay increase under a previously negotiated contract.
But Wilson's economic plan stipulates that contracts negotiated prior to the government announcement will be frozen for at least six months.
They're seeing saucers again
WASHINGTON — (UPI)—Flying saucer reports flooded police switchboards in the Maryland-Virginia suburbs of Washington Sunday night—and police themselves joined in the sightings.
Bright, multi-colored lights were reported seen in the skies around Montgomery and Prince George counties and Alexandria, Va. State, county and local police officers vowed to have spotted the things.
The Federal Aviation Agency and area airports picked up none of the UFO's on their radar screens. Their reports of sightings came only from police, they said.
One policeman declared: "Don't try and tell me it was swamp gas I saw last night."
Couple try higher court
annual pay increase of 3.2 per cent as the maximum raise permissible to labor without risking inflationary pressure on the economy.
HARROGATE, England—(UPI)
—Cecily Glick and Philip Margolis took their case to Lord Parker, the lord chief justice, so they could get an extension of a local hotel's license to let them dance at their wedding Sunday night.
This figure was determined by economists to be the average annual increase in national productivity. Thus, workers could be given pay raises equal to their increased output without their employers being forced to raise prices.
THE ASSUMPTION was that workers in industries experiencing large productivity gains—say 6 per cent or more—would still be entitled to just 3.2 per cent. That would leave room for 3.2 per cent pay raises to workers such as gas station attendants, whose productivity was likely to stay the same.
Gasoline prices might go up, but the prices set by industries with large productivity gains could be lowered. The result: No general inflationary price rise.
IN THE CASE of the airlines, the International Association of Machinists was unwilling to accept the guideline figure. They felt they were entitled to a greater share of their particular industry's high increase in productivity.
The airline contract dispute was allowed to degenerate into what federal mediators openly admitted was a "ridiculous" situation before the President, with Congress at his back, decided to step into the negotiations.
THIS SITUATION resulted from a pre-strike endorsement by the President of a settlement package considered to be within the guidelines.
Having endorsed the package before the strike began, the President then told the nation the union must settle for a contract within the framework of the recommendations.
The result has been chaos—a three-week impasse in negotiations that left the public inconvenienced, Congress edgy and labor angry.
THROUGHOUT THE controversy, the five struck airlines remained reluctant to offer anything beyond what the President recommended.
And this is the situation that hangs over labor as it prepares for contract negotiations during the next 12 months with several highly prosperous industries.
This left the union in the position of bargaining with the government in an attempt to reach a settlement with the carriers.
King to tell of rioting in Chicago
CHICAGO —(UPI)—Dr. Martin Luther King was expected back in Chicago for a first hand report on racial tensions which sent angry crowds of whites into the streets of their all-white neighborhood to attack civil rights marchers.
The violence flared Sunday afternoon when an integrated band of King supporters tried to march through the Gage Park area of the south side and conduct a "prayer vigil" on behalf of open occupancy.
THERE HAD BEEN scattered harassment and rock throwing during similar vigils in the neighborhood Friday and Saturday nights, but nothing to match the bitterness of Sunday afternoon.
Jeering crowds of whites chanting "white power!" hurled bricks and bottles at the 550 marchers, who included Roman Catholic priests and nuns as well as youths from the toughest Negro street gangs in the city.
Residents of the all-white neighborhood opened fire hydrants to stop the marchers, broke windows and overturned dozens of automobiles and set them afire.
POLICE SAID 50 persons were hurt, although a check of hospitals indicated only about half that number sought treatment. Seventeen persons were arrested, while other white residents were crammed into police squadrols and released a few blocks from the disturbance.
Many of the marchers left their cars in a parking lot at Marquette Park, and while they were marching angry whites swarmed into the park, turned the cars over and set them afire.
AMONG THOSE injured by the rock-throwing whites was the Rev. Jesse Jackson, a King aide who was among the leaders of the march. The demonstrators had hoped to conduct a "prayer vigil" at a white church in the neighborhood "to identify with the moral forces for good will in the community." But they were blocked by the jeering whites.
Cricket Club to practice
The KU Cricket Club will practice Sunday, Aug. 7, and subsequent Sundays at 5 p.m. on the Intramural Field east of New Robinson Gymnasium. For further information call Zafar Israeli at VI 2-3704, or be on the field.
Cooler weather is on way
By United Press International
A cold front headed into Kansas and was expected to bring lower temperatures, showers and thunderstorms.
The cold front was located in Nebraska early yesterday and was expected to cross into Kansas early today.
Showers and thunderstorms are likely ahead of the front and will continue in parts of the state early today, the U.S. Weather Eureau said.
The cold front will provide cooler weather for Kansas for a day or two, weathermen said.
Sunny skies and hot temperatures prevailed over Kansas Sunday.
Temperatures ranged from 33 at Oatlane and Lawrence to 100 at Garden City while overnight lows ranged from a 70 at Goodland to a 79 at Hutchinson and Wichita.
Jet noise is helpful
LONDON—(UPI)—Detectives have been warned that thieves are using the roar of jets at London Airport to drown out the noise of cracking safes with explosives.
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