OEO opposes occupational deferments
The Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO) is opposed to the granting of occupational deferments for service in the OEO, said Francis J. Matthews, acting director of Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA) in the Office of Economic Opportunity.
The statement came shortly before President Nixon announced that he had abolished virtually all future occupational and fatherhood deferments from the draft last week.
Representatives for VISTA are on campus to talk with prospective volunteers this week. They may be reached through Tom Moore, director of the KU-Y. The representatives are especially interested in future lawyers, architects, planners, business gradu-
ats and liberal arts students, said Charlie Howell, one of the representatives. Howell asked that students be made aware of the recent stand of the OEO.
Issuing a deferment to one registering in the selective service increases the exposure to the draft of other registrants, Matthews said. Deferments of individuals who work in the OEO activities would increase the exposure of draft age men from poor families. This result would not be consistent with the purposes of the Economic Opportunity Act, Matthews said.
For every VISTA volunteer that receives a deferment someone else, frequently a young man from a poor family, will be drafted, Matthews said. The
New York City police threaten to walk out
NEW YORK (UPI) — Four-fifths of New York City's police force threatened Tuesday to begin a walkout Friday midnight that would be one of the greatest crises in John V. Lindsay's career as mayor.
Complicating the situation was the possibility that Transit Authority police would support the walkout.
The 25,000-member Patrolmen's Benevolent Association's (PBA) delegate assembly met throughout the day to discuss the threatened "sick out" which would leave only 5,000 uniformed police to maintain essential services in a city of nearly 8 million. A Tuesday midnight deadline was put off until Friday.
At stake were jail sentences
for the association officers, fines and possible dismissal or probation for those taking part in the job action which would be illegal under the state's Taylor Law banning work stoppages by public employees.
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State Supreme Court Justice George M. Carney issued an injunction against a walkout Monday. However, PBA President Edward J. Kiernan said he was willing to go to jail.
whatever decision they believe is warranted and permissible under the selective service regulations as a result of the agency's policy, he said. In most cases new policy will apply prospectively and volunteers on duty will be able to complete their service.
agency's policy is dictated by its belief that such a policy is inconsistent with the agency's mission to assist the poor. The agency does not purport to speak for other government agencies having different statutory responsibilities, he said.
The patrolmen are angry because the city raised the salary of police sergeants to the same level as fire lieutenants last February without raising the wages of the men on the beat. The patrolman's contract provides for an equalizing adjustment but the Lindsay administration has held that it would be too costly.
The agency will not change the classifications of volunteers who previously obtained deferments by their service in VISTA, Matthews said. It will communicate its policy to the selective service system and to local draft boards. Local boards may then make
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