Lawrence labor tieups continue
The present unsettled labor situation in Lawrence has resulted in the delay of construction and construction bids in Lawrence and at the University of Kansas. The labor tieups are now entering their second week.
A spokesman for the Association of General Contractors of Northeast Kansas (AGC), said that negotiations are progressing. Reasons for the dispute were unobtainable from the AGC, although there is a known pay increase being asked from the striking unions.
In Lawrence, the Carpenters Union, Local No. 2270, and the Laborers Union, Local No. 1290, are still arguing their demands. A meeting was scheduled Monday with the Carpenters Union to negotiate demands and a meeting is slated for Wednesday with the Laborers Union for the same purpose.
There is no indication, according to the AGC, when settlements with these two unions could be reached.
In Lawrence, construction bids for the West County plant building have been postponed until a settlement can be reached.
Bids for the West Company, involving the construction of a 110,000 square-foot plant, were supposed to be received by architects on April 14.
Don Robertson, Lawrence architect, said he had notified potential bidders that because of an "unresolved labor situation," there would be a delay in the calling for the bids.
Last year, the West Company made plans to build facilities in Lawrence for the manufacture of disposable plastic devices used in medical related fields. The single-story structure will be located
Ecology issues related in anti-war week talk
The relationship between ecology and the Vietnam war were discussed Monday at 7:30 p.m. in the Big Eight room of the Kansas Union as a part of National Anti-War week.
Only 25 students attended the discussion. James Koevenig, associate professor of botany and biology, and Philip Wells, associate professor of botany, spoke to the small group of students before the discussion was opened to debate and questions.
Koevening said it was important to relate issues such as ecology, population control, race relations and the war so that they could be combatted. These issues, he said, are intertwined and stem from each other.
Koevening said that Japan and the United States were the only countries that had not signed an agreement outlawing defoliants, nerve gas and tear gas.
He warned of the effects of the defoliation campaign in Vietnam. Some of the chemicals being used, he said, could cause birth deformities, as well as other damage.
Koevenig said the United States has a supply of anthrax, a devastating chemical. Anthrax was spilled on an island near Scotland during World War II and the island is still unsafe. The same thing has happened in Utah, he said.
Wells spoke of his experience in Camp Dietrich, where United States chemists were growing rust that could kill wheat.
"Doctor Strangelove isn't so strange. There are lots of scientists working on fiendish projects," Wells said.
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Lawton said that he had no idea when agreements would be reached in the dispute. Negotiations are going on now, he said, and it is hoped they would be settled. But, he said, KU is not a part of the negotiations.
Koevenig said that population control was important because a stable population would lessen the chance of war.
Robertson has not stated how long construction may be delayed because of the dispute or when the bids may be called for.
R. Keith Lawton, vice chan-
north of the Santa Fe industrial area, northwest of the city.
Wells said that our economy of boom and bust was breeding inflation because there has not been a bust since the depression. We need to reach an economic equilibrium rather than this steady growth, he said.
cellor for operations at KU, said the labor tieup has resulted in the picketing of present construction work at the University. Principally involved is the construction of the space technology building.
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