University of Southern California
DAILY m TROJAN
VOL. LXIV
NO. 94
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 22, 1972
OPPOSITION MEET—William Emanuel (at left), labor relations attorney for USC, and Renato J. Dellarocca, counsel for the board, confer during a recess in Tuesday's National Relations Board hearings. DT photo by Rivian Taylor.
Students to bargain for rollback in tuition
By STAN KELTON
Members ofthe Tuition Action Committee are scheduled to meet with Carl Franklin, vice-president for financial and legal affairs, at 1:30 p.m. today to discuss their request to rescind the announced tuition increase.
“Our major objective is to meet with the university and bargain in good faith,” said Jed Beebe, media spokesman for the tuition group. “We hope this meeting will be successful because it will allow us to avoid the time and the expense of a court battle.”
In addition to two Law Center students representing the Tuition Action Committee, John J. Wiley, associate dean ofthe Law Center, will be present at the meeting. “Carl Franklin insisted that we make the appointment to meet with him through Dean Wiley and that Dean Wiley be present,” Beebe said. Franklin was not available Tuesday afternoon to comment on the matter.
Subsequent to the tuition increase announcement, the Law Center held a meeting with law students explaining the need for the increase and giving it support. Beebe said.
“Somebody has to pay the cost of education,” said Wiley Tuesday. “Three years ago the Law Center was a regionally recognized school; today it is a nationally acclaimed institution.”
This rise in stature is due in large part to a five-year plan that was begun in 1968. Wiley said:
Rock group to play at noon
A free noon concert will be held at the Student Activities Center patio today featuring a five-member hard rock group. Sweet Pain.
The concert is sponsored by the ASSC entertainment committee.
“In order to continue under the plan we must have the money we requested in our budget.
“To stay within the budget, either tuition or outside contributions must be increased.”
During the past several weeks the Tuition Action Committee has been circulating a petition for the tuition rollback and soliciting funds at the Law Center for legal costs if it is necessary to go to court over the matter.
“There is a substantial group within the Tuition Action Committee that it is not optimistic about the university voluntarily rolling back the tuition increase,” Beebe said.
“We have decided to solicit funds for the legal defense on a university-wide basis since we are seeki ng a tuition rollback for all USC students, not just law students.”
The group will have tables in front of Tommy Trojan and on the Student Activities Center patio today from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., pending the group's recognition as an official campus organization.
“We will be asking for signatures on the petition, distributing a flyer, and selling funny money the appropriate thing to pay an increased tuition bill with.” Beebe said.
Money obtained from the sale of funny money will be used for legal defense, as it is against university rules to solicit funds for other than university recognized charities, Beebe said.
“If it is not necessary to go to court, the money collected will be returned. We are writing receipts so we know who to return the money to.” Beebe said.
“Money is being collected as a precautionary measure because we don’t want to have to wait to go to court if it is necessary.”
USC denies charges of unfair labor practices
By MARY ANN GALANTE Associate City Editor
The university denied charges of unfair labor practices at a hearing Tuesday of the National Labor Relations Board.
Nothing was actually decided during the six-hour session in the Federal Building before an NLRB trials examiner. Instead, the session mainly consisted of each side telling different stories and denying opposing accusations.
The decision will not be announced for at least eight weeks.
The dispute centered around USC’s alleged violation of the Taft-Hartley Act for restraint of employee attempts to organize an electricians’ union.
The charges were originally filed by the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, AFL-CIO, after two members of the Operations and Maintenance Department staff signed affidavits against the university.
Jamie Maytorena and Fred Meyer, both former campus electricians, complained to the electricians’ union that the university interfered with their rights to organize the staff of about 14 men.
The specific charges refuted Tuesday by USC were as follows:
•	Don Cross, electrical shop foreman, while acting as an agent of the university, questioned an employee about union sentiments and prounion activities of other employees.
•	Cross promised benefits to employees in exchange for information.
•	Cross asked an employee to sign a petition withdrawing his support from the union.
At first it appeared that Tuesday’s session might be cut short when the trial examiner asked both attorneys to resolve the problem without a hearing. But after 15 minutes of disagreement in a closed session, it became apparent that the hearing was to be a long, boring ordeal.
“I never saw any two lawyers take so goddamn long to disagree as these two,” remarked George H. O’Brien, NLRB trial examiner, at one point in the hearing.
The union’s case was based on testimony of Maytorena and Meyer, both original union supporters who claim they were pressured into resigning from their jobs.
Meyer said shop members began to talk about unionization
in July, 1971. He testified that shortly afterwards, Cross told him that Arnold Shafer, physical plant director, thought he (Meyer) was a union plant.
“I thought that was pretty funny and denied it.” said Meyer. “I told Cross that my shirt label said I was a physical plant.”
Meyer said he tried to organize the electricians by bringing union authorization cards to the shop. He said seven shop members signed cards, indicating they wanted to be represented by the union.
“The next thing I know. Cross told me he had heard some of the shop employees were dissatisfied and talking about unionizing.” Meyer said John Pantaz, the physical plant’s industrial engineer, was present during the conversation.
“Cross said he didn’t feel there was a need for a third party to settle differences in a small department like the electrical shop,” said Meyer, who reportedly complained to Pantaz about pressure from Cross.
Meyer said Cross also claimed he needed at least eight signatures on an antiunion petition,
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IRA member to speak
By RICH SIMON Staff Writer
Jerry O’Keefe, a member ofthe Irish Republican Army, will discuss the situation in Northern Ireland today at noon in Bovard Auditorium. The speech is sponsored by the Forum for Student Awareness.
O'Keefe. 29, a former laboratory technician, has been an IRA member for 14 years. He has been confined in prison several times for suspected terrorist acts and association with the IRA.
“The whole rotten system is exploiting the Irish in both parts, north and south, of my country,” O'Keefe said, referring to British (north) and Catholic (south) domination.
He said the IRA is interested in the people’s class struggle. At a recent San Fernando Valley State College speech, O'Keefe said the IRA wants “to push foreign interests and the British out of the country.”
From its beginning in 1968. the nonviolent campaign for civil rights by Northern Ireland’s Catholics, on-third of the population, turned into a campaign of terror by the guerrilla organization, the Irish Republican Army.
Established in 1916 with the goal to create a united Ireland wholly free of British control, the IRA sucessfully utilized violent tactics in reopening the issue of the border, and the reunification of north and south-—Ulster and the Republic of Ireland.
A January article in Time magazine said the terrorists have made all but untenable the Protestant-dominated government of Norther Ireland.
The IRA has caused England’s Prime Minister Edward Heath and his cabinet “to wonder if it
is worth keeping Ulster after all, notwithstanding official avowals to do so,” Time said.
The IRA has been responsible for bombings in Belfast, Londonderry, Enniskillen and the village of Rostrevor. More recently, the IRA has been blamed for the March 4 bombing of a Belfast restaurant that killed two women and wounded 136 persons. The terrorists were also accused of a bomb blast Monday in Belfast that killed six and injured 146 bystanders.
O'Keefe denies IRA participation in the two recent bombings. “The IRA does not commit spon-
taneous acts of terror against the civilian population or working class,” he said.
O’Keefe was a monitor during the January 30 civil rights demonstration in Londonderry. Labeled “Bloody Sunday,” the protest resulted in the killing of 13 men by British troops.
“It created a new reality in Northern Ireland, a reality that makes political compromise virtually unacceptable, at least until violent passions are cooled, and the unthinkable thinkable,” siad Bernard Wein-raub. New York Times correspondent.
Clemence censured by ASSC, asked to resign
The ASSC Executive Council held another illegal nonmeeting Tuesday, voted to censure ASSC President Kent Clemence, and requested his resignation.
The resolution, passed 12-0-1, stated, “This executive council, acting as a committee of the whole, hereby votes to censure Kent Clemence, the current student body president, and asks for his immediate resignation.”
The action was taken after Clemence failed to show up for Tuesday’s special council meeting called Thursday by 13 members. Clemence did not appear Thursday, either, but requested a meeting today.
In a statement read before the council Tuesday, Lee Blackman, vice-president for academic affairs, said, “It was in good faith that we met last Thursday. It was in good faith that we asked for Tuesday’s meeting. But, as in the past,thisgood faith has been vio-
lated by our student body president.”
During the meeting, Clemence appeared in the hallway and several council members chased him down the stairwell in an attempt to force him to the meeting in the third-floor conference room. Student Union 311.
“We tried, but he wouldn’t listen to reason,” said Brad Taft. Men’s Halls Association president.
Clemence told the council Thursday that he was called away by a family emergency, but another council member and close friend of Clemence's told the Daily Trojan later that Clemence’s intention was to stall any council action on the elections code.
Clemence has called a council meeting to deal with the code today at 5 p.m. in Student Union 311.