Daily (la 9Trojan
University of Southern California
Vol. LXVI, No. 76	Los Angeles, California	Friday, February 22, 1974
Bradley urges study of senior citizen problems
BY ELLEN NORMAN
Staff Writer
A federal labor law may prevent Campus Security officers from achieving their proposed affiliation with the Teamsters Union.
A section of the National Labor Relations Act prohibits labor organizations from representing security employees if the organization is also affiliated with other kinds of employees.
The security officers have filed under the Teamsters Union, Local 986. But according to the labor act, officers cannot organize under the Teamsters or the AFL-CIO.
A reliable source, however, said that the officers have filed a
petition with the National Labor Relations Board. The board will determine if the security force comes ^".der the jurisdiction of the act.
Tii i same source questioned the status of the security officers.
“The National Labor Relations Act states that guards may not be admitted to an organization that is affiliated with other employees,” he said. “But I do not feel we are guards.”
He explained that a guard is a private person, and is “limited to what he can do out in the field.”
“We were led to believe that we have peace officer status. If we are actually private persons, what we previously thought we
BY ALIX RILEY
Staff Writer
Mayor Tom Bradley said here Thursday there is a definite need to study the problems of senior citizens so that they may lead fuller lives and become a viable part of the community.
“We need to extend the life, the vitality of all people,” he said.
Bradley spoke at a ceremony commemorating the first anniversary ofthe Ethel Percy Andrus Gerontology Center.
Bradley characterized the ceremony as a symbol of the hope the present has for the future.
“History and those who follow will see this year as a high point in trying to improve the life of the senior citizen,” said Bradley. “It is a mark of the humanity of the people in the community that they expressed these concerns in 1973.” (The center was dedicated one year ago this month.)
Bradley also announced that a conference on issues concerning children, youth, and the aged will be held at the Los Angeles Convention Center April 25 and 26. The conference will be attended by representatives from governmental agencies and citizens from the acknowledged age groups.
The citizens and the representatives will meet in a series of workshops to discuss a wide range of topics from child abuse to transportation for the elderly.
The conference is the first major attempt to involve citizens of a city the size of Los Angeles
LAW PROHIBITS TEAMSTERS MEMBERSHIP
Security’s unionization bid periled
had the power to do would be illegal,” he said.
He also said that John Lechner, director of Campus Security and Parking Operations, had specifically said that officers were peace officers as well as guards.
Lechner, however, denied this claim.
“These men are by law and design, private,” he said. “In no sense of the word is campus security a law enforcement agency.”
The source said no definite action has been taken by the officers in anticipation that their efforts to organize under the Teamsters will fail.
“We need a big, powerful union strong enough to take on USC,” he said. “In a small union we’ll get walked all over by the university.”
He believes a union can apply pressure in order to implement policy changes within the security system.
“If we had a union to represent us, we could write down all the stupid and unsafe things that
occur in the security system.” he said. “The union could then present the university negotiators with documentation.”
The negotiators would be so horrified, he said, that they would not hesitate to make changes in the way things are run now.
Lechner is happy about tne way things turned out.
“I find it relieving because I can now talk to my men without being under the restrictions of the Taft-Hartley Act,” he said.
Lechner has called a meeting which he said “will enable me to answer the grievances of my men. I don’t feel there is as much support for the union as there was at one point,” he said. “I just don’t think the Teamsters is an appropriate bargaining agent.”
Lechner added, “I now have back the control I had before the officers took steps toward unionization.
“I know' I can do a better job of representing these men than anyone else.”
Distribution plan for UCLA tickets told
A new method for monitoring the line during the ticket sale for the USC-UCLA basketball game has been announced.
Before the Ticket Office opens at 8:30 a.m. Wednesday, the Trojan Knights will stamp activity cards with a special code.
When the line starts to get long, all cards will be stamped in numerical order. The person at the front of the line will receive the first stamp and, consequently, the first ticket. The person with the 2.485 stamp will get the 2,485th ticket.
This will keep people from stepping into line ahead of others. It should also prevent any pushing and shoving. Anyone not in line when his number comes up will have to go to the end of the line.
Tickets will be limited to two per person. A stamped coupon, a student ID. and 25 cents will have to be presented for each ticket.
The ticket office has estimated that all 2,485 tickets for the March 9 game can be distributed within two hours.
The stamp itself will be kept by Robert Mannes, dean of student life, in order to prevent its duplication.
All tickets are for reserved seats so there will be no rush at the gate.
in providing solutions to such problems.
After Bradley’s speech a time capsule was lowered into an underground vault by representatives of the student body, the Gerontology Center, the American Association of Retired Persons and the National Retired Teachers Association. These two organizations contributed money toward the establishment of the center.
The capsule contains predictions by prominent Americans on the future of the aged between now and the year 2000. The statements were solicited last year from persons including President Richard M. Nixon; John Wayne, the actor; Benja-
All engineeringclasses will be cancelled today and an allengineering student-faculty assembly will be held as activities for Engineering Week conclude.
During the assembly, finalists for this year’s Engineering Queen will be introduced and the final selection made. There will also be a drawing for a $400 electronic calculator.
min Spock, pediatrician and educator; Ronald Reagan; Michael E. DeBakey, surgeon; and Buckminster Fuller, author and engineer.
Statements by President John R. Hubbard, James E. Birren, director of the Gerontology Center, and James A. Peterson, director of the center’s liaison service, are also in the capsule.
Yesterday students gathered at Archimedes Plaza in the Engineering Complex to enjoy free refreshments and a concert by the group Blackfoot. Other events included a brown bag picnic, a frisbee contest, and games of ping pong for students and faculty.
Tonight, a party will be held at the Sigma Phi Delta House, sponsored by the Engineering Council. All students are invited.
DT photl by Audrey Chan.
THE BAND PLAYS ON—Blackfoot, a four-piece rock group, participated Thursday in the activities of Engineers' Week and will perform at tonight's party sponsored by the Engineering Council.
The time capsule also contains copies ofthe New York Times, the Los Angeles Times and the Daily Trojan from Feb. 12,1973, the day the Gerontology Center was dedicated. Additional documents in the capsule are the dedication program, and the Congressional Record, which contains copies of the speeches made at the dedication.
BRADLEY ON CAMPUS—Mayor Torn Bradley, in his first appearance on campus since his election last May, called for further study of the problems of senior citizens in a speech Thursday at the Gerontology Center. DT photo by Marjie Lambert.
Engineers’ Week to end with party