Summer
Trojan
Vol. LXVII, No. 15
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, California
Wednesday, August 21, 1974
Food workers approve contract; call strike off
SKYLAB REPORT—Ed G. Gibson (center) was the featured speaker Tuesday at the opening meeting ofthe American Astronautical Society's 3-day conference
here. Gibson was one of the three crewmen who manned the Skylab 3 mission. With him are Gerald P. Carr, (left) and William R. Pogue.
Control of weightlessness is key Skylab success—astronaut
BY MIKE WILLIAMS
Man s knowledge of ability to make major repairs under conditions of weightlessness in space was one of the major lessons learned from the Skylab mission, said Edward G. Gibson, one of the three astronauts who participated in the last stage of the 84-day Skylab voyage.
Gibson spoke Tuesday during an American Astronautical Society conference entitled “The Skylab Results,” in Edison Auditorium. The conference furnished the first public report on the Skylab mission.
The information provided by the repair work, which took place both inside and outside of the orbiting laboratory, was an unexpected bonus that resulted from successfully dealing with several malfunctions in Skylab.
The weightless condition was anything but a problem, said Gibson, who after several weeks had come to feel completely at home in it.
Gibson called the Skylab mission a challenging experience, one that forced the astronauts to become jacks-of-all-trades-—including mechanic, photographer and meterologists. One of their basic duties, however, was to observe everything around them.
“We were probably the only three people in the world to see Comet Kouhoutek as it had been publicized,'' Gibson said, adding that the quality of the photographs taken from Skylab made a good argument for initiating an orbiting laboratory.
“We had the ability to look at the earth with incredible technical sophistication, but we din't really have the opportunity to do so,” he said.
The quality of the photographs, many of which Gibson displayed, was impressive.
Topographical details such as mountain ranges and fault lines were clearly defined, but also discernible were an oil well fire
off the Louisiana coast, a brush-fire in Africa, high-density concentrations of plankton (red tide), ocean current and rising air masses.
One of the advantages of Skylab, Gibson said, was that pictures could be taken on what he called an intermediate scale, one about half-way between that of an airplane and a weather satellite.
BY MARJIE LAMBERT
Staff Writer
The food workers have approved a contract under negotiation since mid-June which gives them raises of from 12 to 20 cents an hour.
The contract, voted in Aug. 13 by a 84 to 36 margin, gives the workers less than a 6% raise at a time when inflation is twice that figure.
The workers also voted 82 to 21 against going on strike had the contract not been approved.
Other changes in the contract include two additional paid holidays, bringing the total to 10—the same number as other university employees get.
Maids and janitors on the housekeeping staff in the residence halls will now get paid for an eight-hour day instead of a seven and one-half hour day.
The university agreed to recognize four shop stewards, one from each of the four local unions, to represent the membership in settling potential grievances with the university.
It also agreed to notify employees of their recall status at any time they are laid off. such as summer vacation. This means that any time the university lays off an employee for any period of time, such as summer vacation or the Christmas holidays, it will also let him know when he can expect to be recalled.
Farmworkers picket local markets; demands honored
USC organizers for the United Farm Workers Union picketed neighborhood stores this weekend, and succeeded in getting two managers to remove some products being boycotted from their shelves.
The manager of the Sorbonne Market on Vermont Avenue near 36th Street agreed to remove table grapes from the store on a month’strial basis ifother stores in the area were also picketed.
He also said he would try to buy Inter-Harvest lettuce, which is the only lettuce picked under a contract with the UFW.
Morrie Notrica. the owner of 32nd Street Market on Hoover Boulevard, also agreed not to
replenish his stock of grapes once the current one was sold out and said he would order Inter-Harvest lettuce.
Notrica also said that Gallo wines would be off the shelves within a week.
The UFW organizers have plans to picket other neighborhood stores in the future.
A pot luck dinner will be held Sunday at which Dolores Huerta, first vice-president of the UFW, will speak. The dinner will he held at the Holman Methodist Church at 3320 Adams Blvd.
The dinner is at 6:30. Anyone attending is asked to bring vegetables or a side dish.
U.S.—U.S.S.R. mission readied
BY DAVE FRADIN
While the first definitive results of America’s last space project —Skylab—is being reported on campus this week, the actual launch hardware of next year’s joint space mission with the Russians is readied for shipment to the launch site, and three of America’s students are in Baku, USSR laying plans for possible direct student involvement in the space activities of the 1980's.
Opening the first definitive report on the entire Skylab program and its impact on future programs, William Schneider, program director, said Tuesday morning, “Skylab received far more than we ever expected. It was a practical and highly productive mission.
“First, we demonstrated that man can work well in space and even enjoy it. Second, we demonstrated an ability to keep normal operations even when faced with possible disaster. Third, considerable scientific workcan be accomplished by man in space. There is no limit to what we can do in space. The only limit is what we want to do,” he said.
Skylab—America’s first experimental space station was the first time students were directly involved with proposing and flying experiments. Twenty-five high school students ’ experiments were flown out of over 3,000 originally proposed. A report on the Student Science Program will be given Thursday morning at 8 in Olin Auditorium.
The luncheon speaker on Thursday will be George W. Jeffs, president, of the Space Division of Rockwell International, who directed the development of the docking equipment needed for next year’s Apollo/Soyuz Test Project.
History’s first international manned space mission will consist of a docking of a United States Apollo and a Soviet Union Soyuz spacecraft in earth orbit to test compatible rendezvous and docking equipment and procedures. While criticism has been leveled at the mission calling it an international political stunt, NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) has made the most of it by assembling an impressive array of 26 scientific experiments. They range from deep space exploration ofthe extreme ultraviolet spectrum (the final frontier in astronomy) to earth environment experiments dealing with the impact of rockets and aircraft flying at high altitudes, to medical, earth resources, and space manufacturing in weightlessness and vacum.
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Two new classifications were added under the contract: lead cook (A) and line server.
“The new classification—lead cook (A)—permits the university to recognize superior skills of a certain number of lead cooks,” said Guy Hubbard, director of Auxiliary Services.
“The line server classification will reflect the advanced training required for a food services worker to serve on the cafeteria line. His job is upgraded; he is given additional pay for additional responsibility and skills,” said Hubbard.
The food workers asked that the probationary period of 90 days after hiring be limited to 30 days, but the university refused, saying that point was non-negotiable.
The union also asked that the university add a clause to the section which allows the university perform such actions as hiring, promoting, demoting and transferring, which would require that such moves be reasonable, but the university refused.
Negotiations were basically carried out between the university and the Los Angeles Joint Executive Board of Hotel and Restaurant Employee Unions, AFL-CIO, which represents the four local unions involved at USC.
The contract expired July 1. Negotiations had been in progress since mid-June, and it took
11	bargaining sessions before there was agreement.
The 12-cents-an-hour raise was a compromise between the six cents offered by the university and 30 cents asked by the union.
The lowest wages paiv*-—previously $2 an hour—has been raised to $2.12. Slightly higher increases are in effect for workers making over $2 an hour, up to the maximum of $3.50 for lead cooks. Their hourly rate has been raised to $3.70.
Wages will be raised a minimum of 12 cents an hour over the next three years, the period of the contract. Workers will receive a check for the amount of the raise, retroactive to July 1.
However, it appears that workers are not happy with the new pay scales.
“I have not spoken to a single worker who was happy,” said
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Last paper
Today's Summer Trojan will be the last edition for the summer. Publication of the Daily Trojan will resume on September 10 with the orientation edition and regular editions on September 17.