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SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 19 ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH 3A r3 Firemen Ease Strike Threat End of Rent Row Is Linked to 2 Developments Wide Open Space Along Gravois The view from the Post-Dispatch helicopter of the land where the Convent of the Good Shepherd stood for many years. Gravois Avenue is at the right. The convent was razed to make way for a $4,000,000 shopping center. A new convent is being built on 50 acres in Florissant.

(Post-Dispatch Photograph) Representatives of Firefighters Union Local 73 decided yesterday to abandon an Oct. 1 strike deadline and meet Oct. 6 for further discussions with the city's Personnel Department. Meanwhile, members of a group called Firefighters Institute for Racial Equality (FIRE), consisting mainly of Negro city firemen, pledged to remain on the job if the Firefighters Union called a strike. Joseph McMahon, president of the firemen's union, said yesterday that his negotiating commitee would meet with R.

Elliott Scearce, city personnel director, "to submit our grievances." McMahon continued, "We will go into conference with him and others who have the authority to resolve these controversies." He said that the main topics of discussion would be a $75 biweekly pay increase, a i.uuio, and paid hospitalization. "The strike threat still is there," McMahon said. "How- cvci, we aie sausnea wun me present situation and, so long aC lira fak tVlO nCnltlntinn. nn .1.1,, uuuiuuis me meaningful, we will continue to talk." McMahon said that initially the talks would involve Scearce and his staff. Later discussions will include members of the city's Civil Service Commission, he said.

Scearce's offer to meet Oct. 6 came out of a meetine Fridav between the personnel director and McMahon. McMahon said that Friday's meeting was useful in establishing ground rules for further talks. Concerning the Negro firemen's decision to remain on the job despite a strike, Capt. George Baker said yesterday that he and other members of the FIRE group could not condone a strike.

"We must find some other way to fight the Personnel Department and the Civil Service Meets 6 Black Demands the strikers for a month to help draft a proposal acceptable to the Federal Government. In the meantime, all court proceedings against striking tenants have been held up. Unaware Of Plan A spokesman for the Mayor and housing officials said they were unaware of the Gibbons plan. Gibbons refused to discuss details of the plan until the supporting community-wide coalition had been organized. "When the strike will end depends on the community demonstrating its responsibilities," the union leader said.

"I feel confident St. Louis will respond. The tenants will not end their protest until the program becomes a reality." The Rev. Buck Jones, leader at the Carr Square and Vaughn developments, said he would, urge striking tenants to begin paying current rents as soon as Gibbons's proposal is accepted by city officials or poor tenants receive the rent cuts. Other striker leaders are expected to do likewise.

He said that if strikers resumed rent paying for either a the $150,000 he holds would be retained until other demands, such as appointment of a tenant to the Housing board, were met. Leo Flotron, chairman of the board, said action on the budget was not likely for several weeks. The board has tabled it for further study Flotron said, and will seek a month's extension of the 1968-69 budget, with the rent increase adopted last November. The board promised the rent rollback when it voted to meet strikers' primary demand last June. The Authority will not make the budget public, but has announced that it was balanced by cutting expenses.

In addition, the loss of rental income was held down by assuming an unrealistic reduction in the number of valant apartments, it was learned. The original budgeting policy a to increase maintenance expenditures along with the rent cuts and write a deficit budget reflecting the a s. However, federal housing officials warned that HUD could not approve a deficit. The Rev. Mr.

Jones and other strike leaders expressed bitter should be added to those activities covered in the agreement. College officers suspended the association Monday after members refused to lower the volume of a record being played in the cafeteria. A scuffle occurred when Snead snatched the record from an ABC member. He declined to speculate on what his response would be in a similar situation in the future. He said of the Monday incident, howere, that "it was not just the freedom of speech that was involved but the rights of other people that were infringed." "I think a person has the right not to be subjected to these kinds of things when they are required to be in a place to satisfy a vital living function," tors and it is difficult to communicate what you are trying to do for them and their race before trouble starts," Snead said.

Communication Gap He said that association members had been unaware that the college had extensively recruited black instructors previously and had discovered that the number qualified to fill college positions was small. There are about 25 black faculty members, Snead noted. The college agreed to attempt to double that number by September 1970. He said the Afro-American library section would be provided by the gathering of all Afro-American books into one section, where they will be labeled. All students will have access to the section, Snead said.

Snead, a stocky retired Air Force major, discounted implications that he had capitulated to association demands. "The agreement was reached by 16 representatives of the college as a whole, including students, faculty and staff," he said. The negotiators decided that black students represented about 40 per cent of the students and used that figure in determining how many blacks College Forest Park Community College will attempt to double the number of black faculty members by next year as part of an agreement paving the way for classes to resume Monday morning. Details of an agreement reached in long negotiating ses-s i among administrators, students, faculty and nonfaculty staff members and members of the Association of Black Collegians were announced yesterday by college President William E. Snead.

Classes were suspended Thursday and Friday after the Black Collegians announced a boycott of classes and plans to picket entrances to the school. The group, protesting against its suspension after an incident Monday in the college cafeteria issued a list of nine demands. Six Demands Met The agreement responded to six of those demands. It stipulated that a section of the college library be devoted to Afro-American literature, that an effort would be made to enroll more blacks in health career programs as well as an effort to increase the number of black faculty members. It provided that a proportionate number of black students be on a student-faculty committee that screens college administrator applicants, that the association chapter be reinstated and given office space along with other college groups, and that about 40 per cent of student activity funds be allocated toward "black student orientation activities in the areas of cultural events, social events and student organizations." The association demand that Snead resign and be replaced by a Negro was not met.

A de- mand that the college pay for the record by Black Panther leader Eldrige Cleaver damaged in the incident Monday also was rejected. A demand that the association not be interfered with was rejected. It will be subject to the rules governing all campus organizations. Snead and members of the association negotiating team used the word "victory" in commenting on terms of the agreement. Snead said the settlement could be considered a victory for the junior college district and for the entire community.

Abu-Bakar, a member of the negotiating team, said he regarded the agreement as a victory for black persons in St. Louis and in the local junior college system. Another member of the team, Clarence Davis, a second-year liberal arts student at the college, warned of the possibility of disturbances at the school. He said the association would probably have to fight as hard to get future demands through as it fought for the settlement. Association members said they regarded the most significant result of the strike the administration's agreement to increase its efforts to enroll black students in health career programs.

V'ivrus Jones, a leader of the association, said qualification tests for these programs "are geared to white middle class society; the tests are not geared for black people." Snead emphasized in a press conference that the college had been working toward many of the association demands before they were issued. "Black militants often are at arms-length from administra- Carlucei Is Speaker For HDC Frank Carlucei, the new di- was to include displays of HDC rector of the Community Action projects from noon to 7 p.m. Program in the federal Office at Harris. The events were of Economic Opportunity, was open to the public. Commission," Baker said.

"Wit should not take our frustrations' out on the general public. 'J'' "We feel strongly that hf'thet firemen's union walked out and-lives were lost in a fire, no one-' could justify this. I think many white firemen feel the same way, but they have been swept along with emotionalism- and, pressure. "I understand that less tharr-300 firemen actually voted to authorize a strike. That means that more than 700 firemen either oppose a strike or Alt, apatheiic.

"Over the years the firemen-should have developed some sense of duty. We are talking of lives and destruction that' could result from this strike-not just shutting down some business. think jt is important fofi those of us who oppose a strjkE, to pt tu know that the union is not speaking all firemen. Baker said that volunteer help, possibly could be used if strike occurred. However, he I 1 saia mai nis pians 10 use voiuni teers had not been discussedv with Fire Chief Joseph C.

Find- lay, and no discussions were, likely unless an emergency per curred. "After the firemen struck 1966, I did not think the union would propose this ridiculous thin8 again," BaRer said. "We opposing firemen must do what we think is r'ght no matte what the consequences. We are talkng about human lives here." "Nuts" General Back BASTOGNE, Belgium, Sept! 27 (UPI) Anthony McAuliffe the United States Army general who said "nuts" to a Nazi surrender demand, arrived today to take part in ceremonies conir memorating the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Battle of the Bulge. The Vashon High School band was to present a concert on the front lawn of the college from 1:30 p.m.

to 2:30 p.m. The program, beginning at 3 p.m. in the auditorium was to include presentation of awards to the outstanding HDC staff member and to citizens and agencies that have contributed to the antipoverty effort here. West County Sin Bankmarit resentment with the Housing Authority for failing to deliver .1.. ni i the rent rollback and other im provements promised.

Authority officials had said earlier that rent payments by all 6100 tenants would do little to help the insolvency expected about Jan. 1. However, payment of the total $500,000 in deliquent rents would put off a public housing shut down until relief could be obtained, it was said. By E. S.

EVANS Of the Post-Dispatch Staff The eight-month-old public housing rent strike may end soon, but back rents probably will be withheld until all demands of the strikers are met, the Post-Dispatch was told yesterday. Two pending developments are likely to encourage the 1000 striking tenants to resume paying rent soon. First is the effort of Harold J. Gibbons, head of the Teamsters Union in St. Louis, to work out with strike leaders a plan for public housing improvements and to enlist top-level community support for the program.

said he hoped to 1 the plant within a week, including an agreement with strikers on the withheld funds and with the organization of civic leaders. Strike leaders said this could end the strike in October. The other pending matter is implementation of a rent ceiling of 25 per cent of tenant income the Housing Authority's new fiscal year begins Wednesday. Such a limit has been written into the proposed 1969-70 budget. It applies to tenants with fixed incomes.

But the rent reduction is not expected to take effect before Nov. 1 because the Authority's Board of Commissioners has not yet approved -the budget. Gibbons, who has obtained the confidence, of strike leaders, said the proposed program Jwould involve tenant participation in public housing control, Jand perhaps eventual tenant management, rather than operation of the housing develop-Jments by the Teamsters, as has Jbeen rumored here and in Washington. "There can be no permanent solution to the city's pblic hous-Sing crisis without tenant, partici-jpation," Gibbons said. The plan will involve raising $3,000,000 or more for improved maintenance and renovation of older developments.

How-lever, it will not. Gibbons stressed, be connected with the 000,000 appeal for private con-! tributions that Mayor Alfonso Cervantes originally asked ihim to direct. Gibbons expressed the belief that the city would receive addi- tional federal funds for public housing when the Authority's operations are put in order. The Rev. Kirk Walsh S.J.

of Boston and another consultant Jto the Department of Housing Urban Development have 5 been meeting with Gibbons and City Police To BeP oiled On Working Hours A to help determine whether policemen should work lhe same hours all the time, or change hours every three weeks I as at present, has been author ized by the Board of Police Commissioners. Under present regulations, of ficers are assigned for 21 days to the day watch, afternoon or night watch, covering Vthe 24 hours beginning at 7 a.m., and rotated from one "watch to another. Police Chief Curtis Brostron -vsaid yesterday the department's "officers, numbering about 2000, would be polled in the next 10 'days on their preferences. Some advantages of a "fixed watch" system permanent assignment of hours the chief said, make for longer-range ad rtjustment of an officer's person al life, attendance at classes, and easier scheduling of man-. power.

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