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Vf7 A I Mrjyil UwCKUil JuUliiQI 1 I Union Delays Job-Saving Vote Lordstown Talks Are Stalemated Mickey Porter NEWS FLASH: Thanks to credit cards, you may go broke today and not realize it until about 1975. I I'm Dubious Distinction Time GO DIRECTLY TO THE MADHOUSE: DO NOT PASS GO. Background In early 1971, concern was raised by various community and labor leaders over the steady loss of jobs in Akron's rubber industry. According to the Area Progress Board, the city has been losing an average of 1,000 rubber-related jobs a year. Shortly thereafter, representatives of labor, business and the community formed two organizations the Joint Labor-Management Committee for Jobs and the Akron Area Economic Task Force in an effort to find a solution to the job exodus.

At the request of these two groups, local rubber officials, who say the situation is not hopeless if changes can be made, submitted job-saving proposals to their respective United Rubber Worker locals. B. F. Goodrich and URW Local 5 entered into formal negotiations Jan. 14.

Two weeks later, Firestone and URW Local 7 followed suit. Goodyear and URW Local 2 are also discussing the jobs problem. Generally, the company recommendations cite high production costs as having deteriorated the competitive position of the Akron plants and suggest changes in certain working conditions in current contracts. IT" 1 SEATTLE Psychiatrist Thomas Holmes of the University of Washington announced a point scale of life circumstances tending to cause physical and mental illness. A total of 300 indicates trouble ahead.

Sample values: jail, 63; marriage, 50; in-law trouble, 29; divorce, 73; reconciliation, 45; death of spouse, 100. The Weekend Wash President Nixon's China odyssey has prompted all the local wits to come forth with their best one-liners, things like "Yellow is beautiful." One dissident Republican moaned, "But did he have to go over in the Year of the Rat?" My councilman after seeing the Great Wall of China on TV: "It's the (first time I've ever seen a wall-to-wall wall." Quip around town: "What do you now think of President Nixon's propsects for reelection?" "He's got a Chinaman's chance." Ugh! A group of downtown brokers travel to the Pewter Mug each day for lunch where they drink over their worries and complain about the state of things in our fair city. One guy suggested the other day they stop knocking. "Why?" demanded another. "Well," said the first one, after a long pause, "without Akron, we'd be out-of-towners." Apartment Explodes Rescue workers searching for survivors can be seen part way up the stairwell of an apartment building in Barcelona, Spain.

Rescuers have pulled 12 bodies from the debris and report at least 20 are missing. Police believe the blast was due to a gas leak, ill) LORDSTOWN A 39-hour negotiating session between General Motors and United Auto Workers Local 1112 broke up at 3 this morning, apparently dashing hopes for an early settlement of a strike by 7,800 hourly workers at GM's Vega and Chevrolet truck assembly plants here. A union offer to resume talks in one week was termed "completely unacceptable" by George Morris GM vice president for industrial relations. Morris said there was "very significant progress" made in the marathon session. "However," he added, "it now appears the local union is more concerned with exerting its muscle than continuing to work for a responsible settlement.

'THE UNION'S belated package proposal was rejected," continued Morris, "because it fell far short as a basis for a fair settlement. "It is unfortunate that this local union cannot go along with agreements that other GM-UAW locals have used to settle comparable disputes." In a statement following the breakoff, the UAW said "further movement toward settlement appears remote in the present climate of bargaining." THE UNION struck Saturday after talks failed to produce a tentative agreement on local working conditions ahead of the UAW strike deadline. Negotiations between the GM Assembly Division (GMAD) and Local 1112 were initiated in November, about a month after GMAD had taken control of the two plants from the Fisher Body and Chevrolet divisions. The purpose of these talks is to merge the two existing ln-plant agreements. At issue are a number of work standards and rules which GMAD wants to revise to increase productivity, plus several thousand grievances over assembly line conditions which the union wants THE DISPUTE has had an impact on the assembly line, where production slowdowns have been a frequent occurrence during the last several months.

Picketing at the plant complex has been generally peaceful. But a GM spokesman said pickets were preventing anyone from entering the plant this morning, except for plant security guards. McGovern Resents Muskie Version Continued From Page A-l A friend says he bought a new car and, driving it home, discovered the brakes needed tightening and neither the radio nor the heater worked. He took it back to the dealer and demanded his "one mile checkup." In the early days of Playboy, when Hugh Hefner was hardpressed for money, a few writers and artists accepted payment in form of scrip instead of cash. The scrip eventually was turned into stock and recently when Playboy went public, at least one of these writers became an overnight millionaire.

The same happened to a few employes, who in those same early days loaned Hefner money In exchange for stock. Anthony Quinn, celebrat- ing his sixth wedding anniversary, was asked how he felt about the event. He replied: "Marriage doesn't interest me. The idea of being around the same woman year in and year out depresses the hell out of me. I swear that if it weren't for the ship accepts it," said Koladin.

GELVIN said a minority report was given by Rudy D. Didonato, who along with three other executive board members had voted Saturday against recommending adoption of the proposals by the membership. "Basically, this report challenged the legality of going into formal negotiations without the consent of the membership. "Basically, this report chal-lenred the legality of going into formal negotiations without the consent of the membership. "But under our constitution and by-laws, we could go ahead without a member vote.

Besides, when you have a matter as serious as the one facing us now, I feel you have to act as fast as possible," explained Gelvin. PRESENT on the platform with Gelvin were two Local 7 members now on the URW international staff Jake Miller, coordinator for the Firestone chain, and Bill Orosz, special representative for safety and workmen's compensation and Phil Leonard, who recently stepped down as the local's treasurer to become executive secre-teary of the Akron Labor Council. Gelvin said one young worker pretty well summed up the dilemma facing Local 7 if members feel their decision hinges on the question of 8-hour day: "This fella said, 'You can't go anywhere else and work a six-hour day, so why are we arguing about the eight-hour day when everyone else has got it? 'The man (Firestone management) is going to build tires. I want to build tires for the man. If he feels he can't build them here, he'll go someplace else and then I'm out of a job.

But as long as Firestone's down there, I can build them for Gelvin quoted the fireworker. After the meeting, Firestone issued a statement, saying the company was "generally hopeful that workers will support the agreement as negotiated between the Local 7 bargaining committee and management." HUGH HEFNER ANTHONY QUINN children, I wouldn't be mar '-mr Continued From Page A-l make arrangements with them. "In the meantime, I intend to distribute a special flyer to all members stressing the Importance of these proposals and explaining them. I'll be in the plant, talking to workers and answering their questions. "Members will also be free to come, to the union hall to have their questions answered regarding the proposals," he added.

THE proposals revealed for the first time Sunday were jointly announced by Firestone and Local 7 after the two-hour meeting had concluded. T.iey are to Move front the standard six-hour, six-day, 36-hour week to an eight-hour, five-day, 40-hour week. Provide for an annual two-week vacation shutdown in the Summer, starting in 1973. Base payments to pieceworkers for work time not covered by piecework rates on an individual's average earnings instead of an average by job classification. PERMIT senior employes, instead of junior employes, to elect a Supplemental Unemployment Benefits (SUB)-backed layoff within a classification to reduce employe movement between jobs.

The fourth proposal is commonly known as optional layoff, which Goodyear and B. F. Goodrich workers have but Firestone does not. THE four-point program worked out in negotiations which began Jan. 27 are aimed at increasing productivity, stablizing employment and making the Akron com plex competitive with its sister facilities and other tire manufacturers.

Gelvin said he stressed during the meeting that he is convinced Firestone will move its production facilities out of town if the job-saving proposals are not implemented. "The No. 1 fact is the Firestone Akron Plants 1 and 2 have been operating at best in the past at a very small margin of profit. And, in the last few months, these plants have been operating at a net loss," Gelvin said. "FROM the reports shown to me, I'm convinced they're not pulling my leg," he said.

"I know Firestone won't abandon its operations here until such time as the cost ot shutting down is less than the cost of operating. But, I think we are rapidly approaching that moment, and I expect Firestone would build a new plant elsewhere if we reach it." With a combined work force of approximately 2,900, Plants 1 and 2 represent about 60 pet. of the local's membership. GELVIN said much of the opposition voiced at the meeting dealt with the 40-hour work week proposal. "I think the younger workers are apprehensive of getting laid off and never being recalled.

With the switch from four six-hour shifts to three eight-hour shifts, there' would be some impact on manpower. 'But, we've taken this into consideration for the two plants Synthetic and Plant 1 that would have layoffs," Gelvin said. "THE 40-HOUR work week proposal stipulates a 90-day transition period which will allow for normal attrition through deaths and retirements to absorb the layoffs. "The attrition rate is currently 40 workers a month' and adding to this workers who take early retirement or the optional layoff, chances are pretty good there will be no layoffs. "I kept making the point over and over again that it is not a question of the six-hour day versus the eight hour day.

It is jobs or no jobs. "If we allow the status quo to continue, it's just a matter of years before there won't be a Firestone Akron operation." GELVIN said another point raised by several workers was whether the changes will actually stabilize employment. "They really don't believe Firestone is going to move out. They've heard this for so long, especially the older workers, that they won't accept the reality of- the situation. "It's sort of like the man mmmm these senators don't have much to argue about.

I regard them as members of the left-wing liberal bloc in the Senate." COLL, who at 32 is ineligible for the presidency, opened the debate by dangling a rubber rat in front of the TV camera. "The No. 1 cause of violence in America is the rat," he said, explaining later he used it as a symbol of the poverty from which violence is spawned. Hartke, who has little organized support in New Hampshire, said the primary will show' whether "person-to-person campaigning by a poor boy from southern Indiana," is still possible or whether campaigns have been taken over by "the big-spending people and the big-money people." THE CANDIDATES plan a busy final day of campaigning today. Muskie is favored to lead the field, but a Boston Globe poll published Sunday indicated he could draw less than the 50 pet.

his aides said ear ly in the campaign was a minimal goal. The poll gave Muskie 42 McGovern 26, others 12, with 20 pet. undecided. MEANWHILE, President Nixon's two main challengers for the Republican nomination appeared on separate segments of the CBS broadcast "Face the Nation." Rep. John M.

Ashbrook of Ohio, campaigning as a conservative, predicted he would "catch Pete McCloskey and pass him in New Hampshire," although neither claimed much hope of defeating Nixon. McCloskey, who has said he would drop out if he failed to capture 20 "pet. of the New Hampshire GOP primary vote, said he would like to continue even if he doesn't get that much. "These issues "need to be debated," said the liberal challenger who has campaigned against the Nixon war policy and against deception in government. IN OTHER developments involving candidates: Gov.

Robin Askew of Florida said on NBC's "Meet the Press" that an anti-busing referendum he opposes has enhanced Alabama Gov. George C. Wallace's chance of winning the Florida Democratic primary. Sen. Henry M.

Jackson of Washington, told about 3,000 spectators at a barbecue in Tampa: "We're within striking distance of winning the nomination in Florida right now." The senator criticized one of his opponents, Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey of Minnesota. "In Texas he says he's against busing, and then he comes to Florida and tells you he's for it," Jackson said. 1 if ITTs Dita 'Just One Of The Boys' who cried 'wolf so many times that when one was actually at his throat, no one believed him," he added.

BUT George Koladin, chair- man of the skilled trades committee, said after the meeting he believes Firestone will do everything possible to stabilize employment if the proposals are ratL'ied. "I feel Firestone has always lived up to its agreements in the past and that it will this time, too," he said. "Back In the early 1960s, Firestone asked to go from the six-hour day to the eight-hour day in the steel products plant. We turned them down and they moved out 2,000 jobs, Koladin said. "BUT in 1963 when they asked for the same thing in the Mechanical building, we accepted the proposal and employment has remained at about 350 to 370 workers ever since.

"And just recently, they gave us a shift change proposal to improve operating efficiency in Mechanical. We accepted it, and they've recalled 35 workers who had been laid off. "I think Firestone will live up to the interests of the agreements if the member- Informer's Trice' Will Be Revealed HARRISBURG, Pa. IB-FBI informer Boyd Douglas Jr. chief government witness in in the alleged plot to kidnap White House aide Henry Kissinger is expected to explain today what he got for his testimony, if anything.

THE DEFENSE already has made public a letter Douglas wrote to the FBI in October 1970 requesting a minimum, tax-free $50,000 reward, plus expenses. The letter indicates he collected some money before being paroled in December 1970 from Lewisburg (Pa.) Federal Penitentiary. Tareyton's activated charcoal delivers taste. A taste no plain white titter can ried at all." Asked if his wife understands his viewpoint, he said: "What wife understands any man's WAKE UP, AMERICA! Liechtenstein leads-the world in false teeth production. (And if they design a pair that flies, America will be endangered.) Albania is slightly larger than Maryland.

(And still growing!) The Republic of Iceland has no army, navy, air force or forts. (Oh, sure!) Everybody in oil-rich Kuwait is on welfare. (Are we going to sit by while they lure our citizenry?) Headline: ENGLAND. BUILDS 20,000 DINGHIES. (Is England trying to re-rule "the aves?) The Netherlands has the lowest mean elevation of any nation in the world.

(How do we know they aren't at this very moment tunneling their way into America?) A gal down the block called her doctor to relieve a minor emergency the other a. m. about 4. "What's the matter?" snorted the sawbones, I sleep through your. 3.

o'clock I NEWS Nick Mileti Buys Cleveland- Indians. Continued From Page A-l Yorty of Los Angeles and social worker Edward Coll of Hartford, in the debate broadcast. Rep. Wilbur D. Mills of Arkansas also is running, but as a write-in candidate.

McGOVERN said the Tonkin Gulf resolution was misused by the Johnson administration. "I took a position against this war in 1963 when the polls showed it was very unpopular to oppose our involve-m in Southeast Asia," McGovern said. But as late as the 1968 Democratic national convention, he added, Muskie was "defending the Johnson war plank while I was trying to end the war." All three senators urged a total U. S. troop withdrawal from Indochina, one of the points that led Yorty to comment: "As far as I'm concerned, and $45,000 as special assistant to William Merriam, ITT vice president in charge of its Washington office.

On the company's corporate staff, she is described by co-workers as being in charge of following a wide range of legislative matters that might affect the conglomerate. MRS. BEARD, who is described as "very direct," frequents the Capitol Hill Club. An acquaintance recalled today that once at a Republi- On Page B-8: McGovern: 's room for suspicion. can dinner meeting there to plan fund-raising strategy, a party official, disagreeing with a proposal stood up and used a profanity.

Noticing Mrs. Beard, the only woman in the audience, he apologized for his language to "the lady present." Mrs. Beard replied, "I don't see any ladles present." Settle On Chess Sites MOSCOW ffl The Russian Chess Federation indicated it would agree to two sites for the world championship chess match between Bobby Fischer of the U.S. and the Soviet Union's Boris Spassky. The Soviet news- agency Tass reported the Soviet federation said it is "ready, in principle, to discuss conducting the first half of the match in Belgrade and the second half in Reykjavik." Belgrade is in Yugoslavia and Reykjavik is in Iceland.

It's a little late. The barn has been sold after it burned down. Vernon Stouffer, through inefficient top-level management, has run the once lucrative franchise into Lake Erie or perhaps into the Mississippi delta Orleans, where the club seems headed. The buyer is Nick Miletf who also 'owns the Tlevelana Cavaliers of the NBA and a minor league hockey club. He is now a three-letter man and presumably will attempt to keep the Indiars in Cleveland.

That will take some doing. Already it is committed to New-Orleans for-30 home games in 1974, target year for the opening of the Superdome there. Mileti will have five years of tax relief, inasmuch as recapitalization is possible when 80 pet. or more of a business changes hands. Roughly $2 million a year in losses could be written off to player depreciation.

Stouffer has had his five years and that's why he got out. If Nick Mileti can save the Indians for the city of Cleveland, his next job should be to save the City of Cleveland. THE FINAL WORD At Sanginiti's: "My kid will drive anything that runs on gasoline and wheels except a lawnmower." expected to testify Tuesday. MRS. BEARD has been married and divorced twice and has five children, some of.

whom still live at home. According to Gerrity, she received no alimony or child support from either of her former husbands. Her eldest son, Ben, is in law school in Florida. Her youngest boy, known as Bull, is in military school. Her daughter Lane, who joined her mother in Denver Friday night, works in the fi-- nance section of the Republican National Committee.

Her other daughter, whose name was not available, is said to work in the Washington area, 4i6 does her other son, David. THE BEARDS live in suburban Arlington, Va. She is tall and has put on weight in the last few years, according to Gerrity. Mrs. Beard joined ITT's Washington office in 1961 as secretary to an executive after working for the National Association of Broadcasters.

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Marine Continued From Page A-l -p- in shopping center department Ask a Marine why he doesn't try to get a better education and he tells you he tried on the GI bill at Kent State University's Stark Campus near North Canton, then tuition went up. "WITHOUT a job, I couldn't pay the difference," Herrmann says, "I don't want to ask my parents for money. It's a matter of pride." 7 The same pride that Marines prize and extoll inter- I fered with Herrmann shifting to Walsh College where his father teaches and tuition is waived for faculty members' children. "I want to do it on my own," he says. Ask a Marine what he.

thinks about America's welcome-home and he says: "I can't understand it. I see commer-cials on television saying 'Hire the Vet', but nobody does. All I want is a chance. I don't think veterans are being given a fair trial." Ask a Marine? Don't ask. A a better Kino Sin and 100 mm: match.

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