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COURIER -POST Monday with Joseph Busier 0 (i Front Page Monday, February 26, 1973 Page 9 Usery Hopeful Of Strike End State, County and Municipal Employes A pledged the support of his union and presented the PFT with a $5,000 check. David Selden, president of the American Federation of Teachers, and Albert Shenker, head of the New York teachers union, also attended the support rally. They were joined by union representatives from Los Angles, Detroit, St. Louis, Newark, New Orleans, San Juan, Miami, San Francisco and others. iv 41 XkWf PHILADELPHIA (UPI) -Presidential labor adviser W.

J. Usery today continued his attempt to prevent a city-wide general strike, as a walkout by 13,000 public school teachers entered its eight week. labor leaders have threatened to strike in the city for 24 hours Wednesday in response to the jailing of two union leaders and the arrests of hundreds of picketing teachers. Usery was expected to continue his talks with school board officials and the Philadelphia Federation of Teachers (PFT) today. Thirty-three hours of weekend negotiations failed to produce a settlement.

"I am still hopeful and encouraged that a settlement can be reached shortly," Usery said last night. "The best way to halt a general walkout by organized labor is to settle this strike." Usery, sent here Thursday by President Nixon, is Assistant U.S. Secretary of Labor. He has been nominated as head of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service. PFT president Frank Sullivan and chief negotiator John Ryan, are being released each day from the City House of Correction to participate in the talks.

They were jailed Feb. 9 for defying a Common Pleas Court injunction against the strike. The Philadelphia teachers yesterday received support from hundreds of union leaders who traveled to Philadelphia for a rally. Jerry Wurf, president of the American Federation of Brennan Denies Teachers Bail WASHINGTON (UPI) Supreme Court Justice William J. Brennan Jr.

today denied full bail to the president of the Philadelphia teachers union and its chief negotiator, Frank Sullivan, now jailed part-time for contempt. Brennan merely wrote "denied" on the application without further explanation. Sullivan, president of Local 3 of the Philadelphia Federation of Teachers (AFL-CIO), and chief negotiator John Ryan were each sentenced to a prison term of six months to four years by Judge D. Donald Ja-mieson of the Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas after a ury on Jan. 25, 1973, found them guilty of indirect criminal contempt for failure to stop the current reachers' strike.

Sullivan was also fined $5,000. Courier-Post Photos bv Oeorot Tledemann LOOKING OVER items available at "swapping a little less than sure that he wants to give up bee," Joseph Chestnut, 7, of Cinnaminson, seems anything in exchange. TKe Native American "Whatever its exact origins, there is no doubt that scalp-taking was due to the barbarity of white men rather than to the barbarity of red men Governor Kieft of New Netherland is usually credited with originating the idea of paying for Indian scalps, as they were more convenient to handle than whole heads By liberal payments for scalps, the Dutch virtually cleared south' em New York and New Jersey of Indians." quoted from historian Peter Farb in "Our Brother's Keeper: the Indian in White America." The Dutch settler's primitive form of population control was remarkably successful: there are few American Indians in Southern New Jersey and, according to the U.S. Census Department, somewhere around 3,000 in the Philadelphia area of a national total of 792,000. But who is an Indian who should be counted among a people who for 500 years have intermarried with their conquerors, who have been continuously pressured to forsake their native languages, customs and religion? Is Mrs.

Miml DuBois Shrinski of Runnemede among the 792,730 people the U.S. Census Department, with perverse precision, counts as Indian? Her Indian blood from her father, an Army careerist shows in her coppery skin, straight black hair, high cheekbones and eyes. But she does not know how many generations it has been since her ancestors left the Indian community, does not speak an Indian tongue, and puts forth all the subtle vibrations of a rather cosmopolitan middle-class suburbanite. But, as she says, "being an Indian is a state of the spirit." And she is very much an Indian one of the newly awakened activist Indians no longer willing to take the continuing oppression of her people lying down. Though she shuns personal publicity, she consented to an interview because she is the representative of one of the most active of the Indian organizations that have sprung up since the late 1960s: The American Indian Movement (AIM).

AIM, which has headquarters in Denver, 40 chapters throughout the country and an indeterminate membership, wants to bring before white Americans (to whom Indians refer as Europeans) facts which have been long excluded from our schoolbooks. AIM, Mrs. Shrinski says, wants white America to know, for example, that the suicide rate among the half million or more Indians on reservations is 10 times the national average and that suicide among children 11 or 12 years old is not unknown. That the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA), has the power to remove children from reservation homes; to nullify wills; to approve or forbid withdrawals of an Indian's own savings from his bank account; to pick the chief of tribes and to wipe a tribe as a legal entity off the face of the earth. MRS.

SHRINSKI noted that the chief of the Cherokees is picked by the President of the United States, that he is only fractionally Cherokee and does not speak the Cherokee tongue but is president of an oil company which has acquired extensive mineral holdings from Indians in Oklahoma. She noted that the Bureau of Indian Affairs allowed state officials to declare two-thirds of the Agua Caliente Indians incompetent and to appoint trustees to manage their business affairs, which included major properties in Palm Springs, Calif. The trustees, a government investigation revealed nine years later, pocketed one-third of the proceeds and were awarded fees up to 340 per cent of total receipts. Then there are subtler, emasculating degradations an average income at half the national poverty level, for example. Or incidents exemplified by the expulsion from school of an Indian girl in Washington for objecting to a history text calling her people "dirty savages." Or the pressure on children not to speak Indian languages, to abandon old customs, and to look down on their parents.

When Indians occupied BIA headquarters in Washington, D.C., it was to get proof of the continuing exploitation of the Indian by a combination of bureaucracy, greedy commercial interests and national indifference. When what AIM calls the trail of broken treaties becomes longer as the result of the information revealed in the reams of documents removed from the BIA headquarters, there are going to be more angry people like Mrs. Shrinski. not all of them are going to be Indians Evesham Ordered To Give Budget Data streets department. Wooden said he and other civic association members have been denied more specific information.

He said Laezzo agreed the public had a right to know. The court order Friday from Burlington County Judge Alexander C. Wood was issued after council reprimanded township manager Charles R. Findler for accepting an invitation to speak before a civic association. Council ordered Feindler not to discuss actual budget figures at the meeting.

Wooden said he used his own money to hire a lawyer and obtain the injunction from Wood. He said about 75 people showed up to the meeting called by the Joint Civic Council. Fiendler spoke freely answering all questions on budget figures, he said. A hearing will be held tomorrow at 9 a.m. and the township will be asked to "show cause" why the injunction should not continue.

EVESHAM Township civic association president Harry Wooden says a state official has ordered township council to make all facts and figures on the proposed 1973 budget available to the public. The ruling follows a court order Wooden obtained Friday prohibiting council from interfering with the township manager's rights to divulge budget information to a civic group. Wooden, president of the Cambridge Park Civic Association, said the state official, John Laezzo, director of the finance for the N.J. Department of Community Affairs has directed the township council to provide a complete breakdown of salaries and operational expenses. The proposed $1.6 million budget is available to the public but Wooden said that budget breakdown gives only general information such as the total salary for the Swapping Fun Just For the Record MOORESTOWN A baseball glove in exchange for a record album, a children's game for a model airplane the trading was brisk and the bargainers went away happy with their take.

For the tenth consecutive year, Gimbels-Moorestown store sponsored its "Swapping Bee" during the weekend a four-hour long bartering session where children to age 16 were encouraged to exchange handicrafts, games, sports equipment, books, records, stamps, coins, and anything else that they no longer found useful. Participating were Burlington County Y-Indian Guides and Y-Indian Princesses and Camden County Y-Maidens. In addition, Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts and 4-H clubs from both Camden and ington counties. Radio and television personality Bill Webber was swapmaster. 12 Are Arrested In Riverside Brawls -Tf i9 Courler-Posi Photo bv Gcoroe Tledemonn SWAPPING BEE at the Moorestown Mall drew more than youngsters.

Apparently pleased with the result of their swap are Mr. and Mrs. August Link of Moorestown, who look over a doll they bartered for. Mrs. Link didn't say what she traded for the curly-topped doll.

damaged and one man had to be treated for a four-inch gash received when he was struck with a pool cue, Tuch said. Kawaida Aides Protest Police Action RIVERSIDE A bar fight and a related street brawl in front of the township police station during the weekend ended when 12 of the alleged participants were arrested. The bar fight, in the White Eagle Bar, River Road and Chester Avenue, apparently began Saturday over a pool game, Ptl. Emil Tuch said. As some of the men in the bar at the time were being questioned about the incident," Tuch said, "about 35 of their friends came to the police station and started all over again on the street." Three of those arrested were freed on $100 bail while the remainder were freed on $50 bail pending Municipal Court hearings March 6 on charges of being disorderly persons and causing malicious damage to the bar, Tuch said.

During the fight inside the taproom, the bar, pool tables and a glass display case were CAB Chairman To Be Nominated WASHINGTON (UPI) -President Nixon will nominate Robert D. Timm, 51, to be chairman of the Civil Aeronautics Board, administration sources report. Timm, a Republican and a farmer from Harrington, has been a CAB member since 1970. He would succeed Secor D. Browne, who resigned as chairman.

The five-member board regulates the airline industry, setting fares and designating routes. LeRoi Jones, said he has sent the badge numbers of 10 policemen involved in the scuffle Thursday to Mayor Kenneth A. Gibson and expects "appropriate action." Gibson declined comment on the charges yesterday. Imperiale, who was also not available yesterday for comment, has said the brawl was started after a black attacked a policeman. NEWARK (UPI) The head of black nationalists sponsoring construction of the controversial Kawaida Towers says supporters of the high rise will turnout in force tomorrow if action is not taken against 10 policemen who allegedly took part in violence at the North Ward site last week.

Imamu Amiri Baraka, head of the Temple jf Kawaida, Imperiale appeared at the site Nov. 9. "We're not pacifists. We've not brought the masses of black people to the site because we don't want violence. We don't want to bring em-barrasment to our black mayor or black police director, but we will not sit idly by while they beat us," Baraka said.

Baraka, formerly known as said over the weekend that attacks on six blacks were led by policemen as well as followers Assemblyman Anthony Imperiale, I-Essex. Three policemen were injured during the brawl at the Lincoln Avenue site last Thursday when some two dozen whites attacked six blacks. It was the first serious violence at the prqiect since white opponents led fey.