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jflmneapolfe tKribune Comics 20, 21 Crossword 21 MONDAY. JULY 24, North Side Residents Demand Action by City Pottery Strike Slows Tourism in Red Wing By DAN WASCOE JR. Minneapolis Tribune Staff Writer RED WING, Minn. Visit-ors to this town's most famous industry have faced shouts of "Yellow-bellies!" and "Scabs!" for more than seven weeks. Pickets began parading near driveway entrances to the Red Wing Potteries, salesroom June 1 after a strike was authorized by the 120 members of Local 6-430 of the Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers International Union.

Negotiations between Richard A. Gillmer, company president, and Tilfer Chas-tain, president of the local, resumed Friday after a break of five weeks. Federal mediator Ed Larson said he was "satisfied" with the meeting and plans to schedule another one this week. GILLMER said in an interview before Friday's talks that the nation's pottery industry is slumping, injured by imports. If he loses accounts as a result of the strike, Gillmer said, he may have to close the plant.

Chastain discounted the effect of imports, adding, "If he must close the place, we'll pick a committee and help him nail the doors." Prime issues in the dispute include wages, insurance, medical benefits and working conditions. The 89-year-old pottery company is the town's fourth largest industry, according to the Red Wing's Daily Republican Eagle, which editorialized: "The Potteries salesroom is a magnet with power to draw thousands of visitors It would be a major loss, one that every Red Wingite would feel, should Minneapolis Tribune Photo by Mike Zerby CITIZENS OF NORTH SIDE HELD MEETING AT PHYLLIS WHEATLEY SETTLEMENT HOUSE The North Side Federation will present demands on human rights and employment to mayor today 17 damn about you. Do you un-derstand that It's ap- parent you don't understand what's going on and you don't care about yourselves. "THE ONE thing you've got to do is look at how many times the garbage is picked up a month how many times in the winter your -street is plowed. These are I the problems.

You're a com- munity of people. If you don't care anymore than that, they i don't either." "The North Side has a4; unique function to serve as a wastepaper basket for 1 those who cannot perform in a highly technological socie--' ty. It's not true of all of us but we have never shown united front, the Rev. Rol- land Robinson, pastor of Calvary Methodist Church, and chairman of the board of The Way, said. HE INDICATED that teen- agers would be there.

Several people at the meeting asked why. A youth from the audience answered: "You ask why teens and kids are going down there. Because at 9 a.m. tomorrow I know that my aunt, my mother, my uncles and cousins are going to be in bed. "If parents won't represent them, they'll have to represent theirselves.

Who's going to take care of them, if their parents won't. AH you do is look at the riots on TV at night and say, 'Look what they did. That's bad. But you don't show support, you don't tell 'em how you feel." NAFTALIN SAID last night i that he would be able to meet with the group until 10:30 a.m. today.

"I'll be asking them to limit their delegation to about 15 members because I-believe a smaller group is always more productive. I want them to make it a representative group." 1967 By MARILYN HOEGEMEYER Minneapolis Tribune Staff Writer Residents of Minneapolis' North Side community adopted a list of demands Sunday night, requesting immediate action in the areas of human rights, employment, welfare, education, housing and law enforcement. The demands will be presented to Mayor Arthur Naf-talin and Minneapolis aldermen by members of the community. They will gather at 9 a.m. today in front of City Hall at the intersection of 3rd Av.

S. and 5th St. The demands were drawn up by members of the North Side Federation and leaders of North Side welfare agencies after last week's racial disturbances. The federation is a coalition of civic groups. Immediate action was requested in the following areas: Human Rights Exnansion of the human relations coursp for all city policemen, employment of more minority policemen and firemen and reorganization of present hu man relations councils.

Employment Reviewal of tests used by employment agencies and the Civil Service, development of a pro gram to prepare people for such tests, human relations training for industrial employers, extensive advertisement of job opportunities, on- the-job training in city agencies, acceleration of Manpower Development Training for adults and youths and more support for the Twin Cities Opportunities Industrialization Center. Education Careful selection of inter-city school teachers, a realistic minority recruitment policy, community orientation for new teachers and a request that minor- Red Wing Potteries go out of business." ALREADY, because of the strike, the tourist flow is dwindling. "Business is off about a third," said Dick Karsten, 32, owner of a Standard service station near the bluffs at the town's southern edge. "We're the first station off the highway, and we normally get about 25 requests a day from people who want to know where the pottery is." Mrs. Dorothy L.

Nelson, executive secretary of the Red Wing Chamber of Commerce, said the strike has forced her to cancel pottery tours. "Many people have planned the tours as part of their summer vacations," she said. factories will have to go along." One woman on the picket line said she thought the plant's employes were "worse off than 10 years ago. Compared with other workers around here, our salaries have slipped." Another picket "Man, we'd rather the company died a sudden death than drag on like it has been." Ralph Finley, 60, president of the Chamber of Commerce and a stockholder in the pottery, had little sympathy for the strikers. "They haven't got the best class of people working there," he said.

"If they're not satisfied, why don't they go somewhere else?" DESPITE cautious opti- And although the salesroom has remained open during the strike, "there are a certain number of people who won't cross picket lines," she said. THE PICKETS themselves including many women are vociferous as they try to discourage drivers from entering the salesroom's parking lot. But aside from tacks strewn in the lot on July 4, there has been little physical harassment by the strikers. Gerald Niebling, 23, a desk clerk at the St. James Hotel, said he believes most Red Wing citizens favor the workers and not only because he, like many others, had a relative or close friend working at the pottery.

"The wage scale is low here," he said. "And if the pottery raises salaries, other ity history be taught in all schools. Housing A crash program of housing inspection, charging of rent equal to the housing provided by landlords and creation of a home-repair-equipment lending center. Community Services Belter renair, "leaning and lightings of streets and alleys, availability of school facilities for adults and youths, area parks staTed by residents. The inds were passed by a st md up vote after all referem -s to "Negro" were changed to include all minorities.

The change was by Gordon Kendall, director of the Upper Midwest Indian Center. THE OPEN meeting, held at the Phyllis Wheat! ey House, 809 Aldrich Av. was attended by about 200 persons almost an equal number of Negroes and whites. The discussion was heated. Matthew Eubanks, a sociology major at the University of Minnesota and a neighborhood development worker, was asked to leave the meeting at one point because he is not a North Side resident.

He told the group that a time limit must be set. "We made all the same demands last year We have asked for most of the things on the list for the last 200 years. Next year we'll be doing the same thing if we don't make them do it within a time limit." Theodore Martin, 621 Oliver Av. asked why Naf-talin and Gov. Harold Le-Vander didn't attend the meeting.

Syl Davis, director of The Way community center, answered his question: "It should be apparent to I you that they don't give a YOUR CHOICE With mism after Friday's meeting, both sides seem to be digging in as the strike lengthens. Gillmer claimed he has enough backlog to keep his salesroom open for a year and a half. Union leaders have received both financial help and extra pickets from other locals throughout the state. City officials, though worried, seem reluctant to interfere in the dispute. Jack Adams, 65, president of the City Council, said a group of business leaders who belong to the 11 -year-old Red Wing Industrial De-velopmetn Corp.

voted to have no part in the negotiations. That was during the five-week breakdown in talks when Adams said, "We found very little real desire to bargain." Mayor Demetrius G. Jela-tis, 50, expressed special concern for the effect the strike will have on the town's reputation. "This is one part of the Red Wing image," he explained. "People all over the country know about Red Wing pottery." But Jelatis, too, contends the city government must Trad IKllsyEm(mtBj9 No Frost Refrigerator-Freezers llPlf NO BUY BEFORE THE MINNESOTA SALES TAX DEADLINE Minneapolis Tribune Photo by Duane Braley MR.

AND MRS. FLOYD WEIRS LOST ALL UILDINGS ON THEIR FARM NEAR BECKER And all possessions, except a piggy bank Mrs. )'eirs salvaged containing their Christmas tarings Damage High in Wake of Twisters wait, for the disputants to resolve their own difficulties "My own feeling is that if this is prolonged, both sides stand to lose a great deal. But I think they're both right; it's their problem, and the only thing the town can do is try to keep order. We can't do anything until they ask us to." Mound Girl, 14, Osseo Boy, 5, Die of Car Injuries Two persons died Sunday as the result of traffic accidents near the Twin Cities.

Authorities said Elizabeth Forcier, 14, daughter of Mrs. Dorothy Forcier, rural Mound, was killed when the car in which she was riding failed to make a curve and overturned on a country road about 3 miles west of Win-sted. The driver of the car, Elizabeth's cousin, Richard Forcier of Winsted, and Elizabeth's sister, Elvem, were hospitalized in Winsted, authorities said. Shawn Lessard, 5, son of Mrs. Carol Carlson, 11114 W.

River Road, Osseo, died in North Memorial Hospital of injuries suffered when he was struck by a car near his home Wednesday. The deaths raised Minnesota's 1967 traffic fatality toll to 468, compared with 432 a year ago today. "WEDNESDAY: You, Too, Can Be a Scuba Diver Catherine Watson, a Minneapolis Tribune staff writ er gathering material for a story on scuba div-i did some diving herself. She will report that beginners should learn the a- Miss Watson mentals from qualified teachers instead of from other divers. Her report will appear Wednesday in your itliimeapolis tribune Magnetic door gaskets Sturdy deep door shelves, hold milk cartons and tall bottles Butter chest 5 year warranty on mechanism PLUS b(" Drain Ik Dtfrttt Wit 3 Ni Fn Dry wt Fri FMdl with 100 lb.

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by the second severe wind and rain storm in less than a month, and power lines went down again as winds reached 72 miles per hour. About 25,000 Twin Cities area customers were without electric power from 10 p.m. Saturday to 6 a.m. yesterday. All service was restored by noon yesterday, Northern States Power Co.

said. The Twin Cities area did not lose phone service, but long-distance service was disrupted briefly Saturday night near Clear Lake, Northwestern Bell Telephone Co. said. The Fridley Assembly of God Church, 472 Osborne Road, Fridley, was struck for the third time in two years. It was damaged by the May 1965 tornado, and its new building under construction suffered about $10,000 damage in the June 30 windstorm.

Saturday night, the new building received about $1,000 in damages. Curfew Eased JERUSALEM (Reu'erO The curfew in the Old City of Jerusalem has been moved back from 9 p.m. to midnight local time effective Sunday night to allow tourists to move into hotels in the area. Unlike most tornadoes, this one stayed on the ground and "didn't even zigzag," Baert said. "There isn't enough left of my place to build a doghouse," said Gust Gustafson, a retired farmer whose rural Becker farm was flattened.

He was outside when the twister hit about 8 p.m. and hid under a hedge. He was hospitalized in Monticello, along with his sister and brother-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Hanson, New York, N.Y., who were visiting him.

All suffered minor injuries. "We'd seen it three to five minutes before it hit," said Douglas White, who farms 4 miles south of St. Cloud with his father, Lawrence. Thev let their herd of 15 dairy cows loose and hid in the basement of their bncK home. "But I ran out was going to drive away from the storm.

But there wasn't time, so I ran and jumped in a cesspool. It went right over me," White said. He said they were lucky f.hough all buildings were lost, they salvaged some of 'heir machines, including three undamaged tractors. "A lot of people lost everything," he said. The Twin Cities was struck By CATHERINE WATSON Minneapolis Tribune Staff Writer CLEAR LAKE, Minn.

Sporadic looting attempts were reported Sunday on tornado-damaged homes and United Press International JEANNE FORMANEK, 23, Newton, a junior high school language teacher, beamed after her election as Miss Iowa, 1967. Miss Formanek, a 1966 graduate of the State University of Iowa, will represent the state in the Miss America Pageant. farms around Clear Lake. Sherburne County Sheriff's officers and Civil Defense volunteers cordoned off the area yesterday to prevent further, looting and to keep sightseers out. On most of the more than two dozen damaged sites, however, there was very little left to loot.

The tornado struck part of Stearns and most of Sherburne Counties Saturday night, hitting 22 or 23 farms, 5 rural homes and several resort cottages. It cut a 25-mile swath east from St. Augusta to Zimmerman, Civil Defense authorities said. At Zimmerman, the twister turned northeast, demolished another farm near Little Elk Lake and died out. One death, that of Mrs.

Elvera Peterson, 70, rural Becker, and about a dozen injuries were reported. Mrs. Peterson, who was crippled with neuritis, was trapped on the second floor of the farm home she shared with her brother, Frank Ny-strom. The farm was leveled. "Looking at it from the air it's the worst destruction I've ever seen," said Al Baert, mobile support commander for the Minnesota Civil Defense.

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