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A-3 Enquirer and News, Battle Creek, July 16, 1972 for fion fight big dy conven eany rea worries police to it," Wurf fumed in an interview. "I'm an officer of COPE, an officer of the AFL-CIO and I find the proprietary manner in which Barkan says what COPE will do or not do distressing," said Wurf, who has been increasingly moving into positions against Meany on a number of issues. Wurf hinted he may try to bypass Meany and Barkan and set up a separate labor group to campaign for McGovern if the AFL-CIO votes to remain neutral. Much of Meany' support in opposing McGovern comes from the more conservative AFL-CIO construction and building trades unions representing some 3 million workers in 17 unions. Maritime unions also have a major quarrel with McGovern's opposition to shipping at least 50 per cent of U.S.

government cargoes in American-flag vessels. Another strong labor bloc in the AFL-CIO is composed of the large industrial unions. President I. W. Abel of the million-member United Steelworkers assailed McGovern in a speech seconding the nomination of Jackson.

Many labor officials scoffed at the idea that choosing Sen. Thomas Eagleton of Missouri as running mate would help McGovern assuage labor. Eagleton's vote in the Senate against federal funds for a supersonic transport airliner is not likely to help with the International Association of Machinists. Three astronauts start 56-days of 'confinement7 WASHINGTON (AP) Labor patriarch George Meany girded Saturday for a bruising internal battle over whether the 13.6 million member AFL-CIO will endorse Democratic presidential nominee George McGovern, or give President Nixon the political advantage of a virtually neutral labor movement. "It's going -to be a real bloody mess," predicted one AFL-CIO headquarters source of next Wednesday's meeting of the labor federation's 35-man ruling executive council to decide the issue.

The 77-year-old Meany and the once-vaunted political strategists of the AFL-CIO's Committee on Political Education (COPE) left the Democratic National Convention in bitter disarray after badly losing their effort to block McGovern' nomination. "I never saw such a confused, unrealistic group in rav life," said one labor official who disagreed with COPE's efforts to push Sens! Hubert II. Humphrey, Edmund Muskie or Henry Jackson to the nomination long after it was apparent that McGovern had it locked up. One AFL-CIO leader, President Jerry Wurf of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Workers, switched from Muskie to McGovern just before the Democratic convention, and later sharply assailed COPE Director Al Barkan's diehard efforts to stop McGovern. "Barkan played Humphrey's game until Humphrey himself wouldn't play it any more, and he destroyed Muskie as a viable candidate," Wurf said.

"Barkan reached out for Wallace people and plaved games with them," he said. Meany and the AFL-CIO had said before the convention they would never help Alabama Gov. George Wallace's bid for the nomination, labeling him "antilabor" and a "racist." Wurf has few visible allies on the AFL-CIO executive council long ruled by Meany, but one insider said the council would split down the middle in a direct vote on whether to endorse McGovern. "If the vote is simply on a decision not to make any endorsement this time," Meany probably would win against a handful of opponents on the council, leaving it up to the AFL-CIO's 119 individual labor unions whether to make their own presidential endorsements. It would be the first time in the history of the AFL-CIO that it did not endorse a Democratic presidential candidate.

Despite the AFL-CIO's attempt to block his nomination, including a harshly worded "white paper" attacking his record, McGovern continued his peace overtures to Meany. Asked if he had seen Meany who brushed aside two McGovern requests for a meeting McGovern said "No. but I will." McGovern said he thinks he could settle his differences with the powerful "Mr. Labor." "I think Mr. Meany and I have one great common purpose, and that is to defeat Richard Nixon," McGovern said.

Meany has constantly attacked Nixon on virtually every issue except the Vietnam war. But few knowledgeable labor officials see much room for Meany to bury the hatchet he used to try to chop down McGovern's nomination. "How can Meany make peace after that white paper that tried to paint McGovern black?" asked one. The 50-page document, prepared before the convention in Meany's eighth-floor AFL-CIO headquarters offices overlooking the White House a block away, accused McGovern of being antilabor, against some civil rights issues and pro-Hanoi. At stake for McGovern is whether the political machinery of the nationwide COPE operation will be used in his behalf.

It is worth an estimated $10 million in cash and the value of the volunteer services of thousands of union members in a presidential election. "We'll probably run a 'Save the Congress campaign." but sit out the presidential content, a Meany aide said. "COPE is not the privately owned enterprise that belongs to either Meanv or Barkan. A lot of unions contribute MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) Large and militant street demonstrations will likely greet the Republican National Convention when it rolls into town next month.

Police and protest planners say they want a repeat of the peaceful demonstrations that accompanied the Democratic National Convention, but nobody is taking bets on it. Before the Democrats convened, the word from both sides was that there would be no violence. Everyone gave a little all week, and there was no trouble. But police and protesters are more aggressive now as they talk about the Republican gathering Aug 21 to 23. Instead of, "There will be no trouble," what one often hears is, "We don't want trouble, but we'll be ready for it." In addition to more protesters and more militant actions, several additional factors could combine to produce a highly volative situation.

The candidate will be President Nixon instead of Sen. or McGovern. Peace movement heavies who sat out the Democratic conclave will be active in the demonstrations. The Republican party has not opened itself to un people, blacks and women to the extent the Democrats have. "This was a dress rehearsal for August." Zippie leader Dana Beal said after the last of the Democratic Convention protest marches.

"We will have a lot more people and be a lot more serious in August. We all hate Nixon. We are going to try to push him into the sea right here. We don't want trouble, but we are prepared for Nixon to react." No one really knows how many people will be on the streets when the Repubieans arrive. There were about nondelegates around to biting laboratory will stay for 28 days.

The next two crews will stay for 56 days each. The program is a test of man's ability to survive for long periods of time in space. The astronauts will also conduct scientific studies of the sun and of the earth. None of the three in the SMEAT are on the Skylab crews, which, says Crippen, is one reason they wanted to blocking roads and buildings nonviolently, but fleeing in the face of arrest may be used. Many people planning to take part in the protests feel that the Republicans will react with more force than they faced when the Democrats were in town.

"If we try to protest in the hotels like we did this past week, the cops will be down on our heads," said Mike Pierson of Boulder, a member of the Students for a Democratic Society. "We won't be looking for trouble, but we do expect it." McGovern's candidacy was a moderating influence dur-i the Democratic Convention protests, an influence that won't be present when the Republicans gather to nominate Nixon. "No one out here feels McGovern is the second Saviour, but we know Nixon is the one we have to beat," said Mike Mariotte, a Zippie from Reston, Va. Some of the groups that were in the streets this past week also had people in Convention Hall as delegates. Police officials speak with a understated trepidation about August.

On the record comments are hopeful. Off the record comments are grim. "I just think everybody, the officers and the demonstrators, were trying last week (to keep things quiet)," said Calvin Schuler, who was in charge of the police lines around Convention Hall. "I hope the same thing prevails for the Republican Convention, but there is no way to know." "That was a cakewalk," said one of the officers in the police line as he watched the last demonstrators march away last Thursday. "Who knows what will happen in August? We will be ready for anything." Sc both sides will be ready, out for what? Thursday.

Eifler said the plant will be shut down this week for vacations and the contract probably will be officially signed after production resumes. The present contract expires on July 22. This was probably the first time in 16 years in which mediation was not used to reach contract agreement with the company, Eifler said. The only strike at the company occured in 1958 and lasted about 10 weeks, he said. Negotiating committee chairman was Philip Russell.

Other members were Donald Ingle. Leo Smith, Robert Harrison and Percy Stelly. 1 the Democrats. Mayor Chuck Hall said he expects 5,000 demonstrators for the GOP Convention. Organizers say 50,000.

There were only 5,000 people on the streets of Chicago during the violence which attended the 1968 Democratic Convention. "We tried to get people down here for the Democrats," said Ron Lichty, who works with the Underground Press Syndicate. "But for every letter we got about the Democrats, we got 10 about the Republicans." The antiwar movement last winter singled out the Republican Convention as the prime target this summer. Plans for August have been laid by the Miami Conventions Coalition, which includes the groups that organized the 1968 Chicago demonstrations and the May 1970 demonstrations in Washington, D.C., that resulted in more than 10,000 arrests. The coalition is likely to attract people seriously bent on radical politics rather than the marijuana smoking, guitar playing cultural revolutionaries who descended upon Miami Beach last week.

Ren-nie Davie and Dave Delling-er, who sat out most of last week's activities, will play an active role in the August protests. Davis and Dellinger were convicted of crossing interstate lines to incite rioting after the 1968 Democratic Convention. The convictions are being appealed. "It was decided months ago that the greatest mobilization would ba concentrated on the Republican Convention," said Davis. "We expect the demonstrations to be large, disciplined and militant." Protests planned for August include lining the streets with people holding posters depicting Vietnam War scenes and mass demonstrations wherever Nixon goes.

The resist and run tactics used in the May 1970 Wash-i i. ton demonstrations the contract becomes effective July 23 and to about $4.50 in the second year of the pact. Eifler said Saturday. The average wage and fringe benefit package will be about $5.80 an hour in the second year, he added, noting that pay for several workers will be substantially higher than the average. Besides pay, the new contract includes insurance and pension improvements and several language Improve-m ents and non-economic gains, Eifler said.

The contract was ratified by about 98 per cent of the voting members at a meeting Doe, fawn permits cut back by halt George Meany ready for the fight do the test. "I can think of better ways to spend the summer," says Crippen, "but this is a chance to contribute to Skylab." He said their families are used to them being gone an occupational tradition with astronauts and are glad they're getting the chance. "Besides," quipped Thornton, "at least our wives will know where we are." season in the northern Lower Peninsula by two days. It will run from Oct. 13-19." with S50 permits issued like last year.

Boar hunting with firearms in the Upper Peninsula will be allowed Sept. 10-Oct. 31 and also during deer hunting season. Bow and arrow deer hunting season will be Oct. 1-Nov.

14. The commission said that last year hunters took 442 bear in the Upper Peninsula ana 54 in the northern Lower Peninsula. In another matter, the commission agreed to study the possibility of setting aside as a special management area the Pigeon River county of Otsego and Cheboygan counties in the northern Lower Peninsula. The wild area of streams, rolling hills and virgin timber is the only place to find elk in Michigan, the spokesman said. It is also home to the Ixibcat, bald eagles and osprey.

The Pigeon River Association, a group of citizens seeking to retain the "peace and solitude" of the area, asked the commission to draw up guidelines for its use, the spokesman said. SPACE CENTER, Houston (AP) Three men will walk into an altitude chamber at the Manned Spacecraft Center this week and not come out for 56 days. The three, astronauts Robert L. Crippen, William E. Thornton and Karol J.

Bobko, are the subjects for the Sky-lab Medical Experiments Altitude Test (SMEAT), an eight-week dress rehearsal for the flight next year of an rbi i la bo ra or The astronauts will live in the chamber and work just as spacemen will next year aboard Skylab. The only difference will be that Crippen, Thorton and Bobko will be on the ground and not in the weightlessness of space. Space agency officials say the purpose of the test, which begins Wednesday, will be to establish a bast-line for Skv-lab. By studying the effects on the men's bodies for 3(5 days of confinement on the ground, doctors will be better able to identify the changes that are caused only by weightlessness. The astronauts are expected to Ix? affected by such things as the cramped space, atmospheric pressures and gases, the unique Skylab food and the tedium of life in a tank.

But the effects are expected to be small, noticeable only to physicians and their instruments. Everything in the test simulates the actual hardware in a Skylab. The food is the same, the communications system is the same and even the medical experiments to be conducted are the same. Atmosphere in the chamber will be maintained at 70 per cent oxygen and 30 per cent nitrogen at five pounds per square inch. Thornton.

Crippen and Bobko, however, will be able to watch television and talk with their families. Skylab will be launched unmanned next March. The first of three crews to visit the or Contract covering 250 ratified in Galesburg Bobby's objection cleared but Spassky gets point GALESBURG Union members at Hydreco Division of General Signal Corp. here have ratified a new contract which will give them about SI cents an hour in wage and fringe benefit improvements over the next two years. The cost of the contract to the company will not exceed Pay Board guidelines, said Wayne Eifler of Battle Creek, international representative for Local 2078.

International Association of Machinists, AFL-CIO. The local has about 250 members. The average wage, now about S4 per hour, will increase to about $4.25 when REYKJAVIK. Iceland (AP) Boris Spassky fished for salmon and Bobby Fischer kept his Sabbath Saturday as chess officials scrambled to save the world championship. After talks with officials of the International and Icelandic chess federations, Fischer's lawyer.

Paul Marshal, announced the American challenger had withdrawn his objection to the presence of movie cameras in the playing hall "so long as they don't blow his mind." Marshal also asked the officials to reconsider their decision to uphold the referee in i vox BIG in selection of fine fabrics, new patterns and colors BIG in selection of fresh, current famous makers' styles Hundreds of SUITS SPORT COATS AND SLACKS CADILLAC (AP) Permits for the killing of does and fawns have been cut in half for next fall's hunting season by the Michigan Natural Resources Commission. The commission decided at its meeting here to issue only about 9.S00 anterless deer permits for Michigan. A virtual moratorium was declared for hunting anterless deer in the Upper Peninsula. Only 640 licenses will le issued and hunting will be allowed only in southern Menominee County, a commission spokesman said. "Because of hard winters the last four years, the fawn crop is practically nil in the Peninsula." the spokesman said.

Licenses will lxi reduced about 43 per cent in the northern Lower Peninsula, with only 4,980 kills allowed, he said. Antleiiess deer kills in the remainder of the Lower Peninsula will be 4.200, about he same as last year. The deer hunting season will be the same as last year, Nov. 15-30, the spokesman said. commission lengthened the bear hunting Steps it'-" Jf' M.

1 declaring a forfeit because Fischer missed the second same of the 24-game series Thursday. Fischer boycotted the session, saying the cameras distracted him. Marshal said new evidence was being prepared that might stave off cancellation of the match. He wouldn't say what the evidence was. Fischer's failure to turn up for his second encounter with the world champion gave Spassky a 2-0 lead.

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