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B-A Great Falls Tribune Monday, February 25, 1980 Woman appointed to AFL-CIO council Dear Abby about the role of the American trade" union movement in advancing equal rights and equal opportunity in this-country. On the contrary, I'm very proud of it." Kirkland said he didn't regard Thursday's decision "as simply an act of tokenism or a response to pressure. It will be positively helpful to us in our efforts to deal realistically with those issues in the future." I FAMILY LIVING. other high-ranking union officials active in women's and civil rights issues. Asked about O'Neill's complaint that the AFL-CIO did not go far enough, Kirkland said, "I feel no shame or embarassment whatsoever New Spring Arrivals ImMHllliMl MmiOMe ttUMolll In defense of DEAR ABBY: This is a somewhat belated response to BILL IN LONG BEACH who griped because some "Jittle $700-a-month coffee-break secretary" screened her boss's telephone calls.

He had a point. When I call an executive, I don't like being asked, "Who Is calling?" This gives me the impression that the boss is "In" to some people, and "out" to others. Too many secretaries assume an air of self-importance and demand to know, "What is the purpose of your call?" The purpose of my call is none of Iter business! ''t I wonder how much business has been lost over the years because of tome arrogant little snip who answers her boss's telephone and decides who It important enough to get through to the boss and who isn't. -I'M WITH BILL DEAR WITH: Now let's hear from a secretary: DEAR ABBY: I am a $540-a-month no coffee-breaks, no lunch-hour secretary to a busy executive who does not answer his own phone. I do.

If he spent his days fielding calls from cut-rate office supply dealers who just got a dynamite deal on ballpoint pens that they can let us have at a price we wouldn't believe, or people who want to know our mailing address, or loan companies running credit checks on employees, or job-hunters asking if we have any openings, or solicitors selling tickets to the policeman's ball, or printers telling us our stationery is "eady, and so on, ad infinitum, my I For information leading to the arrest conviction of the person responsible for the destruction of the hallway carpets at COLLEGE PARK MEDICAL CENTER. Call Great Falls Police SECRET WITNESS 727-6500 or 761-0722 snippy secretaries boss wouldn't have time to run a busi- ness. I would then be out of a job, and so would all the other people who work for him. Want to support us on welfare? It's my job to type his letters, keep his files in order, keep track of his appointments, screen his mail, pay his bills and remind him to send his grandmother a card on her birthday. But probably the most valuable service I perform is to handle people like you when he says, "If Bill from Long Beach calls, tell him I'm out of town.

can't stand the guy!" -V. J. IN BOULDER DEAR ABBY: BILL IN LONG BEACH complained about haughty little secretaries who screen their boss's telephone calls. It's understandable that a busy executive needs some protection in that regard, but if it's done with finesse it's never offensive. However, I have a more legitimate gripe; it's the big-shot who asks hist secretary to get me on the phone.

1 find it very irritating to pick up ny phone and hear a secretary say, 'Mr. Jones is calling you, please lold." Then I'm kept hanging on the ine until Mr. Jones is free to talk to ne! I have a rule. When a secretary gets me on the phone to talk to her boss, if I don't hear HIS voice within five seconds, I hang up. When she calls again, I tell her that when she has her boss on the line to call me and not until! -BUSY ATTORNEY DEAR BUSY: sure you speak for many.

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The workshop, one of several planned throughout the state, is sponsored by the Office of Public Instruction to help people who recently have experienced divorce, death of spouse, change in income or a change in goals. It results from a survey conducted by the state office last year. Marian Lane, herself a displaced homemaker, is coordinator for the local workshop which will last from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. both days.

There will be free child care each day. Persons are encouraged to prer-egister by calling the Vo-Tech Center. Topics to be covered include asser-tiveness training, time and money management, supportive agencies, legal assistance, career training, job options, non-traditional jobs, getting and keeping a job, and taking a positive look at one's self. Workshop leaders will include Ida Stenson, secretary at the College of Great Falls; Claire DelGuerra, county home extension agent; Nancy Field, president of the Crisis Center board of directors; attorney Emilie Loring; Vo-Tech staff members; Rich Wooden, Great Falls career education teacher; Shirley Lennon of Job Service; Sharon Mikkelson, Donna Berkof, Nancy Donnell and Dixie Whipple. The presenters all are from Great Falls and many are displaced homemakers.

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(AP) The male-dominated AFL-CIO agreed last week to set aside strongly held tradition and name at least one woman to a top leadership position for the first time in the 99-year history of American trade union federations. AFL-CIO President Lane Kirkland announced the federation's all-male executive council would set aside twd of Its 35 seats for a woman and a minority representative as vacancies occur. Several union presidents on the council are expected to retire this year. The move, which was Initiated and promoted by Kirkland, was criticized as being inadequate by the only black member now on the executive council, Frederick O'Neal, president of Associated Actors and Artists of America. "It is a little bit late and does not constitute a serious conviction toward women or blacks," O'Neill told reporters, adding that more seats should have been set aside for minorities.

However, Joyce Miller, president of the Coalition of Labor Union Women, hailed the action as "a tremendous move that is much stronger and more than I had expected." Kirkland denied the council was exhibiting "tokenism," and other AFL-CIO leaders said they thought the council had gone as far as it could at this point in reaching out to women and minorities. Although several women hold high elected posts within individual unions, none has ever sat on the leadership council of the AFL-CIO or its forerunners, which date back to 1881. Blacks have held seats on the executive council but never in large The barrier to the election of women or nonwhites to the executive council has been the custom that only general union presidents are eligible for membership. There are no women presidents of an international, union. Until his retirement last November the late AFL-CIO president George Meany opposed making exceptions to allow a woman and more minorities on the executive council.

But Kirkland broke with Meany upon his election by calling for a change in tradition. He noted that the AFL-CIO constitution's only requirement for membership on the council is that the candidate belong to an affiliated union. The AFL-CIO's leadership has Unfair cover charge WICHITA, Kan. (AP) Two taverns that feature weekly performances by male strippers have been charged with discriminating against male patrons by charging them more than women to enter the establishments. Late meeting notice LaLeche Leaque will will meet Tuesday at 9:30 a.m.

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"These people are archaic if they think I brought disgrace on the Marine Corps," she said. The flap occurred after Finney, who repaired Teletypes on this desert base 150 miles east of Los Angeles, and six other military women three in the Navy and one each in the Army, Air Force and Coast Guard -posed for a photo series in the magazine. The series will appear in the April issue of Playboy. All of the women were semi-nude hi at least one of the pictures. Finney was shown in five photos two in uniform, two skydiving, and one beside a pool wearing only an open see-threugh blouse.

Pentagon officials said no decision 'had been reached on whether to take action against the other women. In a statement. Playboy Enter- Jensen named to union post HELENA Nadiean Jensen, who succeeded Don Judge as executive director of Montana Council 9, American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, is the first woman to hold the position. She also may be the first fulltime paid female director of a state council of any Montana union. Jensen recalled that her two predecessors, George Hammond and Judge, encouraged women to apply for top positions in the union.

"But in I the future we won't have to be urged," she said. "Some of us used to listen to our fathers or husbands and (look their views as our views. Now we are breaking out of that shell and dis-' covering we have minds of our own." She expects women to become "far more active" in politics and union ac-; tiVities. "Women, the unions and the public will all be better off for it," she added. Jensen predicted the main challenge of the coming year will be the expected tax initiatives and legislative 'attempts to cut taxes, thereby slash-; ing services provided by the federation's members.

She noted there is always a tide of anti-public worker sentiment in a recession. Therefore, she said, there will be a great need for public employee unions, especially with public workers under attack. "One hundred voices speaking together are louder than those same voices speaking individually," she observed. "To accomplish anything, we must speak with one voice." Jensen joined the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees 1969, when she was employed at the Boulder River School and Hospital. At one of her first union Meetings, she asked some probing (juestions about how the union was Fepresenting her.

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