Detroit Free Press from Detroit, Michigan • Page 18

'iiil lip I SJl "4 '4 r- -v DETROIT FREE PRESS 1S-A Sunday, Sept. 30, '73 Count oj Students One Issue Giving State Headache There is some legal doubt whether teachers can be considered on strike if they do not have a are covered by labor contracts in Michigan than anywhere else. This year's series of strikes indicates the system has not been refined enough. Thirty-seven, strikes so far .15 of them continuing into the fourth week of the school year is proof enough that the Legislature needs to take a serious look at the present law. breached until there Is a negotiated contract.

Almost everyone teachers, their unions and school boards argue that the present law has become useless. All would like to see a way to avoid future strikes. But finding a fair way is difficult. Some would like the teachers to be forced to submit their contract disputes to compulsory arbitration like policemen and firemen are now required to do. Kai Erickson of the Michi-gan Education Association, the state's largest teacher organization, said that idea "is worth looking at." But Henry Linne of the Michigan Federation of Teachers said that would limit "free bargaining" and would put in the hands of a third party something that ought to be resolved between teachers and school boards.

IN THE EARLY years of teacher bargaining in Michi gan in the late 1960s, there was frequently an agreement to end a strike by submitting to fact-finding, a process where a third party hears all the arguments and makes findings of fact and recommendations. Many school boards refused to accept the recommendations, however, and fact-finders did not always propose salaries the school budget could afford. So this year there have been almost no fact-finding agreements. "There is a feeling the issues have to be settled before the strike ends," Erickson said. Michigan was one of the first states to give teachers the right to bargain.

Now teachers have collective bargaining rights in most parts of the country. The process is rnore advanced in Michigan that in any other state, however, and a larger percentage of teachers a district on the fourth Friday are somehow "defective." The Legislature needs to deal with the problem, however, just to end the confusion. The solution is as simple as allowing alternate count days. The Taylor school system was not closed Friday, but the announcement there of opening of school came at 6 a.mi and it is doubtful that all the students showed up. There is little doubt that the Legislature will do something.

It certainly will not let school systems, enrolling almost 300,000 students lose nearly $150 million in state school aid. THE MUCH more difficult problem involves changes in the Public Employe Negotiation Act. The act makes strikes illegal. But the Michigan Su-pterae Court watered that down considerably in "1968, making it difficult to end a strike by court order. There is even some legal doubt as to whether teachers can be considered on strike if they do not have a contract.

Decisions of various state agencies have said that the opening of the school year must be negotiated. So, the teachers can argue, there is no official opening date to be Family Target of 3d Attack Continued from Page 3A works with, and some of his test buddies, they're while. "It doesn't make sense, just over a person moving into a neighborhood." I MRS. FREEMAN said she was surprised by the speed with which police arrested in the most recent incident. She said that her house has been well patrolled by police since the incident.

Mrs. Freeman and her husband have discussed leaving the neighborhood. "But that's just what they want. I think we'll probably stay," she said. Quentin was playing solitaire monopoly in his bedroom.

Saturday afternoon while his two- admiring little sisters looked on. ''He said the flames shooting through his parents' bedroom window "scared me a little." He said he thinks it's all over now. "I'm glad' he said. Accord Hailed -'TOKYO (AP) Chinese Premier Chou En-lai and Japanese Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka have sent messages to each other "sincerely greeting" the first anniversary of the normalization between the two countries. Continued from Page 3A useless and is in need of almost total reworking.

THE SIMPLEST problem facing the Legislature concerns the official student count day. The state school aid law sets the fourth Friday after Labor Day as the date for that count. In the past few weeks both Milliken and Porter sought to pressure settlements in school disputes by warning that a. system closed on the fourth Friday faced the loss of all its state school aid. That argument obviously concerned many people, especially judges considering the many suits brought by school boards to force teachers back to work.

In three days last week, there were 10 court orders Driver Shot In Mystery Highland Park police are looking for the man who shot an orange juice deliveryman just before noon on Saturday. The assailant was wearing a ski mask. Charles E. Hodges, 33, of St. Clair Shores was delivering orange juice on Florence Avenue for the Home Juice 6431 E.

Palmer, when a man knocked on the door of his orange and green truck. Hodges opened the door, and the man shot him in the right shoulder. ending strikes, an unprecedented number for one year. Many of the judges said clearly that they wanted the schools open by the fourth Friday. This Is not a new problem.

teachers were on strike on the official count day in 1968 and the Plymouth school system was shut by a strike on the 1969 count day. Ecorse was making a feeble effort to keep schools open with substitutes-on the fourth Friday in 1968 and so did not face the problem bead on. In 1969 the Legislature passed a special Taw allowing Plymouth to make its count later in the year and a similar statute was passed later to keep Grand Rapids from losing any state aid. There is even some doubt about whether a special law is needed. The state school aid law already includes a section allowing Porter to set the count day at a later time if the student enrollment returns in 'HYPNOSIS' CAN HELP YOU tlmp Sntkifif Hf trinkinf liWiht Matt Bitinf DETROIT HYPNOSIS CLINIC 49701 W.

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