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SAN FRANCISCO (AP)—Longshoremen and shippers reached
tentative agreement Tuesday to end the crippling 123-day-old West
Coast dock strike.
The settlement will be submitted to a committee representing
locals of the International Longshoremen’s and Warehousemen’s Union
and to individual shippers, said private mediator Sam Kagel.
The committee would set the date of a membership ratification
vote and decide if there would be a return to work pending a vote, said
Kagel. The conunittee will meet here Feb. 12.
A new contract would run to July 1, 1973, Kagel said.
When he made the announcement, Kagel was flanked by ILWU
President Harry Bridges and President Edmund Flynn of the employer
group, the Pacific Maritime Association.
Asked by reporters if he could recommend the agreement to his
members, Bridges replied: “1 don’t want to dicuss it now.”
Asked if the agreement was the result of White House and
congressional pressure, the 70-year-old Bridges gave an emphatic “No.”
Flynn said in response to a question, “Yes, sir, we are satisfied
with the terms, or we wouldn’t have agreed.”
Flynn added that the agreement was produced by “a desire on
the part of both of us to work out a settlement.”
President Nixon had asked Congress to order an end to the strike
to dissolve what he contended was a threat to the nation’s over-all
economy.
The Senate had scheduled a session Tuesday to consider such
legislation. In the House, a proposal for a 60-day injunction to bring a
partial end to the walkout was submitted.
The Senate later approved a measure that would order an end to
the strike by compulsory arbitration. The bill sent to the House
provides, however, for an end to the arbitration procedure when
voluntary settlement of all issues is certified by both sides to the
secretary of labor.
Details of the settlement were not immediately disclosed, but
Bridges had said earlier that retroactivity of a wage boost already agreed
upon was the last major issue to be worked out.
The strike was the longest in the history of West Coast ports and
the first since a 95-day walkout in 1948.
President Nixon said the strike cost the United States $600
million in export losses. Some economists put the overall cost at nearly
$2 billion.
The walkout idled 24 West Coast ports and choked off shipments
to Hawaii.
The strike, called by the ILWU last July 1, ran for 100 days
before President Nixon invoked the Taft-Hartley Act tp interrupt the
work stoppage for an 80-day cooling-off period.
The 80 days ran out on Christmas Day and the union resumed the
strike Jan. 17.
When the opposing sides returned to negotiations Jan. 31, Kagel,
a veteran negotiator in port labor problems, was called in to assist.
Kagel told Tuesday’s news conference: “I am authorized to
announce that the ILWU and PMA negotiating committees reached
agreement on all economic issues. Certain specific noneconomic issues
will be mediated and, if necessary, arbitrated by me.”
Senate asks strike arbitration
IE NEW WANKEL rotary combustion engine came under close scrutiny Tuesday
?ht in the new engineering center. The engine and a lecture were presented by
izda Motor Company. (Photo by Robert Williams)
WASHINGTON <A>) — Despite
a tentative voluntary agreement
in negotiations, the Senate voted
Tuesday to end the 123-day West
Coast dock strike by compulsory
arbitration.
A 79-3 roll-call vote sent the
bill to the House.
Sens. William Proxmire, D.-
Wis., Fred R. Harris, R.-Okla.,
and Lowell Weicker, R.-Conn.,
cast the dissenting votes.
The measure provides for ter
mination of the arbitration pro
ceedings at any time a voluntary
settlement of all issues is certified
to the Secretary of Labor by both
sides.
The vote in favor of the emer
gency dock strike proposal re
quested by President Nixon came
after the Senate rejected, 42 to
39, an amendment to provide a
permanent machinery for settling
disputes in the transportation in
dustries.
Debate on the compulsory arbi
tration bill was under way when
announcement of a tentative
agreement to arbitrate remaining
issues voluntarily reached the
Senate floor.
Sen. Harrison Williams, D.-
N.J., chairman of the Senate
Labor Committee, and Sen. Ja
cob Javits, R.-N.Y., its ranking
Republican, said the agreement
came as no surprise and was an
ticipated in the legislation itself.
The Senate measure provides
for immediate end to the strike
and no resumption for at least
18 months.
9 women,
Berrigan
HARRISBURG, Pa. (A 5 ) — A
jury of nine women and three
men was sworn in Tuesday to try
the Rev. Philip Berrigan and six
codefendants on charges that
Binding arbitration would be
completed in 40 days.
Alternating methods are pro
vided for selection of the arbi
tration panel.
A single arbiter could be se
lected if the International Long
shoremen’s and Warehousemen’s
Union and the Pacific Maritime
Association agree on one man. If
they disagree, each party could
name one arbitrator and they
could choose a third as chairman
if they agree. If they disagree,
the chairman of the three-man
panel would be named by the chief
judge of the U.S. District Court
in Northern California. If either
party fails to name an arbitrator,
the judge could select a single
arbitrator.
Before reaching a final vote on
the emergency bill the Senate re
jected an amendment to add
permanent machinery for dealing
with crippling strikes in the
transportation industry.
Sen. Bob Packwood, R.-Ore.,
who offered the amendment pat
terned after legislation requested
by the Nixon administration
nearly two years ago, said if it
had been on the books there would
have been no dock strike.
The amendment would have
provided the President a se
quence of options—a 15-day ex
tension of the 80-day Taft-Hart
ley injunction for final negotia
tion, partial operation of the af
fected industry, and selection by
an impartial arbiter of either the
last offer of management or of
labor.
The Packwood amendment drew
support from Republican sena
tors, but Williams said its adop
tion would cause problems with
the House getting final congres
sional action.
The House Rules Committee
considered exercising its extraord
inary powers to force one of sev
eral choices to the House floor
today.
Rep. William M. Colmer, D.-
Miss., Rules Committee chairman,
asserted it would be “poor poli
tics” for the House to recess to
night for a week’s Lincoln day
vacation and let the economy con
tinue to suffer from the shipping
tieup.
“I don’t think the country
would appreciate it,” he said.
The House Labor Committee
approved a resolution authoriz
ing a 60-day injunction against
a portion of the strike. It re
jected, as did its subcommittee
headed by Thompson Monday, the
compulsory arbitration settlement
urgently requested by President
Nixon on Jan. 21.
The Labor Committee was pre
vented by its own rules, allowing
three days for dissenting com
ment, * from bringing its bill to
the House floor immediately.
The committee-approved meas-
(See Senate, page 4)
10-man life raft is found
from missing U.S. tanker
GALVESTON <A>) —The U.S.
Coast Guard said a search group,
looking for a missing tanker with
39 men aboard in the Gulf of
Mexico, found a 10-man life raft
from the missing vessel Tuesday.
A Coast Guard spokesman said
the life raft was “positively iden
tified as coming from the V. A.
Fogg.”
The life raft was found about
50 miles south of Freeport, in the
same general area where a life
ring and a life jacket and a door
were found earlier. The life ring
bore the name V. A. Fogg and a
former crewman said the door
3 men comprise
conspiracy jurors
) Democrats, 7 Republicans
Record number file for governor
AUSTIN (AP)—Ten Democrats
d seven Republicans have filed
r governor of Texas, making
the largest combined bid for
at office in history.
eprieves given
1,000 young men
eligible for draft
WASHINGTON <AP> — More
lan 11,000 young men who have
iceived induction notices but
aven’t yet reported for duty
ere given a reprieve Tuesday by
elective Service Director Curtis
Tarr.
Tarr instructed local draft
oards to place the men who had
eceived the draft orders, as well
s 115,000 members of the 1972
Ixtended Priority Selection
'roup, into the less vulnerable
lecond Priority Selection Group.
The action means they won’t
drafted unless there is a na-
ional emergency.
Affected are men whose orig-
tial 1971 induction dates were
lostponed until the first call of
972 or until further notice, as
Well as those whose postpone
ments were scheduled to end on
a specific date before April 1.
An American Party candidate
also has filed.
Only three times, in 1930, 1938
and 1946, have more Democrats
sought the governor’s job. The
seven Republicans are by far the
most to seek the GOP nomination
as that party has held only six
primary elections.
A total of 55 Democrats are
seeking statewide office, includ
ing governor, and 10 Republicans
have filed.
Another three applications for
the Democratic primary May 5
were questioned because of un
certainty about when they were
mailed or other reasons. One
was for governor. Secretary of
State Bob Bullock was asked if
the Applications meet state re
quirements.
A candidate will be scratched
from the ballot if he fails to pro
duce either his $400 filing fee by
Feb. 28 or if he chooses not to
pay the fee, a petition with, the
names of 2,500 registered voters
by March 5.
Gov. Preston Smith, Lt. Gov.
Ben Barnes, businessman-rancher
Dolph Briscoe of Uvalde and Rep.
Frances Farenthold of Corpus
Christi are the most prominently
University National Bank
“On the side of Texas A&M.”
—Adv.
mentioned Democratic candidates
for governor.
Sen. Henry Grover of Houston
and Albert Fay, a longtime party
worker also of Houston, are prob
ably the best known Republican
candidates for governor.
Sen. John Tower, R.-Tex., is
unopposed in the primary as is
Rep. Maurice Angly of Austin, a
candidate for state treasurer on
the GOP ticket.
Five Democrats are in the U.S.
Senate primary to oppose Tower
next November, including former
Sen. Ralph Yarborough and Dal
las lawyer Barefoot Sanders.
Nine Democrats are running
for lieutenant governor, including
Sens. Joe Christie of El Paso,
Wayne Connally of Floresville
and Ralph Hall of Rockwall;
Houston Post newspaper execu
tive Bill Hobby; and Odessa oil
man Bill Jones.
Houston lawyer John Hill filed
against Atty. Gen. Crawford
i Martin in that race, and nine
Democrats are running for State
Comptroller, including the incum
bent, 80-year-old Robert S. Cal
vert.
Tentative settlement reached
concerning Astrodome repairs
HOUSTON (AP)—The question
of who is to repair the leaking
roof at the Astrodome and paint
rusting beams in the ceiling came
to a tentative settlement Tuesday.
Harris County, owner of the
stadium, reached the agreement
with Judge Roy Hofheinz’ Hous
ton Sports Association, appar
ently settling a court suit which
has been dragging on since last
year.
Under the agreement, which
still must be approved by the
county commissioners court, HSA
will deposit $1.2 million with the
county to insure the needed re
pairs. Then the sports associa
tion can either use the money to
contract for the repairs or the
county can do so, drawing on the
same funds.
The agreement also authorizes
the sports association to seek to
recover any damages for any
previous faulty construction by
the original builders.
they conspired to kidnap presi-
lential aide Henry Kissinger as
a gesture of opposition to the
Vietnam war.
Jury selection was completed
after 2% weeks of trial, during
which prosecution and defense
focused on the religious attitudes
of prospective jurors, question
ing them at length about their
views of political activism by
priests and nuns.
In addition to Berrigan, two
of the defendants are Catholic
priests, one is a former priest,
one is a nun and another a for
mer nun. The seventh defendant
on trial in U. S. District Court
here is a Moslem from Pakistan.
The majority of the jury is
Protestant. One is a Roman
Catholic. There is one black
juror.
Three of the women jurors are
in their 20s. The eldest member
of the panel is a woman of about
60 whose four sons all were con
scientious objectors. Three of
the jurors have relatives who
served in Vietnam.
Selection of six alternate ju
rors was the next order of busi
ness before Judge R. Dixon Her
man. They will be available
throughout the trial in the event
one or more of the regular ju
rors has to drop out for health
or other reasons.
The trial of the so-called Har
risburg 7 began Jan. 24. Since
then more than 300 prospective
jurors were questioned.
Forty-six survived the initial
examination. This number was
reduced during the Tuesday ses
sion by the use of peremptory
challenges, for which no reason
need be given. The defense had
28, the government 6.
The defendants are accused of
plotting in 1970 to kidnap Kis
singer and stage his mock trial
as a symbol of the group’s oppo
sition to President Nixon’s poli->
cies in Southeast Asia.
In addition, the indictment ac
cuses the defendants of plotting
to blow up heating tunnels in
Washington and to raid and
vandalize draft offices in several
states.
The government charges that
the scheming was masterminded
by Berrigan from a cell in the
federal penitentiary at Lewis-
burg, Pa., through the use of
smuggled letters. He was in
carcerated there at the time,
beginning a six-year prison term
for destroying draft records. He
later was transferred from Lew-
isburg.
Defendants with the tall, gray
haired priest, are two other
Catholic clergymen, the Rev.
Joseph Wenderoth, 35, and the
Rev. Neil McLaughlin, 30. Also
charged are a former priest and
the ex-nun he married, Mr. and
Mrs. Anthony Scoblick, both 32;
Sister Elizabeth McAlister, 30, a
teaching nun, and Eqbal Ahmed,
40, a Pakistani graduate student
in this country.
All but the 48-year-old Ber
rigan are free on bond.
belonged to the missing ship.
The Coast Guard spokesman
said the life raft found Tuesday
was the type that inflated as soon
as it hit the water.
“There was no evidence anyone
had ever been in it,” he said.
The 572-foot tanker left Free
port enroute to Galveston Feb. 1.
She became the object of a mass
ive sea and air search when she
failed to reach Galveston on
schedule. She was to have sailed
offshore 50 miles to clean her
tanks of highly volatile benzene
residue.
Meanwhile, the Coast Guard
at Washington named a marine
board to investigate the mystery
of the missing ship.
Adm. Chester R. Bender, Coast
Guard Commandant, named Rear
Adm. Orvan R. Smeder, com
mander of the 7th Coast Guard
District at Miami, Fla., as presi
dent of the four-member board.
The group is expected to con
vene later this week or early next
week in Galveston to begin the
inquiry.
Formal degree
applicants near
filing deadline
A&M students who expect to
complete degree requirements
and graduate this spring have
until Feb. 11 to make formal
degree application.
Registrar Robert A. Lacey em
phasized the application is the
responsibility of the graduating
student.
Applications should be made
in the Richard Coke Building.
A $5 graduation fee to be paid
at the Fiscal Office is required.
Graduate students apply in the
Graduate College office, in Room
209. Undergraduates should re
port to Room 7 of the Regis
trar’s Office. The graduation fee
receipt must be presented to
make formal application.
Room changes end Friday
for students in single room
A&M students who live in a
residence hall room by themselves
have until Friday to make ar
rangements for sharing the room.
Students without roommates
will be charged one-third more
rent after Feb. 11, reminded
Housing Manager Allan M.
Madeley.
He said more than 120 students
in 14 halls live alone.
These students may either con
solidate or notify the Housing
Office they wish to continue
single occupancy the remainder of
the semester and pay the addi
tional rent.
The deadline is 5 p.m. Friday,
Madeley said.