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Justice of the Pennsylvania Grr Lodge of the Order of the Sons Italy, which claims 58,000 member He fights discrimination, ncitl and ethnic stereotyping anvwk he sees or hears it — in a newspare column, an advertisement, on leif \ ision, from a comedian. He does not deny that someIj ian-Americans are invoked incnr nal activity, just as there are crvJ among blacks, Irish, Hispar Poles, Jews, Anglos, and others “ I lie question really is whale crime organizes along ethnic lit: and 1 say it doesn’t,” Bevilaquatk reporter. He acts as the moral tonscit. for the 58,000 members of the Per; sslvania Sons of Italy, and evenE || I talian-Americans everywki across the country. "The fascination the public with the underworld always see:: center on I talian-Americans. mans wrongfull' feel that orgameH crime equals Italian-American said Bevilaqua. Bevilaqua was born in Rome rEl who came to the LJ.S. with his. | | cuts at the age of 8. He claims his anti-discrinir £• task centers on the next generas^B ol 1 talian-Americans. “Will they carry this burdens I the\ try to get into Iteuer jll Be\ ilaqua asked. "I low many will shy away fron* social mg w ith them?" he asked, i That’s the bottom line that , t ies me," lie said. “With about 30 percent of Pr:! sylvaniai’s population beingofltai origin it is fitting that Pennsvlu lead the way," he said. Getting rid of the bosses makes factory run much more efficiently MOUNT PLEASANT, Iowa (AP) — The workers at Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. plant have found out they can get along just fine without bosses. For the past two years, the plant has been run by self-directed work groups made up of the 150 or so em ployees who make industrial and au tomotive rubber hoses. It has been a successful experi ment, says plant manager Robert Becker, one that is being used at other Goodyear plants. Instead of having middle-level management positions such as pro duction managers and floor supervi sors, each work team chooses a coor dinator who brings to Becker the group’s ideas and complaints. “The challenge we make to every person is. izou icvci pm inatcooiui- nator in the position of being an old supervisor,” he said. “You’re not ful- fulling your responsibility as an em ployee if you put that guy in a super visory mode.” Fair said employe! es at Mount expected of (hem, what is right,* « B ent lorn ■ year: B real Pleasant and at otl her Midwest is fair,” he said. H clerg plants, such as in ft annibal. Mo., “Fairness is the principal, ol || sevei nave adopted “an eti itrepreneu rial Becker. “Il you violate that trust, ■a time attitude” as a result ol the work don’t gise second chances.” I seas teams. “They view diet nselves as ma- The system has made empki fl I' deal: naging their own jobs,’ ’ he said. more than clock punchers wore* PI Becker said it goes beyond that, three shifts a day, nearly sevene| 1 sons however. a week, he said. most “We operate on the principal of trust and mutual respect. We trust that our employees will do what is "1 hey really have a fierce sew 111 ownership of this plant," he “They have a fierce sense of Iw/hI here in Mount Pleasant.’’ “There was just dissatisfaction with the way things were done,” Becker said. “This plant used to have traditional supervisors.” “Basically it was a parent-child relationship,” he said. “You know, the old ‘I’m the boss and you do what I say.”’ Becker said that approach was not popular with employees, several of whom were attending nearby Iowa Wesleyan College. “I think what really happened was, as the education level and ex pectations of our employees grew, the work place wasn’t keeping up with their ability to function in that work place,” he said. The self-directed work teams may appear to mirror the way some Japa nese companies run their opera tions, but Becker and officials at company headquarters in Akron, Ohio, said the idea is not the result of Japanese philosophy. “. . . As far as we’re concerned it’s an evolution of what needed to be done in an American factory,” Becker said. “It had nothing to do with the Japanese way of doing things.” Pope asks Africans to help stop racism that to eil or bi Ai greg grou othe place chan bersl leave Becker, who has been plant man ager for about a year since moving from Lincoln, Neb., said production has increased more than 40 percent since 1985. Absenteeism and acci dents also have declined (luring that time, he said. In 1984, the company decided to launch a “supervisorless team” made up of “people that all had that can- do, a little bit of rebels, the people that were really the free spirits,” said Becker. The experiment, which stresses more employee involvement in the running of plant operations, was considered so successful that three more work teams were formed over the next two years. In Goodyear’s headquarters, Bill Fair, director of public relations for the company, and Mike Burns, di rector of organization development, said many of the company’s 48 plants in North America are embrac ing the system in varying degrees. “We think we have a very success ful system at Mount Pleasant. It’s on the leading edge of all the systems,” said Burns. “The Mount Pleasant plant, overall, is considered a good plant.” GABORONE, Botswana (AP) — Standing on South Africa’s doorstep, Pope John Paul II called on the people of this desert nation Tuesday to assist victims of racial discrimination who are “deprived of their legitimate rights.” The pope, on a one-day visit to di amond-rich and bone-dry Botswana, praised the nation as “an island of peace in a troubled sea.” Botswana, a landlocked country of 1.1 million people, has never fought a battle in its 22 years of inde pendence despite bordering such turbulent places as Angola, Mozam bique, South-West Africa and South Africa. “You are a peace-loving and friendly people who believe in the basic equality and human dignity of every man and woman,” the pontiff said to about 2,000 people who greeted him at the airport, including a choir of bare-breasted, teen-age schoolgirls. Later, in a speech at the Cathedral of Christ the King, the pontiff clearly referred to South Africa and ‘7 gladly support yourdl sire to be close to tfei who are unjustly of their legitimate righti I — Pope John Pan its apartheid policies of racial sec gation, without mentioning country by name. “You have witnessed the pligl* those who are subjected by la" discrimination,” the pontiff told' audience in Gaborone, 10 ® from South Africa’s* northernb der. “I gladly support yourdesirt be close to those who are unjustM priced of their legitimate rights^' lack decent living conditions.” 1 he pope arrived Tuesday E Zimbabwe, the first stop on hisj nation tour of southern Africa. 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