Workers forming independent unions
Prof says resistance growing in China
CAROLYN RAMSAY
Of tha Emerald
Revolution in the wake of the Gang of
Four trial — that’s sociology Prof. David
Milton’s prophecy for China.
“(Prime Minister Deng Xiaoping) is
going to create another revolt,” Milton
says. "He guarantees only more strug
gle.”
Milton disagrees with visiting Chinese
professor Zhou Renming’s view on
modern China.
“I am familiar with the position of the
intellectual eiite that he represents in
China,” Milton says. But "his statements
do not reflect the politics in China now.”
Milton and his wife Nancy spent four
years in China during the Cultural
Revolution teaching English to Mao
Tse-tung’s interpreters.
The two co-authored “The Winds Will
Not Subside: Years in Revolutionary
China 1964 through 1969" when they
returned in 1969.
“China is enormously unstable again,”
Milton says. “Resistance is already
growing. Workers in China are forming
independent unions like in Poland.”
He likens the tremors in China today to
the rumbles foreigners noticed in pre
revolution Iran.
"Americans ought to stay out of the
politics of China,” Milton says. “The
networks Americans are making are
good, but struggles aren’t over. Only
Chinese can work out their future
“It's dangerous for the Pentagon to
make a military alliance with China,” he
warns. “China cannot be led by any one
faction, but by a coalition.
“The alliance of Chou En-Lai, who
represented the coastal cities and the
historic links to the modern market sys
tem, and Mao Tse-tung, who represent
ed the great inner core of China, held this
country together for 40 years."
The faction now holding power in
China is a branch of Chou En-Lai's side
of the alliance, Milton says. The Gang of
Four, led by Mao's widow, Chiang Ching,
comes from Mao’s side
The Gang of Four “were not crimin
als,” he says. “They were political op
ponents. The legality of the trial is a
sham."
Chiang Ching was recently sentenced
to life imprisonment for her activities
during the Cultural Revolution.
Although the factions are opposed
politically, "the methodologies don’t
differ at all,” Milton says. Both arbitrarily
arrest political opponents. "Politicians
should stop arresting each other.”
The Polish workers’ concept of the red
bourgeoisie is Mao’s concept, he says.
Milton says he's intrigued by the cover
age the American press has given the
Polish workers’ strike.
"Now I want to see if the American
press is as enthusiastic about indepen
dent unions in China.”
Faculty union petition yields too few names
By MARIAN GREEN
Of the Emerald
A University labor group's
unionization effort was
squelched temporarily Wednes
I
day when a petition came up
short on signatures.
United Oregon Professors
sent a letter to the state Em
ployee Relations Board Wed
Administration to rule
on King celebration
Martin Luther King Jr.'s
birthday will be commemorat
ed by the University if the ad
ministration approves a
University Senate motion.
Senate members passed the
motion 29-0 Wednesday, with
two abstentions The full as
sembly will consider the mo
tion at its meeting next week.
The motion, written by Julie
St. Clair, Student University
Affairs Board chairer, asks the
administration to establish
Jan. 15 as a commemorative
day at the University and to
support those persons work
ing to establish a nationally
recognized holiday.
“The motion is not asking
the University to let everyone
off from school,’’ St. Clair said.
“It leaves it up to the adminis
tration."
She suggested flying the
American flag at half-mast or
making the day “educational.”
St. Clair said she hoped the
motion would spur a “chain
reaction" among other un
iversities to support a holiday
in King’s name.
In other business, CSPA
Prof. Clarence Thurber asked
Senate members to consider
holding "free-floating" dis
cussions at future meetings.
Thurber suggested topics
such as academic quality, col
lective bargaining and inter
collegiate athletics.
nesday withdrawing its collec
tive-bargaining petition UOP
organizer Nat Teich said the
union didn't collect signatures
from the required 30 percent of
the faculty members.
Last month UOP submitted a
petition containing 318 signa
tures, which it believed was
more than 30 percent of the
estimated 1,000 faculty
members of the proposed bar
gaining unit
The actual number of faculty
members, however, varies from
1,054 to 1,089, when faculty on
leave also are counted.
UOP could only estimate the
figures because the University
Administration was not required
to provide a list of people in
cluded in the unit until the peti
tion was submitted, Teich said.
"They don’t have to identify
the people who are supposed to
be included in the unit," Teich
said Thursday, "so the bargain
ing unit turned out to be larger
than we expected, and more
people's signatures were ex
cluded.
"A number of the signatures
were debatable, but it appears
that we would’ve been short
anyway, so it's not worth argu
Trial of football player delayed
The trial of University football player Dwight
Robertson on sex charges has been delayed
pending appeal of a circuit court ruling.
Robertson's trial on first-degree sodomy
charges was scheduled to begin this week
The trial has been postponed until an appeal
on the dismissal of coercion charges against
Robertson has been settled. The Lane County
District Attorney’s Office filed the appeal.
Lane County Circuit Court Judge James
Hargreaves ruled last October that the Oregon
coercion statute used to charge Robertson is
unconstitutionally vague. Hargreaves earlier
ruled the coercion statute unconstitutional in
dismissing charges against former players An
drew Page and Reggie Young.
Robertson, Page, Young and former player
Rick Ward were charged by a Lane County Grand
Jury with forcing an 18-year-old woman to commit
sexual acts on Nov. 14, 1978, by threatening to
reveal damaging information about the woman.
An earlier Emerald story erroneously report
ed the players threatened the woman after the
alleged assault, telling her they would reveal
damaging information if she reported the attack.
Robertson, Page and Young have pleaded
innocent to the sex charges. Ward is fighting
extradition from Colorado.
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Reach out and we will all reach closer to peace.
ing about.”
A state ERB official said the
petition would have been dis
qualified if the union had not
withdrawn its petition.
"My view is to simply go
ahead and re-file. It’s more of a
disaster if we don’t because it
would send a message to the
Legislature that everything is
hunky-dory,” Teich said. "As
quickly as we can get a letter out
to the faculty, we’ll mail signa
ture cards to them "
Teich also criticized the col
lective-bargaining effort of the
American Association of
University Professors.
"They’re not really that inter
ested in collective bargaining,
they're only prepared to tag
along if someone else does the
work.”
AAUP president Katherine
Eaton was out of town and un
available for comment.
Teich attributed the petition
failure to a "genuine problem of
lack of motivation.
"It's a setback, but I don't
think it will be a disaster," he
said.
The UOP will make an official
statement Friday, Teich said,
after a meeting with the Amer
ican Federation of Teachers
local and the Oregon State Em
ployee Association local, the
two UOP components.
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