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■ r t Frances Schosn-Newspaper Roo» U n iv e r s ity o f Oregon L ib r a ry u ig e n c , Oregon 97403 PORTLAND OBSERVER T Ne. U 16, 1977 Court finds 701 discriminates l«o per Babe Wilson convicted Babe Wilaon waa found guilty of criminal activity in drugs and taking contraband into a correctional institution by a 10 to 2 vote of the ju ry after ten hours of deliberation. The decision followed a week-long trial which found several corrections and police officers differing widely in their testimony on the events that took place on November 28th. Undercover narcotics officer Carl McDade testified that following a tip by a paid informant (an inmate of Rocky Butte) he met Wilaon at the jail and naked to speak to him. McDade said Wilaon put his hand in his pocket in an attempt to dispone of a balloon of heroin ho waa carrying. McDade and other officers wrestled him to the floor, then according to McDade, he found the balloon on the floor. The testimony of Sgt. Feaaler, McDade's supervisor, who was present, and that of corrections officers present, including L t. Jaeger, commander of Rocky Butte, varied widely in their discription of the altercation. Calling the incident a “frame". Wilson swore that he waa not carrying heroin or a bottle of methadone that McDade said he took from Wilson's pocket. “As I stepped through the door McDade grab bed me around the throat and tried to force his hand into my mouth. I thought The federal court has found that Local 701, Operating Engineers. has discrimin ated against Black workers. The findings were made January 10th and ware the result of a case filed by the Justice Department at the request of the Envir onwental Protectfco Agency. The court found that there is a substan tial disparity between the number of Blfcck members in Local 701 and the number in the population, establishing a prism lade ease of discrimination, and that there is evidence of specific incidents of discrimination against Blacks. The union contended1 that it does not discriminate against minorities because it has an ov «representation of American Indians and that the law does not require hiring blacks. The court found: “The union misreads the intent of Executive Order 11246. Not only does that order seek affirmative hiring of minorities in general, it pro hibits all discrimination baaed on race, sex, religion and national origin. The fact that an employer does not discriminate against American Indians does not mean it is permitted to discriminate against Blacks. N or does it mean that Local 701 can be allowed to interfere with an employer’s Executive Order obligation where the employer is being required to undertake affirmative action steps to remedy the underutilisation of Blacks, because similar underutilization does not exist in that trade with respect to Am er ican Indiana." The court found that the provisions of the Executive Order supercede private contractual agreements between unions and employers. I t is unlawful for a union to interfere with the employer or to engage in a work stoppage against an employer who is attempting to meet his Affirmative action requirements by hiring Blacks outside the union. (Please turn to p. 2 coL 1) The suit waa the result of Local 701 stopping work on federally funded pro jects where the contractors had hired Blacks. Salem Send and Gravel Company, contractors for a Port of Astoria project, attempted to hire a minority operating engineer in January. 1976. Local 701 refused to consider the ordei Salem then hired Donald Jamerson, a qualified Black operator from other sources. Short ly after. Local 701 requested Jamerson’s removal from the job. When Salem refused, the union cioeed the project for two weeks. IJndbrook Construction, Inc., contract ors on a sewer project for the City of Vancouver, attempted over a period of several months in 1974 to hire a minority operating engineer through Local 701. One man was sent, who worked only twelve hours. Considering it useless to try the union again, Lindbrook hired Willie Shaffer through non union sources. The Union notified Lindbrook that Shaffer was to be fired, and when they refused the union workers left the job. The Justice Department had asked for an injunction requiring Iateal 701 to refer minorities, regardless of their seniority position, on all federally funded and assisted projects. The court found this remedy improper because it would not solve the basic problem, that of the un derrepresentation of Blacks in the union and on the seniority list. The court ordered that Local 701 refrain from interfering with the affirma tive action obligations of contractors; that the union, its employees and its members be restrained and enjoined from: 1) engaging in practices that cause contractors or sub-contractors to dis criminate against Blacks; 2) engaging in any work stoppage or encouraging or assisting a work stoppage or interference with work projects. The court will retain jurisdiction and the order will remain in effect until two additional discrimination cases filed against Local 701 are heard. The effect of the ruling will be to allow contractors to hire Blacks outside the union, and through their employment they can then become members of Local 701. Proby threaten* work stop Nathan Proby, director of the United Minority Workers, has threatened to stop construction work on federal highway 1-206 if minorities are not included in the work force. Roy A . Ladd of California is the prime contractor for the $22 million project. No minority contractors bold sub-contracts. Visiting the work sit? Wednesday, Proby said, “I am demanding that minori ties make up at least 5 percent of the work force during the entire life of the job. The Federal Highway Department is not enforcing the regulations that minori ties must be included. I f they do not, we will file for an injunction to stop the funding and we will picket the site or do whatever we must to get our share." Proby stated that the contractor had called for one minority operating engin eer, but Local 701 sent Russ Joy, the former union secretary who waa recently voted out after the government required a new election. Rocky Butte inmate charges H A Z E L G. H A T S State Welfare selects Hays Hasel G. Haya, manager of the Albina Human Resources Center, has been ap pointed manager of the Multnomah Re gional Offiee of the Public Welfare Dtvi- Mrs. Haya was appointed by lfn ria W ..— X t o l a t r a t e r of the Puhbc Wel fare Division. with the approval of Rich aid A . Davis. Director of the Department of Human Resources. M r*. Haya has been manager of the Albnina Human Reeooerea Center since 1978. The coordinates social ser vices and programs for the State of Oregon and the Multnomah County Hu man Services Bureau. She will replace John Burch, current Multnomah Regional Manager, who will retire July 5th. after fourteen years' ssrvie with the Public Welfare Divison. T b extremely pleased with thia ap pointment." Mrs. Kaeser said. “Hasel has a vast knowledge of human resources programs in Oregon, especially in M ult nomah County. She has n keen perspec tive derived from long experience in helping people in need, not only as a social scientist, but as a manager of a busy service center." Mrs. Haya, who has a B.S. in social science and an M.S. in education from Portland State University, taught part- time at the University of Portland and Portland Community College for several years. Mrs. Hays had previously been em ployed as dirctor of Community Services (Please turn to P.4 CoL5) Bobby Jamison, a temporary inmate at Rocky Butte jail has asked Commission Chairman Don Clark to investigate his charges that be was brutalized by cor rectiona officers at the jail. Jamison alleges that on November 17, 1976 he was at Rocky Butte and waa getting ready to go downtown to ate a doctor from the Diagnostic Center. He said he asked a corrections officer to get the razor head out of the razor box, which ha did. H e then accidently partially plugged in the razor, and when Jamison asked him to plug it in so it would work, the officer said he didn't have time. Jamison replied that he would not go downtown unless he was clean shaven. According to Jamison the officer replied. “I f you don't come out when I call your name, punk, then we will come in and get you.” Jamison continued shaving, with the razor cutting off and on. Then, he states, the officer told him to come out. He went on shaving, so two additional officers were sent to escort him. H e finished shaving, then put the razor down and went out with the two officers. A t .this point Jamison asked the offi cers to walk beside him or in front of him but not behind him because he didn't trust them. Then he alleges they grabbed him. He tried to get looee, and in the scuffle moat of the men in the tank were awakened. He states that the officers took him to the door and handcuffed him, then the first officer grabbed him by the hair and started to beat his head against the bars. A t that time two other officers took him downstairs to the dressout room, took off the handcuffs and gave him a pair <rf elean overalls because the ones he wore were torn and had blood on them. N ext, Jamison relates, the handcuffs that arc connected to a chain around the waist were put.on him. He was then ordered to climb up on a bench so leg-irons could be placed on him. He told them the procedure is to put leg-irons while the man is standing, so the two officers threw him on the flow. While an officer squatted with h it knees on his neck and shoulders, the others started twisting his left leg. “As s result my knee and ankle still bother me at this tim e.” Jamison charges that he was kept in a ■mall room, handcuffed and leg-ironed, from early that morning until after 1:00 p.m. then was taken downtown to the Diagnostic Center. “A fter coming back to Rocky Butte that night, they put me right in the hole (B-Tank) and by their own rules they are supposed to give you a hearing within ninety-six hours from the time you are charged with violating the county jail rules. But it was seven days before I was given a hearing. A t this hearing I received 28 days for violating a county jail rule. But yet the officers can beat the bell out of me. and nothing happens to them for it! and they call it justice! Reed symposium discusses affirmative action/ justice/ taxes Six internationally recognised scholars will join Reed College faculty in “Social Justice and Economic Equality", a free public symporium held at the College on March 3rd through 8th. They will » « m in e economic equality and its spec ific applications to taxation and affirm ative action programs. Brian M . Barry, speaking on “A Liberal View of Social Justice and Economic Equality”, opens the symposium. Brian M . Barry is a follow at the Center for Advanced Studies in Behavioral Sci ences, Stanford University, where he is completing a manuscript on philosophical problems. One of the most highly respected contemporary political philos ophers, he is the author of PeHtieal Argument (1966), Bi rlslaglsto, Essnsm- ists and Damscrecy (1970) and I fcaral Thesry sf Jesties (1978) and editor of Power end PeHtieal Theory (1976). Judith Jarvis Thomson will present the conservative point of view. A profes sor of philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Ms. Thomson is a frequent contributor to professional jour nals and consulting editor to 9tedfee, PhOssepMeal Forest, and P M h s ephy and PebUc Affairs. She published “Right to Privacy" in 1975 and “Self- Defense and Rights.” “Property-Acquisi- tioo," and “Acts and Other Events” in 1976. Participants will debate the merits and effectiveness of affirmative action legisla tion passed by Congress and most state legislatures. Paul Seabury will present “The Cam Against Affirmative Action" and Ronald M. Dworkin will speak in fovor of affirmative action. Paul Seabury, professor of government at the University of California. Berkeley, was a consultant to the U.S. State Department for seven y e a n and is active with Americans for Democratic Action and University Centers for Rational Alternatives. He is the author ot eight books, including Power, F r n dsm and Diplomacy, which won the Bancroft Prize in 1964, and The Greet Deteato Disaster, published in 1975. Ronald M. Dworkin has been professor of jurisprudence at Oxford University since 1969 and a fellow of University College, Oxford. He practiced law in New York and this year is visiting professor of jurisprudence. Harvard Law School. He is a frequent contributor to legal and philosophical journals. The debate of alternative methods ot taxation and obtaining economic equality includes Lester C. Thurow’s presentation “The Case for Taxation as a Method of Redistributing Income and Wealth." Oswald H . Brownlee will discuss the “Case against." Named professor of economics and management at the Massachusetts Insti tute of Technology in 1971, Lester Thurow was staff economist for the President's Council of Economic Advisors 1964- 65, and a consultant to the Council, 1965- 68. Among his books are Poverty and Discrimination, which was awarded the David A. Wells Prize at Harvard University in 1967, and Generating In equality: The DiatrBratiaaal Mechanianu of the Economy, published in 1975. Oswald H. Brownlee is author or co-author of five books, including ! and essays and articles. He is of economics at the University of Minnesota and has served as an economist for the International Coopera tion Administration, Santiago, Chile, and as deputy assistant secretary of the U.S. Treasury. “Social Justice and Economic Equality“ is the third symposium in a series presented annually at Reed College with the support of the Oregon Committee for the Humanities, and affiliate of the National Endowment of the Humanities, and the Mellon Fund, a grant from the Andrew Mellow Foundation to Reed College for the support of the humanities curriculum. Tickets to the symposium are free and may be reserved by sending a stamped, self-addressed envelope to SYM POSIUM Reed College, 3203 SE Woodstock Blvd., Portland, Oregon 97202, specifying which of the six programs for which reservations are requested and number of tickets for each session. War theatens small Black colony seeking freedom by Stephen K Inzer by Ulysses M arshal Woman are God's gift to earth. They are beautiful, not only on the outside, but on the | inside, too. Kathy Brewer, an interesting, intelligent, and beautiful lady ia an example. Kathy is a Lao. H er favorite activities include dancing, tennis, jogging, travelling. bicycling, listening to music, going to the beach, concerts and meeting new people. Kathy is a secrotary, and models in her spare time. She would like to go into Fashions full time, and boeome either a buyer or manager, in the future. I She wants a family of two. ■ Her description of her ideal man i * “I like a man that is understanding, intelligent, land full of ideas. Traveling, enjoying people, and having a good time, are some of the Jquaiities he should have. He should be able to fit me into some of the things he likes to Id o , and I should ha able to fit him in some of the things that I like to do. My ideal man | should be independent, and know where he wants to go, and what he wants to do with Ih is career, and future. Honesty and truth is also very important. We should be able to lg iv e and share with each other. We also should be able to accept each other the way Iw e are. and try not to change each other to suit ourselves B E L IZ E (PNS) - Almost by accident, thia tiny Central American nation on the Caribbean coast has become the center of a political dispute that could draw Britain into another Northern Ireland-style con frontation. Though self-governing since 1964, Belize (formerly known as British Hon duras) remains a British colony. The reason is simple: neighboring Guatemala has smsaaed a powerful army on its aide of the border, waiting to invade what it regards as its rightful territory as soon as the 1400-man British regiment here with draws. “I have not the slightest doubt that they would invade if the British toft.” aays a leading Belize politician. Dean Undo, reflecting the general sentiment. “I don’t see how they could do otherwise. Maybe they'd just walk la, in the sense that we couldn't defend ourselves.” Guatemalan President, General Kjell Leugerud recently visited the Belise Guatemala border and proclaimed that if peaceful methods fail, he would ask his nation's youth “to cut their hair and put on helmets...and take up arms to claim what legitimately belongs to us.” The Guatemalan Army has formed a special elite unit elled “Kaibil," which ia undergoing intensive training in the rugged Peten jungle near the Belize border. Soldiers are taught the use of light weapons, largely supplied by Israel, and reportedly are taught warfare tech niques developed by the U.S. Rangers and Special Forces. For Belise, which has no army of its own these developments pose a special dilemma. Belizeans want independence nearly as much as the British want to give it to them; as a colony, they are unable to take their place in the world community. But they are unwilling to let the British withdraw the troops that may be their only guarantee against Guatemalan attack. The dispute over the territory dates back to the 17th century, when English privateers first established a lasting British presence here. Guatemala eventually ceded the terri- tory to Britain in exchange for construc tion of a road-which the British never built. Guatemalans have considered the treaty void ever since. In 1944, the Guatemalan constitution specifically incorporated Belise aa part of the national territory, and all maps printed in Guatemala since show no border between the two. Successive Guatemalan governments have found the Belize issue a concilient way to stir up nationalist sentiment and relieve the pressure from domestic prob lems that make Guatemala a symbol of unequal distribution of wealth and power. Today in Guatemala, bumper stickers everywhere express the view that “Belize is Guatemala." Newspaper fillers exhort, “Guatemalans: Remember, Belise Is Yoursl" B R IT IS H RESPONSE There have been periodic flareups here over the years. The most recent came in 1975 when Britain rushed in reinforce ments, a frigate and a dozen aircraft in response to what they perceived as an imminent invasion. Many Belizeans would like to accept independence while retaining British mil itary protection, but Britons will not make the deal. “We could be here indefinitely,” says Kenneth Oldfield, the British permanent secretary for foreign affairs in Belize’s new capital of Belmopan. “But when we go, we shall go altogether. There will be no defense treaty. We have made a lump-sum cash offer and that will be that.” Belize has received wide support from the world community in her running arguement with Guatemala. Both the United Nations and the Conference of Non-Aligned Nations have overwhelm ingly endorsed her right to "self-deter mination." Many Belizeans believe the U.S., which has strong ties to Guatemala, should step into the territorial dispute, perhaps even guaranteeing Belizean sovereignty after a British withdrawal. But American officials have carefully avoided taking sides. The U.8. abstained from the recent U N vote. (Please turn to P.2 Col.4)
