McCarthy calls ,two-par menac By DAN BURNETT and MARTY CARLIN Collegian Staff Writers Independent _ presidential candidate Eugene J.' McCarthy said here yester day the two-party system that has evolved in the United States is proving to be the menace that our forefathers warned us about. Speaking to 1800 people at the University Auditorium, McCarthy said, "Along with the two-party system in this country we get a demand for strict party ( loyalty- and this can have adverse - ef- Wets." He used as examples the Democrats' support of the Vietnam War because there was a Democratic president and the Republican continued support of Nixon after Watergate. McCarthy said that defendants of the two-party• system use "the action _of 13,1walty opposition as' a defense. This is okay for a parliamentary system, but in our system it amounts to one party, playing games with legislation." Since the federal election act was passed, the two-party system has been legitimatized, McCarthy said. This has ' , llshandicapped any third-party candidate, ' he said. The federal election act provided $21.8 million for both the Democratic and Republican candidates, but no money for independent candidates, he said. "Anyone besides a ' major-party •andidate who is making an effort (for he presidency) such as we have been making is not eligible for federal funds," McCarthy said. The laws also set a $l,OOO limitation on the amount an individual can contribute to a candidate. "This is like our Dorefathers saying 'I pledge my life, onor, and property up to $1,000'," he said. . McCarthy also criticized the two major parties for not dealing with the issues. He said Ford and Carter were shallow during the debates. "They should be talking about how Unionization hearing testimony The Pennsylvania Labot Relations;" Board'X • unionization may be shortened, .ac cording to hearing examiner Sidney Lawrence. Five of the 11 college deans the University had planned to call have testified so far in the hearings. Lawrence said at yesterday's hearing he would rule that testimony by, further deans would be cumulative (repetitious) • after Dean James Beattie of the College of Agriculture concludes his testimony. The University is contending that college deans are supervisory per sonnel and therefore should not be included in the bargaining unit. Both groups attempting to represent the faculty, the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) and the .Penn State University, Professional Association ..(PSUPA) agreed that medical school faculty would not be included in the bargaining unit. But the University reached agreement with the two groups that Department of Nursing personnel at the Hershey Medical Center come under the College of Labor candidate pushes employment plan U.S..Labor Party candidate for the U.S. Senate Bernard Salera told students yei terday that his party has a plan to double steel output in the state to create more • lobs .cs, • 'll/4 • 1111 daily e LIN.SH tO er Tin cents p copy Thursday Ocr ,1978 Vol. 77, , No. t d o e be 10 28 pipes rivsnlr government policies Institutionalized poverty for 20 million Americans rather than talking about reorganizing the government," , McCarthy said. "Government reorganization is unrelated to the problems of the coun try." • McCarthy also , said the candidates should have discussed redistributing work to create more jobs. - • "Ninety per cent of the people are doing 100 per cent of the work and if we follow the auto workers union's . exam ple, we could have 98 per• cent of the people doing 100 per cent of the work," he said. McCarthy ,said that candidates talk about breaking up big corporations, but this is not beneficial because it will not solve our energy problems. • "We have to give big corporations some direction and force them to use their power for the good of society," he said. McCarthy cited the wastefulness of energy in the auto industry. He said cars are made with 300 horsepower engines and capable of doing 110 miles per hour while the national speed limit is 55 m.p.h. . • "It's like Jimmy Carter's lust. You can sense the power under the hood and see the speedometer mark of 110 m.p.h and it makes you feel good, but you have to let it go at that," McCarthy said. ' . He said another favorite campaign issue is "cutting the fat" from the defense budget and replacing it with the "lean." "They talk about cutting the fat out of the defense budget but ' maybe -that's what we should keep. It's safer. It's the lean we have to worry about." McCarthy said that in the 1950's we worried ' about a Russian attack by bombers, in the 1960's it was missiles, and now it is submarines. "I've read recently where we have enough equipment to wipe out Russia ten times. They have enough to wipe us out five times. And I always thought the first time would be rough,", he said. shortened :Human ,'Develpopinenk t und.would'pe included. - In another attempt to speed up the hearings; Lawrence entertained a motion that Capitol Campus department heads be considered on the same basis as those which had already been heard. He asked the parties to consider the motion for today's• hearing. He alio asked the University to furnish a list of all librarian and Capitol Campus per sonnel, indicating which ones it considered supervisory. Lawrence also, asked the University to furnish a list of, Research Institute Directors for consideration and said he wanted it before the end of the week's testimony. • Yesterday's hearing consisted mainly of testimony by Dean Donald Ford of the College of Human Development, who was • questioned about his administrative role by PSUPA's Marc Kornfield, AAUP's G. Edward Philips and Vilma Hunt and the University's John Gilliand. Beattie was called to testify toward the end of the hearing and gave some background infoimation. Candidates vie for votes in East By, United Press International Georgia's Jimmy Carter, elated by tens of thousands who gave him a hero's welcome on the streets of New York City, said yesterday he was confident of Winning the presidential election. But President Ford, claiming the momen tum was his, predicted he would score a "Truman" upset victory Nov. 2. With only six days left before the election; Ford and Carter took their campaigns to the populous east and its riches of electoral votes in their close struggle for the presidency. Both were cheered by the crowds in the final stages of the election campaign. After a hectic day in New York City, which included the biggest turnout of his 22-month quest - for the presidency, Carter arrived in Pittsburgh where he was met by a small but enthusiastic crowd. ' In a bouyant mood, Carter brushed off aideswho tried to steer him to his car and shook hands with followers who came to the airport. "I have great confidence that I shall be the next president," Carter said at the Allegheny County airport. "We're ahead in the polls but it's very close." , Bernard Salera, U.S. Labor Party candidate 'for the U.S. Senate, said his opponents do not understand Penn sylvania's economic problems, and that his party has a plan to double the state's employment rate in the steel industry within the next three years. Salera, who faces Democrat William Green and Republican H. John Heinz 111 in the fight for the U.S. Senate - seat vacated by Hugh Scott, accused his opponents of "talking totally off the wall" on economic issues and said neither "can even conceptualize what the problems are." He said the Labor Party would double steel industry employment by im plementing the "Jordan Concept." This plan, he said, utilizes pulverized an thracite and pure oxygen and would double the efficiency of steel production methods and of the total steel output in the state. "With this doubling of the steel output, we'd have to double the manufacturing of steel-producing apparatus, and this is where the increase in jobs comes in," Salera said. He said that in order to handle the increased exporting of steel that would result, the port of Philadelphia would have to undergo "considerable" modernization and expansion. Presently, he said, only 10 per cent of its business is in exports. Salera, a'1974 Congressional candidate in south Philadelphia, and city-council candidate there in 1975, said he expects to,get 35 per cent of the vote. Salera said this percentage was "a good barometer for our strength on the national level," where Lyndon Laßouche Jr. is running as the Labor Party's presidential candidate. Pholo by Andy 0u By JAY SCHONTHALER Collegian Staff Writer • Independent presidential candidate Eugene McCarthy told students in the Univer sity Auditorium yesterday that the country's demand for strict party loyalty can have adverse effects. In both a speech and a television in terview, Carter said it was "inevitable" that a general tax cut would accompany his proposed . tax reform and he ap peared to suggest economic conditions would dictate such a reduction. Ford also hunted votes in Penn sylvania where local polls gave Ford a slight edge for the state's 27 electoral votes and told a rally at Villanova University, noted for its great track stars, that "this long distance run is one race I'm going to win." For the second day in a row, Ford sought to separate himself from Richard Nixon and Watergate. Ford said that Americans had been "betrayed by corruption at the highest levels of our government" when he assumed office in August, 1974. He added "As I said then, our , long national nightmare is over." He said in contrast to Nixon, the White House •no longer is "an imperial presidency. We don't use dictatorial authority." Both candidates sought to burnish their credentials with Catholic voters Salera said the Labor Party has now conceded that it cannot win_ the presidential election, "although up until about two ago our chances looked pretty good." If Jimmy Carter is elected, Salera said, then "we're literally on the brink of nuclear war." Carter, he said, is . being "manipulated" by his military advisers to make the Soviet Union believe that the U.S. would go to war against it if it did not loosen its control over Third World nations and allow the U.S, greater ac cess to these nation's resources. "Rostrow and Schlesinger and Zumwalt are all part of that whole cesspool who are preparing Carter to not back down from the Soviets," he said. Salera credited the Labor Party with pressuring the Republicans into forming a "watchdog" committee to monitor voting in several key states. In at least seven states, including Pennsylvania, he said, the Labor Party expects Carter backers to sabotage the voting process by having selected individuals vote several times. Referring back to his Senate cam paign, Salera added, "If John Heinz wants to put his money to use, he should use it to help bust up the voting fraud being conducted by the Democrats.", Weather Cheer up! This morning's deep freeze marks the end of our prolonged cold spell, and Indian Summer is on the way. Sunny skies will warm today's temper ature up to 46. Tonight will be chilly, but not nearly as cold as•last night. Low 32. The real treat comes tothorrow, how ever, as warm southwesterly winds and bright sunshine push the mercury up to 57. W 202 PATTEE University Park, Pennsylvania Published by Students of The Pennsylvania State University Ford paying a visit to Cardinal John Krol in Philadelphia and Carter meeting privately with Cardinal Terence Cooke in New York City. Carter received the biggest reception of his campaign in New York City as he battled for the state's 41 electoral votes with a motorcade that rolled down Fifth Labor board considers TV station request By DAVE SKIDMORE Collegian Staff Writer The Pennsylvania Labor Relations Board (PLRB) will consider a petition from Local 636 of the International Alliance of Theatrical' Stage Employes (lATSE) asking to represent production workers at University-owned WPSX-TV. lATSE Local 636, representing some of the stage hands employed by the University and movie projectionists in State College and Lewistown, filed the petition Sept. 28 after 17 of about 25 WPSX employes signed consent cards. If PLRB hearing-examiner Sidney Lawrence decides that WPSX employes are an appropriate bargaining unit, then elections to determine union representation will be held. "The University has indicated that it will not agree to any separate union on the basis that the employes do not have a community of interest . . . and that a separate union would constitute over fragmentation as defined by (state labor law) Act 195," Lawrence said. Teamsters Union Local B's bargaining unit includes more than 2,000 University employes indluding 9 that lATSE is asking to represent, WPSX employe Edward Mullen said. Rhodesian talks snag on issue of prisoner release GENEVA, Switzerland (UPI) Rhodesian Prime Minister lan Smith said yesterday he will release political prisoners only if black nationalists pledge to stop terrorist attacks, ac cording to diplomats at the Rhodesia peace conference. Black leaders had put the prisoner release issue high on a list of their demands for the conference, which begins today. Despite the political skirmishing that marked the week of preparations for the talks, conference chairman Ivor Richard showed surprising optimism on the eve of the negotiations. "I don't think anybody has said anything this week that surprised me," he said. In Salisbury, Rhodesian security forces reported guerrilla attacks have killed seven people in the past two days. Trpops killed two guerrillas and a black • 4 :: COPIES Avenue and into the midtown garment center for a rally. Although the crowds were huge, the applause was more polite than enthusiastic. New York reporters said it was the biggest presidential campaign rally since John Kennedy appeared there in the, closing weeks of the 1960 campaign. Lawrence said that he invited both the Penn State Professional Association, which is presently petitioning. to represent the faculty, and the Teamsters to sit in on the hearings. Local 8 President Jane Pikovsky refused to comment on the matter. "The skilled worker and crafts people are ill-represented by the Teamsters," Mullen said. "That's why we want to be represented by lATSE." lATSE Secretary Michael Novack said lATSE can better represent WPSX employes because it has an expertise in their area. lATSE, an AFL-CIO affiliate, is a craft union that represents theatre, motion picture and TV employes in the United States and Canada. The public hearings are scheduled for Nov. 8 and 9 in 404 Old Main. Lawrence said that he does not think two days will be enough and added that the next hearing can't be scheduled until mid-December. lATSE has been working for over a year to represent WPSX employes, Novack said. "Originally we petitioned the National Labor Relations Board, but we were told to petition the Penn sylvania board." civilian, and a man who confessed that he had aided terrorists hanged himself in jail. On the demand for the release of prisoners, Smith sent a message last night to Richard, Rritain's represen tative to the United Nations. Rhodesian officials declined to reveal its contents, but diplomats at the con ference said "it would be safe to assume" Smith linked any consideration of releasing political detainees to the question of terrorism. "Certain" prisoners cannot be released until terrorism stops, the diplomats said.- Richard told a reporter "the elements of a settlement are there . . . given a fair amount of hard bargaining we should be able to do it." Richard had a last-minute round of talks with two of the four black nationalists involved in the cogference.
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