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■crac ered durin e N.Z. Rail fits' Associ CRACCUM m fares pa REGISTERED FOR TRANSMISSION BY ROST AS A NEWSPAPER merit in ! VOL. 43 5 cents ite simply, i to pick u| ISSUE 2 Free to Students vonder StiL t year. the doctors \NZ confer jr cafe's - student > s breakfa backlash ned in the much to rin of the ;r, John Ag armed the e organist! ordered br unions unlikely having broi 5. Thirty# ip. The or; they wouli not to bei medical s| irest Kleet remaining Anderson ( le ft) — "It's the Agnew (right) — "If it :onsumed i bosses we're trying to get means getting food into my oiled sausa at, not the public." caf . I would go out :old scram into a paddock and shoot a cow." Editors r applical sis for whi The resolution to hold the SGM was passed by a thin called its Union leaders unanimously agreed in the weekend that majority. Among the dissenters were some who felt that the in the event of the Students’ Association having to take action anti-unionist faction on campus was bigger than the pro-union amusemeo! to prevent strikes from hampering the normal running of faction, and the SGM could result in a decision to support > was only the catering facilities, no pressure would be brought to bear scabbing when a similar situation arose again. nd he di by the unions to prevent students from obtaining holiday In the event, the SGM was badly publicised and poorly ill. employment. attended. It moved into committee soon after it began, and in the end it was decided to defer the matter to the first The only slightly dissenting voice was that of Mr G. Arm Rudman did not want SGM — now SRC will decide. strong, secretary of the Hotelworkers’ Union. The Hotel- meeting of the SRC. Since the meeting was held in Com 'ormer pri workers’ Union includes members of the students’ cafeteria Mr G. H. Andersen, the union allows retailers to “collect their mittee, Craccum is unable to report any cf the proceedings. the Auckl, staff. However, it is understood that much of the arguments >arty whoi own stuff” when an industrial dispute disrupts the supply of “We would have to take action against any students in favour cf the motion revolved around a fear that students a donation goods to shops and retailing agents. “It’s the bosses we are ‘scabbing’, and make no mistake, it would be effective would find their holiday jobs in jecpardy if the Executive de airman of trying ot get at, not the public,” said Mr Andersen. “I would action”, said Mr Armstrong. cided to indulge in “strike-breaking” . Some speakers ad in a city personally regard any disagreement between students and “I wouldn’t like to be more specific than that, we would unions as a friendly contradiction,” he said. The Northern vocated consultation with the union involved in the event cf have to treat each case according to its particular circum Drivers’ Unicn was not trying to do any student out of a meal. an industrial dispute impeding the normal running of the stances, but I can assure you the students would not emerge “However,” he said, “each union has a different policy Association. It was felt that this was the only way that the with their reputations untarnished.” on the sort of action it would not tolerate.” Association could refrain from taking a political stand. » month: i Asked whether such action would be aimed at preventing After the Northern Drivers’ Union dispute had been brought Oaccum’s investigations shew, however, that alienated announce Si students from obtaining holiday employment, Mr Armstrong to the attention of the executive, a Special General Meeting of unions are unlikely to retaliate through the Action Committee S.E. Asia1 said the trade union movement tried to help students as far on Unemployment to prevent students from getting holiday moving to the Association was called to decide what sort of policy the as possible. He would not be more specific. jobs. fter all. Association should follow in the event of future industrial dis “We all know you’ve got to earn a bit of money during putes disrupting the proper functioning of the cafeteria. Mr A. Russ, secretary of the Committee, said that it is the holidays, and that’s fair enough,” he said. Man Vice-President Mike Law felt that action by the stated FOL policy to help students as far as possible if they Two cases recently have highlighted the vulnerability of Association which led to the breaking of a strike could seri need holiday jobs. the catering facilities to outside strike action. Late last year ously jeopardise the chances cf students getting jobs during “But where a strike is in operation,” he warned, “the best an industrial dispute involving the catering staff had forced the vacation. In the past, Auckland trade unions have co course of action would be to get in touch with the union in AS some members of the executive and committee-members to operated with Studass over Christmas through the Action volved and see if any action by the Students’ Union would iese two temporarily take over in the place of the staff. However, Committee on Unemployment, an organisation comprised of compromise students with regard to jobs in the holidays.” 'ectly reas the dispute was soon resolved. trade unions. The last word in the matter must go to Catering Manager by stud* Then again, earlier this month, the snack bar was closed The debate at the Executive became heated after Bill John Agnew: “If it means getting food into my cafeteria,” versifies t for a time during a strike by members of the Northern Drivers’ Rudman and Administrative Secretary Vaughn Preece spoke he said, “I wculd first go out and stock up on tinned meat, ger and ni Union. against Law’s motion, which advocated the calling of an SGM and when that ran out, I would go out into a paddock and According to the secretary of the Northern Drivers’ Union, to formulate Association policy. shoot a cow.” vants to I cog in individual, e and att sity teache of the ne\ .ities, the i S.A. DEMO Monarch Life s over bai INSIDE student, a Just how concerned are we, as students, about the issues we don’t real iat they h THIS WEEK debate and argue on? 1 to the sit • Does Labour Party Tomorrow ( Friday) is the anniversary o f the Sharpeville shootings want students out? ... 3 in the Uni • International Stu and to commemorate the event, the Maiori Club, along with others, is ore compi dent Movement organising a march in the city at lunchitime. rejection bankrupt ................. 4 the univei • Israel's future........ 5 The march has, however, another important function. It will be ated by i • Near riots in Hong i the Ne; a bid to persuade the Government to prevent the sending of an All Kong University 6 Black team to South Africa. Arthur E. Mahy • Brutus on Apart- 7 falling oi heid -------------------- 7 mit Negri Introduces its new • Orientation run Apart from the moral side of the isssue, the New Zealand Govern ies and c flexible policy for down ......................... 8 ment may have to answer to the Unitecd Nations if it sends a team to iat they ; single men and girls • Festival News ...... 12 :ious, but South Africa. Last year the General Asssembly voted 98 : 1 ( Portugal) • Highet — a naive This new flexible policy is specially ission ot to break sporting contact with South Alfrica. politician ................ 13 designed to suit the particular heid in needs of young people— Maidm Although South Africa has not insiisted that no Maori players be providing all of the normal bene m their« included in the New Zealand team, tine New Zealand Rugby Union fits plus a special “PREMIUM ;nd dem REMISSION OPTION” at a has been advised not to send a team thiat could cause embarrassment time selected to suit the Policy and st holder’s own convenience, to either side. e.g. upon marriage, establishing a business, undertaking advanced After the recent visit by Dennis Bnutus, and the address he gave, study or travelling overseas. OONAN it is hoped that the majority of students will turn out to support STOP PRESS! tomorrow's march, which will leave the Student Union Quad at 1 p.m. Sharpeville Day anti-apart heid March 1.00 tomorrow. 2 ____ CRACCUM — March 20, 1969 EDITORIAL LETTERS Labou to be secondhand bookselling service. effect cf Administration actions magazine — one that would Society Most people seem to agree was to create an impression of of considerable interest Apartheid arid Us that textbooks are not usually obscurantist bigotry, and ling students, as well as the gene bought until after the first lec ering suspicions that the ban public. Two of the lead Doe and slugs ture in a unit when lecturers was politically motivated. articles are written by sen The day after Dennis Brutus exhorted students to oppose — G. W. Fischer. lecturers of Auckland Unive Sir, — So, once again we have state which bocks they will con a New Zealand Rugbv tour of South Africa, an item in the ity, the remainder contribu: been informed cf the deadly centrate on and use as basic Herald announced that a man and a woman were being by both students and w war Kulaks with their "ideas of texts and these which will be prosecuted in Johannesburg for unlawful sexual intercourse. Editor's qualified members of the p functions; the fragmented in regarded as reference bocks.