SUBSCRIBER'S ADDRESS 'Uncle Al' THE COWL Bows Out I PROVIDENCE I COLLEGE Page 2 Vol. XXXIII No. 12 PROVIDENCE COLLEGE, PROVIDENCE, R.I. FEBRUARY 12, 1971 EICHT PAGES How Long Must They Suffer? How long must the suffering of struggle the growers are trying to Chavez, the head of the UFWOC the farmworker, the lowest paid confuse the public by saying that for three weeks, the boycott has member of American society there is a jurisdictional dispute. been directed against all his continue? How long will men, This is not true. The growers products. Bud Antle is strongly women and children toil in the violated the right of self- involved with the Dow Chemical fields under the hot sun lacking determination of the farmworkers Corporation which also the simplest of sanitary facilities? by choosing an outside union. produces pesticides which cause How many more children will be They invited in the Teamsters serious harm to farmworkers. born into a life of misery with no Union and signed "sweetheart" hope for the future? How many contracts with this union without The UFWOC has opened an more people will be killed and allowing the farmworkers the office in the Providence area and injured through the misuse of right to an election. The United is appealing to all people to dangerous pesticides? Farmworkers and the Teamsters boycott all non-farmworker union In 1965 in Delan. California, have reached a jurisdictional lettuce. The answers to the five thousand farmworkers walked agreement whereby the Teamsters questions which began this article out of the fields to say that these agree to stay out of the fields as can only be answered by you. We conditions will no longer be far as representing farmworkers have received no justice from the tolerated. The start of the and the UFWOC agrees to stay growers, the courts, the Congress, Jan Galkowski works on Lucky. movement now called the "Grape out of the packing sheds and or the government (which is now strike and Grape boycott" began processing plants. There is no the biggest strikebreaker by along the simple theme that jurisdictional dispute. increasing its purchase of Bud Antle Lettuce by 300%). Or hope farmworkers are human beings Since the strike began on Lucky Path To is in you because it is only and no longer will allow August 3 major companies have through your support that the themselves to be treated as given up their "Contracts" with misery and suffering of the people animals. the Teamsters, and after allowing that feed you will be ended. Artificial Mind In 1970 through the help of a free elections in the fields now are Farmworkers have lived on successful consumer boycott of represented by the farmworkers By M. J. Dono hue people led by frosh Physics major sympathy and promises for too grapes, farmworkers now have unions. The lettuce from these At 3:30 on a Saturday morning Jan Galkowski involved in a long, we need your active support justice and dignity in the grape three growers can be identified by any P.C. students who are awake computer simulation of the for picket lines, for leafleting and fields. For the first time things a black aztec eagle on the box of are usually ossified or in the current Apollo 14 space flight, financial contributions. such as job security, control of lettuce. All farmworkers are process of coming down from much as they had done in three pesticides, drinking water and asking for are basic human rights being ossified. Thus I was earlier Apollo missions. Jan stated If you would care to help us or toilets in the fields, and union which includes the right to choose surprised when I actually found that he and his team had been in would want to make a recognition are a reality for the their own union. several students actively engaged preparation for this event for the contribution please contact: farmworker. Since December 4 when Bud in a serious and studious manner last three months and had been The struggle for a decent Antle, the largest non-union United Farm Workers Organizing at such an ungodly hour. awake each night since the human life is not over but now grower, after obtaining a court Committee As I ventured down to Albertus beginning of the flight printing out continues in the lettuce fields of injuncion against the boycott was 274 Weybosset St. Room 203 Magnus and the computer center the flight plan and tracking the Salinas, California. In this responsible for jailing Cesar Providence, R.I. 331-0901 on a hunch I came upon four (Continued on Page 3) IIIIIIMIIillllHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIItlllllllllllllllllilllllHIIIllllllll IJ M111J M1M 4 M1114 E14 M111M 1 h 11 1111L t MIT t M111L L j Ml T1111111 j T11 ( 3 1 M1MIM í [ 11111J P M1111 1MI r IU11F j 111 i IM M U11111111M 1111 J11M h t. M1141M r IJ Union Cross Will Intensify Aid To POWS The American Red Cross is of the conflict which gives rise to war lends no support to the silence and provide relief and Council intensifying its efforts to open his imprisonment a captor should political and military causes those comfort to these helpless men and channels of communication and be mindful,, in the words of the governments espouse." their grieving families. relief to U.S. servicemen being Convention, that a prisoner is in Latest Department of Defense In Works held as prisoners of war in North the hands of a detaining power 'as reports show that 413 American The complaint most voiced by Vietnam. a result of circumstances officers and enlisted men are dorm as well as day students is A resolution sponsored by the independent of his own will.' He known to be prisoners of war in Do You the lack of college social American society urging that should, as recited in the North Vietnam and 918 others are activities. With the opening of the prisoners of war be given the International Red Cross missing and believed captured. Believe It? College Union and the subsequent benefits and protection of the Conference resolution, be Both through the world Red Cross establishment of the union Geneva Conventions was adopted promptly identified; afforded an organization and through Sewanee, Tenn. — (I.P.) — council, these voices should be without a dissenting vote last adequate diet and medical care; diplomatic and other channels, the Students voted to retain their quelled. month by the representatives of permitted to communicate with American Red Cross has sought hundred-year-old coat and tie The union council now being 77 governments and 91 national other prisoners and with the unceasingly since the beginning of tradition for classes and dining at discussed by Fr. Duffy, John Ur, Red Cross societies attending the exterior; promptly repatriated if the Vietnam conflict to assist U.S. the University of the South, with Barry Dixon, Bob O'Brien and quadrennial International seriously sick or wounded; and at prisoners. coeds to wear skirts in the same Paul Whalen should prove to be Conference of the Red Cross in all times be protected from abuse While the government of North situations. The girls are only in the most significant social body Istanbul. or reprisals. And, as specifically Vietnam signed the 1949 Geneva their second year here and their on campus. Last week the American Red prescribed in the Convention, a Conventions covering the dress customs had not been The Council staffed by a Cross followed this action with a neutral intermediary such as the treatment of prisoners of war, it codified. professional programmer with cable message to Red Cross International Committee of the has refused to permit delegates of The faculty received and student, faculty and societies in all parts of the world, Red Cross should be afforded free the International Committee of approved a resolution to support administration advisors and will asking that they appeal to the access to prisoners of war and the Red Cross to visit prison the dress code by requesting its deal with speakers, concerts, fine Red Cross society of North their places of detention." camps where Americans are being observance when necessary. The arts and general entertainment. Vietnam to take appropriate steps Earlier, the Senator pointed out held. The Hanoi government also existing dress rules as they appear Its job will be to co-ordinate all to insure that American prisoners that the steps taken by the has refused to provide ICRC with in the student handbook were social activities so that there is an are receiving the humane International Red Cross the names of American prisoners modified for more informal equal distribution of social events. treatment called for in the Conference and the American they hold or to permit the regular occasions. This will eliminate the typical Conventions. The Red Cross Red Cross are not only entirely flow of mail between the prisoners Although much discussion week-ends when three events are societies were also urged to have appropriate, but "should and their families in this country. preceded the modification almost held on one night and none on the their governments address similar command the support of all men The purpose of the Red Cross all delegates voted to maintain the next. The council should also appeals to the government of of good will." in this renewed appeal is to strip traditional code. The Order of prove beneficial to community North Vietnam. He added, "The lot of a the issue of political and all other Gownsmen, the older student spirit by sponsoring events which In commenting in the Senate on prisoner of war is at best an partisan considerations, and governing body whose should draw the interest of faculty this action last week, Senator J.