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Show LETTERS TO THE EDITOR on working toward mechanization, but they will do so gradually so as not to suddenly cast hundreds of grape-pickers into joblessness. Lastly, what about the workers' self-defense? Of what worth is a strike at any time other than the harvest season? It's not easy trying to maintain a wholesome family-like, providing health care and education for you children, when you are working for maybe $2.40hr. (if you're lucky), traveling from crop to crop during harvest seasons, living in substandard housing at inflated rents, with no financial resources to. start with. Maybe Mr. Mullinar had a slight taste of Which way? Editor: OPEN LETTER TO THE FACULTY OF THE MUSIC DEPARTMENT, U. OF UTAH: When Stravinsky first performed "The Rite of Spring" in Paris, the audience hissed and booed and even threw rotten vegetables on the stage, but today we admire this work as a great masterpiece. While we have been learning this in our music history and literature class, the Department of Music has been repeating history. The jazz area of the Department of Music has' been struggling for not even given the opportunity to learn. The lack of faculty is even worse from the jazz major's viewpoint; no jazz piano teacher, no guitar teacher, no sax teacher, etc. We wish the music faculty would open their eyes and take a good look at the music that is happening hap-pening today and a good look at what the jazz majors are doing. Then give them the opportunity to grow and us the opportunity to grow with them. Nancy Willard And 15 others Goon-writer about before they organized? It was$1.42hr. Most students don't even work for that low wage anymore. Besides, these jobs are not all-year jobs with paid vacations, medical benefits, etc. 2. On the second point about violent incidents. I only mentioned men-tioned a couple of attacks by grower goons on striking workers I am not responsible for the headline I would certainly have used a different one (headlines are normally created by the copy editor without consulting writers). However, Mr. Mulliner did point point out in his own way a discrepancy (not reporting "worker-goon" ac- this additional swipe e: smug and childlike, is Wayne Spent: ' lio Save us !fi Editor: qi If, with the proposed eo the assembly, KUER becoming the kind." voice' the Chronicle itf intelligence forbid th;' granted. i David Coir ic Bracelets k 'nr Editor: flt I wish to protest Hi' attack of the VII" ,( POW-MIA Bracelet jrf has done more for' ,( than any other, and! make headway d Mr. Nutting. He ofe ' researched the organization he is mustagreetWpJ J the VIVA pampW" commercial en' was an error, tot ; commercial vert ' Many people including relaW political figures, fust Plain Urn freaks to t servative busir worked and sac ; this cause. As ol VIVA is mf ff Collet Studenb ,s the common. e 100 chapes , such heady stuff this summer during the one month Kennecott was on strike and he couldn't sit around pulling his $725mo. salary while propounding his political views to anyone who cared to listen and argue. Milton Braselton Swiped Editor: A comment concerning your editorial on amnesty and Attorney At-torney General Romney's views (Feb. 17): I agree with most of what was said, however, I object to your baiting the attorney general in the final paragraph. I will admit that it was an amusing statement and that I chuckled. But then I reflected that you had, at the beginning of the editorial, already made your point about labeling opinions "erroneous," and that tivities) which was due to incomplete in-complete researching a fallacy that ail writers succumb to at one time or another. 3. Mechanizing is not the "growers' only tool for self-defense." self-defense." The growers have other "tools" available such as those used by their "compadres" in the lettuce industry, i.e., court in-' junctions against strikes, and forcing workers to join .a union favorable to the grower. I don't doubt the growers have even more "tools for their self-defense." self-defense." Mr. Mulliner must have been reading my article too fast when his eyes ran over the line about the guidelines set up at unionized companies: until an industry-wide standard can be established regarding mechanization, mechaniza-tion, no company can introduce machines that would take away workers' jobs." In other words, the unionized companies are 'also existence for the past tew years and has received little support (rotten tomatoes) from the "legitimate" music faculty. The recent vote for the non-retention of Ladd Macintosh, the only full-time full-time jazz faculty membershows their desire to phase out the jazz department entirely. It might actually be an advantage for the jazz people to move to an area that is not so narrow-minded, but this would be a great loss to the "legit" major. Even now there is too much of a barrier between these two areas. This is bad, particularly for the music education majors. Our study is so concentrated on one area that it excludes all else. Granted, a knowledge of composers and their works, of writing styles, and how to play the trumpet is necessary, but a knowledge of jazz is just as important, and due to the lack of jazz faculty we are Editor: My erstwhile foe, Mr. J.C. "Jack" Mulliner, seems to want to make the personal feud between us public with dubious arguments about my grape-pickers article. To start his letter he alledged that I was "exhorting" readers not to drink scab wine. Mr. Mullinar didn't seem to notice it was a news article on page five, not an editorial on page two. I was reporting the "exhortations" of the United Farm Workers Organizing Committee and their supporters. He followed with three points on the "merits" of my "contentions" to which I must categorically respond: 1. Sure the grape, pickers in California are the "highest paid farm workers in the nation" NOW (but not "by far"). But what |