Show Friday February 7 1975 I Friday February 7 1975 8 Page by phil frank FRANKLY SPEAKING OpinionsLeffers Choose your wine carefully 1973 over 100 "guards'' broke through a United Farm Workers Union picket line armed with baseball bats chains and metal pipes When the scuffle with the pickets ended scores farm workers had to be of Mexican-Americahospitalized and 28 of the "guards" protecting strikers from the International Brotherhood of Teamsters were arrested for assault and battery The guards had been hired to crush the UFW a union organized by Cesar Chavez to bring dignity and security to this country's migrant farm In mid-Augu- st n COLLEGE MEDIA SERVICES - BOX 9411 BERKELEY CA 94709 -- workers Since 1973 the Teamsters has succeeded in destroying the progress which Chavez and his union had made since 1965 Through underhanded negotiations with California's grape and lettuce producers the Teamsters has succeeded in taking away from the llFW nearly all worker contracts without any consultation with the workers in the fields The Teamsters has forced the farm workers back into a migrant status where before under Chavez's UFW many of the Mexican-Americafarm workers had been able to settle down educate their children and build homes Since the Teamsters took over there have been no elections' for representation in the union and worker opposition has been stiff The National Council of Churches the National Conference of Catholic Bishops tand the Board of Rabbis have all joined forces to support the boycott of lettuce and grapes The Rabbis have gone so far as to label n Mass-achusset- non-UF- all ts W produce as And the most powerful unions in the country and the United Auto Workers have the thrown their support over to the Chavez union Says George Meany president of the "We mean to see this thing through If it were a question of wages only we would have dropped our support a long time ago But it is not It is a moral issue" Meany says over'$6 million has been pumped into the fight and "We'll give Chavez more if he non-UF- AFL-CI- non-kosh- er O AFL-CI- O: needs it" clear that what is being done to the migrant workers in California is not in keeping with the ideals of this country and the wrongs already done to these people must be taken care of To support the UFW boycott takes Ii44e effort in fact it takes only abstaination from certain lettuces and wines Therefore Student Life urges you to boycott the following wines: Madria Sangna Paisano Eden Roc Tyrolia GUILD: Hearty Burgundy Thunderbird Boones It is Farm Ripple FRANZIA Red Mountain Carlo Rossi Spanada Andre Josef Steuben WOLFE' & SON and any wine from Modesto and Rippon California Richard Brady tftt&s Dissatisfied customer (tt&- s- c dering the plight of the world over a cheese sandwich in the Hub I suddenly found myself enjoying my cheese on rye with a furry-facefriend which was not d Editor Student Life: This letter is directed to whoever is in charge of handling the concerts Last week I went to the first USU concert I’ve been to and brother what a trip First I’d like to say John Mayall was great — sorry I couldn’t say that for the lighting or the sound system Get it together people! If the people in the band didn’t have a red face and blue body you could count on there not being any spotlight When the leader of the band has to walk and point to where the spotlight should be then maybe someone else ought to do lights It was a kindergarten rated light show And why all the time wasted to adjust wires etc? This should have been done hours before NOW for the good old police my wife I am a dog owner and I love my dog but I don’t eat with my dog or attend classes with her so why must I have the pleasure of doing so with other canines who can’t be happy spending the day in the backyard rather than at the Dairy Science building? According to the Logan City Corporation Animal Control Ordinance section 11 dogs are not permitted in city parks on school grounds or in food establishments restaurants such as grocery stores meat markets etc I realize that some people may not consider the Hub a restaurant or meat market but some of us who can’t go home for lunch are forced to eat there so let’s have a little consideration Even though your dog is on a leash doesn’t mean it can order a Coke and force Jesus you’d think they fries were guarding a group of convicts during a recreation period Greg Lee They should be there only if there is some sort of trouble not to PS Dodging doggy dung isn’t create bad feelings and unrest in one of my favorite sports the crowd They were definitely acting like pigs that night You don’t need all those cops good grief this is Logan Utah where nothing ever Persecuted happens I’d sure like to tell this to the person in charge of concerts Republicans myself and more Sure hope you can get it together for the next Editor Student Life: concert Oh yes TURN OFF THE YOU LIGHTS HOUSE Cindy Matheson’s Viewpoint has done a great service by exASSHOLES pressing feelings held by many Jolwind members of the community While Ogden experience gives me little — Buzz in cause for (To the person Charge optimism in attempts to — You’d be able to have better deicde religious debates by sales if you fixed your concerts rational means I feel that the up a bit I know people who will points of contention at least need drive to Salt Lake but refuse to go to be more sharply defined to the Spectrum and I might just It seems to me that freedom of be one myself soon) worship is construed by some to include freedom from criticism of one’s religious beliefs and worship Such criticism admittedly sometimes tasteless is Dog dung protected by the right to free speech so long as it does not go to Editor Student Life: the extent of slander or actual harassment The other day as I was pon- Freedom of worship protects 528-74-73- right to hold religious beliefs and to worship accordingly within the bounds set by other constitutional limits This is so because beliefs by one’s themselves are socially har- mless I seriously doubt whether anyone in Utah especially LDS Church members is currently having this freedom abridged A religion which chooses to be an activist social force certainly should not expect immunity from public feedback when it tries to effect or prevent social change Such feedback could include public and private criticism economic boycotts or favoritism and political action The constitution wisely recognizes that regulation of social behavior not personal belief is what is essential for a society to function The danger of granting special privileges to any behavior simply because it’s sanctioned by a religious body sfiould be obvious Thus those ERA backers who have criticized the LDS church for taking a stand are barking up the wrong tree I imagine that their protests would not have been heard had the Church expressed approval of the ERA Both sides have chosen to play the game so both may as well devote their energies to playing it well Ms MathlSs comparison of criticisms of Mormons in the US with persecution of Jews in wartime Germany is specious Thd Jews suffered from a good deal more than adverse verbal criticism More importantly they were persecuted for being born Jewish They did not have the choice of abandoning their heredity which is not to suggest that they should or would have In the bership US is church mem- voluntary Ms Matheson indicates that this is true in her case Belonging to a church is more like being an American Democratic Libertarian Republican or Socialist Worker party member than it is like being a Jew under Hitler If Mormons are currently being persecuted then so were the Republicans in November David J Schimpf |