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COO018123 - . k f Walter Reuther, perennial United Automobile Workers president, has climbed u p n the placatory bandwagon and has just issued the most overused cliche of the decade. From his Detroit office, Reuther told the press this week "I think the present younger generation is the best that ever came down the pike. It By so uttering, Reuther joins the - bulk of prominent Americans who have been so quoted in the past year. 0 -* There are three main factors of c"ontemporary disaffection says the labor leader and interestingly, these factors as Reuther sees them are identical with the constantly parroted complaints the povement lodges against the establishment. As stated by the young radical, these factors are: 1. generation gap and hypocrisy of the establishment; 2. relevancy; and, 3. de-humanization. Mr. Ruether states them thusly; 1. There is 3 large gap of hypocrisy in our present mass culture that has left youth dlienated from a sense of human community. 2. Society has been unable to translate its rapidly expanding tech- nology into human terms and make it serve human needs, and 3. Things are in the saddle and things are getting bigger. Meanwhile, man is getting smaller and smaller. '* ' Al Capp, vocal creator of the Lil Abner comic strip who has often publicly criticized radical student activism in recent weeks would undoubtedly rebut Ruether by asking: If all the kids are so good, who's tearing down the university? The two internecine SDS factions met this week at New York pniversity and predictably, the proverbial sparks flew (and rocks and chairs and fists). Two hundred members of the New York City- Long Island SDS-NO faction tried to hold a closed meeting at the New York University student center and one hundred SDS-PLers tried to enter the closed meeting. A melee ensued with fists and chairs flying, Several glass doors were smashed and a fire hose who arrivedafter the trouble was over made no arrests. The NO security force, which the New York Times credited with the fire hose high jinks held the day by driving off the battered Maoist lac- tion. Two persons required hospital treatment. , ~ finally dampening down the unhealthy interosculation. The police * Natiopal Office spokeswoman Karen Ashley , who identified herself as a regional SDS representative said mat the meeting had been called to consider- summer projects and future demonstrations - and to discuss the organizational split that occurred lastmonth at Chicago. rg 3 - - 1 1 b