January 11, 1977

NYS Public Employment Relations Bd rules illegal parity agreements by city that assured uniform workers of relatively equal wage and benefit improvements in their contracts; decision supports PBA contention that it was improper for city to enter into such agreements and then to attempt to rely on parity clause to resist PBA demands for wage and benefit increases greater than those already granted other groups; PBA head Douglas Weaving comments (M)

US Sup Ct refuses to consider if Fed Judge W Arthur Garrity exceeded authority in placing Boston schools in 'receivership' during '76 integration dispute; gives no reason; speculation that Ct wished not to aggravate volatile Boston situation: Boston School Com had asked Ct to draw line on judges' powers in such cases; Garrity por (M)

Council of Econ Advisers chmn-designate Charles L Schultze holds rigid numerical wage-price guidelines as means of combating inflation will not work; hopes to find way to get labor and mgt to agree to formulation of gen wage-price principles that will lead to deceleration of inflation; illus (M)

Manhattan Boro Pres Percy E Sutton names 2 teen-agers to NYC Community Planning Bds to represent youth of community; appts 15-yr-old Michael Gelobter to bd 7 and 16-yr-old Scott Stringer to bd 12; Gelobter's father is also bd member; Sutton announced last Sept that he wanted all ages represented on bds (M)

playwright Arthur Miller criticizes arrest of Kohout (S)