The Association of Black Faculty, Fellows, and Administrators of Harvard University has approved by majority vote a statement strongly supporting OBU's demand for a 20 per cent minimum of black and minority group workers on University construction sites.

The group also asked the University "not to take reprisals against black students who had demonstrated their commitment to end radical injustice in the construction trades" by sit-ins during December.

The statement charges that the University, faced by OBU's just demands and restrained radical action, "retaliates with its unilateral power, couched in legalities, to suppress the very protests that spurred it to at least acknowledge the injustice of its former policies."

The Administration proceeded during Christmas vacation toward discipline proceedings against 36 OBU members and four white supporters for their actions during the occupation of University Hall on December 11.

Two of the white students, affiliated with the November Action Committee, were notified to pick up copies of charges against them today at the offices of their Senior Tutor.

A third received the following notification of changes pending against him and was asked to appear before a hearings panel of the Committee on Rights and Responsibilities on January 13:

"The Dean of Harvard College complains that on December 11, 1969, [the student]-

"Subjected the Dean of Harvard College to harassment by following him closely and shouting, thus interfering with his freedom of movement and freedom of speech.

"Such conduct was in the judgment of the Dean of Harvard College a violation of clause b and e of the Resolution on Rights and Responsibilities..."

Yelling in Yard

The harassment allegedly occurred in the Yard when Dean May was reading a warning to the black students inside University Hall.

The white students charged have not yet decided whether they will appear at the hearings.

OBU leaders were not available for comment yesterday on whether the organ-ization's members had received copies of charges against them or on whether they would attend the hearings.

The four-page statement from the association of black Corporation appointees grew out of a Dec. 16 meeting of the newly-formed group. On that date, according to the statement, "a majority of Harvard's black faculty, fellows and administrators met and ratified the [Association] Steering Committee's position," which is outlined in the statement.

It was released with the signatures of acting co-chairmen Jean C. Watts, lecturer on Education, and Derrick A. Bell, lecturer on Law.

'Complicity'

The statement charges that, although Harvard admits "complicity" with racial discrimination in construction trades, it "refuses compliance with student demands" that it take a role of leadership in ending discrimination.