LANDIS FLAYS PLAN E OPPOSITION FACTIONS

Misrepresentation of the Plan E form of government by prominent Cambridge officials was characterized as "vicious, mean and untrue" on Saturday night by Law School Dean James M. Landis before a cheering crowd of 700 supporters of the proposal at the Rindge Technical School.

In an attack upon the rally, held the night before to defeat the city manager plan, Landis said: "When I see cheap politics, I call it cheap politics". He asked for unqualified support of the measure at the polls on Tuesday.

The Dean charged Richard C. Evarts, City Solicitor, with insulting organized labor along with Mgr. John A. Ryan and Senator David I. Walsh when he spoke against the proposal Friday. Evarts, Landis said, had labelled proportional representation, a feature of Plan E, as a "crap game," after Ryan, Walsh and labor groups had been forthright in the approval of the referendum.

"Under Plan E", he said, "city employees will be responsible only to the city manager and not to every Tom, Dick and Harry in the City Council." A fight for clean government, Landis felt, was the real issue of the campaign.