An offer to temporarily reappoint a female faculty member who asserts she was fired for political reasons was made at a tumultuous Umass trustees' meeting Friday in Boston which ended with police clearing the aisles. The woman's daughter said this morning that the battle is not over.

      About 50 supporters of the woman, Dr. Freda Salzman, chanted protests over Mrs. Salzman's being refused tenure and back pay in the new offer.

      According to the Massachusetts Daily Collegian, the UMass-Amherst student newspaper, a table was reportedly thrown against a door in the Statler Hilton Hotel to block the trustees' exit from the hall.

      Police were used to clear the aisles, the Collegian stated. After the meeting was adjourned, the crowd quieted and discussed the Salzman case with a few remaining trustees.

      At the meeting, Umass President Robert Wood read a memo from Umass Boston Chancellor Francis Broderick, which stated that Broderick, in view [of] what he termed a new trustee policy on nepotism, would immediately offer to reappoint Mrs. Salzman to the position she'd been severed from two years ago on the grounds that her husband held a tenured appointment in the same department.

      The reappointment, he stated, would run from Jan. 31, 1971 to August 31, 1973. The trustees took no formal action.

      "The battle isn't over," Miss Amy Salzman, daughter of the physics faculty members, told the Transcript this morning. "Tenure is critical."

      The Salzmans were both hired for the UMass-Boston physics department in 1965 and both came with 12 years post-doctoral experience. George Salzman was hired full-time and given tenure and his wife was hired three-fourths time without tenure.

      In the next three years, Mrs. Salzman said, she and her husband were involved in intensive struggles with the administration over curriculum, faculty distribution, governance and "arbitrary and ruthless administrative hirings and firings."

      After three years in the department, Mrs. Salzman was notified that because of a nepotism rule, she could not serve with her husband and she would not be reappointed.

      "I believe that I was fired for political reasons," Mrs. Salzman told the Transcript Monday "and they used the discriminatory nature of my appointment to get rid of me."

      "I came to Umass with a strong commitment to a long-term job," she continued. "The recruiting administrator signed a statement then that I had a permanent position albeit without formal tenure. I'd be foolish to go back into that kind of a situation and I'm going to fight for tenure."

      Dr. George Salzman, Mrs. Salzman's husband, addressed the trustees at Friday's meeting. "You want a subservient faculty. You want us to crawl . . .," he said, according to the Collegian. "The board has raised hell with my life and with my wife's life and if I have to, I'm going to raise hell with yours."

      He asked the board several questions concerning tenure, among which were "Why was tenure offered to me and not my wife?" and "On what date was the formal vote taken which prohibited the appointment of a husband and wife to the faculty" but, according to Miss Salzman, the trustees remained silent.

      "The trustees refused to answer the questions," she said. Most of them were stone-cold ignorant and that incensed us."

      Broderick was not available for comment this morning.

      Edward Lashman, vice-president of Umass, confirmed the contents of Broderick's memo this morning, but declined to comment on the nature of Mrs. Salzman's firing.

      Neither he nor Wood nor Broderick were present at the time of the firing, he said, and he could not comment on it.