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Show floriala Order Department of Utah University C4112 City ttft jA 'ViitSltlvii , VOLUME 17, NUMBER 222 Bs SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH the Hatchet? pension plans, subject of proposed legislation that may soon become law. And. statutes now on the books that prohibit discrimination in hiring and promotion because of age are cited as calling for new kinds of contracts. Working conditions are another sore point, as are health and safety factors on the job. There is one rare meeting of the settlement. The immediate future, as Usery sees it: "Controls will be phased down and possibly ended entirely. This will mean that the federally imposed monetary restrictions will be replaced by negotiations over the value of a union member's skills and labor." The number of contracts being renegotiated will rise steeply as controls come to an end, Usery feels. This is r number of because an unions have been agreeing only to pacts. Issues are becoming more compli- cated, too. Unions have been relatively moderate in theyr demands in 1973 negotiations, insofar as pay is concerned. The Cost of Living Council maintains that unions have been holding to the guidelines by and large that is, to annual increases of 5.5 percent, plus a small addition for "fringe benefits." But the Council is hard put to explain how' hourly earnings for workers (union and nonunion) rose by 0.8 percent, or at an annual rate of 9.6 percent, in the month of open-ende- d ever-large- one-ye- ar rank-and-fi- le October. President George Meany and his aides express "frank surprise" union at the failure of members to demand pay increases beyond the Administration's 5.5 percent formula. "An explosion is inevitable," says one key official. He recalls that Meany and others were also surprised in the 1960s when there were few worker AFL-CI- rank-and-fi- le protests against the Johnson Administration's 3 percent "voluntary" guidepost. Then, totally unexpectedly, airline machinists revolted against a labor pact their union leaders had agreed and from that moment on the 3 to percent ceiling on pay boosts became a memory. Meany has no idea when or where the revolt against the 5.5 percent formula will occur, but an aide recalls a recent statement by Steelworkers President I. W. Abel: The worker's patience is growing Nixon-Dunlo- p thin." While the minds on the part of the AFL-CIthe U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the National Association of Manufacturers: They all want price-wagcontrols ended. One wonders if business realizes what new pitfalls this will uncover on the path of negotiations. Labor may have sheathed the axe recently, but' it is by no means burying it. e know W. J. Usery, Jr. As director of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, Usery heads the agency that steps into labor disputes or tough negotiations to help the parties reach leadership can exert little authority over bargaining, its top economists have laid the groundwork for major new wage demands. The report to the Federation's convention in October charged that while profits and interest rates have soared, wages are being held down by controls. It adds: "These unbalanced developments combined with the Administration's policies of tight money, peak interest rates and a holddown on federal exare depressing residenpenditures tial construction and the activities of many smaller businesses . . . The Administration's policies are producing a sharp economic slowdown and threatening a general recession, wiLh production cutbacks and rising unAFL-CI- employment. Unions also express concern over WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1973 Stanford Dean Says Watergate L,wyers Were in Beyond Depth Labor Byryinig WASHINGTON An increase in strikes and threats of strikes is to be expected in the next several months even though unions generally have been resorting to fewer walkouts in the past year. The Labor Department reports that idleness due to strikes in the first 9 months of 1973 was at the lowest leVel for that period in 9 years. When major strikes did occur, they lasted only a short time. But the collective bargaining road ahead will be rougher. This forecast comes from the man most likely to STANFORD Watergate is not a symbol of the breakdown of legal ethics, but should serve as a catalyst for rethinking basic issues concerning the professional says of lawyers, responsibilities Dean Thomas Ehrlich of the Stanford Law School. Now that law is viewed as just human judgments, "Lawyers cannot picture themselves at the right hand of God in working out the sublime order of things," he writes in the current Stanford Observer, monthly newspaper of the University. "Since God will not strike the unethical lawyers down, many mortals must see a strong likelihood of enforcement by men if they deviate from established Ski Sprees On Texas Texas International Airlines now offers "Ski Spree" packages for winter vacationing in New Mexico, Utah and Colorado. Offering a wide variety of accommodations and facilities, "Ski Sprees" provide for thebudget-mindeas well as the big spender. Packages in Colorado feature fourteen ski centers such as the ever popular Aspen, the Tyrolean village of Vail, the restored ghost town of Tellu-rid- e and Steamboat Springs, the home of many Olympic competitors. For more outdoor seclusion in Colorado, Texas International includes Geneva Basin in the Pike National Forest and Keystone in the Arapahoe National Forest. For the skier who wants a different resort each day, Salt Lake City, Utah, is ideal. From downtown Salt Lake, eight major ski resorts, including Snowbird, Alta and Park City, are within an hour's drive. All Salt I ake ski packages include choice of several hotels and motels as well as free lift passes to each of eight resorts. In New Mexico, high in the Rockies, Taos ski valley is a village 19 miles from the Taos Indian Pueblo. The Taos Ski School of 38 instructors, pioneers in GLM beginners lessons, also instructs very advanced classes d ethical standards," Ehrlich adds. Sadly, there is too little likelihood these days that standards of legal ethics will be enforced in any particular case. . . "It is not even clear whether most lawyers are seriously concerned about the matter. According to a newspaper account, a recent survey asked California lawyers to list their preferences among 81 possible programs of continuing legal education. 'How to prove damages' was at the top; in last place was the legal profession after Watergate.' in slalom racing, ski mountaineering and deep snow skiing. Recreational extras such as dog sledding, snowmobiling, tobogganing, II j MIMIMm Utah Supreme Court Decisions and apres sport mineral bath soaks are also available in "Ski Spree" packages. Accommodations offered run the spectrum from deluxe condominium apartments to bunkhouses. Packages exclude air fare. Sample economy ice-skati- per-perso- n double-occupanc- Sprees" include: Five days and nights in Keystone, Colorado, from $75, featuring rooms with fireplaces, wooden decks, kitchens and access to two heated pools and a sauna. In Winter Park, Colorado, rooms with high beamed ceilings start at $39, for three days and nights, while in downtown Salt Lake City, three days and nights begin at $48, featuring choice of seven hotels. Skis, boots and poles are included in Texas International baggage allowance and complimentary protective ski bags are provided. For latest Bki conditions, telephone desk. the airline's reservations-snoFor a copy of Ski Sprees" or flight information about service to Denver, Salt Lake City or Albuquerque contact your travel agent or Texas International. See detallc page 4. New Information Specialist Announced w Cutback on Fuel Will Force Carrier to Reduce 15 Texas International dent Francisco A. Lorenzo said today that the additional 15 cutback in airline fuel allowances, announced on Sunday, would force the carrier to reduce substantially or file to temporarily suspend service to a number of cities" on its route system. Mr. IiOrenzo said that anticipated fuel shortages under the aggregate 25 per cent cutback "would undoubtedly force severe service disruptions to communities in Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, New Mexico and Texas, well beyond the level of inconvenience resulting from our earlier elimination of 7 per cent of our departures." He noted that the Civil Aeronautics Board's Chairman, Robert D. Timm, e caufirst extended tions in a letter to airlines dated April 24, 1973, in which he said, in part, "The Board is aware of the current energy crisis and is concerned about the impact a possible aircraft fuel shortage would have on our domestic air transportation system." Airlines Presi- Since Lqrenzo, that time, according to Mr. virtually all carriers have instituted a number of programs resulting in substantial fuel savings, while not seriously disrupting efficient transportation availabilities. "But it appears that the present administration overlooks this, and would rather treat efficient transportation as a cause of the energy crisis, instead of part of its solution. "The administration should also recognize that there are inherent differences between the types of service operated by trunk airlines and those operated by regionals. Trunk carriers, for example, may benefit financially from reducing service in markets with excess capacity. But the economics of regional carriers, which serve markets with lower traffic density and flight frequencies, will likely be seriously affected by cutbacks in the amount planned. "Thus a distinct energy conservation program should be implemented for the regional airline group during this critical fuel shortage," Mr. Lorenzo added. "The major Watergate scandals were not scandals that involved lawyers acting as lawyers; rather they involved lawyers acting as administrators. And if there are lessons to be learned from the tragedy, certainly one of them is that the risks are higher whenever governmental affairs are run by nonpoliticans men and women without prior experience of accountability to the public. That seems precisely what happened. "Ski y government apparently violated the law and practiced disorder." This makes it even more important that law teachers act as models of professional behavior and expose their students to tough ethical questions they may encounter in practice, he continues. At Stanford, Prof. Harold Williams is teaching a seminar on the legal profession during the fall semester. Profs. Barbara Babcock and Michael Wald will offer a course in professional responsibility during the spring term. Substantive courses in- such fields as civil procedure, evidence, family law, and estate planning will cover ethical issues facing lawyers in these areas. - Moreoever, many lawyers at the far top of the national legal order from being role models-se- em to have violated the law. One of the multiple ironies of the Watergate affair is that so many law and order advocates within the federal f International energy-shortag- c& r. Mrs. Raye C. Price has been named Information Specialist for the Utah Industrial Promotion Division, it was announced by John H. Rencher, Director. graduate of the University of Utah, Mrs. Price managed an advertising agency for e and did work for the Treasure Mountains Resort at Park City. She is the author of several books and has published ' articles and photographs in numerous national magazines and newspapers. Much of her writing has been about the history and attractions of various1 regions throughout the State. of the Mrs. Price is Downtown Planning Committee and is in charge of public relations for that group. She is a past president of the Junior league of Salt Lake City, has served on the board of the Family Service Society and was a member of the Public Relations Committee of the A se Price-Carleso- Pontiac-America- n free-lanc- n Vice-Chairma- n Family Service Association of J Paradoxically, many people have claimed that Watergate shows politicans are just crooks. But the claim is wrong. Politicans were not of the dramatis personae it had been, they Watergate; might not have happened. A second lesson certainly should be that guidelines for government bureaucrats are both lacking and much needed. But such guidelines should not be needed to avoid burglary, perjury, and the like. Whatever ones code of conduct, those should be excluded. Most issues of legal ethics involve conflicting claims to a lawyers loylaties. Some of these conflicts may be between the interests of a lawyers real or potential clients; others may be between a lawyer's obligations to a client and his obligations to the legal system. A husband and wife may ask a lawyer to prepare a will for each of them, for example. But if one later wants to change this will without the knowledge of the other, the lawyer will face a conflict of in- terest. In criminal cases, contrary to many popularly held views, a lawyer who discovers a client plans to commit a crime clearly should contact the police as part of a broader duty to the courts and to society, Ehrlich notes. On this "there is no question." Similarly, "the lawyer may not knowingly use perjued testimony or false evidence in the course of conducting a case," without violating professional ethics. Agonizing questions often arise concerning the conflicting obligations of a lawyer to a client and to the court, Ehrlich observes. Although a lawyer may suspect that he would vote for conviction were he on the jury, his job is to present the strongest case for his client consistent with the code of ethics; as a lawyer, he is not a juror." |