Show VOICE ur OF BUSINESS f 9 What s really A B W 4 I I I C 7 U I H By Richard President Chamber of Commerce of the United States Last United Auto Workers President Douglas Fraser accused me and other business leaders of waging a class working The occasion was his resignation from the Labor- Management a high-level committee that advises the More George of the and a host of other union officials uttered similar extreme charges about the motives of the business With so much smoke you may wonder how you missed the are the union heads so upset T here s the Over the S major H ot 8 Common Situs A bill to permit one union with a grievance against one subcontractor to shut down an entire construction even though dozens of other unions and contractors might suffer for a dispute not involving Cargo A bill to require that at least percent of our oil im- ports be carried on U.S.-built tankers with American Since the American unions long ago priced themselves out of competition for seafaring the effect of such a law would be to raise the cost of transporting petroleum and the cost of YOUR energy Hatch Act The Hatch Act prevents federal civil service em- from being coerced into making political contributions or serving in political For obvious the federal em- unions want to eliminate this impediment to their growing political Labor Law Under the of X this bill would have expanded j a the unions' organizing power while the of both workerS management and workers T to to defend defend themselves unwanted The me unions unions are arp posing members and desperate about the Business opposed each of these and the 1 unions coul Inot muster the political muscle to get them But notice the In NO case did the unions LOSE anything they already In every they were demanding The unions were the business was fighting a purely defensive But this the unions didn't a bunch of spoiled they are picking up their marbles and going Sam Gompers must be spinning in his Until very business has been so r labor even a successful defense has been cause for jubilation in our we have learned that if we do a good Job of taking our case to the we can win a But there is no business conspiracy to the or anything of the If business ever takes the it will be a very limited designed to trim union powers that damage the entire to the detriment of all workers and tax- for the Davis- and Service Contract Each of these laws the federal government to pay unnecessarily high wage rates for various kinds of public that the union leaders represent in fact which th daim repreSent in theory- Here ln we 5 by workers who refused to honor contract approved by their duly elected officers the entire nation is the verge of a mail strike under similar circumstances-the union leaders agreed to provisions with some incitement from George the union members have ap- Now there is open talk of a in clear violation of federal Of public employee strikes in violation of the law are hardly a rarity The unions like to disparage business but seem to feel exempt from the laws One lones for public officials who will and impartially ALL who it |