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Show THE AMERICAN FORK CITIZEN, Thursday, July 20, 1961 Labor-Management Relations Can Determine Our Ability to Meet Crisis ANN ARBOR, Michigan R. Conrad Cooper, executive vice president personnel service, u. S. Steel Corporation, today said our ability to meet the threat of current world conditions and remain a free country rests as much In the future course of labor-management relations as I any other factor of our national ; life. I Mr. Cooper stressed, however, mat tne union side of the bar-ganing bar-ganing table holds a distinct advantage over the management side In attempting to reach set-j set-j tlement. ' Speaking before the University Durfey Cleaners and Shirt Laundry We Hoyc Always Had and Still Have The CLEAN ONLY SERVICE By Individual Piece or by the Pound. LET US DO YOUR CLEANING WHILE YOU TAKE CARE OF YOUR OTHER HOUSEHOLD DUTIES. DURFEY CLEANERS 45 West Main American Fork of Michigan Bureau of Industrial Relations Advanced Personnel Development Course, Mr. Cooper said: "Collective bargaining: dis putes between the union and the steel companies. . . do not constitute con-stitute strueeles between parties having vastly unequal powers. "On the union's side there Is the full force of organized ag gressiveness. The union enjoys and heretofore has empioyea legal immunity at will to shut down most of the nation's steel- making capacity to enforce Its wage and benefit demands. "But on the side of the com panies there lies only the power of persuasion and ability to say "no" to demands which they cannot conscientiously accept and to suffer the consequences." Because of the union power in the steel industry, Mr. Cooper Dointed out. the total employ ment cost per man-hour from 1940 through 1958 rose about eight per cent per year com-nonndwl. com-nonndwl. "but the Investment of tremendous sums of money and all other actions to-improve productive efficiencies produced an average increase In steel shipments per man-hour of only two per cent per year com pounded." Although the steel companies attempted to check the rapid rise in employment costs in 1959 thev did not achieve the run od lective. "but we- did reduce the annual rate of increase In em nlovment cost durine the term of the nresent agreement down to a range of. three ana one-nan per cent to three and three-fourths three-fourths Der cent, a reduction of more than fifty per cent from the eight per cent average rate previously experienced. Increased production costs particularly employment costs. have severely weakened the nation's na-tion's steel Industry's position In world trade, Mr. Cooper said. Since 1950 the United States per centage of world steel Ingot production pro-duction declined from 47 per cent to 27 per cent. "Paralleling this development the tonnage of steel exports from the United States declined from 15 per cent of world steel trade in 1950 to only 7 per cent in I960, while steel imports into the United States increased from l-y2 per cent of domestic supply in 1950 to almost 5 per cent in 1960." Despite these trends, Mr. Coop er said, the leaders of the steel-workers steel-workers union have brushed aside the Industry's views on foreign competition as a ''hoax," but In the best long-term interests inter-ests of their steelworker members, mem-bers, the leaders no longer can ignore the facts. Mr. Cooper observed that the future course of labor-manage ment relations may determine whether: (1) Externally we canj continue to compete successfully' on a world-wide basis; and (2) ! internally we shall remain free to operate under the private enterprise en-terprise system. "These Vitallv imnortant. and Inseparable matters depend In j part upon the success or failure collective bareainlncr. not. only as an institution for the nanallng, or employee-employer dealings, but as it affects the economic health of individual plants, companies, Industries. and the country at large. "Under the present arrange ment, our hoDe for more con structive collective bargaining in steei m tne foreseeable future rests on whether the leaders of the steelworkers union will recognize their ereat resnonsi- blllty and meet it as effectively as mey nave neretofore exercised exer-cised their vast power."' prouse-Reifz Co. 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