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Show The Prper That Dares To Take Orrin Hatch G. Senator (R-Uta- h) challenged the premise that the proposed increase in the minimum wage will improve the quality of life for people in that wage category. In hearings before the Senate Committee on Human Resources, of which Senator Hatch is a member, the Utahn acknowledged figures that show hundreds of thousands of people will become unemployed if the proposed minimum wage increase to S2.6S an hour is passed by Congress. Senator Hatch's Republican Primary opponent. Jack Carlson, who is now Chief Economist of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, testified before the Committee and 830,000 people will said, immediately lose their jobs if the minimum wage is raised from $2.30 to $2.65 an hour." In addition," said Senator Hatch, if the minimum wage is increased on an annual basis, or indexed, it will cost 3.4 million American jobs through 1980, and most of those without employment will be young people." Hatch also pointed out that the Consumer Price Index will rise an estimated 3.1 percent over the natural increases that continue to come with inflation." Mr Carlson said, This is an anti-sma- ll business bill because these are the employers that hire people at the minimum wage." According to Senator Hatch, This proposal for indexing is just another cop-oby Congress, just like the refusal to vote for or against a pay raise for themselves. We, as elected officials, should face the minimum wage issue as it is necessary, and not vote to have the responsibility taken out of our hands each year. A minimum wage increase should be based on national productivity, the cost of ut living', inflation, and August 25, 1977 The Utah Independent Page 9 by John F. McManus Too Belmont, Masschusetts Copyright Jo Hindman 1977 demand the often, increasing for military labor unions is disINCOG DOWN FOR now. But the metrocrats paying no missed as a silly notion. But THE COUNT attention to their own directives, there is nothing silly about it. are trying to sweep the quota aside, Proponents are deadly serious, A large county has withdrawn hoping nobody will notice. and those who have taken a hard from INCOG (Indian Nations Young people absorbed in look at the subject are properly Council of Governments). To a establishing their own homes and concerned. still dumb" about public rearing families are only dimly regionalism, INCOG might sound aware of the threat of regional A Union Inevitable? like some sort of tribal boogie AmerThe 300,000-membgovernance. Citizens don't get to Government of ican Federation woogie when actually it isnt. vote for or against metro seems to be deterWeird acronym ic names of the sort Thats why older Employees regionalism. to mined organize our soldiers, merely indicate that citizens are not aware of the metro sailors, airmen, and marines. metro governance abounds in such threat which is overthrowing their AFGE is presently polling its places where the names appear. self government. Worse, with own locals to ask for permission INCOG, once a metro multinobody looking, the peoples to begin signing up the servicecounty region spending close to elected representatives, greedily men. Other unions, such as the tax dollars annually, now is unsatisfied by local tax collections, National Maritime Union, have down in size from its five original betray the citizens into regional also expressed interest, meaning counties to just one survivor, Creek bondage to get the federal that the military union is a distinct possibility even if AFGE County, due to Tulsa countys handouts. recent voluntary severance from Federal dollars and assistance does not proceed. In fact, Greg Kenefick, a spokesman for INCOG. are regionalisms bait. AFGE, claims that a Rogers and Wagoner counties For proof, see Regionalism union in the foreseeablemilitary future made early withdrawals from Revisited 6 June 1977 p. 24 is just about a certainty. INCOG in the early seventies. published by the federal Advisory On the other side of this issue Osage County bowed out in 1974. Commission on stands a coalition of veterans A lawsuit challenging INCOG Intergovernmental Relations organizations and a series of Cal resulted (the Steinberger case) (ACIR) Wash., D.C. 20575: moves in both Houses of Conto in INCOG being declared legal by Federal grants requiring a gress to outlaw any proposal Senator unionization. the Oklahoma Supreme Court regional approach can.. .force legalize Thurmond (R.- - S.C.), a based on state level arguments. localities into agreement on how Strom in the U.S. Army General Major But measured by federal they will cooperate regionally. Reserve, is spearheading the acrequirements now, INCOG may The money trap is baited to tion and has already gained not even exist! keep INCOG alive, perhaps to be thirty-fou- r for his Ten cities still keep company renamed and revived in the existing Senate Bill 274. He sees a miliwith lone Creek County in Tulsa Metropolitan Planning tary union as the beginning of INCOG. But does that clutch of Agency (TMPAC). Even now, the end of a sound defense regional hen and chicks comprise a through its TMPAC, Tulsa city is force in this country. valid region? Apparently not. AFGEs position on legislagrabbing for what Tulsa county tion to outlaw military unions inFederal administrative rules dropped on its way out the 5 rereview cludes plans to challenge any (unless changed) require that regional clearinghouse of violation as a law sultant county members represent seventy-fiv- e function, a shaper of regions. Constitutional rights. SpokesHowever, INCOG has lost so man Kenefick claims that (75) percent of a regions any INCOGs dropout many of its major parts that it no statute population. military forbidding counties have demolished that longer qualifies as a region, even by unionization would pose a threat Creek is the sole the loosest of federal standards. technicality. to AFGEs already existing Concerted citizen action, if unionization of civilian governremaining county member and its 40,000 or so population total fails prompt, might be able to junk ment employees. to meet the federal standard set for INCOG on the technicality. er tax-eati- ng ion A-6- A-9- Military Unions Elsewhere Although the fact is not well COGs. Councils of governments (COGs) like INCOG are known to waive dues to keep budget-pocounties in a regional setup, but can that type of scarcely be advanced as a valid claim to sustain the questionable legality of a region. Regionalism didnt miss a stride after Osage left INCOG. But now big Tulsa county is gone with its population pulled out. INCOG is short on both counties and population, known here, military unions of one kind or another already exist in Norway, Sweden, Belgium, or unemployment not on political fear." Congress, and particularly the United States Senate, must act quickly to relieve the massive rate of unemployment among our young people. Black youths make up 50 of the unemployed while little comprise 25 more than of the unemployed. These people are trying to move into the job market, and they must have the dignity of a paycheck. If the minimum wage is too high, they won't be able to enter the job market, and theyll end up on the welfare rolls. All we need is more people on the welfare rolls." non-minorit- Stand Say No To Military Unions WAGE BILL CHALLENGE Washington, D.C. A ies rule-breaki- multi-thousan- J J& ng Asking For Trouble Congressman Omar Burleson (D. Texas) correctly insists that, even though union officials claim that they do not want a strike provision, the fundamental issue here is whether the government or a union shall run the military. If a. union, will typical union specialization forbid a rifleman to operate a machine gun? Will work crews refuse to load equipment made in n a shop? What will happen on the battlefield while a contract is being Military service is not just another job. Discipline and obedience to command are its very essence. Placing a union between the men and their leaders is a sure route to disaster. Yet Jimmy Carters Secretary of Labor, Ray Marshall, is already on record approving such a plan. If our military is to meet the challenge of defending this nation, it must never be saddled with a labor union. -- non-unio- Denmark, West Germany, and activity. Second, we have those who wish to function as men and women but wish to prevent any results. Third, we have those who wish to function man to man or woman to woman sexually. The first group doesn't mind the resulting pregnancy but refuses to bring it to term. The second group prevents the pregnancy ds through TOP MARKET PRICES S A & A Trading 227 West 600 South Salt Lake City, Utah 84101 Phone (801) 531-6457 Z 7 ALL DRESSED UP NO PLACE TO GO" FOR S ALB NEW CHANNELS ANGLES, FLATS, and SQUARE TUBING AJm USED PIPE mud PLATE WASATCH METAL & SALVAGE 203 WmI S3rd Smrifi shag-gy-looki- The John Birch Society Features ng ?Webuy silver coins 7 I Holland. Dutch unions boast of having ended the practice of saluting and eliminated mandatory grooming standards, such as hair length restrictions for men. The predictable result is a army with reduced respect for its own officers. The Swedish army union even has a strike provision in its contract! Ordering Swedes into battle would probably be an exercise in futility. But whos to say? The Swedes are led by such pacifists that the strike possibility may never be tested. In Holland, where strikes are not allowed, there is instead a provision for granting conscientious objector status to draftees who do not wish to participate in any battle situation. In 1975, South Moluccan terrorists in Holland seized a train and the Indonesian Embassy. Three innocent civilians were killed and fifty others were held as hostages. When the Dutch Army was ordered to attack, draftees refused and Dutch marines had to be brought in to carry out the operation. SAIT LAKE CITY, UTAH PHONE 484-3- 5 11 BUYERS OF SCRAP IRON AND METAL By Larry Wilcox Across the United States today tears flow freely for those The who are abnormal. abnormalities come in a wide variety, but those most noticeable have, to do with sexual relations. These fit into several categories. First, we have those who wish to function as men and women sexually but do not want to bear the burdens resulting from their sterilization or The third group contraception. 1 ive in a world of to fantasy. prefers all these of However, people have one thing in common. They are all selfish. These people all have the same goal in mind. God provided male and female to populate the earth and He provided the family to train its own All of these sexual offspring. deviates refuse to accept the responsibility of raising children. Be yond this they are also In order to practice predators. their form of deviation they must seduce the children of those willing to raise children. They are also willing to dishonor their own parents by their deviation. These people also give no thought to those who should inhabit the earth in the next generation. All of these practices lead, eventually, to depopulation of the earth, since none of them bring children into the world. None of those who have raised children believe that it is an easy task. It certainly doesnt provide a short-terthrill, but it does satisfaction to provide a long-tersee children grow and progress. Raising children is hard work and it offers many opportunities for m m failure along with the opportunities for success. Finally, parents have to turn over their job to their own children and step out of their lives. All of this is difficult but growth takes place in adversity. Those who practice abortion, contraception and homosexuality refuse to accept responsibility and give up the opportunities and joys of parenthood. They are parasites feeding on those whom they must seduce. They remind me of the atheist about whom it was said at his funeral, He is all dressed up with no place to go." These sexual deviates have no future and certainly their activity creates no future for those who should join their families. In one generation they become extinct! |