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Full text of ' Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2011 with funding from Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation Untied Brotherhood of Carpenters & Joiners of America It looked as if a night of dark intent Was coming, and not only a night, an age. Someone had better be prepared Jot rage.

There would be more than ocean-water broken Before God's last Put out the Light was spoken. — From 'Once by the Pacific' by Robert Frost II III •* >i^* * i a^*S GENERAL OFFICERS OF THE UNITED BROTHERHOOD of CARPENTERS & JOINERS of AMERICA GENERAL OFFICE: 101 Constitution Ave., N.W., Washington, D.C. 20001 GENERAL PRESIDENT Patrick J. Campbell 101 Constitution Ave., N.W. Washington, D.C. 20001 FIRST GENERAL VICE PRESIDENT Sigurd Lucassen 101 Constitution Ave., N.W. Washington, D.C.

20001 SECOND GENERAL VICE PRESIDENT Anthony Ochocki 101 Constitution Ave., N.W. Washington, D.C. 20001 GENERAL SECRETARY John S. Rogers 101 Constitution Ave., N.W. Washington, D.C. 20001 GENERAL TREASURER DISTRICT BOARD MEMBERS First District, Joseph F. Lia 120 North Main Street New City, New York 10956 Second District, George M.

Walish 101 S. Road Newtown Square, Pennsylvania 19073 Third District, John Pruttt 504 E.

Monroe Street #402 Springfield, Illinois 62701 Fourth District, Harold E. Lewis 3110 Maple Drive, #403 Atlanta, Georgia 30305 Fifth District, Leon W. Greene 4920 54th Avenue, North Crystal, Minnesota 55429 Sixth District, Dean Sooter 400 Main Street #203 Rolla, Missouri 65401 Seventh District, H. Paul Johnson Room 722, Oregon Nat'l Bldg.

Alder Street Portland, Oregon 97205 Eighth District, M. Bryant 5330-F Power Inn Road Sacramento, California 95820 Ninth District, John Carruthers 5799 Yonge Street #807 Willowdale, Ontario M2M 3V3 Tenth District, Ronald J. Dancer 1235 40th Avenue, N.W. Calgary, Alberta, T2K OG3 GENERAL PRESIDENT EMERITUS William Sidell Patrick J. Campbell, Chairman John S.

Rogers, Secretary Correspondence for the General Executive Board should be sent to the General Secretary. Secretaries, Please Note In processing complaints about magazine delivery, the only names which the financial secretary needs to send in are the names of members who are NOT receiving the magazine. In sending in the names of mem- bers who are not getting the maga- zine, the address forms mailed out with each monthly bill should be used. When a member clears out of one local union into another, his name is automatically dropped from the mailing list of the local union he cleared out of. Therefore, the secre- tary of the union into which he cleared should forward his name to the Gen- eral Secretary so that this member can again be added to the mailing list. Members who die or are suspended are automatically dropped from the mailing list of The Carpenter. PLEASE KEEP THE CARPENTER ADVISED OF YOUR CHANGE OF ADDRESS NOTE: Filling out this coupon and mailing it to the CARPENTER only cor- rects your mailing address for the magazine.

It does not advise your own local union of your address change. You must also notify your local union. By some other method. This coupon should be mailed to THE CARPENTER, 101 Constitution Ave., N.W., Washington, D.

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Social Security or (in Canada) Social Insurance No. City State or Province ZIP Code VOLUME 104 No. 1 JANUARY, 1984 UNITED BROTHERHOOD OF CARPENTERS AND JOINERS OF AMERICA John S.

Rogers, Editor IN THIS ISSUE NEWS AND FEATURES Labor-Consumer Action Against Louisiana Pacific 2 Labor-Business Group on Rebuilding Public Facilities PAI 4 Labor's Endorsement of Mondale Al Goodfader 7 Foxes in the Henhouse, No. 7: Poorly Protected Consumers 8 Charles Nichols Retires as General Treasurer 10 Regional Leadership Conference in Philadelphia 11 Organizing Director Visits Puerto Rico 12 Myths about Labor James Witt 15 America Works' TV Series 17 Jamison Door Company, Union for Many Years 18 Operation Turnaround 28 DEPARTMENTS Washington Report 6 Ottawa Report 14 Local Union News 20 Consumer Clipboard: Be Wise, Scrutinize! 25 We Congratulate 27 Apprenticeship and Training 30 Plane Gossip 32 Service to the Brotherhood 33 In Memoriam 37 What's New? 39 President's Message Patrick J. Campbell 40 Published monthly at 3342 Bladensburg Road, Brentwood. 20722 by the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners ol America.

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Free Download Narayana Stotram Mp3 there. Subscription price: United States and Canada $7.50 per year, single copies 75c in advance. THE COVER For 70 years Lime Kiln Lighthouse in the San Juan Islands has guided ships through Haro Strait, a restless body of water which separates Vancouver Island, British Columbia, from the rugged coast of Washington. Heavy-laden cargo ships moving south toward Victoria see the light off the port bow as they head into Juan de Fuca Strait and the Pacific Ocean. On dark winter nights the Lime Kiln Light is a guardian spirit for countless mariners and an inspiration for poets like Robert Frost, who in 1928 penned the lines reprinted on our January cover. Lime Kiln Lighthouse was recently repainted by the men of the U.S.

Coast Guard's 13th District, and the light itself was refurbished for the long winter months. For several years, the light has been fully automated. Throughout most of our history, U.S. And Canadian lighthouses were manned. Countless stories are told of heroic men and women tending the lights on stormy nights. The actual fact is that, today, only 43 of America's 250 so-called 'clas- sical lighthouse structures' have fulltime lighthouse keepers. Lime Kiln Lighthouse is now recog- nized by the U.S.

Secretary of the In- terior as a potential National Historic Register property. If it should become an historic landmark, it will join scores of other lighthouses which have been converted to other uses.— Photograph from H. Armstrong Roberts NOTE: Readers who would like additional copies of this cover may obtain them by sending 50V in coin to cover mailing costs to the Editor, The CARPENTER. 101 Constitution Ave., N.W., Washington, D.C. Printed in U.S.A. Brotherhood Launches Labor- Consumer Action Against Louisiana-Pacific Corporation AFL-CIO BACKS CAMPAIGN AGAINST L-P WOOD PRODUCTS The United Brotherhood of Car- penters announced December 16 that it has launched a national labor- consumer action campaign against the Louisiana-Pacific Corporation, the second largest in the lumber industry, and will continue the 'don't buy' drive until the com- pany agrees to a fair contract with the union. The AFL-CIO Executive Coun- cil, at the request of the UBC, has voted to support our 750,000-mem- ber union's consumer boycott of all Louisiana- Pacific wood products.

The AFL-CIO and its Union Label and Service Trades Department have begun to appeal to their nearly 14,000,000 members and the gen- eral public, asking that they not buy L-P wood products. UBC President Patrick J. Camp- bell, in announcing the nationwide boycott, accused the giant wood products company of attempting to 'take advantage of heavy unem- ployment in the western states.' A strike by 1500 union members against L-P at nearly a score of west coast plants has been in effect since June 24, 1983.

In their circulars to the general public, the Lumber and Sawmill Workers deplore the 'public be damned' attitude of the billion- dollar corporation. On several oc- casions, Louisiana Pacific has tried, without success, to obtain court injunctions to prevent their em- ployees from peacefully picketing the struck plants.

Organized labor in California, Or- egon, Washington and Idaho — wherever the L-P plants are located on the west coast — is appealing for financial contributions, food, and clothing for the strikers and their families. Rallies have been held in many communities in support of Western Council LPIW members. 'There is absolutely no eco- nomic justification for Louisiana- Pacific's refusal to pay decent wages to its employees,' Campbell said. 'L-P is carrying out a campaign of Notice to All Locals and Councils To give impetus to the na- tional L-P boycott and to lend support to out-of-work West- ern Council LPIW members, General President Patrick Campbell has notified all local unions and councils to get be- hind the UBC and AFL-CIO consumer actions. Flyers are to be distributed at wood-prod- ucts retail outlets, and posters are to be posted so that UBC members will know what L-P products to avoid. Economic coercion against our striking members and their families.

'It is important to note,' the UBC president said, 'that other lumber companies, large and small, have signed reasonable collective bargaining agreements. In contrast, Louisiana-Pacific elected to break away from the industry's bargaining group, which has agreed, without strikes, to a settlement providing for no wage adjustment in 1983, a 4% increase in 1984 and a 4Vi% increase in 1985.

'Even this moderate solution, which took into consideration the employers' business recession problems of the past, was arbitrarily rejected by L-P.' UBC President Campbell charged that L-P, a billion-dollar corpora- tion, 'wanted still further sacrifices and concessions from its employ- ees. L-P broke with industry-wide bargaining, it broke the multiplant bargaining unit, and now it is trying to break the workers who built their company. I predict they will not succeed in this vicious plan.' The Carpenter Union's call for a national boycott against a giant wood products and building supply com- pany is 'unprecedented in the 102- year history of the union,' Camp- bell pointed out, and 'the action reflects the UBC's grave concern over L-P's total disdain for their employees' economic welfare. I would remind L-P management that the Carpenters do not lightly make a decision such as the call for not buying L-P wood products. What we have started we will keep up until our goal for a fair contract is reached.'

'L-P management has commit- ted the corporate blunder of the year,' Campbell said. 'L-P has pushed the two largest wood products unions in the coun- try — the Carpenters and the Inter- national Wood workers of America, AFL-CIO — into calling a nation- wide consumer boycott at a time when L-P's competitors are work- ing at a nearly full capacity rate. Consumers may be assured that lumber, plywood, and other wood products made by fair-to-labor manufacturers are plentiful. The general public will not be adversely affected by our campaign against L-P.'

The massive labor 'don't buy campaign' was started at the re- CARPENTER quest of the Carpenters' affiliate, the Western Council of Lumber, Production and Industrial Workers (LPIW). The strike which started last June resulted from L-P's in- sistence on cutting wages by up to 10% for all new employees, freezing wage rates for all present employ- ees, mandatory overtime, changing the employees' health plan, and a contract expiring after only one year. The union, during the course of negotiations, showed it was willing to make concessions, including ac- ceptance of the one-year contract proposal and alterations in certain benefit programs sought by the company. But L-P not only rejected these conciliatory proposals but for the first time put on the table new demands for the abolition of addi- tional benefits and of union secu- rity-proposals which the UBC re- jected as 'unacceptable.' The strike is being led by James S.

Bledsoe, executive secretary of the LPIW, which is headquartered in Portland, Ore. The International Woodworkers of America repre- sents striking workers in two plants, and the IWA joined the Carpenters in requesting AFL-CIO endorse- ment of the boycott proposal. L-P brand name wood products include: L-P Wolmanized; Cedartone; Waferboard; Fibrepine; Oro-Bord; Redex; Sidex; Ketchikan; Pabco; Xonolite; L-P-XC; L-P Forester; L-P Home Centers.

Louisiana Pacific is the second largest producers of wood products in the United States. Companies much smaller than L-P have already signed the master industry agreement, and union employees are working.

■p; A LETTER FROM THE GENERAL PRESIDENT December 19, 1983 4* Mr. Merlo, Chairman Louisiana-Pacific Corporation 111 S.W. Fifth Avenue Portland, Oregon 97204 Dear Mr. Merlo: At the request of our affiliate, the Western Council of Lumber, Production and Industrial Workers, with whom your Company has a primary labor dispute at this time, I have authorized a national consumer boycott against the Louisiana-Pacific Corporation. I requested and received from the AFL-CIO Executive Council an endorsement of the boycott against the wood products of the Louisiana-Pacific Corporation. I am advised that the Union Label and Service Trades Department of the AFL-CIO sent to you a telegram prior to the institution of the boycott and urged you to come to terms with the Western Council of Lumber, Production and Industrial Workers before the cam- paign got under way. Naturally, considering the scope of your Company and the size of the AFL-CIO and of the United Broth- erhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America, our campaign is only at the very earliest stage at this time.

I have confidence in the system of collective bargain- ing in the United States and sincerely urge you to reach a fair collective bargaining agreement with our affiliates in the Northwest. The United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America has a presence in every major city in the United States and in an enormous number of villages and towns, from Puerto Rico to Alaska. Your Company is, I understand, widely established. Naturally, once a consumer campaign is undertaken, it will have a momentum of its own and in our experience, has long term effects on the sales of a business. For that reason, and because I know our affiliates in the Northwest have made conciliatory proposals to you, I continue to hope that an honorable collective bar- gaining agreement between you may be reached soon. In the interest of resolving this dispute, I would like to offer my assistance to the parties in whatever way I can be of help in reaching an agreement.

Sincerely yours, PATRICK J. CAMPBELL GENERAL PRESIDENT m:::'?■*:. JANUARY, 1984 BY ROBERT B. COONEY PA1 Staff Writer A group of top labor and business leaders has proposed that the nation spend an additional%'■) billion to $11 billion a year to halt the well-publicized deterioration of its highways, bridges, drinking water, and wastewater treat- ment plants. Public investments in these basic fa- cilities 'are of critical importance to public health and safety and to the national economy and its ability to pro- vide jobs,' AFL-CIO President Lane Kirkland and Clifton C. Garvin, Jr., chairman of Exxon Corp., told a press briefing in Washington, D.C.

Kirkland and Garvin are co-chairman of the Labor-Management Group, a private panel which meets informally to discuss major issues. Harvard pro- fessor John T.

Dunlop, former Secre- Labor-Business Group Proposes Rebuilding Public Facilities 'There is money to be saved by getting on the problem now. Otherwise, we will be in more trouble than we are in today, ' says management co-chairman Clifton Garvin.

The nation's bridges, roads, water supply and waste treatment facilities are rapidly deteriorating and require immediate attention, the Labor-Management Group co-chaired by AFL-CIO President Lane Kirkland and Exxon Corp. Garvin, Jr., left, told a Washington news conference. At right is panel coordinator John T.

Dunlop, a former Sec. Tary of Labor, coordinates the group's activities.. 'Disasters are occurring every day' in isolated communities, Kirkland ob- served. He said the 'possibility of greater disaster continues to hang over us.'

Kirkland recalled the collapse of the highway bridge in Connecticut which took several lives, and the water main break in New York City which dis- rupted the garment industry at a critical time. What better time to repair and replace public facilities, said Kirkland, then at a time of severe unemployment, idle resources and capacity, and with a problem of displaced workers of major proportions. The Kirland-Garvin group released a 109-page report which reviewed the condition of public facilities and dis- cussed ways of financing their rebuild- ing, including fair and reasonable user fees. A labor economist estimated that the rebuilding program could produce an estimated 400,000 to 500,000 fulltime jobs a year. The long-range program would be expected to go on for a dozen or more years. The group estimated that the nation is now spending about $28 billion a year on what is called the public infrastruc- ture. The proposed additional spending CARPENTER of up to $11 billion a year would be shouldered by local, state, or federal governmental units, depending on the project.

Garvin said there is money to be saved 'by getting on the problem now.' Otherwise, he said, 'we will be in more trouble then we are in today.'

The study, entitled 'Rebuilding America's Vital Public Facilities,' cited six broad trends as underlying today's crisis: • A coincidence of life cycles. Phys- ical facilities eventually wear out and several life cycles are ending concur- rently.

These include the facilities re- lating to industrialization and urbani- zation between the late 1800s and 1930, the interstate highway system which has had heavy wear and tear since it was started in 1956, and other major projects now wearing out. • The population shifts from the Northeast and Midwest to the South and West, and from cities to suburbs. • High inflation and high interest rates, which have forced postponement of spending on public facilities. • A declining share of total resources spent on the infrastructure.

• The federal emphasis on building projects like highways and not also maintaining them. • A shift in emphasis from public facilities to social spending in recent decades, though experts disagree on whether this is relevant to the issue.

The Labor-Management Group also has issued studies on other matters, such as health care cost escalation, illegal immigration, and extension of jobless benefits. The labor members, besides Kirk- land, include AFL-CIO Secretary- Treasurer Thomas Donahue; retired Auto Workers President Douglas Fraser; Iron Workers President John Lyons; Steelworkers President Lloyd Mc- Bride; President Gerald McEntee of the State, County and Municipal Employ- ees; Communications Workers Presi- dent Glenn Watts; and Food and Com- mercial Workers President William H. Western Council Pursues Campaign Against Union Busters of Nord The E. Of Everett, Wash., put a team of professional union busters into key management jobs and ended up with a long, costly strike that has demolished the rep- utation of a family firm that once- was noted for the manufacture of quality doors and for fair dealings with its workers. The few doors now being turned out are produced by untrained strikebreakers hired from the un- employment lines in western states.

Only a handful of the nearly 700 union members who struck last July 14 have given in to company in- ducements to return to work. There has been strong community as well as trade union support for the strikers, members of Local 1054, part of the Western Council of the Lumber, Production & Industrial Workers, a division of the United Brotherhood. The immediate cause of the strike was a company demand for large scale cuts in pay and benefits, cou- pled with a refusal to open its books to the union to demonstrate the need. As people in Everett see it, the problem dates to the replacement of executives who helped the late Eric Nord build the business from scratch with the new breed of management consultants hired by his grandson, who is now the company president. Heading the list is Fred Long, hired as the company's chief nego- tiator.

Long founded and headed the West Coast Industrial Relations As- sociation (WCIRA), which has been the target of congressional hearings on the role of management consult- ants. Evidence at the hearing included a transcript of a speech by Long assuring employers that they won't get into trouble for false statements at an NLRB hearing because 'there's no such thing as perjury in a labor board proceeding.' Long's response at the 1980 hear- ings by the House Subcommittee on Labor-Management Relations was that he really wasn't advising the employers to lie, but merely telling them what the facts were.

An Alumnus of Long's operations, John Hermann, who branched off on his own to head American Ex- ecutives Services, Inc., was the first of the union-busting management consultants hired by Scott R. Nord, the grandson of the company's foun- der. Hermann, who is now a member of the firm's board of directors, was instrumental in the hiring of Darryl Springer, now the company's vice president and general manager, ac- cording to a story in the Everett Herald. With its union-busting strategy in hand, the company broke off from the settlement pattern in the wood products industry in the Pacific Northwest and demanded massive union concessions. These included. Local 1054 reported, wage reduc- tions up to 40%, elimination of bonus pay, dropping of four paid holidays, curtailment of pension and health- welfare benefits and a dismantling of the seniority system. The result was described by a Seattle Post-Intelligencer reporter who came to Everett for a first-hand look at the strike.

'Unionists are out 24 hours a day, walking the line in front of the mill that is one of the world's largest door manufacturers,' the news- paper reported. Said one striker when asked why so many workers held out for so long, 'If you can't fight for what you believe in, you might as well give up.' Everett's Mayor William E. Moore said he had asked both the union and company 'to sit down at a table with me here in City Hall' to try to negotiate a settlement.

The union accepted but Nord's management refused, the mayor said. Union-busting is target of a rally called by the Snohomish County AFL-CIO. JANUARY, 1984 Washington Report CORPORATE PACs OUTSPEND Corporate, trade association and rightwing politi- cal action committees outspent labor PACs by about 4-1 in the 1982 congressional elections, the Federal Election Commission recently reported.

All told, PACs raised $199.5 million and spent $190.2 million during the 1981-82 election cycle, up by 45% from the 1980 elections, the FEC said. The FEC report covered 3,722 PACs.

Contributions by PACs to candidates seeking Senate and House seats have skyrocketed in the past three election cycles. They totaled $34.1 mil- lion in 1977-78; $55.2 million in 1979-80; and 83.6 million in 1981-82.

ASBESTOS RULE DELAYED On November 4 a federal appeals court approved an industry-requested stay on an emergency asbes- tos rule issued by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans granted a stay of the new asbestos rule pending a hearing scheduled January 12. The stay had been sought by the Asbestos Infor- mation Association, which represents asbestos min- ing and manufacturing firms in the U. Andy Hunter Life Megaupload New Site here. S. And Can- ada. The AFL-CIO Building and Construction Trades Dept.

Recently submitted to OSHA a proposed per- manent standard on asbestos that would limit expo- sure 0.1 f/cc, the limit urged by other unions. SUPREME COURT PICKETING Supreme Court Justice Byron White recently lifted what one journalist called 'the country's most ridic- ulous picketing ban' — an unspoken rule that barred pickets in front of the U.S. Supreme Court, which down through the years has upheld labor's right to picket anywhere. The Supreme Court's sidewalks are no different from any others, said Justice White.

PENSION FUNDS FOR MORTGAGES Private pension funds containing some $400 bil- lion could be invested in home mortgages under provisions of legislation introduced by two Oregon legislators — Senator Bob Packwood and Congress- man Ron Wyden — just before Congress adjourned for the holidays. Organized labor has already taken action in this area, investing union pension funds in many sec- tions of the country to provide housing for those in need. HOUSING'S '84, '85 OUTLOOK The National Association of Home Builders re- cently held an Economic Forecast Conference in the nation's capital, and conference panelists con- cluded that housing, which led the economic recov- ery last year, will slow down this year because of 'less inventory rebuilding' and slower consumer spending due to high interest rates. The NAHB is in the midst of a campaign to alert the public to the 'growing possiblity of a recession in late 1984 and early 1985 unless Congress and the Administration take action to reduce the federal deficit.'

SOCIAL SECURITY CUTOFF Some Congressmen are still mulling over ways to finance the Social Security system so that it doesn't face future crises. So far they have sidestepped a question which corporation executives want side- stepped: namely, the income cutoff. Most Ameri- cans don't realize that the very wealthy, who won't need Social Security benefits, enjoy a cutoff point. Annual income above $37,800 isn't subject to So- cial Security tax.

If incomes over that amount were taxed, there would be much less of a crisis facing American workers today. DRUG-SMUGGLING PILOTS It's not difficult to fly a small airplane carrying illegal drugs across U.S. Borders, land it on a re- mote field, and make a lot of money doing so. Even if pilots are caught and convicted of drug smug- gling, little can be done to keep them from flying again. The only penalty the FAA now imposes is a one-year suspension of the pilot's certificate and a $1,000 fine. Senator Lloyd Bentsen of Texas has introduced legislation to crack down on pilots and aircraft own- ers who engage in such traffic.

His bill would im- pose $25,000 fines, five years imprisonment, and would revoke the pilot's license. DUES CHECKOFFS INCREASE A study by the Bureau of Labor Statistics of ma- jor collective bargaining agreements shows that the number of labor-management contracts containing dues checkoff provisions has increased significantly over the past 25 years. Some 86% of major con- tracts surveyed contained dues checkoff clauses, up from 71% in a study made in 1958-59. CARPENTER LABOR'S ENDORSEMENT and what it means by Al Goodfader AFL-CIO endorsement of the presi- dential candidacy of former Vice Pres- ident Walter F. Mondale gives direction to the trade union movement's deter- mination that working people have a full, unified, effective voice in the 1984 presidential election.

For the first time since 1 968, the AFL- CIO is taking an active role in the election of America's president from the very beginning of the nominating process. The enthusiastic, nearly unan- imous choice of Mondale by delegates at the 1983 AFL-CIO convention cli- maxed a months-long democratic proc- ess of selection. Through a variety of methods, affiliated unions surveyed their members, then directed the AFL-CIO to follow those members' wishes. The convention voted yes' on a recommen- dation made a few days earlier by the AFL-CIO General Board, when presi- dents of affiliated unions cast for Mon- dale more than 90% of the votes of the 14.5 million members they represented.

The endorsement action directs the AFL-CIO to work for Mondale's selec- tion as the presidential candidate of the Democratic Party. It reflects a convic- tion that American working people must take a direct hand in -the nominating process, to have the most effective leader possible guiding our own futures and that of our country. In its resolution of endorsement, the convention declared that Mondale, 'through-out his career in public serv- ice, has fought for government policies based on fairness and social justice.' That conclusion was based on a full, searching examination of the past rec- ords and present statements of all those seeking labor's endorsement, as pre- sented at trade union conventions and forums all over the country. Each can- didate was given an equal, fair chance to make his case.

In endorsing Mondale, the affiliated unions of the AFL-CIO were by no means rejecting or repu- diating any of the other candidates, but selecting the one who is, in their judg- ment, the best of a strong field. Since he first took his seat as a U.S. Senator in 1965, Walter Mondale has shared the concerns of organized labor on a wide variety of issues — a concern for social justice, for economic prog- ress, and for a federal government that lives up to its obligations to all of its citizens. He has stood with working people in efforts to make sure federal law protects their rights to organize and bargain collectively. He has worked to provide the federal programs needed to ensure full employment, from job training to fair foreign trade policy.

He has been an outspoken and lead- ing advocate of civil rights and equal opportunity for women and minorities. He has been a compassionate champion of social programs to provide food, medical care, and housing for those in need. During his career, Mondale has been a consistent supporter of tax law reform, of consumer protection legis- lation, and of government attention to our educational system. Progress toward many of these goals has been halted or reversed by the Reagan Administration since the begin- ning of 1980. In addition, its economic policies tossed millions of working peo- ple out of jobs, or the opportunity to obtain them. To restore America's industrial strength and economic health, Mondale proposes national policies that would provide assistance in basic industries as well as new 'high tech' endeavors.

He advocates governmental policies that would assist in education and training of workers, encouragement of research and development activities, fostering of investment in productive endeavors, and in foreign trade reform. All of these issues will be important to working people in the coming months as they decide whom to vote for in the 1984 election.

An Open Letter to Our Mem >ers: Our unioi., responding to the clearly expressed feelings of our members, en- thusiastically joined in the recent AFL- CIO endorsement of Walter Mondale's candidacy for the Democratic presiden- tial nomination in 1984. That was the easy part. Now comes the hard part — working to help transform the endorsement into the nomination it- self.

No activity our union is presently engaged in has a higher priority. Our objective is: Nomination first, election of Mondale to the Presidency in Novem- ber, 1984, and a nation whose economy provides jobs for our members and pro- grams that help create those jobs. We have all had enough of Ronald Reagan's economics of scarcity. You, the members of this union, are the ones who will determine whether or not we can help elect a true friend of our union and our families, Walter Mondale. We urge you to get involved in your state and community in the process that will move Mondale toward success in this nomination struggle — the delegate selection process. That is, the choice of persons — in many cases union members themselves — who will go to the Demo- cratic National Convention next July committed to Walter Mondale. In some states, this process will take place by way of precinct caucuses, county and state conventions.

In other states, it will occur through a direct primary voting process, much like any statewide elec- tion. In all states, we need your help. In all states you will be called upon by your state AFL-CIO, or local AFL-CIO, to lend a hand. It might be to attend a caucus. It might be to give some of your time on a tele- phone bank, calling other members. It might be to hand out literature, or to help with mailings. Whatever it is, we urge your cooper- ation.

Only with that cooperation will we succeed in the job of electing labor del- egates to the Democratic convention who are rock solid for Mondale. Only if we succeed, can Mondale suc- ceed.

It is that clear-cut. This is an enormous challenge. The stakes are high, the Presidency itself.

Our members, our families, our union need a friend in the White House. We and the nation have suffered enough under the job-killing, people-hurting pol- icies of the present administration. We can change it.... But only with your help. CAMPBELL General President JANUARY, 1984 THE FOXES IN THE HENHOUSE —PART SEVEN CONSUMERS STILL SUFFERING UNDER REAGONOMICS 'Warning: Reaganomics is harmful to consumers' — so details a booklet of that title, put out after Reagan's first year in office by the Washington, D.C., based National Consumers League, in collaboration with Congress Watch, Consumer Federation of America, Con- sumers Union, National Council of Sen- ior Citizens, and Public Voice For Food and Health Policy. One can only expect a group like that would know what they're talking about.

The report 'takes stock of regulations withdrawn, budget cuts made in pro- grams affecting consumers, the manner in which Americans have been treated in the process of government decision making, and most fundamentally, the cumulative effects of these government actions' — all to the cumulative loss of the consumer. And now a second report is out, one year later... 'Warning: Reaganomics is still harmful to consumers.' The present administration now has, in no indefinite terms, the distinction of breaking a chain of almost 100-years of consumer progress and a ten-year chain of Presidents actively supporting consumer rights. In 1962, President Kennedy issued a federal Consumer Bill of Rights that included the rights to safety, to be informed, to choose, and to be heard.

Presidents Johnson, Nixon, Ford, and Carter all reaffirmed these rights, with President Ford adding the quintessential right to consumer education. Then along came President Reagan... And his merry band of Republicans, to take services away from the poorly protected consumer, and give more ad- vantages to already well protected cor- porations. Eight days after taking office, Presi- dent Reagan ordered the immediate decontrol of crude oil, scheduled to be phased in over a ten-month period. The result of this action was a 7 to 10% gallon increase in the price of gasoline — with estimates of resulting costs to consumers, over the ten-month period, as high as $10 billion. The President's auto safety agency reduced the crash-resistance standard for car bumpers from 5 to 2.5 miles per hour.

Although consumers overwhelm- ingly approved of the 5 m.p.h. Standard, the change was projected to result in a $5 to $10 savings per car for the auto industry.

However, a consumer who has an accident between these two speeds would be in for about $300 in repair costs. The ruling that mandated air bags in 1983 cars was also rescinded, as was the ruling to have 'passive' seat belts (that automatically surround the passenger) in cars in 1982. Passive restraints would have saved an esti- mated 10,000 lives and 60,000 serious injuries annually. In a gaffe heard 'round the world, Reagan's USDA, while lowering nutri- tion standards for school lunches, at- tempted to define catsup and pickles as vegetables, and cake and pie crust as bread. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC), created in 1 9 1 4 to curb deceptive and unfair business practices, refused to recall defective survival suits worn by seamen and oil rig workers in emer- gencies. FTC economists reasoned, ac- cording to the 1983 National Consumers League report, that the market would become self-correcting, once a few peo- ple drowned and their families sued the manufacturer.

Economically speaking, a perfectly logical cost-effective solu- tion. As simple as crinkling up paper dolls. (When Congressional oversight hearings revealed this reasoning, the manufacturer quickly ordered a recall of the survival suits.) The Food and Drug Administration, no doubt under pressure from a drug manufacturer or two, ignored evidence of dangerous side effects from the drug Oraflex — an anti-arthritic drug — and 8 CARPENTER approved its use. The drug had to cause several deaths in England before it was withdrawn in the U.S.

As unsafe for humans. And these are just a few specific instances of the ravaging of consumer rights that have taken place since Rea- gan took office.