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...really means it when he describes the Crimson's chances with "cautious optimism" (i.e., pessimism). One can just see him, oh, say, round about the Dartmouth game, ready to wheel and deal from the sidelines with personnel changes and strategic maneuvering, only to find himself--like Richard III on Bosworth Field-having no resources to work with...
Unfortunately, the Administration seems bereft of new ideas for bringing the rate down. Last week it even silenced one of its anti-inflationary guns: Barry Bosworth, head of the Council on Wage and Price Stability, who had riled union leaders by assailing big wage boosts, was ordered to shut up. Labor Secretary Ray Marshall told an A.F.L.-C.I.O. executive council meeting in Chicago that henceforth any Administration comments on labor negotiations will be coordinated by a five-man committee on which Bosworth will have only one voice. Translation: less, and softer, jawboning. As a substitute, Marshall is talking up Government...
While Jimmy Carter was waging his diplomatic offensive in Europe, his home front troops continued to lose ground last week in the campaign against inflation. Barry Bosworth, chief of the Council on Wage and Price Stability, repeated that inflation will not be slowed until pay increases in major union settlements decline to 7%, from 10% in recent contracts. But 13 railway unions were busy wrapping up a much richer pact...
...that this labor settlement would be an "exception," because they got into the rail negotiations only after most of management's offers were already on the table. In fact, the talks had been going on for ten months before the Wage and Price Council began to preach moderation. Bosworth, speaking with a refreshing candor that may start getting him into trouble, said the Administration had "fumbled," adding, "This negotiation is one that got away from...
There can be no such excuses or explanations for the other pace-setting labor negotiation of 1978, covering 570,000 postal workers. Those talks should come to a climax this week, and Bosworth's jaw-boners have been in on them from the start. The unions demand a 14% increase in the first year of a two-year contract, well above the 5.5% that the Administration has recommended for federal employees. Postal workers already earn an average of $8 an hour, vs. $5.51 for private nonfarm workers, and they enjoy a "no layoff' clause that the Postal Service...