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...when it came to the wage rises he favors-for the men and women in the middle and upper reaches of Government-he took his case straight to the businessmen. He urged the Chamber of Commerce to support a federal pay raise bill-and put the request, as usual, in terms that any businessman could understand. "The middle level positions," said Johnson, "pay less than half the comparable scales of business and industry." Then he drove the point home by announcing that "one of the great economic advisers"-Walter Heller-was planning to quit the Government because his fixed salary...
Last week this widespread and growing belief got its most dramatic play to date in an unprecedented resolution adopted by the annual meeting of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in Washington. With only a handful of the 3,800 delegates muttering disapproval, that normally conservative body urged the Government to pull down its barriers against the export of nonstrategic goods to the Soviet Union and its European satellites. Such controls, said the Chamber, "are not necessary for the security of the U.S. and result in discrimination harmful to its competitive position...
Shifting. Many months of politicking went into the resolution. Last September Washington Lawyer Joel Barlow, the Chamber director who earlier had engineered the organization's approval of the tax cut bill, proposed that the Chamber speak up for bigger U.S. business with the East. With the enthusiastic support of outgoing President Edwin P. Neilan, he organized a team of backers, including Caterpillar Tractor President William Blackie, Anderson Clayton Vice President Norman Ness and Christian Science Monitor Editor Erwin Canham, a former Chamber president...
When rightwing organizations mounted a counter campaign and 1,000 protesting letters rolled in from smalltown businessmen, the sponsors nervously softened their proposal by writing into it their disapproval of granting long-term credits to the Communists. As it turned out, they overestimated the opposition. Only one Chamber chapter (from White Plains, N.Y.) voted against the proposal, and a group of leaders-including Edwin Neilan-wanted to go even farther by specifically endorsing trade with Red China...
Softening. The Johnson Administration, which would like to soften its enforcement of the embargo, expects the Chamber's resolution to help it get some amendments to the 15-year-old Export Control Act. But there is strong support for the embargo in Congress, and what promises to be a noisy brawl over amendments to the act will begin as soon as the civil rights fight is settled...