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Unique Setting. In hopes of meeting both sides halfway, the Nixon Administration last week came up with the first presidential proposal advanced for bringing farm workers under a national labor relations law. One much-discussed approach would simply put agriculture under the jurisdiction of the National Labor Relations Board, which has covered industrial workers since 1935. Because farm labor presents special problems, however, the Administration asked for a separate, presidentially appointed Farm Labor Relations Board. "There are unique characteristics about the agricultural setting," said Labor Secretary George Shultz. "There is no great pattern. You'd have...
...California base in Delano, said of Shultz's plan: "I think he is on the right track" vim But the United Automobile Workers' Walter Reuther found "no moral or economic justification" for separating farm workers-from NLRB coverage. Reuther, a longtime supporter of Chavez, complained: "The Farm Labor Relations Board proposed by the Secretary would operate under law so filled with exclusions and fishhooks as to render it meaningless. We call on the President to reconsider his position." In dozens of cities around the U.S. last weekend, Chavez's United Farm Workers Organizing Committee managed to drum...
...time, "a water buffalo is more valuable than a human being. I mean, it costs more to hire a water buffalo for a day's work than it does to hire a fellah." Today the same holds true, though the price has gone up for both a man's labor (58¢ a day) and a water buffalo's hire (69¢). Under Nasser's socialism, the fellah no longer has to make obeisance to the local pasha; instead, he is cheated by the corrupt administrator appointed by Cairo. Nasser's revolution, which began with bright hopes, is dismissed, like everything else...
Prime Minister Harold Wilson has had to guide his ship of state through some tumultuous storms, but, compared with recent weeks, those voyages must seem to have been made on a millpond. Wilson's Labor Party was routed last week for the third straight year in local elections. Newspaper polls showed that if a general election were called now, the number of Laborites in Parliament would fall by two-thirds. Finally, after quelling a "mini-mutiny" by Labor backbenchers, Wilson was nearly nibbled to death by dentures...
Conservative Ploy. Labor's backbenchers, a traditionally insecure lot, are plainly worried that the issue of union reform may cost them their jobs. Without the prop of union treasuries and union electoral support, Labor candidates would virtually lose by default. In this dire situation, some backbenchers began wondering aloud in the corridors whether Labor might employ a favorite Conservative Party tactic-that of changing Prime Ministers whenever party popularity plummets. This ploy enables the party to shift the blame for past errors onto the shoulders of the outgoing leader...