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...even more serious obstacle to M.P.L.A. rule is the sad state of Angolan civil administration. In southern cities like Huambo and Bié (formerly Silva Poôrto), white Portuguese held virtually every civil job before independence, all the way down to postal clerks and telephone operators. With many trained people gone into exile or into the bush, the problem of staffing a new government may be insuperable...
Drafting Workers. The political ferment in Spain has been intensified by growing labor unrest. Some 250,000 workers in the banking, construction and metalworking industries have walked off their jobs to protest low wages. When postal and rail workers threatened to do the same, the government responded by drafting the workers into the army, thereby making any refusal to work punishable by court-martial. The danger in the government's hard-line policies is that the dissatisfied workers, deprived of any peaceful means to make changes, will eventually resort to violence. Arias' reform program contained not a single...
...would like to comment briefly on some specific points which you raised in your letter concerning Executive Branch control over the Postal Service. Under the Reorganization Act the operating budget of the Postal Service is the responsibility of the Board of Governors. Federal appropriations to the Postal Service Fund represent only a small portion of total postal revenues and are provided to cover certain specific costs. Among other things, they provide for public service assistance to the Postal Service during the transition to a completely independent status. I have continued to support the annual appropriation of those funds...
...keeping with the Postal Service's new independent status, the White House neither approved nor disapproved the recent postal labor settlement...
...closing the President suggests "it is reasonable to expect" further increases "as long as they follow other general price increases in the economy." The lamentable fact is that present and scheduled postal rate increases are grossly out of line with past or predicted general price hikes. Time Incorporated's second-class postage rates have increased 146% over the past five years. If the already scheduled rate increases take effect, that figure would jump to an increase of 389% in July 1979. And without funding for extended phasing, which the President opposes, that 389% increase will become effective this year...