Word: preventing
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...time pushing its legislative program through Congress this year, may find the New York strike the insuperable obstacle in its attempts to erase "right to work" provisions from the Taft-Hartley Act. In his State of the Union message, President Johnson felt obliged to ask for new legislation to prevent similar strikes. ≫ The Johnson Administration seemed preoccupied with an attempt to cause Mayor Lindsay political embarrassment. It remained largely mum during the strike, did not denounce the union's fatuous demands, then piously reproved Lindsay for a settlement that "violated" federal wage-price guidelines...
...statistical distortion and logical absurdity. Claiming, for example, that every participant in the Job Corps costs the government $4,700 yearly, Reagan states, "We can send them to Harvard for $2700 a year. Of course, don't get me wrong, I'm not suggesting Harvard as the answer to prevent juvenile delinquency...
Third, the President's statement continues a regrettable Administration practice: the almost ritual invocation, whenever a labor dispute develops, of the magic number, 3.2. Indiscriminate use is beginning to obscure the economic reasoning behind this figure. The reasoning is simple: To prevent inflation, no wage increase should exceed the percentage rise in labor productivity in the industry involved. Progress in productivity if of course uneven across the economy, varying considerably from industry to industry. Citing the national average of 3.2% during every dispute is simply not logical; nor is it fair to the workers involved, who may deserve more...
...Administration has promised labor to continue its fight to repeal Section 14(b) of the Taft-Hartley Act, which permits states to pass laws banning union shops; Ev Dirksen, who held off the Administration's attempts in the first session, still opposes repeal and will filibuster to prevent its passage. Bills to increase and extend the minimum wage and to standardize unemployment compensation are also bound to cause debate. Other potentially mettlesome issues: Electoral College reform, home rule for the District of Columbia, and funding the Teacher Corps...
...Cuyahoga County (Cleveland) Court of Appeals heartily agreed: "The state does not have a substantial enough interest to restrict speech in cases where a mother, in the only way she knows how, instructs her child in ways to prevent conception before marriage." Duly reversing Mrs. McLaughlin's conviction, the court asked: "Can anyone argue that it is wrong for parents to attempt to educate their own children in areas which are grossly neglected by our school systems? This is not only a parental right; it is a duty...