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AFSCME's Pall feels that Fishman was one of those leaders who had adapted very effectively. "He was a very high-tech person. He brought the union into the same technological changes that management is into, with computerization and com- munications." Fishman said even the once strongly-adversarial relation- ship between labor and man- agement was changing. Sometimes, however, they change more slowly than one would like. "I'm disdainful of some idiots within the American business community, who" he complained, "unlike their counterparts in any other democratic country in the world, continue to want to live by the old rules ... to the extent that they would like to destroy the American labor movement. "I say they're idiots be- cause they're not going to be able to get away with it and they should realize it. They haven't up until now and, with all their smart lawyers or whatever, be not going to every be able to do it. And on top of that, it's a luxury that they're taking on to themselves that is not served well in our com- munities, in our states, in our nation. "They're like Nero — they want to fiddle while Rome is burning. The world economy is changing. America has very many significant prob- lems. The political struggles in the world are changing. Past history says America was impregnable. Well, it's not true at all anymore. Everybody realizes that. some industrial leaders do not." To those industrial leaders, Fishman was defiant. "We're not just going to disappear and go away to make our enemies happy. To the con- trary, the labor movement will never die, because it re- presents one of the most nob- lest ways for working people • to fight for a greater measure of economic democracy, for social mobility and freedoms and all the other things that the labor movement has his- torically fought for." Unfortunately, Fishman said, a lot of the newer union members are not appreciative or even aware of some things that were won for them. "We take getting an education in this country for granted ... Almost all of the main things that we cling to in this coun- try, the labor movement's been in the forefront of those fights. Against prejudice of all kinds, against any and all groups. I think working people — that's a natural urge — you go into your. workplace, you want to have something to say regarding the conditions of your em- ployment." Fishman also defended unions by pointing out just how much non-union mem- bers indirectly benefit from unions — company-paid med- ical plans and pensions to name two examples. In his mind, unions indirectly negotiated for employees of a large company — IBM for in- stance — who are not unionized. In fact, they may actually do better than union members. In order for a com- pany to keep out a union, he said, very often they will offer wages and benefit pack- ages that are equal to unionized workers. This way, the employer convinces the employee that there's no need to join, and according to Fishman, they may even throw in a few "sweetners." "Now, if the labor move- ment was not around," he said, "I assure you that the office workers at IBM, Steel- case, Ford or wherever, and other segments of the popula- tion that are affected by the standard that we set, their standard of living would be considerably lower than what • it is." Fishman faulted the labor movement for not being more effective in communicating this message, depriving themselves of broadened sup- port. "I'm still old enough — maybe I should say young enough — to remember the fight at Ford in 1949 for the first pension in any union for an industrial worker in the auto industry. We pioneered that. We got it for millions of others in and outside the labor movement. So if we do a better job in communicat- ing and educating about this, I think there will be some payoffs for us."0 Sam Fishman Sam Fishman, 62, died in Washington, D.C. Nov. 27 during emergency heart surgery. He is survived by his wife Doris of Lansing; a son, Phillip of Bangkok, Thailand; a daughter, Ann of Silver Spring, Md.; two sisters, Diane Lieber and Shirley Hirsch, both of New York City; and one grandson. Fishman was visiting his daughter at the time of his death. In accordance with the wishes of his fam- ily, he was buried in Mount Lebanon Cemetery, in Adelphi, Md., north of Washington, D.C. At press time, plans for a memorial service in Michigan were incomplete.