Tuesday, July 13, l971 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Page Three F. Albert, Meany hit W 3 Nixon economics SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE Carl Albert talks with AFL-CIO President George Meany during the labor organization's job conference. Both criticized President Nixon's economic policies. DEADLINE TOMORROW: Local Bell walkout ends as natonal strike looms WASHINGTON (A) - House Speaker Carl Albert said yesterday that the true villain" of the current U.S. economic site- ation is the policy of the Nixon adiniss- tration. Albert spoke at the opening session of an AFL-CIO conference on jobs. He was followed by a procession of speakers gen- erally critical of the administration policy. AFL-CIO President George Meany. known in the past for his conservtive stance, opened the conference ith the as- sertion that "the Nixon promisor, of eco- nomic stability has been a miserable fail- ure and American workers have been pay- ing with their jobs for this economic blun- der." Albert said the nation is beset by a do- mestic crisis more severe than any since the depression of the 1930s. "Unemployment is approaching bread line proportions and inflation rages un- abated,' Albert said. "The national Ba- reau of Economic Research has officially labeled this slump a reces, iou. "Hut respitetheonpecedegited combt nation of simultaneous inflation and unem- ployment," Albert continued, "we mist contend with the administrtiton reaction that can pest be described as apathy. Albert said the economic situation is af- fecting Americans from bte collar work- ers to doctors of philosophy. "The deliberate anti-milation policy of the Nixon administration fis emerged as the true villain," Albert said. "Relying on the assurances of classically teamted econo- mists that a sacrifice of jobs would bring deflation, the President has tightened the screws and seems helpless in the back- wash of uncontrolled inflation and uneni- ployment." Meany said Sunday that federal con- trols on wages and prices appear to be the only answer to the problem of contine'd inflation in the United States. "That is a decision that the President has to make." said Meany dctring NBC TV's "Meet the Press." "And if I were in his position, I would impose. controls. I don't a3e any other answer." Meany said his own 13.6 million meats- ber labor organization is "not advocating controls," but would not oppose them if they were imposed evenly. Several other union members criticized Administration economic policies. Jerry Wurf, president of the American Federa- tion of State, County and Municipal Em- ployes said, "This administration opposes almost every measure designed to ease the economic and social woes in America today-from health care to education to jobs." Floyd Smith, president of the Interna- tional~Association of Machinists, called for better planning in reconverting the U.S. economy from wartime peacetime status, while S. Frank Rafferty, president of the Painters Brotherhood, said that the in- crease in unemployment "is the direct re- sult of an engineered recession planned and carried out by the present administra- tion." Pre Cs. sign"s emergene job measure SAN CLEMENTE, Calif. (4) - Presi- dent Nixon signed yesterday a $2.25 bil- lion enmergency job act that he said "will have an immediate effect in areas of high unemployment." The measure authorizes a two year pro- gram to create 200,000 temporary jobs in state and local governments in such areas as sanitation, environmental quality, health care, education, public safety, transpor- tation and economic development. The cost during the next 12 months would be $1 billion. Just last month, Nixon vetoed a $5.7 bil- lion public works bill because it incor- porated a $2 billion plan to subsidize state and local employment of workers in con- struction and related fields. The President argued the proposal would have an eventual inflationary effect be- cause most hiring would be delayed as much as two years while public construc- tion projects were in the planning stag . By that time, he predicted, the economy would not need stimulation. The chief ex- ecutive argued that his program would have an immediate impact and would train temporary job holders for regular employ- ment later in the private sector. "America needs more jobs," Nixon said in a statement. "And it needs them now. This administration is working to meet his need." fly The Associated Press Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti's wildcat tele- phone strike ended yesterday as com- munications workers across the coitry prepared for tomorrow's nation-wide sti ik against the Bell system. The local actiun. which was viewld as a preliminary for the national walket, he- gan Thursday when Michigan Bell otfic- ials docked nine workers a day's pay for refusing to cross picket lines at a ware- house in Dearborn. The strike, which had been ssupt.rrte-. by almost all Communications Workers of America ICWA> represented workers in Ann Arbor and YpsilantI, ended when workers agreed to remove picket lires n return for a company protniec to nege.- tiate. On the national scene, a strie tomor- row is seen as ineivtable by the AFL-CIO Communications Workers of Alerica al- though negotiations between the 'nion and the company are continuing. Meanwhile. no progress 'as reported in negotiations aimed at ending a telegraph workers' strike that has kept most Western Union offices closed since June 1. And strikes are also set for Fr-day at five railroads and for next week by sili- TV & Air Conditioner RENTALS Hi F1 Studio No. 121 W. Washington o97 NO 8-7942 tant New York employes of the new U.S. Postal Service. Union and company spokesnhem agree that a telephone strike would have little immediate effect on the public beeree most telephone equipment is autoi~ated. H -wever. lack of maintenance sooner or later would bring about increas ingly se- vere breakdowns even with sapervisory persr nnel working to keep lines open, both sides said. Telephone negotiations continued in S'y York' and Washington Monday without any sign rf progress. Affected are employes incltding opera- tors, maintenance personn, bilng clerks and service representatives. Pay now ranges from tops of $193 a week for craft workers to $118 a week for operatora. A CWA spokesman said a strike would mean 400.000 members would leave their jobs immediately, setting up picket lines that he said would be observed by at least 100.000 more telephone worke's twho be- long to other unions. Within a matter of days, as a-tore con- tracts expire, the strike would spread to thousands more workers, the union :pokes- man said. Flight openings sill available Adm. Carrier Seats Routing Dep. 0et. 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