Masonry Magazine March 1967 Page. 37
THE PACE OF BUSINESS IS GOING TO PICK UP
more, but nothing like in recent months.
THE REUTHER-MEANY SPLIT IS GOING TO PRODUCE some interesting echoes in the months ahead. In some ways, the blow-up means trouble for industry. The auto union will no doubt be more militant as Reuther attempts to prove that his leadership can deliver. His demand for a guaranteed annual income is a case in point. Other unions will get tough to try to ape this pitch.
But labor may lose some of its long-established influence with Congress and the White House. The AFL-CIO will not have the power it did before. And Reuther certainly won't.
LABOR MEANS TO PUSH HARD FOR THE GUARANTEED ANNUAL WAGE this year. It will be driving on two fronts in moves that can have broad implications for industry as a whole. The aim is to end what many labor men consider the inferior status of wage workers by assuring them a minimum of 90% or more of straight pay figured on an annual basis. Some of the extra money would come from unemployment insurance, the rest to be made up by company contributions of perhaps 2 or 3 or more for each hour the employee works.
The Rubber Workers, under tough new leadership, is kicking off the drive this spring. The Auto Workers will follow later in the year. In both industries, the unions face rugged battles. Management is not going to give in, without a fight, to demands that will raise labor costs and limit its flexibility in planning its production schedules.
INTERNAL REVENUE'S COMPUTER SYSTEM IS NOW COMPLETE, nation-wide, with the opening of its Far West center in Ogden, Utah. IRS now puts everyone's tax returns on tape. The machines sort out for extra study those with errors in arithmetic or unusual items. Extra care is needed now to avoid audits.
WASHINGTON IS BEGINNING TO SEE A THREE-WAY RACE for the Republican nomination next year-Nixon and Romney, of course... and now Ronald Reagan. Reagan is quietly but actively attempt-ing to button up the Western states, even though he has been in office less than three months. So far, however, he is getting high marks for his performance in the State house. The mail is running heavily for him, despite the furore over his education policies.
The guessing is Reagan probably won't be the front-runner in 1968. Nixon and Romney would have too much of a lead. But he'd be a hot prospect, if his "favorite-son" candidacy denied a majority to the leading contenders. And if he did not win as a dark horse, he'd have a claim on second place.
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