Extensions of Remarks Hon. Tom Hagedorn

December 1, 1977 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 38303 By Mr. MIKVA (for h imself and Mr. By Mr. PRESSLER: to the recent military actions of Rhodesia in GIBBONS): H.R. 10201. A bill to direct the Secretary Mozambique; to the Committee on Interna H.R. 10195. A bill to amend the Internal of Agriculture to establish a price support tional Relations. Revenue Code of 1954 to permit a taxpayer to program for honey; to the Committee on By Mr. DINGELL: defer a portion of his income tax based upon Agriculture. H. Con. Res. 428. Concurrent resolution ex the amount of certain expenses paid or in By Mr. PRESSLER (for himself and pressing the sense of the Congress with re curred by him in connection with t he educa Mr. NOLAN): spect to the Baltic States; to the Committee tion or training at an institution of higher H .R. 10202. A bill to provide primarily for on International Relations. education or a. vocational school of the tax the reduction of soil blowing; and to control By Mr. GIBBONS (for himself, Mr. payer, his spouse, or any dependent; to the snow deposition and conserve moisture; to BURKE of Florida, Mr. PEPPER, Mr. Committee on Ways and Means. protect crops, orchards, and livestock; to pro BENNETI', Mr. CHAPPELL, Mr. FASCELL, By Mr. MIKVA (for himself and Mr. vide food and cover for wildlife; to conserve Mr. SIKES, and Mr. YOUNG of Flor JACOBS): energy; to increase the natural beauty of the ida): landscape; and form other purposes; to the H.R. 10196. A bill to amend the Internal H. Con. Res. 429. Concurrent resolution to Revenue Code of 1954 to provide a deduction Committee on Agriculture. H.R. 10203. A bill to amend section 16(b) urge the U.S. Postal Service to issue a com for certain amounts paid to a reserve for memorative stamp to honor Francis Bellamy, payment of product liability losses; to the of the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allot ment Act, as amended, providing for a Great author of the "Pledge of Allegiance" ; to the Committee on Ways and Means. Committee on Post Office and Civil Service. By Mr. NATCHER: Plains conservation program; to the Com mittee on Agriculture. By Mr. MILFORD (for himself, Mr. H .R. 10197. A bill to protect the economy MARRIOTI', Mr. FLOOD, and Mr. CHAP of the United States; domestic agriculture, By Mr. SIKES (for himself and Mr. PELL): labor, and industry, by the maintenance of DINGELL): farm income and purchasing power; to the H.R. 10204. A bill to authorize appropria H. Con. Res. 430. Concurrent resolution ex Committee on Agriculture. tions to carry out conservation programs on pressing the sense of the Congress regarding By Mr. O'BRIEN (for himself, Mr. military reservations and public lands during the sovereign rights of the United States in CHARLES WILSON of Texas, Mrs. fiscal years 1979, 1980, and 1981; to the the Canal Zone; to the Committee on Inter KEYS, Mr. MURPHY of Pennsylvania, Committee on Merchant Marine and Fish national Relations. Ms. MIKULSKI, Mrs. SCHROEDER, and eries. By Mr. RYAN: Mr. HARKIN) : By Mr. BEDELL: H. Con. Res. 431. Concurrent resolution H .R . 10198. A bill to amend the Civil Rights H. Con. Res. 424. Concurrent resolution to designating May 3, 1978, as Sun Day; to the Act of 1964 to make it an unlawful employ assure quality health care for populations Committee on Post Office and Civil Service. ment practice to discriminate against indi locat ed in rural areas; jointly, to the Com viduals who are physically handicapped be mittees on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, cause of such handicap; to the Committee and Ways and Means. on Education and Labor. By Mr. BEDELL (for himself, Mr. PETITIONS, ETC. By Mr. SEBELIUS: JOHN T. MYERS, Mr. WRIGHT, Mr. Under clause 1 of rule XXII, petitions H.R. 10199. A bill to require action by the HARKIN, Mr. RICHMOND, Mr. SIMON, and papers were laid on the Clerk's desk President and Secretary of Agriculture to Mr. HAGEDORN, Mr. RONCALIO, and Mr. increase farm income and to improve the ef YOUNG of Texas): and referred as follows: fectiveness of farm program; to the Commit H. Con. Res. 425. Concurrent resolution to 354. By the SPEAKER: Petition of the tee on Agriculture. assure equal access to quality health care for International Woodworkers of America, AFL- By Mr. WYLIE (for himself, Mr. ST populations located in rural areas: jointly, CIO, Portland, Oreg., relative to full employ GERMAIN, Mr. STANTON, Mr. EVANS, to the Committees on Interstate and Foreign ment; to the Committee on Education and of Delaware, Mr. GRASSLEY, Mr. QuIE, Commerce, and Ways and Means. Labor. Mr. WHITEHURST, Mr. LENT, Mr. RIS By Mr. BONKER (for himself and Mr. 355. Also, petition of the International ENHOOVER, Mr. ERTEL, Mr. ANDREWS PEASE): Woodworkers of America, AFL--CIO, Portland, of North Dakota, Mr. MANN, Mr. H . Con. Res. 426. Concurrent resolution Oreg., relative to national health insurance; KEMP, Mr. QUAYLE, Mr. OTTINGER, providing that the President should imple jointly, to the Committees on Interstate and Mr. ALLEN, Mr. ROUSSELOT, Mr. ment measures to discourage activities which GUYER, Mr. HANSEN, Mr. HARSHA, Mr. Foreign Commerce, and Ways and Means. HOLLENBECK, Mr. HYDE, Mr. PATTI benefit the Government of the Republic of 356. Also, petition of the International SON of New York, Mr. McKINNEY, Uganda; to the Committee on International Woodworkers of America, AFL-CIO, Portland, and Mr. BARNARD): Relations. Oreg., relative to log exports ar.d refores H.R. 10200. A bill to amend the Truth in By Mrs. COLLINS of Illinois: tation; jointly, to the Committees on Agri Lending Act; to the Committee on Bank H . Con. Res. 427. Concurrent resolution culture, Interior and Insular Affairs, and ing, Finance and Urban Affairs. expressing the sense of Congress with respect International Relations. EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS DAVIS-BACON ACT legislation that better combines the worst matically improved standard of living for qualities of special interest legislation city residents. Unions have fought for mini with the worst qualities of regulatory mum wages, for lower interest rates, for a HON. TOM HAGEDORN legislation gone awry than Davis-Bacon. rapid expansion of the national economy OF MINNESOTA that should aid cities and poor folk every It is legislation born of racial prejudice where. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES that still frustrates the legitimate aspi Across the nation, however, several issues Thursday, December 1, 1977 rations of racial minority groups in our are now crystallizing that raise serious ques society. I would like to call to the atten tions about private-sector unions and cities. Mr. HAGEDORN. Mr. Speaker, slowly tion of my colleagues several brief com The questions may be just as serious as the there seems to be developing the realiza ments on the Davis-Bacon Act that have much-publicized problem of high wages and tion that the Davis-Bacon Act works to recently appeared in the press: pension benefits won by municipal-employee the detriment not only of the taxpayer, [From the Washington Post, Nov. 28, 1977] unions. but also to those groups in society which The gut question now is whether central are the primary consumers of Govern UNIONS: ARE THEY FRIENDS-OR FOES-OF cities, locked in tight competition with their ment. The act annually results in a sort CITIES? suburbs for jobs and development, can sur of reverse redistribution of $2 to $6 bil ( By Neal R. Peirce) vive as viable political economies---especially lion taking dollars from the average tax Is a strong labor movement a good or bad for the large share of the nation's minorities, thing for the nation's cities, and particu poor, often unskilled and unemployed peo payer and channeling them directly to a larly the millions of city residents living ple who live within their borders. relatively small group of workers already near or below the poverty line? Many of the problems of older cities have earning incomes far in excess of the The popular wisdom has always been "yes," little to do with unions: outmoded indus average. Further, the act insures that that unions, cities and poor people have trial plants, lack of land for new plants, in these dollars will never be received by the practically synonymous interests. dustrtes that unconscionably desert the city intended beneficiaries of Government Most unions, after all, got their start in that gave them their start. programs. big cities. They forced up abysmally low But other city problems are union-related. There is probably no single piece of wages paid by employers, assuring a dra- The fact is that unions, by their very sue- 38304 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS December 1, 19 77 cess, now represent an increasingly middle "I hate to come off anti-union, but boy, it construction projects be paid the preva111ng class group of workers-many of whom live makes me mad," says Philip St. George of wage. "Preva111ng," in this case, means the in suburbs. And that's the constituency the Urban Homestead Assistance Board in highest wage paid to union construction unions must represent--not the unorganized New York. "They're destroying neighbor labor, even when the nearest union local is and chronically unemployed, the poor, the hoods." 50 miles away. very young or old, the demoralized element Sometimes unions let housing projects The Robinson-Patman Act restricts the that so often ends up living on welfare and proceed, especially if their own members are right to charge different prices to different estranged from society. used to train minority apprentices. Neigh commercial buyers of merchandise. It was Recent congressional approval of a mini borhood groups, unions and the city govern meant to protect small retailers from chain mum wage boost- from the present $2.30 an ment have begun a model effort along these stores that use their buying power to obtain hour to $2.65 next year and $3 .85 by .1981-is lines in Allentown, Pa.

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