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—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, December 10,1977
Farmer tells U.S. labor
Walter D. Carlin operates a large hog and steer farm
in Bedford County and was prompted to write this
article after having read two stories in the Nov. 21
issue of U.S. News and World Report entitled “If the
Steel Industry Is To Survive,” and “Strikes End
Labor’s Calm With More Unrest to Come.” A copy of
the article appearing on this page of Lancaster Far
ming was also forwarded to U.S. News and World
Report and the Bedford Gazette.
Carlin is a former Chester Countian, having operated
a poultry farm about five miles south of Coatesville. A
husband and father to five children, the author has
lived and worked in Bedford County for five years.
How has this miracle come
lakun,jr. about?
As a farmer,, I would like wakes in the morning, he
to have you think briefly knows exactly what tasks
with me on these thoughts.' must be completed before he
• ** lB * nown can go to bed that night. He
since 1950 farm production that if he doesn’t
per man hour has increased ,j 0 them, no one else will! He
nearly two and one half- will not be slowed down by a
t™? 8 ® s ra P ld *y as h? 8 headache or backache. He
productivity per man hour in hustles all day long! He is
industry. Because of this no t ham-strung by work
tremendous achievement, rules and job classifications.
American food is a better a farmer will continually
bargain today both at home increase his productivity by
and m world markets than investing profits and an
ever before, x ood costs ticipated profits in new
average about 16 per cent of equipment and technology
file American worker stake- which promise to make his
home pay while in other work easier or potentially
major countries, workers more rewarding. His efforts
must pay a much larger have succeeded beyond
share of their wages for food measure in supplying the
-as high as 60i per cent, world with food and fibre
Domestically, this abun- which is affordable!!
dance of food production has. However -1 offer that this
enabled Americans to divert achievement could have
vast amounts of worker s been equalled or exceeded
income and labor to provide by industry if not for these
a . fabulous living obstacles to industrial ef
standard, including every- ficiency
thing from automobiles Traditionally. when
highways, schools and management shows a profit
homes to television sets, ( or even if ft doesn’t), union
motorboats, camping labor is always ready to
trailers and overseas demand a big share of action
vacat i° as - Competitively irregardless of whether this
priced food is our greatest profit is related to produc
exportable asset m keeping' tiveity per man hour or
our trade deficits from should be attributed to
swallowing us. suoerior managraent
V ~~ I ■! ■ I ' d
decisions, i.e., capital m- However, many of the ab
vestments in plants, ove mentioned union
machinery, technology and , gained restrictions on man
inventories. agement have tied their
Labor is always there,
through threat of strikes,
with new demands for higher
pay, longer annual
vacations, additional paid
holidays, increased benefits
in hospitalization and dental
plans, earlier and costlier
retirements, 13 week paid
vacations each five years,
job protection schemes and
infringement on
management’s prerogatives
to reclassify and eliminate
jobs according to changing
work situations.
Coming from a steel town,
I have friends in executive
positions in the steel indus
try who quickly point out
that they would drop one
third of the work force and
produce just as much steel.
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hands.
In these trying days when
steel companies are coring
in the face of non-existent
profits, when employees are
losing jobs and faced with
further losses of em
ployment, when both cor-'
porations and unions are
demanding protection from
foreign imports, which
easily compete for our
domestic markets with our
obviously over-priced
products, I say to the greedy
unions - Wake Up! Roll up
your sleeves and do what the
American farmer has
always had to do - an honest
During this same period,
our once unequalled in
dustrial strength has been
bled and drained by greedy
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