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4th Draft - TV Spot - Meany
3/23/72
When I announced our new economic policy on August 15 I said
that fighting inflation must be everybody's job.
Yesterday, George Meany walked off the job. The decision
to walk out came after the ruling on the longshoremen's contract.
While other American workers are being held to a 5.5%
wage increase, the Pay Board ruled against a 20. 6% wage increase for
the longshoremen. Mr. Meany supported the increase.
The Pay Board was right in rejecting this increase and Mr.
Meany was wrong L in supporting it. thinks
a powerful
I respect Mr. Meany as the spokesman for the nation's largest
union organization: the AFL-CIO. But only 17% of America's 80
million wage earners belong to the AFL-CIO.
It is my responsibility to act and speak for all the people, and I shall
meet that responsibility.
All Americans, including the 80 million wage earners, have a
stake in winning the fight against inflation.
We can win it only if we<
all pitch in together.
Let those who will, drop out of the fight and criticize the rest
of us who are doing what must be done to stop the rise in prices.
But as President, I cannot permit any leader representing a
special interest, no matter how powerful, to torpedo and sink a program
needed to protect the public interest.
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