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Also, he said, we had to get the men back to work, and we established
and maintained the principle that unless they went back to work, there
would be no negotiations. Once on the job, we did negotiate with them.
There was also the problem of a possible sympathy strike by the
AFL-CIO, and a general strike. This was looking us right in the
face, he said. He said before now, there had been no real support
for postal reform in the Congress, and we now have that. We have
union members behind postal reform and there is a real chance for
it, a real chance for victory in postal reform. Instead of worrying,
Republicans ought to get off their butts and get out and support postal
reform and stand up and support this settlement because we've
accomplished something with it. Without the settlement, what would
have been accomplished? There would be a government-wide pay
raise, we would have a larger one for the unions, we would have
no postal reform, we would have had no pay-as-you-go increase,
and we would have broken the budget. The President insisted upon
standing up for the pay=as-you-go principle, in other words, the
government-wide increase; the postal workers pay increase should
be attached to revenue measures. Now, the President said, we
have Meany and all the post offices to back reform, which they
had opposed before. If you get behind it, it will come out. Postal
r eform is good for the country; it is necessary. The GOP should
g et behind it.
Why a 10¢ stamp? He said it is not politically damaging to
raise an individual's postal rates, and besides that, we have a 10¢
thing out there in order to hope we get something less. Get as much
as you can, he said.
The President said that Meany had put his prestige on the line
and was for the settlement and was for postal reform. We have a
C hance to realize a great victory; and our response should be Thank
God; who ever thought we would get postal reform without an increase
in taxes. We are asking for an acceleration of estate taxes. wE
are going to apply the rapid collection of these taxes for only one year.
It is a one shot deal; this is the wayto pay for it.
It is time for us to recognize that Blount did a fine job. The
whole nature of the President's comments was designed to get the
Republicans out of any kind of negative attitude toward the policies
that had been adopted.
Shultz then gave a general run-down on the situation of air-
controllers walkout. He said that basically the dispute is a pressure
play by PATCO to force the government to recognize them. Congressman
Burns indicated that the President tried that speed-up on estate
taxes, there was likely to be a seizure of the issues by other liberals
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