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EDITORIAL COMMENT The Failing Economic Recovery Dictates A Change In The White House "A full economic recovery will never take place until there is full employment, with substantiallyreduced federal deficits and low interest rates," • At the recent Mid-Winter Meetings of the AFL-CIO Executive Council, the Council was furni shed with valid statistical evidence proving that the unrealistic budget and economic policies of the Reagan Administration are still threatening the soundness of our economy for years to come. So, in spite of the Reagan Administration's highly publicized claims that the nation is fast on the road to a real economic recovery, that road the Administration is so proudly following and ballyhooing is running out of correct directional signposts and is still the wrong road to follow. A full economic recovery will never take place until there is full employment, with substantially reduced federal deficits and low interest rates. These economic factors are needed now in order to bring about a real recovery. However, the ever-rising high federal deficits are pushing up the already too high interest rates and threa ten to soon start us on an even worse "Reaganomic" recession. The so-called economic experts cannot deny that huge budget deficits raise interest rates causing curtailment of public and private job-creating investments. High interest rates also contribute to the over-valuation of the dollar, which prices U.S. goods out of overseas markets and encourages more flooding of imports, which ca uses more American workers to lose their jobs. When workers lose their jobs billions of dollars are lost in production, which in turn means billions and billions of dollars are lost in badly needed revenues. Exorbitant interest rates, coupled with high unemployment, is .lIsa not the way to fight inflation, which robs workers am of realizing full value of their wages earned. This lowers their buying power on the consumer markets. Today the buying power of the worker's paycheck is lower than in 1979. When President Reagan goes 0 11 TV and smilingly sa ys, " Everything is going to be rosy, just have patience, stay the course," those and other innuendoes are simply used to cover up his supply-side, trickle-down experiment that has failed, and will continue to fail, unless the direction of the nation's economic policy is reversed and the fundamental problems are addressed. It is very evident that the Reagan Administration has no intentions of changing its policies. Therefore, it is time for a change in the White House. Jobs, fairness, and opportunities for the future are the key issues in the forthcoming November elections for workers and for all the peoples of our nation. Only the election of a new president will restore a proper administration of workers' basic rights that are being undermined by the Reagan Administration. .. Charles H. Pillard International President
. . . . OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF THE INTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF ELECTRICAL WORKERS • JOURNAL • APRIL I Volume 83, No. 4 FEFlTLlFIES CHARLES H. PILLARD , Editor AFL·CIO Mid-Winter Meetings 1984 NJATC Annual Meeting Mandale Rebuilding America Mondale-Fact Sheet on the Future International Representative John W. Dalton Dies Eleventh District Holds Manufacturing Conference U.S. Savings Bonds Supreme Cour1 Bankruptcy Ruling Threatens Collective Bargailling Annual Statement of EWBA DEPAFlTIVIENTS Editorial Comment Research and Education Safety Tips Local Lines • 1984 April, 1984 2 4 6 8 9 9 10 12 13 Inside Front Cover Pension and Death Benefit Payment Report 62 In Memoriam 63 Reflections ON OUR COVER-NaliOna/ elections, stale pnmalies, and caucuses are "elY much In the news these days November 6 WIn be a mosl IfT\portant election day IOf wonung people and thelf families Our lronl cover In photographs and ecluOfIal copy urges aJi ISEW members to be active partJClpanlS in the enllre pollllcal process. 15 17 18 InSide Back Cover POSTMASTER: Chlollge 01 ___ on Form 3579.nouk1De ... ID __ &_ 01 a.a ... W--. , ,25 1"",""", SIr ... , N W . w~, DC 20005 ~.,.".,.,.,. _ ~ pooIage 1*1 II Was/'WIgIOI'I. o C. ___ enIfy ~.,..,.. I./I"M: 309 WhII. Pi&.m, Nfl ... YOi'!< 10605 I'ounh Dos1ricl. 8 . G. WILLIMoI SOtl n,o R ... dW>g Road A.n1Otr1a ...... E.tcv\ro'e 6IcIg .... ~ Cho ~ !>237 I"rfII\ 0IslrcI. DAN It. WATERS No 2 MetropIet Orwe 5
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