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— Griffin Daily News Tuesday, January 4,1977
Can Pentagon stop unionization of forces?
WASHINGTON (AP) - Pen
tagon lawyers can’t agree
among themselves on whether
servicemen and servicewomen
can be barred from joining la
bor unions.
But there is general agree
ment among the lawyers that
Rep. Bella Abzug
NEW YORK (AP) — Rep. Bella Abzug, whose term
ends today with the swearing-in of the new Congress, says
she may throw her famous hat into the ring in the 1977
New York City mayoral race.
The Manhattan Democrat, who lost the Senate
nomination to Daniel Patrick Moynihan, said she was
being swayed by voter surveys showing her as the leading
candidate.
The latest was a New York Daily News opinion poll pub
lished Monday. Based on telephone interviews with 273
voting-age residents taken Dec. 13-15, the survey shows
Mrs. Abzug receiving 18 per cent — or just under 50 votes
— to Mayor Abraham D. Beame’s 16 per cent.
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the Pentagon has the power to
prohibit negotiations between
labor unions and the defense
establishment on military pay,
working conditions or anything
else.
The debate appears to boil
down to an argument over
whether a ban on allowing
membership in a union would
infringe on a service member’s
constitutional rights.
Pentagon lawyers have been
grappling with the problem of
how to frame regulations in
such away as to keep them
from being voided by the courts.
Army attorneys contend the
Defense Department has legal
authority to rule out union
membership. Defense Depart
ment General Counsel Richard
Wiley reportedly challenges the
Army position. Lawyers for the
Air Force and Navy are de
scribed as uncertain.
A current defense directive
says commanders are not au
thorized to recognize or to bar-
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Griffin Bell, Levi
WASHINGTON—Atty. Gen. designate Griffin Bell points to an object as he tours the Justice
Department with Atty. Gen. Edward Levi Monday. Levi briefed Bell on matters pertaining
to the department. (AP)
Nixon invited to inauguration
PLAINS, Ga. (AP) — Former
President Richard Nixon, who
has not been to Washington
since he resigned in disgrace in
1974, has an opportunity to re
turn for Jimmy Carter’s in
auguration.
Carter’s press secrotary,
Jody Powell, said the Carter
gain with any servicemen’s un
ion.
Many civilian workers belong
to the American Federation of
Government Employes, which
represents them before con
gressional committees.
Government workers may not
strike and their pay rates are
fixed by Congress. But the union
may bargain with federal
agencies on working conditions
and is available to help individ
ual employes in event of griev
ances.
The union has been consid
ering for more than a year
whether to try to sign up men
and women in uniform. AFGE
leaders decided last month to
delay a decision amid reports of
staff was following a tradition
that all past presidents and
their wives are invited to in
augurals.
In San Clemente, Calif., there
was no response from Nixon’s
staff when reporters called to
find out whether Nixon in
tended to go to the in-
disagreement among them.
The present Pentagon lead
ership, both civilian and mili
tary, is universally opposed to
unionization of the armed
forces. It is not yet known how
the Carter administration will
view the question.
Gen. George S. Brown, chair
man of the Joint Chiefs of Staff,
testified last year that “every
country that has had
unionization within its uni
formed side of the military es
tablishment has paid one terrif
ic price in operational effective
ness.”
Other senior military officers
have said unions in the armed
forces “would be detrimental to
good order and discipline.”
auguration. Powell said the
Carter staff has heard nothing
from Nixon, either.
“It has been true without fail
that traditionally former presi
dents and former first ladies
are invited to a new president’s
inauguration,” Powell said.
Pickup
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to semi
BELLINGHAM, Wash. (AP)
— On the back of Duane Mel
lot’s pickup truck is a bumper
sticker that reads, “When I
grow up I want to be a diesel.”
That’s exactly what happened.
It took Mellot only nine
months to convert his little
pickup into a mean looking,
open-road semi.
“Just like having a baby,”
says his wife, Jeane.
Mellot, a sheet metal worker
for 22 years, started with a 1955
half-ton pickup, took the body
off and kept the frame and run
ning gear. He mounted a Jeep
pickup cab on the frame and
fabricated the hood and fenders
from fiber glass. He can raise
the whole works, just like on
big trucks, to tinker with the
engine.
“I wanted a pickup and I
wanted it to be different,” he
said.
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