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WASHINGTON (AP)—The Senate rejected President Carter's proposal for cheaper electricity during non-peak hours, and last fall this major energy bill yesterday.
The Senate Finance Committee also voted to block the President from imposing a $5-abarrel fee on imported oil as an alternative means of forcing energy conservation.
COMPLETING ITS ACTION on the non-tax portions of the President's energy program, the Senate approved on an 86 to 7 vote the proposed plan of Carter's plan to radiate electric rates.
But it scrapped entirely the President's proposal to make utilities offer bargain rates for electricity consumed at night or during other non-peak hours. Carter also wanted to prohibit utilities from selling power at bargain rates to large industries.
By contrast, the Senate bill would offer lower electric rates to senior citizens and would give the government the right to intervene in state electric rate-making cases, but only to make recommendations on energy conservation.
mittee will have to reconcile the differences.
milteer will have to reevaluate the interests.
The finance committee, after rejecting
the bulk of Carter's employment tax,
would reduce its goal of reducing
U.S. reliance on foreign oil through some
yet-to-be determined system of tax cuts—
but not through tax increases.
A HOUSE-SENATE conference com-
On a 14-2 vote, the finance committee approved a provision that would reduce oil company taxes $3 for every barrel of oil they produce from shale. That could cost billions in lost taxes, but only if that promising but difficult source of energy is tapped.
IT ALSO REJECTED the administration's plan to levy a stiff tax on factories and power plants that use oil and natural gas.
After weeks of efforts, Sen. Russell B Long, D-La., chairman of the finance committee, concluded that there was no way the panel could agree on an energy-tax program. He proposed that the panel leave responsibility to a Senate-House conference committee.
For that to work the full Senate would have to approve whatever minor tax credits its committee endorses. A conference committee then would decide between the
no-tax approach of the Senate and the House
reserve the energy bill, which includes
nuclear power.
There is no assurance the Senate will go along with such a plan.
THE ISSUE that has spit the Senate panel so badly is whether energy producers should get greater tax incentives to stimulate new production. The administration and the House want virtually no new aid for the industry. Although most members of the committee appear to favor incentives, they cannot agree on how to do it.
Carter's energy proposal included four major taxes. The first, a new tax of up to 50 cents on a gallon of gasoline, was rejected by Congress, being considered by the Senate committee.
The House approved weakened versions of the other three: a tax aimed at forcing conservation by raising the price of gasoline on fuel on fuel inefficiency cars and the factory tax.
The Senate committee killed all three. The last to fail, the tax on factories and enterprises was enacted.
House passes labor law revision
WASHINGTON (UP1) - The U.S. House of Representatives approved a controversial labor law revision yesterday, giving organized labor its first major congressional victory over big business this year.
The 257-163 vote ended three days of debate in which Republican supporters of business tried unsuccessfully to weaken the bill with anti-union amendments. No amendments were adopted without labor approval.
Endorsed by President Jimmy Carter, the bill would severely penalize employers who violate labor law and help unions reverse their decline in membership. It was directed at J.P. Stevens, a large anti-union textile firm.
AFI-CIO PRESIDENT George Meany's lieutenants, gathered in a halfway outside the House chamber, said they were over-loved by the victory.
They acknowledged that they expected a heavier battle in the Senate, where a filibuster is expected when the measure comes up next year.
Rep. Frank Thompson, D-N.J., leader for the bill, declared it a tremendous victory for labor and the most pro-labor bill of the Wagner Act more than 40 years ago.
Rep. John Ashbrook, R-Ohio, the bill's leading opponent, agreed and said it could be used to help reduce drug use.
On Thursday's bill, labor was forced to accept some compromises, but they lost in a bitter contest.
The House earlier this year defeated an important bill bill involving picketing rights on construction sites and severely proposed a minimum wage increase.
- The National Labor Relations Board must hold union representation elections within 25 days in cases where 50 per cent of the workers have signed union cards and within 75 days in complex cases. There are more than nine electionees are delayed more than 300 days.
- Union organizers for the first time will have equal access to the workplace after an employer has summoned his workers to discourage them from joining a union. The compromise allows employers access to union halls.
- The secretary of labor has the power to revoke federal contracts of flagrant law violators for as long as three years. The annual bill had a mandatory three-year ban.
- Workers reintended after dismissal for union activity will receive double back pay.
- Workers reintroduced to company.
Meany said, "The House Democratic leadership and especially Rep. Frank Thompson have done an outstanding job in the face of the outrageous lies and distortions about him used by right-wing opponents at law lab firm who are backed by business interest."
He said it was "a good bill , which will go a long way toward correcting the current missteps" .
of those employers who willfully and repeatedly violate the law."
Business organizations quickly denounced the House action.
"THE HOUSE VOTE today gave big labor what it wanted and left the American working man and woman the real losers," said the National Association of Manufacturers. "Rather than reforms, they have refused that bill dictated by the AFL-CIO; codified only by concessions granted to insure a big vote on final passage."
The manufacturers organization said the bill did not mention about union abuses such as blackmail picking, use of union funds for unlawful purposes and violence and extortion.
Minimum pay hike passed
WASHINGTON (UP1)—The Senate voted last night to raise the minimum wage to $3.40 by 1981, providing a $1.10 increase over the current minimum and 35 cents more than a bill passed by the House.
The 73-13 vote represented a second big legislative victory of the day for organized labor, which earlier won House approval of the crucial measure to overhaul federal labor law.
A final vote on the minimum wage measure is expected today when the Senate will debate several related issues including the proposed increase in the minimum wage. The proposal to increase the minimum wage in four annual steps to $3.40 by 1981 was adopted after the Senate defeated three less generous proposals—one of them identical to those passed by the House providing $3.05 by 1980.
The Senate's minimum wage proposal would affect an estimated 4.7 million workers.
PROPOSED BY SENATORS Harrison Williams, Jr., D-N.J., and Jacob Javits, R.N.Y. it represented a compromise struck between the State Senate and Senate leaders following House action.
The compromise abandoned labor's controversial proposal of endless automatic
annual increases—have as "indexing"—which the house had rejected. The automatic increases would have been higher, a percentage of the average factory wage.
The Senate proposal would increase the present $2.30 an hour minimum wage to $2.65 next Jan. 1, to $2.99 in 1979, to $3.15 in 1980 and to $4.09 in 1981. These are equivalent to the increases that would have been provided under the indexing proposal.
A lesser increase, identical to the House version, was proposed by Sen. John Tower, R-Tex., and defeated by a vote of 60 to 32. An even smaller increase, proposed by Sen. Dewey Bartlett, R-Oklia, requiring $2.90 by 1980, was also rejected 72-17.
The wide-ranging policy directive also incorporates an earlier Defense Department prohibition against any negotiating or collective bargaining by commanders. It now forbids strikes or union organizing on military bases.
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The most serious threat had been seen as a planned organizing drive by the American Federation of Government Employees, but it has not down last month by the union's membership.
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- Prohibit military personnel on active duty from taking part in strikes, work slowdowns, 'or other actions by two or more persons which are intended to and do obstruct or interfere with the performance of military assignments.'
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October 9th
- Ban recruiting activity in either public meetings or individual contacts on bases by any group that proposes to bargain for or represent members of the armed forces.
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- Forbid service personnel from joining any group that carries on any of the activities barred by the directive or is likely to do so in the future.
PLO softens stand on Geneva
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However, the spokesman, Mahmoud Labadi, said all delegation members must be selected by the PLO and said the delegation should still be members of the PLO.
BEIRUT (UP1)—A Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) spokesman said yesterday that some non-PLO members could join the Palestinian delegation at a reconvened Middle East peace conference in Geneva.
Defense order prohibits union from recruiting
WASHINGTON (UP1)—Defense Secretary Harold Brown issued an order yesterday designed to keep labor unions out of the military.
The PLO statement represented a softening of its previous hardline stand and U.S. officials said at the United Nations that a formula would probably be worked out in talks with Iranian members would join a Palestinian delegation but would also include non-PLO Palestinians.
The question of Palestinian representation at the Geneva talks has been the main swag blocking resumption of the Middle East peace conference. The Arabs have been a major force in resuming representative of the Palestinians and should have a place at any renewed talks.
ISRAEL HAS REJECTED all contacts with the PLO and said that it would accept Palestinian representation as part of an all-Arab delegation or as part of another Arab country's delegation but would not talk to the PLO.
"The delegation is an internal Palestinian
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matter," Labad said. "The PLO is the sole legitimate representative of the team."
"The PLO could decide to include non-PLO members in the delegation—for instance money, or the (treself-occupied) trust fund that Barclays-if it sees this as serving our interests."
Israel has suggested in the past that Arab mayorors of the West Bank towns, known PLO sympathizers but not actual members, may participate at any renewed Geneva peace talks.
Israeli Prime Minister Menahm Begin last July during a U.S. visit that Israel
would not "search pockets for credentials"
of Palestinian representatives at Geneva.
Arab nations have accepted a U.S. proposed compromise for a pan-Arab delegation to include Palestinians. The question has been the question of which Palestinian.
Secretary of State Cyrus Vance has presented a working paper on a Middle East peace conference to Arab leaders at the United Nations in New York. The paper was drawn up during talks between President Bush and Israeli foreign minister Moshe Dayan.
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UNITED NATIONS (UPI)—Secretary of State Cyrus Vance said yesterday there would not be a Middle East peace treaty until there would be progress toward that goal.
Vance hopeful for Mideast peace
The optimism follows a week of intensive diplomacy in the wings of the United Nations.
U. S. officials said the talks came close to a breakdown over Israeli concern about a bombing in Israel that killed 47 people.
East, but the negotiations are now back on track, partly through the intercession of Mr. Lindenberg.
Vance, who spoke to a luncheon hosted by the United States for countries representing the Arab League, expressed the feeling of excitement that he voiced by other members of his delegation.
The officials predicted there would be a compromise agreement between Israel and the Arabs on the difficult question of the representation at a Geneva conference.
They predicted the compromise would mean that low-ranking members of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) had to withdraw Israel as delegates to a Geneva conference.
In order to satisfy Israeli demands, the PLO members would not be identified that way, but would be described only as Palestinian representatives.
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