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I WASHINGTON — President
Carter says the nation has reached
“a crisis stage” in inflation and ener
gy supplies and his economic advis
ers are studying new ways to curb
the price spiral — short of mandatory
controls.
iscretion t
■porters is mi,
anal right but J
on by the pa Press secretary Jody Powell Mon-
lishing thetj day told reporters Carter continues
isher,” he® to reject mandatory wage-price con-
ills directive;;
.nit has demtr : ;
trols and a tax cut to attack runaway
inflation.
He stressed Carter is counting on
easing the situation by passage of
three energy bills “still languishing”
in Congress.
Carter has ordered an accelerated
review of his administration’s econo
mic policies but Powell rejected re
ports there is some panic among his
advisers on which way to go.
“Those reports are inaccurate and
unfortunate and pretty irresponsi
ble,” he said.
“I’d like to see some reports about
panic in the (congressional) confer
ence committee getting legislation
out,” he said. “It’s not a hope. It’s
very darn real.”
Powell said he “does not want to
set a deadline on the reviewing pro
cess of the anti-inflation program.
But he added “it’s unlikely any final
ing happen!
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United Press International
WASHINGTON — Three farm
h state governors — two of them
Democrats — voiced disagreement
with administration claims that poli
cies adopted after the Russian grain
embargo have cushioned the impact
on farmers.
rombyCaesaii. They took time off from the gov-
Evelyn Mon. emors’ winter meeting in Washing-
isband, Ehi| on to testify jointly Monday before
n unemploj| m p m bers of the Senate Agriculture
Committee, who have introduced
( In ed ! # ious g 0 * n g beyond the admi-
‘i.f nistration’s proposals to isolate
' J p 1 ! j embargoed grain from the market.
an jBAnother witness before the com
mittee, Sen. James Exon, D-Neb., a
Ja-mer governor, said he had a com-
ffijtment from Agriculture Secretary
at the hospi'i Bob Bergland to support another
ospitalizatii?; change in farm policy.
Ily expected tor iBergland will support Exon’s bill
to set higher price support loans for
'sBt year’s corn and wheat that is
placed into the farmer-owned re-
1 serve, the senator said.
Although Exon said the increase is
Jrot as much as he would prefer, it
__ L.. would be the largest jump in loan
ay Ullirates in history and it would help
Bleviate farmers’ cash flow prob-
International lems.
[) — Policeare; J Montana Gov. Thomas Judge said
control so "t grain prices almost recovered after
lan bull loose! the embargo but fell again,
ards Tuesday.b **Nine days before the embargo,
lard operatins wheat sold for $3.94 per bushel at
ndcuffed the! Power, Mont., a typical, centrally
icktoitspen located grain terminal. Judge said,
dcutleditand Last Wednesday, wheat sold for
latcher reporte $3.59 per bushel. Judge said.
andsixofficerssl'.The 35-cent-per-bushel loss rep-
lat made a spif-resents a $37 million loss in the value
down San Mi of grain stored on Montana farms, he
said.
Brhe three governors, Judge, a
illy set up to0 Democrat; Arthur Link, Democratic
rot too simple, governor of North Dakota and chair-
icy Marsh. "Bub
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ause a truck didl
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ace for him toll
man of the National Governors’ agri
culture committee, and Republican
Gov. Albert Quie of Minnesota sug
gested different proposals, but their
major thrusts were the same.
They advocated higher price sup
ports, additional food aid to foreign
nations, isolation of embargoed grain
from the market, production con
trols to reduce this year’s crop and
legal provisions for handling future
embargoes.
Link said a North Dakota farmers’
cooperative is forcing cash-short far
mers to pay cash for fuel and fertiliz
er and denying usual short-term
credit.
Farmers are “simply beside them
selves,” he said.
Quie said, “For the near term, we
in Minnesota see depressed crop
prices, a cash flow shortage, acute
credit needs, depressed sales of farm
equipment and other input supplies
and increased (crop) storage needs.”
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decisions will be made this week. ”
Carter told visiting editors,
“domestically the most significant
challenge I face is a high inflation
rate, which is attributable in a major
degree to the fact that after all these
years we still do not have a compre
hensive energy policy.
“And even alter we have reached a
crisis stage in energy supplies and
inflation, the three major bills that
will help to resolve this issue are still
languishing in congressional confer
ence committees.”
It was the first time Carter has
used the expression “crisis” in terms
of inflation. It followed a new jump in
the consumer price index that has
inflation running at an annual rate of
18 percent.
United Press International
WASHINGTON — The Supreme
Court Tuesday unanimously upheld
Labor Department regulations pro
hibiting employers from discriminat
ing against a worker who refuses to
perform a task he believes would en
danger his life.
The court said the regulations
issued by the labor secretary are in
line with the intentions of the Occu
pational Safety and Health Act of
1970 to provide a hazard-free work
place for employees.
“The regulation clearly conforms
to the fundamental objective of the
act — to prevent occupational deaths
and serious injuries,” Justice Potter
Stewart wrote for the court.
Labor and health groups said the
decision would have important rami
fications for the workplace and the
strength of OSHA.
The rules were challenged by
Whirlpool Corp. after two em
ployees refused to perform a task at
the company’s Marion, Ohio, plant,
12 days after a coworker fell to his
death from a safety net.
The company docked the workers
six hours’ pay and gave them written
reprimands for their action.
A district court found the two men
refused to perform their jobs out of
“genuine fear of death or serious
bodily harm,” but it concluded that
the labor secretary had exceeded his
authority in issuing the regulations.
The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of
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Appeals overturned that decision,
ruling the “right to a hazard-free
workplace” is implicit in the 1970
law.
Whirlpool appealed to the Sup
reme Court, arguing that OSHA
does not expressly give employees a
“protected right” to refuse to work
and does not give employees “unila
teral authority” to walk off the job.
But the court disagreed, saying
that under OSHA’s “general duty
clause,” an employer must furnish
each of his employees a safe work
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