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WELCOME 10
ASM’s 6EST YEAR!
AFL-CIO president
claims import glut
hurts U.S. unions
Flyers bound for Texas
Associated Press
NEW ORLEANS — When people
fly out of New Orleans International
Airport, there’s a good chance
they’re heading for Texas.
Houston and Dallas are the most
common destinations, according to
figures from the Civil Aeronautics
board. Together, the two cities drew
one-fourth of the 2.4 million people
flyingoutof New Orleans in 1983.
Houston topped the list by captur
ing 15.5 percent of the travelers, fol
lowed by Dallas, New York, Atlanta
and Chicago, which all had less than
10 percent.
"Most of it is business travel,” said
Virginia Simons, manager of re
search for the Economic Devel
opment Council of the New Orleans
Cnamber of Commerce. “This indi
cates where our strongest (commer
cial) ties are.”
Records show the same five cities
as the most common starting points
for people flying to New Orleans
Associated Press
EL PASO — AFL-CIO President
Lane Kirkland said Monday that
unions, as well as the U.S. economy,
are threatened by a flood of foreign
imports that has cut the demand for
domestically produced goods.
“Jobs are heing lost in all sectors
of the country,” Kirkland said in a
Labor Day address in El Paso.
“We’re even losing now large sectors
of the so-called high-tech sector of
the economy.
“We’re shipping jobs overseas.
We’re confronted by a flood of im
ports that are systematically driving
American goods from the American
workplace. And, I’m beginning to
fear we’re teetering on the edge of
another severe downfall.”
Speaking to about 600 people at
the El Paso Central Labor Union’s
annual Labor Dav breakfast, Kirk
land said national policy and legis
lation that addresses “these major
problems” must be adopted.
But the Reagan administration “is
still asleep on the issue,” he said.
At a news conference preceeding
his speech, Kirkland said, “I think
that the Reagan administration is
locked in the ice of dogmas that are
no longer realistic, that no longer re
flect the real world. If it continues
on its present course . . . this admin
istration will become irrelevant and
the initiative will go elsewhere.”
Kirkland said the public has been
aware of the need for labor-related
legislation for several years and that
Congress is far ahead of the admin
istration.’'
But, he said, “the Reagan admin
istration represents elements of our
society and special interests in our
society . . . that want to attack the
trade movement.”
Kirkland, who became president
of the 14 million-member AFL-CIO
in 1979, said, foreign trade “is not
just a problem for the trade unions.
It’s a problem for the whole coun
try.”
He said more than 8 million peo
ple are unemployed in the United
States, many because foreign im
ports have eliminated their jobs.
“Unemployment that high used to
be called a recession,” Kirkland said.
“But today, it’s called a recovery.”
Kirkland also dismissed the no
tion that organized labor is weak
ening in the United States.
“What I see today from the grass
roots up is not a weak, sick, discour
aged labor movement,” he said.
“The labor movement is the first line
of defense and the only real avenue
of progress for the plain people in
this country. The labor movement is
a great chorus in which the voices of
all America can be heard.”
Kirkland predicted that organized
labor will grow in strength in the fu
ture, saying it already is adapting to
meet the needs of the United States’
more technological-oriented society.
“I think we’re on the threshold of
a long period of growth,” Kirkland
said. “Our mission is to make sure
that those who do not hive enough
power in this country are not kicked
around .
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Houston topped the list by captur- as the most common starting points “Congress is far ahead of the admin- power in this country are not
ing 15.5 percent of the travelers, fol- for people flying to New Orleans. istration.” around....”
Profs say salaries may not be gender-related
Associated Press higher salaries. The team found employers va- “The conclusion might be tl
Associated Press
COLLEGE STATION — Em
ployee experience and job traits —
not gender — may account for why
men receive higher overall salaries
than women in the same field, three
Texas A&M researchers said Mon
day.
A study of 100 occupations
showed that, in general, women and
the jobs they traditionally hold pos
sess fewer characteristics linked to
fly, associate psychol-
Be
higher salaries.
In their stud
ogy professor Ben Shaw, associate
management professor Stuart
Youngblood and graduate student
Keith Allen analyzed job characteris
tics such as salary, decision-making,
use of machinery, clerical activity,
supervisory duties and public con
tact as wel( as experience, education
and the number of hours worked
each week and each year.
The team found employers va
lued the traits studied equally
whether the characteristics are
found in women or men, or in tradi
tionally male or female jobs.
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acteristics, including four or five ma
jor ones,” Shaw said. “Males had
more experience, worked more
hours per week and worked more
weeks per year. Their jobs were also
significantly different.
‘The conclusion might be that in
male and female jobs these factors
are treated equally to determine
wages, but females tend to be in jobs
which have lower levels of things
which got weighted highly to deter
mine those wages,” he said.
Shaw said the research seems to
refute theories that women are not
paid comparable wages for compa
rable work.
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Instrumental Auditions
Sept. 5. 9, 16
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Sept. 2.4.5. //
Interfraternity Council
presen ts
The How and Why of Fraternity Life
Meeting Tuesday
September 3
4:30 p.m.
Rudder Auditorium
For more information call
693-3595
or
693-2504