id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt _005196879 Higgins, George, 1916-2002. 1974 Labor Day statement 1974 .txt text/plain 2002 63 52 Once this right has been effectively guaranteed to farm workers, the religious organizations in- volved in the California dispute will do everything they possibly can, in a spirit of reconciliation, to promote a constructive working relationship be- tween UFW and the growers on the one hand, and on the other hand, between UFW and the Team- sters. Paradoxically, however, he concludes that “trade unionism, as it presently operates in the United States, has made workers as a whole poorer than they would otherwise have been.” Another conservative critic, who holds an im- portant post in the Federal government, has al- leged within recent weeks that “unions are goug- ing the public” and has urged that, for the good of the nation, it be made a violation of the anti- trust laws for a single union to represent more than the employees of a single employer. cache/_005196879.txt txt/_005196879.txt