Letters
Letters Right to Work You have been very selective about the advertising you accepted in the past, so perhaps you understand my confusion when I saw the ad of the National Right To...
...JAMES E. WOLFE Cincinnati, Ohio Mr...
...The editor replies: We do try to be champions of the American worker against those who would exploit him, whether they be officials of management or of labor unions...
...So we are not automatically pro-union...
...In addition to dealing with a fair share of Congsessisnal harassment,”Gilligan has strongly challenged those in the foreign affairs community and the special interest groups who would use AID for everything but development...
...Jack Gilligan deserves a better shake than you are gving him...
...We believe we have a positive obligation to run political discussion ads such as those of the National Right to Work Committee...
...Letters Right to Work You have been very selective about the advertising you accepted in the past, so perhaps you understand my confusion when I saw the ad of the National Right To Work Committee in the latest issue [September 19771...
...TONY BABB Washington, D.C...
...qwigan and AID I agree the Agency for International Development has many problems [“Tilting at Windmills,” December], but the Brookings Institution recommendation to abolish the Agency and create two new ones with a coordinator in the White House would create 2 additional bureaucratic problems and not do anything to solve the inherent difficulties of managing foreign aid...
...The onIy advertisements we would definitely refuse are those selling unsafe products or advocat@g violence or hatred...
...Some employees in AID who Jack Gilligan is shaking up with a reorganization may not agree with you that he is such a nice guy...
...Other reforms include new fmancial management and budgeting systems, overhaul of personnel management, decentralization and delegation of more authority to overseas missions, cutting frills from operating expenses and giving strong emphasis to programs directly affecting the poor in developing countries...
...AID bas slightly more employees in Washington today than it had in 1961...
...There are fewer direct-hire Americans overseas now for two very good reasons: private voluntary organizations, universities, private firms and others are now implementing many programs with AID funding, and the citizens of recipient countries, official and private, are doing many jobs formerly done by Americans...
...Tony Babb is special assistant to the Administrator of AID and directbr of the Task Force on AID Reorganization...
...Even so, [the] Washington staff is larger than necessary and top heavy in the senior grades...
...I have been a subscriber of The Washington Monthly since the earliest days so please accept this as sincere criticism, although obviously, not without bias...
...This does not sound like a guy “who seeks a smooth, trouble-free administration...
...Posjpg as champions of the American workers while being supported by contributions from our large corporations seems somewhat dishonest to me...
...From a ceiling of 2740 Gilligan is reducing Washington staff to less than 2000 onboard this year...
...Wove is director for research and education for the International Molders and Allied Workers Union...
...It is a tough, thankless job (there is no real constituency for foreign aid) but important work...
Vol. 9 • February 1978 • No. 12
