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World news
Bill on comparable worth study
panned by House conservatives
WASHINGTON (APj — Congressional
Democrats thought they were waltzing toward
passage of a law this year that would load to
equal pay for women. Then House conser
vatives stopped the music.
Angry women's groups and labor unions
say the few Kepublicnis w ho have stalled the
legislation with scores of amendments am
fighting a losing battle against one of the most
significant women's issues of the decade
But opponents — backed by President
Reagan and major corporations — believe they
are buying time to in torn* Americans that the
proposal to raise pay for certain jobs tradi
tionally held by women could destroy the
economy
At issue is a House bill scheduled for ac
tion this week proposing to study whether
women and minorities in the federal workforce
are victims of pay discrimination
If it becomes law. it could be used to
establish a system of comparable worth under
which men and women would receive the
same salaries for different jobs judged to be of
similar value. If the bill fails, the women *
movement and labor unions will have lost an
important test of strength
“If they make this a big national issue,
they’re going to get a black eye,'' predicts the
bill's sponsor. Rep. Mary Rose Dakar. tMJbio.
“Women and minorities have a stake in
the bill If conservatives want to fight It, good.
Let them alienate the blacks, women and
Hispanics in their districts."
Dakar's pay equity bill passed the House
by a 4t3-*» vote last year, but it never came up
far it vote in the Republican controlled Senate
To increase the chance of passage thi* year, the
measure was broadened to include minority
groups In addition, an identical bill was in
troduced in the Senate by Sens Alan
Cranston. D-Calif . and Daniel Evans. R-Wash
This year. Dakar said Senate approval is
more tikely because Evans is a co-sponsor and
because 22 Senate seats held by Republicans
are up for re-election nest year.
The president has ridiculed comparable
worth us “hare-brained” and Clarence
Pendleton. Civil Rights Commission chair
man. called it "the looniest idee since Looney
Tunes t ame on the screen.”
But supporters of the proposal say it is
uncertain whether Reagan would be bold
enough to veto the bill with tfox 22 Senate seats
on the ballot next year.
“The Republicans cannot afford to be
known as the party that opposed fairness for
woman.” said Eleanor Stneal, president of the
National Organization for Women
tipponents say including blacks and
Hispanic* in the proposal is a political trick
designed to pass legislation that would hold
down the pay of men who hold blue-collar jobs
and increase pay for women who work mostly
in offices
“How can you tell a steelworker that his
fot» is less valuable than a secretary's* free
enterprise should decide that, not some
government panel " said Rep. Richard Armey
K-Texas, a former economics professor feuding
the House fight against .pay equity
Heckler asked to resign post
for ambassadorship to Ireland
WASHINGTON (AP) — Presi
dent Reagan asked Health and
Human Services Secretary
Margaret Heckler on Monday to
give up her Cabinet post for the
ambassadorship to Ireland, the
White House announced. .
Heckler, who launched a
campaign in recent days to save
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her job at the helm of the
governments largest depart-.
rnont. asked for and was glyen a
few days to think about it.,
presidential spokesman l-arrv
Speakes said.
Heckler met with Keagan
alone in the Oval Office for SO
niinutes Monday afternoon to
try to talk him out of reassign
ing her.
Hut Speakes said the presi
dent. who denied earlier in the
day that he would fire the IIIIS
secretary, urged her to accept
the job as “a promotion,”
Earlier. Reagan had declared
himself satisfied with the per
formance of Heckler, whose
management ability and loyalty
to conservative principles have '
been questioned by top ad
ministration officials.
Heckler, after leaving the .
White House, ignored reporters’
attempts to question tier. She.
returned to HHS headquarters
after the session and met with
some members of her staff. A
spokeswoman for Heckler said
the secretary would have no im
mediate comment on the ses
sion with Keagan.
Reagan, who had nevor asked
a member of his Cabinet to step
down, apparently was convinc
ed by his chief of staff. Donald
Regan, and other advisers that
Heckler should be moved out of
the leadership of the giant
bureaucracy. But Speakes in
sisted the president was not
dissatisfied with her perfor
mance and that she was not be
ing fired.
Asked if she (Heckler) had the
option of remaining in her post,
however, Speakes said, "I do
not have an answer to that.”
Speakes' said Heckler has
"served with distinction as a
member of Congress and as a
member of the Cabinet" and. as
a woman of Irish descent, "she
would make- a valuable .con
tribution in IJ.S.-Irish relations
and be able to work toward solv
ing problems in the region".
"Heckler has asked for a few
days to consider the president's
offer.;and will respond at that
time." Speakes said. ."Mean
while. she remains as secretary
of health and human services."
. Speakes was asked repeatedly
whvRcagan Wanted I tackier out
of the-Cabinet posi . and would
-not reply directly
Although Speakes repeatedly
characterized the job offer as a
promotion, it would mean a pay
cut of about $15,000 a year and
the loss of a department with
145.000 employees and. as she
was fond of saying, the largest
budget in the world with the ex
ception of the entire IJ.S. and
Soviet budgets — $550 billion.
Reports had circulated for
days that Reagan was about to
name Heckler ambassador to
Ireland. .. '
"That's a lovely position
for someone else." Heckler said
of the ambassadorship last
month.
Reagan, bristling at published
reports that his chief of staff had
won presidential approval to
oust the HHS secretary, told
reporters Monday. "There has
never been any thought in my
mind to fire Margaret Heckler. I
don’t know where these stories
come from Thev ar< not true."