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Baltimore Union Workers Endorse NAFTA During Pena Visit
Steelworkers Local 15338 at Ellicott Machine Corp. in
Baltimore yesterday endorsed NAFTA during a visit by
Transportation Secretary Federico Pena. Pena toured the company
with Maryland Governor Donald Schaefer and other Maryland state
leaders. Ellicott Machine exports some 80 percent of its
products overseas.
Bentsen, Former Perotistas Join to Announce Texas Business for
NAFTA
Today in Dallas, Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen and a
group of Ross Perot's former supporters joined with other
prominent Texans to announce a group called Texas Business for
NAFTA. The group is being headed by former Perot campaign
chairman and lawyer Tom Luce who wrote an op-ed in the Dallas
Morning News on Wednesday. Luce wrote that "I think Ross is
wrong about the [NAFTA]. I strongly believe that it is good for
our state and our nation." Luce cited Texas Comptroller John
Sharp's estimate that 113,000 jobs will be created in Texas with
NAFTA's passage, and said that nation-wide "we will gain twice as
many jobs as we will lose." He called on Texans to "display the
courage to do what's right" and support NAFTA.
Georgia, Alabama, Administration Leaders Discuss NAFTA
at White House
Nearly one hundred business, community and environmental
leaders from Georgia and Alabama came to the White House
yesterday to talk NAFTA with the Vice President, CEA Chair Tyson,
Interior Secretary Babbitt, and NAFTA Coordinator Daley.
Many representatives of small manufacturing companies
attended the meeting. "I am here to give my full support to
NAFTA," Robert Lukat VP and General Manager of employee-owned
Atlanta Saw Company told reporters. "I can tell you personally
the benefits of getting into the export business. Our business
with Mexico has increased four times over the last several years,
and our exports to Mexico have increased over six times. ...in
1975, our company established a joint-venture with a company in
Mexico. We just notified out partner that upon the signing of
NAFTA, we will dissolve our joint-venture and change our
relationship to strictly a distributorship, and we will move the
manufacturing jobs that were part of our joint-venture back home
to the U.S."
Administration NAFTA Update
President Clinton met yesterday with another group of
lawmakers to discuss the job creation benefits of NAFTA, his
second meeting this week... The Cabinet fan out continued: along
with Pena in Baltimore yesterday, Energy Secretary O'Leary spoke
in Oklahoma, CEA Chair Tyson spoke in Atlanta and Commerce
Secretary Brown visited San Francisco & Los Angeles on Wednesday,
Deputy Agriculture Secretary Rominger is in Wichita today, and
Treasury Secretary Bentsen travelled to Texas Thursday and today.