A sometimes heated debate with a dyed-in the-wool union man on unemployment and inflation and the press's treatment of President Carter; but first, deliciously, on Mr. Winpisinger's raising the rents on a union building in Washington, D.C.: WFB: "I was making a reference to the current contention over your insisting on a 15 per cent raise for all people who use your building, which some people have found contradicts the normal rhetoric by which you blame everybody who raises prices." WW: "Not at all. That's exactly the kind of thing that unfamiliarity with facts always breeds. ... We were operating that building at a loss--pure and simply economic loss--and there had not been a rent increase in some seven years ... and so our general secretary/ treasurer ... elected to impose a rent increase that would at least reach the break-even point. Mr. Nader was ... the major tenant in the property ... He resented the magnitude of the increase ..., and we had some words about it, and I finally recommended to Mr. Nader that since he owns a building himself... if the modest rent we were charging was that onerous, he ought to move his whole operation down to his building, where the square footage rent is more than twice as much as we're charging him . . . And his response to that was, 'Well, my goodness, we rent to doctors and lawyers and bankers.'"
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