"C M Kornbluth - The Goodly Creatures" - читать интересную книгу автора (Kornbluth C M)

us. If you keep rubbing people the wrong way and I have to fire you, what's it going to be? More
hash-house jobs, more crummy furnished rooms, hot in the summer, cold in the winter. You'll have
something you call 'freedom,' but it's not the real thing. And it's all you'll have. Now beat it and try not to
get on Mr. McGuffy's nerves."
The boy left, looking remorseful, and Farwell told himself that not everybody could handle an
out-of-the-way type that well. If he pasted the little sermon in his hat he'd be all right.



"Really creative synthesis!" Farwell snorted and poured himself a drink before he buckled down to
planning a series of releases for the International Spacemen's Union. The space lines, longing for the old
open-shop days, were sniping at the



I.S.U. wherever they found an opening. They had a- good one in the unions' high initiation fee. The union
said the high fee kept waifs and strays out and insured that anybody who paid it meant business and
would make the spaceways his career. The union said the benefits that flowed from this were many
and-obvious. The companies said the union just wanted the money.



Farwell started blocking out a midwestern campaign. It might start with letters to the papers signed by
SPACEMAN'S WIFE, WIDOW OF SCAB SPACER and other folks; the union could locate them to
sign the letters. Next thing to do was set up a disinterested outfit. He teatatively christened it "The First
Pan-American Conference on Space Hazards" and jotted down the names of a few distinguished chronic
joiners and sponsors for the letterheads. They could hold a three-day meeting in Chicago, and conclude
that the most important factor in space safety is experienced crewmen, and the longer their service the
betfcr. No mention of the I.S.U. initiation fee policy out of the F.P.A.C.S.H., but the union could use
their conclusions in its material.



The union could use it to get a couple of state legislatures to pass resolutions endorsing the initiation fee
policy. G. & B. would write the resolutions, but the I.S.U.тАФan independent unionтАФwould have to swing
the big federations into putting pressure on the legislatures in the name of labor unity.



Numerically the spacemen were insignificant.



He pawed through stacks of material forwarded to him as ammo by the union looking for the exact
amount of fee but couldn't locate it. The coyness was not surprising; it recalled the way corporation
handouts bannered the "profit per dollar of sales" and buried the total profit in dollars and cents. He
buzzed Copy.