to install 3600 prefabricated doors as a legitimate protection of work at the job site.) The statistics on wage increases in the construction industry tend to understate the case. Obscured is the amount of overtime paid and even more importantly the heavy cost of jurisdictional disputes, the latter adding as much as 2 5% to the labor cost on industrial jobs according to the unpublished estimates of one national contractor. If the Nation is serious about controlling inflation - if it has had enough of letting one of its larger children run wild and without discipline, then I suggest to you that the time has come to recognize that construction is different and to treat it differently. In my opinion we cannot control inflation in construction costs without structural changes in the industry. Construction is different because: 1. The relative strength of the antagonists on opposite sides of the bargaining table is hopelessly unequal. Labor is represented by 3 1/2 million workers represented by 18 crafts in 10, 000 locals across the nation. These locals, armed with local autonomy, seldom questioned by the International, with little or no interference from Federal or State governments, bargain for their workers in a specified geographical area. The local Business Agent knows full well what his membership wants and that was described many years ago by Samuel Gompers simply as "More". "More" means more than the last settlement by that craft in another area, and so a settlement in one area simply becomes the minimum goal to be surpassed in the next if the -5-