Oral History Interview with A. R. Schwartz, November 27, 1967 Page: 46
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Schwartz
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gotten any time except perhaps one session of the legislature. So
there again, they've .got'em a rural legislator, the Dean of the Se-
nate. In my opinion, those days have passed and the times of those
people have passed. And as we become urban and we become more mod-
ern as a legislative body, then I think the teachers had better look
for some new blood for their legislative leadership. 'Cause the guy
that does, is going to get that piece of cake. And if the state em-
ployees ever rise up and start paying attention, if they ever get
as smart as they ought to be. . .you know, they just won their first
battle last session.
Calvert: Right. I wanted to ask you about that. I mean, now is as good a
time as any. It concerns the emergency pay raise. Do you...Can
you'give any reason for why that the first emergency pay raise bill
didn't pass?
Schwartz: Yeah. It became a political football. It was, I think, Preston
Smith decided to make political hay on an emergency pay raise for
state employees. And I need to go back here a little bit here, too.
If Preston Smith's so worried about the state employees, he and I
have been around there a long time together and there's been lots
of times when there was a way to do something about it and it was
never done. The state employees never got any concern from any of
the status politicians, the conservative establishment, until it
became apparent and a study was instituted. And Mr. Anshuss, I be-
lieve, did this study. And one of the parts of the study was this
employee turnover on the state level. And they finally found out
it was bad business to pay people so little that you didn't keep
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Calvert, Robert, 1922- & Schwartz, Aaron Robert, 1926-. Oral History Interview with A. R. Schwartz, November 27, 1967, book, November 27, 1967; Denton, Texas. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1857644/m1/49/?q=food+rule+for+unt+students: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; crediting UNT Oral History Program.