[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 116 (Wednesday, August 17, 1994)]
[House]
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[Congressional Record: August 17, 1994]
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 ROUND-THE-CLOCK NEGOTIATIONS AND BAKED BEANS CAN RESOLVE THE BASEBALL 
                                 STRIKE

  (Mr. TRAFICANT asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. TRAFICANT. Madam Speaker, baseball is treated like a game, but 
baseball is a business, and in business there are strikes. In baseball 
there is a strike, and it is job action just like any other strike, 
pure and simple, and there is only one key method to really resolving 
this strike, and that is face to face, round-the-clock, continuous 
negotiations with an objective third-party mediator. I recommend that.
  I further recommend that the mediator put them in a small room, shut 
the doors and the windows, turn off the air conditioner, and give them 
a big meal of baked beans, fried cheese--think about it--hard boiled 
eggs, chocolate kisses, and in about 8 hours they will be pleading and 
shouting, ``Play ball.''
  It is time for them to sit down, Madam Speaker, and I think that 
recommendation should be heard by all the interested people in America 
that follow baseball.

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