Persuading workers to sacrifice today for prosperity tomorrow is a tough sell.
True, job recruiters report some problems persuading new workers to move here.
The Government has also been trying to persuade Japanese workers to pursue leisure activities with the energy that they once reserved for overtime.
The new statute will stop trade unionists trying to persuade workers in unconnected companies to take sympathy action.
Over the past two years, 1199's organizers have persuaded workers at nine companies, with a total of 15,000 home health aides, to vote to join the union.
Officials promised genuine consultations with the union, provided he could persuade striking workers to return to their jobs.
One of the Pinkerton labor spy tactics was persuading workers to quit the industrial union and instead join a craft union.
"The only problem officials faced was in persuading workers that their information was genuine," he reported.
But persuading workers who spend a lot of time on the road to change their ways is not easy.
In this country it would be very difficult to persuade workers that they should work harder for the good of the company.