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Caption: (WX7) WASHINGTON, April 25 -- NATIONAL CENTER ON PRODUCTIVITY -- Labor Secretary John Dunlop appears before a House economic stabilization subcommittee, in Washington Friday, on a bill to establish a National Center on Productivity. At right background is Bruce Thrasher, assistant to the president, United Steelworkers of America. (AP Wirephoto) (d161150hb) 1975President Ford's veto of the construction-site picketing bill came in the face of Labor Department warnings that wage costs in the building industry could climb by 15 percent without the legislation, contributing to higher inflation and unemployment rates. That's what Dunlop meant when he had told reporters that a presidential veto would produce "unmitigated hell" in negotiations next year with building trades unions. - Saul Friedman.