Word: afl
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...conclusion of last week's AFL-CIO unity meeting in New York, one pundit called the merger "the miracle on Thirty-Fourth Street." Few people, remembering the rancorous night when John L. Lewis pulled his Committee of Industrial Organizations out of the American Federation of Labor, could imagine the new labor group as anything except a battleground for rival bigwigs. When Mike Quill and some of the more militant CIO leaders protested the merger heatedly, observers predicted that the miraculous enterprise would shortly founder...
...amazement of many, however, the first formal conclave of the new united organization was marked by a serene meeting of minds between the former heads of the AFL and CIO. Both George Meany and Walter Reuther spoke of the internal amity and potential of the newly-built AFL-CIO. More significantly, both agreed fully on the important subject of labor's future in politics. They attacked the recent statement of Arizona's Senator Barry Goldwater, that the AFL-CIO had "no right to endorse a political nominee" and his suggestion that labor be "politically disfranchised." Reuther replied to Goldwater directly...
...Russians he has unnecessarily infuriated a nation whose friendship is crucial, thus making the Russian strategy doubly effective. It seems that Mr. Dulles has again cut off our national nose to spite our patriotic face. ual change in the policy of large labor groups. At the inception of the AFL, the organization steadfastly refused to take political action, relying mainly on building up the processes of collective bargaining. Founder Samuel Gompers warned the fledgling Federation that political action could prove disastrous to the labor movement as a whole and urged the AFL to maintain a steady pressure on employers...
...AFL's first overt entrance into national politics came in 1924 when its convention passed a resolution backing Wisconsin's Senator Robert LaFollette who was running on a third-party, Progressive ticket. That same year, the AFL drew up a program for national legislation which contained many planks not connected directly with the labor movement. LaFollette's defeat convinced many of the Federation's leaders that Gompers was right after all, and that their organization entered national campaigns at the risk of getting its ears pinned back...
Sullivan, of the AFL says that his aim is to help University employees, not the AFL. "We don't want trouble with the HUERA or Harvard," he said. "We agree with the HUERA on policy, and the only question is affiliation. If they want us, we're ready, and if we're sure they want us out we'll stay...