Word: afl
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...politics is far from rational and its followers are distant from altruism. Senate president John E. Powers, now running for mayor of Boston, threw his political savvy against Bill 1030. After all, he reasoned, "We can't possibly compete with heavily endowed and high tuition universities for teachers." The AFL-CIO accused the university of attempting to establish "its own distinctive caste system that sets up discriminatory classification system identifying [teachers] separately and distinctively from everyone else." Finally the Senate Ways and Means Committee delivered the crushing blow by coupling the faculty raise with a general hike for all state...
Beyond the phony figures the AFL-CIO marchers got little satisfaction from either side of the political fence. Labor Secretary James Mitchell said that he was "proud to stand on the record of 64 million jobs in this country as of today" and promised three million more by October. But he also indicated that he had "not been satisfied" with previous Administration action on the problem, a sentiment in which his audience concurred. The Democratic leaders were not much more helpful. Lyndon Johnson, for instance, contented himself and apparently the labor chiefs, with a promise to form another study group...
Walter Reuther, Vice-President of the AFL-CIO, has turned down an invitation to speak at the Medical School. In a letter to Dr. David D. Rutstein, professor of Preventive Medicine, the labor leader ruled out the possibility of his speaking here this year...
With the record of corruption the teamsters had built up, Judge Letts's appointment of monitors was virtually the only practical solution to the suit for invalidation of the election which John Cunningham, New York teamster leader, brought against the union. But neither monitors nor disciplinary expulsion by the AFL-CIO has diminished the union's strength or reformed tendencies toward corruption...
George Meany, President of the AFL-CIO, said last week that the affiliation would not support the current Kennedy-Erwin bill without its attached amendments to the Taft-Hartley act, an indication of organized labor's general support for moves to control locals and give the government an opportunity to clean up individual cases of corruption. But in making his statement, Meany made one statement which reflects a great deal of labor's present attitude. Wherever there is corruption in the unions, he said, there will be some other corruption, either in management or in the police...