Word: afl
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Twisting. House Democrats were more united on the bill than on almost any controversial economic legislation in memory. They had also picked up, they were confident, the 49 Republicans who had voted for final passage last month. In addition, they had the muscle of powerful lobbies-the AFL-CIO, the United Auto Workers, the National Education Association...
...that some 60% of the refugees are children and only about 30%-roughly 35,000 people-are heads of households and will need jobs. Concluded the conservative Tulsa World: "There will be no long-term problem with the immigration of Vietnamese unless we want to make a problem." Said AFL-CIO President George Meany: "If this great country can't absorb another 30,000 people and help them find a way to make a living, it will be denying its heritage." Added House Judiciary Committee Chairman Peter Rodino, who is a staunch fighter against illegal aliens but a supporter...
Robert Petronella, international vice president and director for District 6 of the Amalgamated Meatcutters and Butcher Workmen, AFL-CIO, spoke earlier in the evening...
Petronella said, "the AFL-CIO is behind the farmworkers all the way, and we'll stay in the fight until victory is the farmworkers...
...Scott, 45, key legislative strategist of the National Organization for Women; of cancer; in Baltimore. A poet and college English teacher, Scott fought discrimination against women in academe. Elected a vice president of NOW in 1971, she was credited with gaining the support of Common Cause and the AFL-CIO for the Equal Rights Amendment, which she campaigned for virtually until the day of her death...