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...York delegation took the prize for the greatest number of nationally known politicians. Crammed into the aisles were Reps. Bella Abzug, Elizabeth Holtzman, Shirley Chisholm, and Herman Badillo; ex-governor Averell Harriman; Mayor Abraham Beame; former Rep. Mario Biaggi; City Councilman Meade Esposito; writer Michael Harrington; and AFL-CIO leader Albert Shanker...
John Henning, executive director of California's chapter of AFL-CIO, stunned the convention audience...
Protesters led by California AFL-CIO executive John Henning argued they were left out of the negotiations that led to the introduction of this provision before the full convention that night. They accused Chairman Strauss of over-reacting to rumors about possible walkouts by blacks over affirmative action rules in an earlier draft...
...written provision on delegate selection irked AFL-CIO's Henning, who delivered an angry, impassioned speech condemning party leaders for making last-minute changes without consulting labor leaders...
...AFL-CIO political leader Alexander Barkan has led the fight to amend language in the charter to ban "implied" as well as "mandatory" quotas. His chief opposition has come from party caucuses of women and blacks and the Democratic Planning Group that comprises the McGovern-McCarthy-Kennedy wing of the party. Barkan's opponents see a wholesale ban on quotas as a threat to greater minority group participation...