Word: afl
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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AMPI officially acknowledges making political contributions of $906,245 in 1972, second only to the $1,200,550 reported by the 13.5 million-member AFL-CIO's Committee on Political Education. The AMPI contributions came to far more than the official figure, perhaps as much as a total of $1.5 million. Many of the gifts were legal. But others, which came straight out of the AMPI budget, violated federal laws prohibiting the donation of corporate funds for political purposes. Still other gifts may have broken the federal law limiting individual campaign gifts to $5,000 in a single year...
...best of breaks: a letup in consumer demand caused by a business slowdown, a record crop this fall and an easing in petroleum prices. Even that less than comforting scenario, and similar ones projected in other nations, could go awry if labor unions force fat settlements. In the U.S., AFL-CIO President George Meany and other leaders are talking up a drive for wage and benefit boosts of 10% or more this year. Japanese unions are demanding an economy-wide wage increase of 30%, which would be sure to fuel that nation's raging inflation...
...marchers--some of them members of AFL-CIO locals, the United Electrical Workers, and other labor unions supporting the UFW--periodically broke into "Solidarity Forever," "Union Maid," and other songs made popular by the labor movements of the 1930s...
...brother. Last July 4, Ted Kennedy appeared with the Governor at a celebration in Decatur, Ala.; in February, Senator Henry Jackson journeyed South, where he said he would be glad to have Wallace on the ticket with him in 1976. The Governor also met with his old foe, AFL-CIO President George Meany, who came away doubting that he would vote for Wallace but acknowledging that the Governor had definitely mellowed...
Voters who admire both men are in a quandary. Says J. Bill Becker, president of the state AFL-CIO: "At least we won't be choosing between the lesser of two evils, but rather choosing the better of the best...