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...conference itself is a sign of Kirkland's new commitment to organization. David M. Jessup, assistant to the director for the AFL-CIO's Committee on Political Education, said. This year's seven regional conferences are the first comprehensive meetings of their kind on all labor issues, and the first to be addressed by the AFL-CIO President, he added...
Kirkland addressed an AFL-CIO Regional Conference at the Sheraton Hotel in Boston only hours after marching in a rally of 6000 coal miners and black lung victims in Washington. The miners, in the midst of a two-day work stoppage, were protesting the Reagan administration's proposed cutbacks in benefits for victims of the respiratory ailment...
Kirkland called on AFL-CIO members to "launch a grass-roots campaign throughout the country to make our voice heard in the halls of Congress." Otherwise, he said. "The administration's program will produce human suffering in the short run and retard economic growth enough to haunt us for years to come...
...reason for any head-hanging, recriminations or apologies," he told his audience of leaders from AFL-CIO member unions in eight northeastern states, adding, "You did a good...
Clifton C. Garvin, Jr., chairman of the Exxon Corporation, will chair the management portion of the group and Lane Kirkland, president of the AFL-CIO, will head the labor segment...