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More than 450 national organizations, from the AFL-CIO to the Y.W.C.A. to the American Jewish Committee, endorsed the amendment. Polls showed consistently that its passage was favored by more than two-thirds of U.S. citizens. Indeed, the idea of an ERA is hardly new. It was proposed in 1923 by Feminist Alice Paul, founder of the National Woman's Party, and that same year was introduced in Congress, where it languished for decades. The modern campaign began in 1967, when a stubborn Paul, then 82, persuaded the National Organization for Women to endorse the amendment. By 1972, partly...
Shultz joined the Nixon Cabinet in 1969 as Secretary of Labor. He was the only Administration official trusted by AFL-CIO President George Meany, and the two became avid golfing buddies. That friendship survived Shultz's most controversial action as Labor Secretary: promulgation of the Philadelphia Plan, which forced the construction industry to hire blacks and other minorities through the use of racial quotas...
...heavy-equipment workers who moved their families there from the Midwest. Now job seekers are finding that the recession has also hit Texas. New oil-and gas-well drilling is down 16.5%, and residential and commercial construction is weak. Two weeks ago, Harry Hubbard, president of the Texas AFL-CIO, warned the jobless to stay away. Said he: "Workers from the East and Northeast better have something lined up before they come down here, or they might find themselves in unemployment lines...
...union--Local 26 of the AFL-CIO's Hotel, Restaurant, Institutional Employees and Bartenders Union--then filed a grievance on Arruda's behalf last September...
...representative of the AFL-CIO and Mildred Jefferson, a Republican candidate for Massachusetts senator, also spoke at the meeting...