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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 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...
Dunlop said he hopes that non-AFL-CIO labor leaders from either the Teamsters or Coal Workers unions will join the group, and that the membership is still not finalized