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While interest groups throughout the country were digesting President Reagan's economic plan last week and groping toward protest or endorsement, labor leaders were practically organized for the occasion. Reagan's speech coincided with the winter meeting of the AFL-CIO executive council, a group made up of heads of 32 major unions representing 13.6 million workers. Skies were cloudy above the Bal Harbour, Fla., meeting, which was dominated by behind-the-scenes discussion of Reagan's program...
...reason. Between 1970 and 1975 the Roman Catholic Pallottine Fathers of Baltimore were accused by Maryland's attorney general of frittering away some $45 million in mission funds. The United Methodist Church is financially aboveboard, but there are ideological disputes. Last year a layman who works for the AFL-CIO complained that his church had wrongly given $442,000 in aid to "totalitarians" who support revolutionary regimes in Cuba and elsewhere. Church officials contended that helping groups with Marxist ideas was a "risk" modern Christians must take to help the "oppressed...
Lane Kirkland, 58, AFL-CIO president, on the plethora of Democratic presidential hopefuls: "I can count about twelve people who are showing signs of delusions of adequacy...
...Hammer and Mark David Pearlman. Hammer, 42, an agrarian expert who had arrived in the capital the day he was killed, and Pearlman, 26, a former Peace Corps volunteer in the Philippines, were both employees of the American Institute for Free Labor Development, an international arm of the AFL-CIO. The organization has been under contract to El Salvador to provide technical assistance for the country's major land-reform effort...
George Meany, 85, gruff, cigar-puffing chieftain of U.S. labor who rose from Bronx plumber to president of the AFL-CIO from its birth, in 1955, to 1979. Whether battling for fuller union lunch pails, assailing Communism, or dismissing critics who accused him of being too conservative, Meany lectured Presidents and public alike with equal bluntness...