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...Diego, Carter drew a standing ovation from the AFL-CIO Building and Construction Trades unions with a view that seemed totally at odds with the Government's new credit-tightening policies. Despite predictions of a slump in home-building Carter declared: "In fighting inflation, we do not sacrifice construction jobs." Carter forecast that his windfall profits tax on crude oil will finance energy programs that will amount to "one of the biggest construction projects in world history-on a scale comparable to building our interstate highway system." Despite such rhetoric, his flat delivery was received mostly with polite applause...
McBride said unions were neither against capitalism nor technological innovation in industry. He added that he does not share the socialist views of some of his colleagues on the AFL-CIO Executive Council...
...members of the AFL-CIO affiliated union, who work as lithographers, pressmen and cold type compositors at the Harvard University Printing Office, will negotiate for the two-year contract next month. Their present contract expires November...
...Massachusetts Chapter of the AFL-CIO endorsed the boycott yesterday...
...have trouble working together. Says Ulric Scott, chairman of Minnesota's Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party: "His departure is as important as his presence. It's like a $100 bill that has been changed into a number of smaller bills. Politicians are going to have to court the AFL-CIO as an organization, not as an individual." Kirkland, 57, who is expected to succeed Meany, is esteemed for his intellect but not for his leadership. Partly for love of power, partly for love of labor, Meany put off the day of reckoning as long as he could. Now American...