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...also charged that Dole had tried to remove TV cameras from the Ervin committee hearings on Watergate. Dole, in turn, said that Mondale "wants to spend your money and tax and tax and spend and spend." Mondale, Dole wisecracked, was so completely under labor's thumb that AFL-CIO President George Meany was probably his makeup man. As for Carter, Dole said that the Democratic nominee had three positions on every issue, which was why he had to have three debates with Ford. The Republican also brought up Carter's Playboy interview, noting, "We'll give...
...unions have donated more than $1.4 million to at least 170 individual candidates. Reportedly, they have another $1 million ready to hand out before Election Day. All told, their political contributions will be the largest of any interest group except the American Medical Association, the dairy organizations and the AFL-CIO itself. MEBA accounts for 70% of the maritime unions' political largesse; its members shell out $56 a year each in campaign contributions, compared with less than $1 on the average for members of other trade unions...
Good Friends. But later, President Ford vetoed the bill; he feared that the higher transport costs in U.S. ships would only incite further inflation, then running above 11%. That irked the maritime men, especially MEBA'S Calhoon. Says a top AFL-CIO official: "Jesse knows you've got to have friends in this business, and he's good at finding them." After Ford's apostasy, Calhoon threw the union's support behind Washington Democratic Senator Henry Jackson, who for defense reasons is a strong advocate of a healthy American merchant marine. Later, when Jackson...
During a stop in Washington, Carter got the bluff blessing of AFL-CIO President George Meany, who sat out the 1972 campaign because he could not stomach George McGovern. "Our candidate," vowed Meany, "will get the full backing of the best political machine in the country." There already were strong signs that labor would deliver for the Carter-Mondale ticket?not only in votes but in voter registration. The well-organized United Auto Workers?1.4 million members across the country?is revving up. Ohio labor leaders are working closely with the Democratic organization. Says Thomas Bradley, president of the AFL...
BLUE-COLLAR WORKERS. From auto workers to postmen, union leaders are endorsing Carter and assigning volunteers to register new voters and pound pavements. Boasts Thomas Bradley, head of the Metropolitan Baltimore Council of AFL-CIO Unions: "I haven't seen such unanimity among different unions since the Johnson-Goldwater election." This year, union help will be particularly valuable because what labor does on its own is not subject to the new federal election spending limits...