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...misconceptions Moynihan has foisted on an anomic public desperately wanting to believe in an American "purpose" are incredible. He claimed last October 3 at an AFL-CIO convention, that Israel is hated by the third world because it is a democracy. Moynihan did not mention the question of Palestinian refugees, the economic inequities visited on underdeveloped nations by Israel's chief backer, U.S. policy in Chile and Indo-China or the consistent support of the American government for South Africa and Rhodesia. Moynihan's reason for third world hostility toward this country sounds like something from the American right...
...build more bridges to Capitol Hill, Carter sent all Democratic Senators copies of his position papers and other statements on issues. He will make his pitch in person to Democratic House and Senate leaders in Washington this week. He also plans to court the leaders of the AFL-CIO. Its president, George Meany, would prefer Humphrey, but is described by associates as resigned to a Carter nomination. In contrast, United Auto Workers President Leonard Woodcock endorsed Carter last week...
Bommarito's followers are primed for a long strike. The U.R.W. has called for a worldwide boycott of Firestone products beginning May 1, and the AFL-CIO has extended its endorsement-a gesture it does not make lightly. But since marshaling support for a global boycott can take some time, it is unlikely that a don't-buy-Firestone campaign can have much effect before June...
Labor Secretary W.J. Usery dispatched James Scearce as a federal mediator between the San Francisco board of supervisors and the local AFL-CIO labor council, which has called for a general strike if the bargaining breaks down. Scearce's arrival so greatly cheered Moscone that he finally left his city hall office, where he had been subsisting on coffee and takeout Chinese food, sleeping on a cot, and whiling away late-night hours in marathon blackjack games with aides. City hall itself had been without heat during the strike, and there was no hot water in the shower just...
...group of female shopworkers the members of a recognized ILGW union and a year later, in the cloak-makers strike which transformed the unionists of the men's clothing industry into the Amalgamated Clothing Workers' union, which was as liberal in its programs as it was distinct from the AFL...