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...Ford was expected to repudiate a bill that Labor Secretary John Dunlop had eased through Congress. Part of the bill is favored by the AFL-CIO but is anathema to the right wing of the G.O.P.: it would allow a single local of craftsmen-for example, carpenters-to picket and thus close down an entire building project. The White House received more than half a million pieces of mail opposing the "common situs" picketing bill. Said one adviser to the President's campaign: "If he doesn't veto situs picketing, he's dead...
...like businessmen, or perhaps more so, they suffer from a reputation for narrowness of vision. Leonard Woodcock, 64, president of the United Auto Workers, has shown compassion, wit, a sensitivity to change in the economy, and a deep interest in foreign affairs. Lane Kirkland, 53, secretary-treasurer of the AFL-CIO, is one of the ablest union administrators and an astute student of automation, race relations, social security and foreign intelligence operations...
...about to negotiate with the unions "a dynamic social compact" that should help stabilize wages and prices for some months. Unannounced, a fellow in an electric-blue gym suit bursts in from a side door and seats himself. He turns out to be the head of the C.G.T., the AFL-CIO of Argentina. A few minutes later, from a different side door, the head of the metallurgical workers union barges in. Excusing themselves, the American visitors pass through a corridor where a dozen more labor leaders are milling around, accompanied by four or five dozen bodyguards. Ten days later...
Congress became bogged down again in its efforts to aid the city when the AFL-CIO announced its opposition to a $7 billion loan-guarantee bill approved earlier in the week by the House Banking Committee. The labor leaders objected to the provision that would empower the city's overseers to renegotiate contracts with the public service unions. The House then put off consideration of the bill for at least a week...
...Accident. The Africans were angered by a weekend speech that Moynihan gave at the AFL-CIO convention in San Francisco. There, he sharply denounced the bizarre anti-U.S. address that Amin had delivered to the General Assembly two days earlier, in which Big Daddy had also demanded "the extinction of Israel as a state" (TIME, Oct. 13). Ignoring diplomatic niceties, Moynihan acerbically noted that "it's no accident, I fear, that this 'racist murderer' -as one of our leading newspapers [the New York Times) called him this morning-is head of the Organization of African Unity...