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Union men already are vocally angry about the economic situation. Last week AFL-CIO Chief George Meany charged the Administration with using "the big-lie technique" to cover its economic bumbling. Meany singled out a New York Times article signed by Budget Director Roy Ash, which offers a series of glowing statistics and assertions...
While there was no evidence that employees of the Nixon committee or operatives in the White House were responsible, some strange things did occur in the campaigns of Senators Edmund Muskie, George McGovern and Hubert Humphrey. For example, someone representing himself as being from McGovern's headquarters invited AFL-CIO President George Meany to meet with McGovern at a time when neither wanted such a confrontation; the misunderstanding further alienated Meany from the McGovern campaign. Someone posing as McGovern's top television-time buyer called CBS to say that he wanted to cancel a major speech; the network rechecked, found...
...living costs soared at an annual rate of 8.8%, more than triple the 2.5% figure that Nixon has set as a goal. Retail food prices leaped 3.2% in March alone, the biggest rise since record-keeping began in 1952. The price surge all but ended the second honeymoon between AFL-CIO Chief George Meany and the White House. Said Meany: "In his Inaugural Address in January, the President advised Americans to help themselves. It is obvious that this is what unions are going to be forced to do at the bargaining table...
...group of representatives from various AFL-CIO unions urged passersby in the Boston Common last week to support the four-month-old Oil Chemical and Atomic Workers (OCAW) strike against Shell Oil Company...
...Last week the former hardhat from Manhattan's Hell's Kitchen finally surfaced to detail for a House subcommittee the Nixon Administration's minimum-wage bil−and with that single appearance, Brennan provoked a maxi-split with his old colleagues in the union movement. Said AFL-CIO President George Meany: "We are aghast that Brennan has so completely abandoned the trade-union principles he espoused for all of his life before coming to Washington." Jerry Wurf, president of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, was more succinct. Brennan, he said...