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...committee's star witness was AFL-CIO President George Meany, who did not quite sound like the Nixon buddy of recent public appearances. If the wife of "Joe Doakes" cannot pay her bills, Meany warned, "he'll look for higher wages. But the answer is not to get 12% to 15% in wages. The answer is to hold down food costs and other costs." To do so, Meany proposed a World War Il-style controls program that would include a ceiling on profits and Government allocation of credit as well as stiff wage-price guidelines. Committee Chairman Wright...
...September. First reactions in Congress, where Mills is little short of all-powerful on economic matters, were favorable; New York Republican Representative Barber Conable, a member of the Ways and Means Committee, said that the proposals could be "our magna carta of trade." More important, Nixon has been weaning AFL-CIO Chief George Meany away from the much more protectionist Burke-Hartke Bill. A Nixon-Mills-Meany alliance would be practically unstoppable...
...respectability and influence. An unbridled push for expansion has brought the union more than 2,000,000 members, making it the largest in the non-Communist world. What worries Meany and other labor leaders is that much of the Teamsters' growing strength is coming from raids on AFL-CIO unions...
Unhampered by jurisdictional restraints imposed by membership in the AFL-CIO, the Teamsters are free to roam the labor lot in search of new recruits. Though over-the-road truck drivers continue to be the union's elite, earning up to $20,000 a year, the majority of its members are now in much lower paid, non-trucking jobs. Card-carrying Teamsters now include hospital workers, bridge tenders and race-track guards in New York, rice-mill workers in Houston, lampmakers in Los Angeles and campus police at the University of Minnesota. The Teamsters will shortly absorb an entire...
Senators Edward Kennedy and Gaylord Nelson condemned the company. AFL-CIO President George Meany and Senator George McGovern, New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller and Mayor John Lindsay joined in endorsing the boycott. Chicano Leader Cesar Chavez rolled into town in a bus carrying large signs proclaiming support...