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...Hell's Kitchen, given to plain speech laced with profanity, Brennan is a local power, to be sure, but he lacks a national constituency and-some would say-anything approaching national vision. Though he is respected by George Meany, he is not a member of the AFL-CIO executive committee. He speaks for a well-paid labor elite, not for the industrial rank and file...
...wreckage of his presidential campaign from the poolside of the Virgin Islands retreat of one of his most generous financial backers, Henry Kimelman. The Senator's attitude toward the labor leaders and other traditional Democrats who had refused to help him was bitter. He declared that men like AFL-CIO President George Meany were party "wreckers" and that he would do "whatever I can to make sure that they don't come back into a dominant role in the Democratic Party." He also said that he was "not sure how you accommodate within one party the kind...
...Republicans are also making a bid for the basically conservative blue-collar vote. Although the Texas AFL-CIO has come out for McGovern, Nixon is slightly ahead among union members. "I won't give you the figures because we are still trailing, but we are within striking distance," said a Texas labor source who asked to remain unidentified. "McGovern has shown a vast improvement among the inactive, non-leader membership, however," the source said. "We have found that this group runs very close to the rest of the country (in it's voting patterns...
...chemicals one-tenth of 1%. Consumers now have to spend relatively more for food than for hard goods, so price controls have had the subtle effect of benefiting the agricultural sector of the economy at the expense of the industrial sector. Such disparities have led some disenchanted eaters, like AFL-CIO President George Meany, to think harder and speak up louder about putting controls on raw agricultural prices. Meany is irked that wage increases in the last year have been held well within the Administration's 5.5% guideline, while food prices have grown as high as an elephant...
...then gave a standing overtion to a resolution calling for the defeat of President Nixon. Delegates to the state convention meeting in Boston expressed strong support for McGovern in an informal show of hands all this on the heals of an order by George Meany, president of the AFL-CIO that state branches of his grant federation rescind all such "dump Nixon" movements...