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...Harbour's Americana Hotel last week was nervous, and he showed it in a shaky voice and several misplaced words. Richard Nixon had good reason to feel a bit of stage fright, since the rostrum from which he spoke faced some 2,000 delegates to the AFL-CIO convention, which had just adopted a resolution severely critical of his new economic plan. In a speech that excoriated Nixon's basic sense of economic justice, AFL-CIO President George Meany had gloweringly shouted that "if the President of the United States doesn't want our membership...
...AFL-CIO delegates showed their hostility to Nixon in other ways than the resolution. They accorded him one of the most discourteous welcomes in the recent annals of presidential ceremony. The band was ordered not to strike up Hail to the Chief, the President's customary entry flourish, and Meany introduced the President with a few perfunctory words. Nixon went out of his way to appear conciliatory by recalling the hardhat marches of 18 months ago. "When the intellectuals were protesting, 150,000 workers marched down Wall Street to support me," he said. "I want you to know that...
...angry at the President than they claim to be. But just as union negotiators must make villains of management-even after they get a settlement satisfactory to their members-so Meany & Co. must keep up the fiction of fighting Phase II. In his keynote address, the 77-year-old AFL-CIO boss put on a sometimes tasteless show of personal invective. The 15-member Pay Board, he claimed, is a "stacked deck" against labor, and its president, retired Federal Judge George Boldt, "doesn't know a damn thing...
...labor's most liberal leaders have made a startling turnabout and put their powerful clout behind openly protectionist legislation in Congress. The recent converts include the electrical workers, the rubber workers and the machinists. Their feelings were vented at length and with loudness at last week's AFL-CIO convention. The Amalgamated Clothing Workers passed out pamphlets showing a man wearing imported clothes and headlined: HOW TO DRESS FOR A DEPRESSION. Banners strung up at Bal Harbour's Hotel Americana urged union members...
...expertise that U.S.-owned companies have abroad are equivalent to that in U.S. plants, say union men, the effect is to deprive American workers of their normal productivity edge-and increasingly of their jobs. "Foreign competition as we knew it over the years does not exist any longer," said AFL-CIO President George Meany. "We are not competing with foreign private enterprise in these foreign countries. We are competing with franchises that are owned and operated by big business here in America...