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Serious Students. The SST advocates are directly pressuring Congress as well. AFL-CIO President George Meany told a Senate Appropriations Subcommittee that the entire future of the American aerospace industry, already "in a state of economic shock," was at stake. He claimed that the SST could generate 50,000 aerospace jobs and another 150,000 in related industries. The U.S. is now too late to catch other nations in the first generation of SSTs, Meany argued, and it must hurry to "enter the competition for the second generation -the SSTs of the 1980s and 1990s...
...That (the Kennedy-AFL-CIO) proposal is universal and reasonable economically, It is also feasible economically, while the other program essentially says America can have health care if it wants to buy it. While the Kennedy Proposal is not progressive, it is not regressive," he said...
...Nixon national health insurance plan is now one of several Congress is expected to consider soon. Fein reacted most favorably to the Kennedy-AFL-CIO proposal, a far more comprehensive plan...
...just a little bit for everybody. It's a political document, which is what it's intended to be, of course. It is useful in that it provides an administration point of view, and there are other plans, such as the Kennedy-AFL-CIO program, which provide a contrast. What will emerge from the congressional debates will be a compromise of some sort," he said...
Meany said the AFL-OIO would only support wage and price controls that affected all portions of the population fairly...