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...single individual, Hoffa's past activities make him a poor candidate indeed to bear the responsibility. The Federal government has not stopped him. If he is not to take upon his shoulders the mantle of Protector of the Economy, united labor and intelligent management must act first. The AFL-CIO has so far shown little concern for the Hoffa threat. Though it has refused to readmit the Teamsters, the general enthusiasm for "ethical practices" so outspoken three years ago has largely waned...
...What the AFL-CIO must do, however, is not to compromise with shady operations, but to intensify its own membership drive, which has lagged alarmingly in recent years. Management, too, would do well to be more receptive to moderate AFL-CIO organizing proposals so as to reduce the appeal of the more aggressive (but less ethical) Teamsters. The AFL-CIO is no small operation, it is true; but it is unquestionably more democratic and less monolithic than the Teamsters...
...politics is far from rational and its followers are distant from altruism. Senate president John E. Powers, now running for mayor of Boston, threw his political savvy against Bill 1030. After all, he reasoned, "We can't possibly compete with heavily endowed and high tuition universities for teachers." The AFL-CIO accused the university of attempting to establish "its own distinctive caste system that sets up discriminatory classification system identifying [teachers] separately and distinctively from everyone else." Finally the Senate Ways and Means Committee delivered the crushing blow by coupling the faculty raise with a general hike for all state...
Beyond the phony figures the AFL-CIO marchers got little satisfaction from either side of the political fence. Labor Secretary James Mitchell said that he was "proud to stand on the record of 64 million jobs in this country as of today" and promised three million more by October. But he also indicated that he had "not been satisfied" with previous Administration action on the problem, a sentiment in which his audience concurred. The Democratic leaders were not much more helpful. Lyndon Johnson, for instance, contented himself and apparently the labor chiefs, with a promise to form another study group...
Walter Reuther, Vice-President of the AFL-CIO, has turned down an invitation to speak at the Medical School. In a letter to Dr. David D. Rutstein, professor of Preventive Medicine, the labor leader ruled out the possibility of his speaking here this year...