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With the record of corruption the teamsters had built up, Judge Letts's appointment of monitors was virtually the only practical solution to the suit for invalidation of the election which John Cunningham, New York teamster leader, brought against the union. But neither monitors nor disciplinary expulsion by the AFL-CIO has diminished the union's strength or reformed tendencies toward corruption...
George Meany, President of the AFL-CIO, said last week that the affiliation would not support the current Kennedy-Erwin bill without its attached amendments to the Taft-Hartley act, an indication of organized labor's general support for moves to control locals and give the government an opportunity to clean up individual cases of corruption. But in making his statement, Meany made one statement which reflects a great deal of labor's present attitude. Wherever there is corruption in the unions, he said, there will be some other corruption, either in management or in the police...
...Department of Preventive Medicine has invited Walter Reuther, Vice President of the AFL-CIO, to speak at the Medical School, after he was rejected as Gay Lecturer on Medical Ethics in favor of Dr. James H. Means, Jackson Professor of Clinical Medicine, Emeritus...
According to Gardella, Reuther, if he accepts the invitation, will probably speak on "how labor regards medicine," and what labor expects of the medical profession. Earlier this year, one of the medical advisers of the AFL-CIO lectured at the Medical School on the health program set up for UAW members in Detroit...
...JUAN, Puerto Rico, Feb. 24--Walter Reuther won over other AFL-CIO leaders today to his plan for the unemployed to dramatize their woes with demonstrations soon in Washington...