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...conclusion of last week's AFL-CIO unity meeting in New York, one pundit called the merger "the miracle on Thirty-Fourth Street." Few people, remembering the rancorous night when John L. Lewis pulled his Committee of Industrial Organizations out of the American Federation of Labor, could imagine the new labor group as anything except a battleground for rival bigwigs. When Mike Quill and some of the more militant CIO leaders protested the merger heatedly, observers predicted that the miraculous enterprise would shortly founder...
Robert Ready, new president of the HUERA, denied that more than a "small group of dissenters" backed the AFL...
...AFL has nothing to offer us. We pay lower dues and get higher benefits," Ready said. The AFL argues that affiliation with a national union would put University employees in a stronger bargaining position...
Ready claimed that the AFL wanted to take over University employees in order to use University wages and benefits as a standard for all New England colleges. The University is one of the few New England institutions not under AFL control, and pays higher wages than any comparable employer...
Sullivan, of the AFL says that his aim is to help University employees, not the AFL. "We don't want trouble with the HUERA or Harvard," he said. "We agree with the HUERA on policy, and the only question is affiliation. If they want us, we're ready, and if we're sure they want us out we'll stay...