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...question demanded a simple answer, but it dogged Walter Mondale all week: "Can you cite one major domestic issue in the past three or four years where you have disagreed with organized labor?" At first Mondale ducked. He protested that his endorsement by the AFL-CIO was "not a deal." When reporters pressed him he turned testy, his eyes becoming cold, his face hard, his voice clipped. Repeatedly he replied, "I'm not going to spend my time offending people who support...
...stonewalling was doing more harm than good, Mondale's aides advised their candidate to cite some differences with labor. He mentioned his opposition to the B-1 bomber, the Clinch River breeder reactor and the weakening of clean air standards. The examples were "small potatoes," conceded an AFL official. "They're not going to quiet the howling beast." The clumsy handling of the issue was a rare stumble by Mondale's smoothly efficient machine, which is being publicly tested for the first time in Iowa this Monday and New Hampshire next Tuesday...
...been a cake-walk-so far. He has raised almost twice as much money as his nearest competitor. The AFL-CIO, the United Auto Workers, the National Education Association and the National Organization for Women all support him. So do Tip O'Neill, Robert Strauss, perhaps 100 members of the House, New York Governor Mario Cuomo, Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis, San Francisco Mayor Dianne Feinstein, Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley, Detroit Mayor Coleman Young. Concedes a top strategist: "The worst Pollyanna in our bunch wouldn't have been able to predict last December that we would...
...early make-or-break primaries and caucuses, labor's manpower means more to Mondale's well-heeled campaign than money. In Iowa, for example, the AFL-CIO has some 100,000 members, a number roughly equal to the anticipated turnout in the caucuses. The national headquarters of the labor group has sent 35 organizers to the state to direct the drive to win delegates for Mondale. Using telephone banks, a direel-mail campaign and union newsletters, the leaders expect to reach all of the membership with pro-Mondale appeals. The U.A.W. will try to persuade...
...Hampshire is a less unionized state. But even there, the state AFL-CIO'S membership list of 37,000 is a fertile field for harvesting Mondale votes. Last month some 60 union volunteers kept eleven phone banks manned throughout the state, soliciting help for the Minnesotan. AFL-CIO Field Representative Charlie Stott estimates that 15,000 of the roughly 110,000 people expected to vote in New Hampshire will be members of the AFL-CIO. This kind of union activity can be duplicated in almost any state where Mondale needs the labor push. Glenn's aides said last...