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...more money and benefits for his men, and that he has done. Wage scales for the construction unions in New York City are among the highest in the country, scandalously so in the opinion of many. Starting as a painter at Macy's department store, Brennan served aboard submarines in the Pacific during World War II, then returned to New York to rise in union influence, volunteering for any assignment that came along. When he was elected president of the construction trades council in 1957, he turned a no-show job into a powerful one, mediating disputes among...
Failure. Such is his passion for the trades that Brennan, a Roman Catholic, has been known to trace their origin to Carpenter Jesus Christ. He has a craftsman's feeling for his country. "We build this country," he said at the time of the Wall Street march. "We build these beautiful buildings and churches and highways and bridges and schools. We love this country. We were afraid it was going down the drain and nobody was doing anything about it." Like other members of the craft unions, however, he is choosy about who gets to build. Because...
...Brennan's flirtation with the G.O.P. began some time ago. He represents unions, after all, whose members are solidly established in the middle class since many of them make $20,000 or more a year. Voting Republican was not all that traumatic. New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller made it easier by promoting so many construction projects round the state, Brennan has supported him in his last two bids for reelection. But taking the post under Nixon is a risk. Much as he may agree with the President on some issues, he is poles apart on others. He supports...
...reviewed each petition as it arrived. At the suggestion of Freshman Justice Lewis Powell, the petitions are now assigned to one of the law clerks, who prepares a single pool memo of one to 15 pages for separate consideration by Justices Burger, Powell, White, Blackmun and Rehnquist. Douglas, Stewart, Brennan and Marshall have refused to go along with the innovation and each reads every petition or a memo on it prepared for him by his own clerk...
Last week President Nixon's newly named Labor Secretary Peter J. Brennan, head of the New York Building and Construction Trades Council, called for dismantling wage controls. Yet Brennan has gone along with the committee in the past and as Labor Secretary-and the committee's nominal boss-he is unlikely to try to undercut Dunlop. Both men realize that whatever progress has been made in unscrambling construction's chaotic pay pacts could only have been accomplished by forceful Government intervention in the bargaining process...