Word: cio
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...grown in size and efficiency, its problems have expanded so much that they cannot be solved by a shotgun or a long heart-to-heart with an enlightened boss. Labor's problems, indeed, have grown so large that the combined exertions of a Senate Subcommittee and the AFL-CIO may not suffice. Unethical and illegal practices have had had so many years to entrench themselves in organized labor, that citations for contempt of Congress and the AFL-CIO's ethical practices code are merely a first, if difficult, step in the right direction...
...never worked for the Times. He is an assistant editor of the AFL-CIO News in Washington...
Another economist taking part in the symposium, Nathaniel Goldfinger of the AFL-CIO, sharply attacked the president's economic policy for its "dogmatic insistence on reducing governmental economic and social activities...
...heavily unionized Michigan, where the G.O.P. was worried, Ike has the edge in spite of the hard, effective precinct work of the CIO United Auto Workers. EUR1 Among the border states, Kentucky, which went to Stevenson by 700 votes in 1952, looks Republican; Maryland may give Ike a bigger edge than it did four years...
...Congressional investigation, on the other hand, need not precipitate such splits if it cooperates with AFL-CIO and does not prefer exposes to cautious but powerful press releases. In such a manner, criminal elements in unions would be faced with reprisals from the parent organization and with legal action from the government. But cooperation between government and labor must be accompanied by a determined stand on the part of businessmen to deal honestly with honest unions. "Stand up to the hoodlums!" advised New York Attorney General Jacob Javits. If business would refuse to pay kick-backs and more important, report...