Word: cio
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Virginia may see other political contests in the near future. Senator A. Willis Robertson is 78; Governor-elect Godwin is probably eager to win a Senate seat and currently, all-Democrats from the Byrds to the AFL-CIO are happy with him. The Republicans, if they can recapture the Negro vote, may even be able to win statewide election. There is every possibility, then, that Virginia may send more men to the U.S. Senate in the next five years than it has in the last forty-five...
...applicants is made up of members and supporters of the virtually all-Negro Freedom Democratic Party (FDP). The other consists mainly of representatives from college Young Democratic clubs in the state who are supported by the Mississippi Democratic Conference (MDC)--a bi-racial coalition of NAACP, organized labor (AFL-CIO), and white moderates who fear...
...discussed by nearly everyone A "free speech" controversy flared then the Corporation refused to give the John Reed Club a room for a speech by Communist party leader Earl Browder. And anti-war groups abounded. On one April day, the Harvard Student Union held a peace rally addressed by CIO leader Mike Quill, the Harvard Anti-War Committee blasted the Union as Communist-dominated and held its own peace rally with Norman Thomas, and the American Independence League attacked both sides for their 'partisanship...
Members of the committee include Supreme Court Justice Arthur Goldberg; Senator Gordon Allott (R-Colo.); Frank Stanton '36, president of Columbia Broadcasting System; AFL-CIO leaders George Meany and Walter P. Reuther; and Gerald Piel '37, editor and publisher of Scientific American...
...Move Slag Heaps. A prime source of uncertainty remains the steel-labor situation, but even that seemed a bit clearer last week. Because the results of the United Steelworkers' bitter presidential election battle are still being contested, AFL-CIO President George Meany-probably with a nudge from Lyndon Johnson-took the unusual step of recommending that the union postpone its May 1 strike deadline. Though Steelworkers' President David J. McDonald rejected the idea as "premature and prejudicial," many businessmen figured there would indeed be a delay-and that the extension for additional negotiations might well lessen chances...