Word: cio
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...surprisingly, automation proved the central concern of last week's fifth biennial convention of the AFL-CIO. The federation's president George Meany established the meeting's general tone in his opening address. Automation, he said, offers "no element of blessing.... It is rapidly becoming a real curse to society...
From time to time Harrington skips into the realm of political suggestion (usually to regret that the conservatives have hampered the Kennedy Administration). He provides no critique, however, of the New Deal responses to poverty and their current applicability. Nostalgic references to bygone CIO militance indicate Harrington's hope that revitalized trade unionism can defend the economic rights of American labor. But in a section on the Packinghouse Workers, he fails to show why a strong and honest union could not prevent the implementation of automation at human expense...
...Parallel sponsorship of a school, hospital and public works program. The AFL-CIO estimates that a directly financed federal undertaking to eliminate the backlog of necessary construction, would keep ten million men working for twenty years and would cost ten billion dollars annually...
...plans to refurbish Donnelly centered around 142 moderate income, non-profit apartment units which were to be built by the AFL-CIO. The projected rents of these units were well within the budget of the people then living in the area. Plans also called for 21,000 feet of new water mains, 16,000 feet of new sewer lines, 3,000,000 square feet of pavement and sidewalks, and two new playgrounds. At its completion, the project was to displace 337 families (15% of the Donnelly population...
Despite Hughes' friendly reception by the delegates, it is highly unlikely that he will be granted the state AFL-CIO's formal endorsement. Recommendations for endorsement are made by a six man executive committee next week, and then go to a separate endorsing convention for approval...