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...Frederick Mondale, front runner among the seven Democrats who would be President, was on a roll last week. The board of directors of the 1.7 million-member National Education Association formally en- dorsed his candidacy for the party's nomination. So did the general board of the AFL-CIO, and this week leaders representing all 14 million AFL-CIO members are expected to ratify that decision, enter- ing Big Labor, with all its organizing muscle and money, into a Democratic pre-convention campaign for the first time ever. On Saturday a caucus of Maine Democratic activists yielded Mondale...
...paying off, as the endorsements last week and this amply demonstrate. Though the teachers and union leaders cannot always deliver the votes of their followers, the endorsements will certainly mean more volunteers and telephone banks for the Mondale campaign, not to mention the ballots of many N.E.A. and AFL-CIO officials who will be delegates in San Francisco. Three years ago the N.E.A. alone supplied about 15% of Jimmy Carter's delegate total...
Labor unions are pushing industrial policy with all their political power. Says Howard Samuel, president of the industrial-union department of the AFL-CIO: "The high unemployment rates rocking this nation and the staggering inroads that imports continue to make in our domestic markets have created a sense of great urgency for a national industrial policy." Growing numbers of business executives, particularly those whose companies are most threatened by foreign competitors, are taking up the cause. Says Chrysler Chairman Lee Iacocca: "Industrial policy is not just a Democratic ploy...
...movie as a factor or play it up gingerly. "It plays no part in our strategy," says Bill White, head of Glenn's campaign. "On balance, though, it's more of a plus." One Democratic Party strategist sees the expected endorsement of Mondale by the AFL-CIO and the premiere of The Right Stuff, both scheduled for next month, as a publicity wash. Says he: "In October, Mondale has the AFL-CIO and Glenn has the movie...
...Anchor Hocking, and W.R. Timken Jr. of Timken Co., it is also supported by the rank-and-file members of some labor unions. Leading the opposition is John Mahaney, the Republican president of the Ohio Council of Retail Merchants, who counts the Ohio Education Association and the state AFL-CIO on his side and who hopes to raise $2 million to fight the repeal. Explains State Senator Richard Pfeiffer: "The effects of Proposition 13 are coming home to roost in California, and if the repeal passes, they will eventually come home to roost in Ohio...