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...members of the AFL-CIO affiliated union, who work as lithographers, pressmen and cold type compositors at the Harvard University Printing Office, will negotiate for the two-year contract next month. Their present contract expires November...
...Massachusetts Chapter of the AFL-CIO endorsed the boycott yesterday...
Aged and cantankerous Meany was, but there is not a labor leader in the land who says he will not be missed. "George Meany is the AFL-CIO," asserts Fred Kroll, president of the railway, airline and steamship clerks' union. No one ever questioned Meany's dedication to the movement. The second of ten children of an Irish family in The Bronx, Meany became an apprentice plumber at 16. He soon proved as skilled at manipulating people as pipes. Stolid in appearance, sometimes slow of speech, he was easy to underestimate. But in any encounter, few rivals could...
Rising fast in the hierarchy, Meany was chosen president of the AFL in 1952. He promptly engineered a merger between his craft unions and the industrial unions of the CIO, producing a national labor movement with the muscle to back up its demands. Yet he remained more practical than ideological, a champion of "the American way of life"-thrift, sobriety, patriotism and perseverance. Meany remained an unrepentant hawk; he had battled Communist labor unions in Western Europe after World War II, and he supported the Viet...
...trouble working together. Says Ulric Scott, chairman of Minnesota's Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party: "His departure is as important as his presence. It's like a $100 bill that has been changed into a number of smaller bills. Politicians are going to have to court the AFL-CIO as an organization, not as an individual." Kirkland, 57, who is expected to succeed Meany, is esteemed for his intellect but not for his leadership. Partly for love of power, partly for love of labor, Meany put off the day of reckoning as long as he could. Now American labor...