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Second, the Administration's relations with organized labor are at an abysmal low. Both union and Government insiders sum up the attitudes of President Carter and AFL-CIO Chief George Meany in four blunt words: "They hate each other." Meany bitterly complains that the guidelines press down on wages more than on prices, and calls for mandatory controls on both. In the latest round of hostilities, Carter last week crossed Meany's name off the list of Government-approved directors of the Communications Satellite Corp. (COMSAT), which prompted Meany's heir apparent, AFL-CIO Treasurer Lane Kirkland...
...laws, began talking instead of the urgent need to encourage capital accumulation and private investment. Congress passed a tax law far more conservative than Jimmy Carter wanted, and Carter himself talked such a stern budget-slashing line as to make him, in the wildly overstated view of AFL-CIO Chief George Meany, the most conservative President "in my lifetime"-which goes back to the Administration of Grover Cleveland...
Washington Senator Scoop Jackson, California Governor Jerry Brown and AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer Lane Kirkland. Those who sent regrets, however, should have no regrets about having missed a whiz-bang show; the convention was exceptionally dull...
...their contributions and demand that Congress weigh new regulations. Says Fred Wertheimer, vice president of Common Cause: "We are heading for a time when PACs, particularly corporate PACs, will be the dominant force in financing Senate and House campaigns." Some of the criticism is blatantly partisan. Admits AFL-CIO Lobbyist Victor Kamber: "When labor had more influence, I was comfortable with the system...
George Meany, president of the AFL-CIO: "They say Carter is the first businessman ever to sit in the White House. But why did they have to send us a small businessman...