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...Francisco. The Postal Service responded by firing 100 workers. The militants refused to back down. Two weeks ago, at the Denver convention of the American Postal Workers Union, rebel delegates burst forth in a rancorous demonstration against their own leaders. The dissidents had powerful support: AFL-CIO President George Meany denounced the contract as "disappointing...
...sheer passage of time should shortly lighten one of labor's greatest burdens: its rule by aging, parochial leaders of whom Meany is the curmudgeonly symbol. Seven of the 35 members of the AFL-CIO executive council are over 65, and cannot cling to power much longer. Already, some slightly younger and far more aggressive leaders are rising in prominence on the council and talking of new organizing drives, new methods of enhancing labor's political push. Among them are Sol Chaikin, 60, president of the International Ladies' Garment Workers; William Winpisinger, 53, chief of the Machinists; Jerry Wurf...
...they are required to keep on reserve, clears checks for them. But its most important functions are to determine the supply of money and the level of interest rates?and no questions touch off more disagreement in American policymaking. If the Federal Reserve is not condemned by the AFL-CIO's George Meany for causing unemployment by being too stingy, it is certain to be damned by Economist Milton Friedman for spurring inflation by being too generous. All too often it will simultaneously incur the wrath of liberals and conservatives...
...with a $15 billion net cut in revenues but no reduction in the capital gains rate. At a Senate Finance Subcommittee hearing last week, Treasury Secretary W. Michael Blumenthal said that the Steiger amendment "should be called the Millionaires' Relief Act of 1978," a view shared by AFL-CIO President George Meany and other labor leaders. That did not especially please the six Senators present, half of whom can count their net worth in seven figures.- The most heated exchanges came when Republican Senator Bob Pack wood of Oregon (net worth: $100,000) accused both Blumenthal and Carter...
...gulf between Carter and the union leaders has been especially wide and deep since the President met with AFL-CIO Chief George Meany several weeks ago and tried-in vain-to sweet-talk him into supporting a general wage hold-down. As a union official who attended that White House session told TIME Correspondent Richard Hornik: "Carter came in with his little sermonette, and when we did not accept everything he said, he stopped listening to us. He should realize that meetings like these are not Sunday school...