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...CIO and the National Urban League argue, however, that the U.S. actually underestimates unemployment because it does not count people who have become so discouraged about seeking work that they have dropped out of the labor force. Counting them in, the AFL-CIO reckons that unemployment in September was not 7.8% but actually...
...also charged that Dole had tried to remove TV cameras from the Ervin committee hearings on Watergate. Dole, in turn, said that Mondale "wants to spend your money and tax and tax and spend and spend." Mondale, Dole wisecracked, was so completely under labor's thumb that AFL-CIO President George Meany was probably his makeup man. As for Carter, Dole said that the Democratic nominee had three positions on every issue, which was why he had to have three debates with Ford. The Republican also brought up Carter's Playboy interview, noting, "We'll give...
...have donated more than $1.4 million to at least 170 individual candidates. Reportedly, they have another $1 million ready to hand out before Election Day. All told, their political contributions will be the largest of any interest group except the American Medical Association, the dairy organizations and the AFL-CIO itself. MEBA accounts for 70% of the maritime unions' political largesse; its members shell out $56 a year each in campaign contributions, compared with less than $1 on the average for members of other trade unions...
Good Friends. But later, President Ford vetoed the bill; he feared that the higher transport costs in U.S. ships would only incite further inflation, then running above 11%. That irked the maritime men, especially MEBA'S Calhoon. Says a top AFL-CIO official: "Jesse knows you've got to have friends in this business, and he's good at finding them." After Ford's apostasy, Calhoon threw the union's support behind Washington Democratic Senator Henry Jackson, who for defense reasons is a strong advocate of a healthy American merchant marine. Later, when Jackson...
Union Maids is the best radical documentary since The Battle of Algiers. A study of three women CIO organizers in the '30s, the film intercuts contemporary material--newsreels and union songs--with interviews to produce a powerful portrait of these women as workers, as women, and as individuals. Much of the newsreel material is unusual and exciting--footage of hunger marches and strikes in Chicago and Detroit, for example--but it is the interviews which are the truly remarkable aspect of the film. These women, who were first interviewed by Staughton Lynd in Rank and File, are exceptionally articulate about...