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...hear the Wallace campaign rhetoric, one would think he had paved with gold the streets of Alabama's working class neighborhoods. Upon examining Wallace's record, however, one realizes that unfortunately those streets are merely potted asphalt. According to the director of the AFL-CIO committee on political education, "as a labor supporter, Wallace's poor posture is second to none...
According to figures released by the AFL-CIO last year, Alabama has some of the worst workmen's compensation and unemployment insurance laws in the country. It was one of only five states limiting the time a worker injured on the job could take to obtain medical treatment and one of only seven states to limit the amount of money spent for such treatment...
Labor supported the court's decision. AFL-CIO Special Counsel Larry Gold said the ruling provided "full remedy to employees who have actually suffered from discrimination." Yet the unions also served notice that they will vigorously oppose any effort to undermine the basic principles of the seniority system. Petitions from civil rights groups are now before the Supreme Court seeking to abolish seniority systems when the rule of "last hired, first fired" results in layoffs of nonwhites and women. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is siding with the civil rights groups; the Justice Department favors the unions' position...
Coal mining is a rough, dirty business, the most hazardous industry in America. Correspondingly, the UMWA is a rough union. Often its leaders are tough, two-fisted men, up from the rank-and-file. The legendary John L. Lewis, founder of the CIO and UMWA president for 40 years, was a formidable adversary in any contract negotiation, and he was scared of nothing. When the UMWA struck in 1942, Franklin Roosevelt threatened to bring troops in to mine the coal. Lewis, who had split with CIO president and one-time close associate Philip Murray in 1940 over Roosevelt's third...
...Committee to Reinstate Sherman Holcombe voted last night to circulate the petition at House dining halls later this week. Holcombe's union, Local 26 of the Hotel, Restaurant, and Institutional Employees Union, AFL-CIO, drew up the petition...