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While there was no evidence that employees of the Nixon committee or operatives in the White House were responsible, some strange things did occur in the campaigns of Senators Edmund Muskie, George McGovern and Hubert Humphrey. For example, someone representing himself as being from McGovern's headquarters invited AFL-CIO President George Meany to meet with McGovern at a time when neither wanted such a confrontation; the misunderstanding further alienated Meany from the McGovern campaign. Someone posing as McGovern's top television-time buyer called CBS to say that he wanted to cancel a major speech; the network rechecked, found...
...group of representatives from various AFL-CIO unions urged passersby in the Boston Common last week to support the four-month-old Oil Chemical and Atomic Workers (OCAW) strike against Shell Oil Company...
...week the former hardhat from Manhattan's Hell's Kitchen finally surfaced to detail for a House subcommittee the Nixon Administration's minimum-wage bil−and with that single appearance, Brennan provoked a maxi-split with his old colleagues in the union movement. Said AFL-CIO President George Meany: "We are aghast that Brennan has so completely abandoned the trade-union principles he espoused for all of his life before coming to Washington." Jerry Wurf, president of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, was more succinct. Brennan, he said...
...book also has quite a lot of filler, particularly in an overlong chronology of the '60s. But throughout there's a healthy sense that music matters even when it seems not to: the CIO may have stopped singing for awhile, but "Which Side Are You On?" helped Boston University's students stop a Marine recruiter only last month. Like fireflies, Seeger says, such songs light up the night...
...committee's star witness was AFL-CIO President George Meany, who did not quite sound like the Nixon buddy of recent public appearances. If the wife of "Joe Doakes" cannot pay her bills, Meany warned, "he'll look for higher wages. But the answer is not to get 12% to 15% in wages. The answer is to hold down food costs and other costs." To do so, Meany proposed a World War Il-style controls program that would include a ceiling on profits and Government allocation of credit as well as stiff wage-price guidelines. Committee Chairman Wright...