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...instability, facelessness and congestion" in U.S. society. "Psychic problems are rapidly outpacing economic concerns." The blue-collar workers are "increasingly young, black and female," he argues, and this means that "their concerns are not at all what George Meany thinks they are." Thus, despite the open animosity of AFL-CIO President Meany and other labor leaders, the McGovern staff feels that the Senator can attract rank and file worker support. Dutton also expects McGovern to tap sufficiently a general resentment against the powerlessness of individuals and the power of big Government, business and labor so as to cut into traditional...
...past conventions it would have been unthinkable to treat those two titans of Democratic politics-AFL-CIO President George Meany and Chicago Mayor Richard Daley-with anything but deference and respect. Between them, they were supposed to hold the balance of victory and defeat for the presidential nominee. Yet last week the unthinkable happened. Meany and Daley were not only slighted, they were not in evidence at the convention and openly mocked. The nominee himself set the tone when he told reporters that he did not think it would be "fatal" if Meany and Daley failed to endorse...
...abortion and the Viet Nam War. He has also developed a distrust of the candidate that aides feel can never be dispelled. The antagonism dates back to 1962, when McGovern ran for the Senate from South Dakota. Hard-pressed for cash in a tough campaign, he asked the AFL-CIO for a $30,000 loan. The request came to Meany, who ordered: "Give him the money." With that, Meany concluded that he had another Senator who was safe for labor...
...ingrate. He made no notable effort to conciliate the labor chieftain. Typically, he said that since he had made a mistake on right-to-work, Meany should confess that he had been wrong about the Viet Nam War. By convention time, Meany was mad enough to have the AFL-CIO distribute a 46-page attack on McGovern's legislative record -as if McGovern were the Republican presidential candidate. Most of the rest of big labor is following Meany's lead. Unless he relents, they will not yield, either. It could cost McGovern help at the polls as well...
...from the Democratic Who's Who-men of the rank of longtime California Assembly Leader Jess Unruh, Ohio Governor John Gilligan and Boston Mayor Kevin White. Many leaders of organized labor, a key element of the Democrats' national coalition, are bruised and a bit stunned. The AFL-CIO's Committee on Political Education had hoped to have 25% of the total delegates at the convention, but seems likely to fall well short of the goal...