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...Feeling. To broaden his base, McGovern has lately begun seeking allies among labor and reaching for the increasingly important farm vote. Until late last summer, he was on AFL-CIO Chief George Meany's blacklist. It was partly a matter of hawk against dove, but equally at issue was a little-noticed attack by McGovern, long remembered by Meany, on labor's opposition to the 1963 U.S. wheat sales to Russia. "That really stuck in his craw," McGovern says, "and I went over to see him and apologize." Last month, McGovern was the only Democratic presidential possibility...
...waitresses who founded HSWOC have not made clear why they chose to form their own union rather than join the appropriate AFL-CIO affiliate...
Wheels Within Wheels. Whether or not Nixon was bluffing, Mills caved in. "We just didn't have enough votes to carry it," Mills insisted, although nose counts by House Democratic leaders and by AFL-CIO lobbyists indicated that the votes may well have been there if the Democrats had wanted to fight for them. Mills, a cautious man, did not want to take the risk; his critics suggest that he lost his nerve. Party leaders were shocked and angry...
...that U.S.-owned companies have abroad are equivalent to that in U.S. plants, say union men, the effect is to deprive American workers of their normal productivity edge-and increasingly of their jobs. "Foreign competition as we knew it over the years does not exist any longer," said AFL-CIO President George Meany. "We are not competing with foreign private enterprise in these foreign countries. We are competing with franchises that are owned and operated by big business here in America...
...unions bitterly told stories of "runaway" plants that backed up Meany's contentions. These included RCA's TV plant that moved from Memphis to Taiwan, as well as Bendix of York, Pa., and Kollsmann Industries' Wisconsin TV-tuner operation, both of which relocated in Mexico. AFL-CIO economists cite Bureau of Labor Statistics figures showing that the number of U.S. workers that theoretically would be required to produce all goods imported into the U.S. has increased by at least 700,000 (to 2.5 million) since 1966. The implication is that if imports were held down domestic employment...