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...CIO leaders voiced mounting criticism yesterday of new federal wage controls in reactions ranging from caution to a call for a general protest strike of the labor federation's nearly 14 million members...
...Board, with a goal of stopping inflationary wage and salary increases, will draw its members from labor, management, and the public. Briefing newsmen before his speech, Nixon said that AFL-CIO president George Meany, United Auto Workers president Leonard Woodcock, and Teamsters president I.W. Abel would be members of that board...
...blacks - a move that was averted when President Truman signed an Executive Order banning segregation in the Armed Forces. He served as director of the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. He is currently President Emeritus of the Brotherhood and a vice-president of the AFL-CIO...
...completed Harvard in three years so he could spend his senior year working in iron and coal mines, railroad yards and Chicago slaughter houses. Hapgood went on to become a leader of the United Mine Workers, a defeated Socialist candidate for Governor of Indiana, a major organizer of the CIO and an early member of the NAACP...
WHEN the 15 NATO Foreign Ministers assemble in Lisbon's walled Palácio das Necessidades this week, their meeting may prove as important as any since the alliance's present form was set in 1952-also in Lisbon. Only a few weeks ago, the Ministers seemed destined to cover routine and well-traveled ground. But suddenly, some long-standing barriers to East-West negotiations have been lowered, however slightly...