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...this trend develops, there will arise the questions that arose within the CIO. Will a national student union be a political body or concern itself with the bread-and-butter issues of the university? My guess is that it would not end in bread-and-butter unionism, but be more like the CIO's Political Action Committee of the later New Deal days...
Thursday's seminar on worker control of production and other economic issues facing unions will be moderated by Joseph Duffey, national chairman of Americans for Democratic Action. Participants will include representatives of the Teamsters, the AFL-CIO, and the academic world...
...moratorium on the boycott was announced by Cesar Chavez, leader of the UFWOC, after George Meany, president of the AFL-CIO, and Frank E. Fitzsimmons, president of the Teamsters, agreed to submit disputes between the two national unions to binding arbitration. The UFWOC, a member of the AFL-CIO, has been challenging the jurisdiction of the Teamsters to represent lettuce pickers...
Serious Students. The SST advocates are directly pressuring Congress as well. AFL-CIO President George Meany told a Senate Appropriations Subcommittee that the entire future of the American aerospace industry, already "in a state of economic shock," was at stake. He claimed that the SST could generate 50,000 aerospace jobs and another 150,000 in related industries. The U.S. is now too late to catch other nations in the first generation of SSTs, Meany argued, and it must hurry to "enter the competition for the second generation -the SSTs of the 1980s and 1990s...
...just a little bit for everybody. It's a political document, which is what it's intended to be, of course. It is useful in that it provides an administration point of view, and there are other plans, such as the Kennedy-AFL-CIO program, which provide a contrast. What will emerge from the congressional debates will be a compromise of some sort," he said...