Word: councill
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Almost unnoticed in the political squabbling was an eleventh-hour plea for Kennedy-Ives by the A.F.L.-C.I.O. Executive Council, meeting in the Poconos, in crying need of legislative help in cleaning up organized labor...
...mountaintop in Pennsylvania's green Pocono range, 85 miles from Manhattan's garment district, sprawls a 700-acre resort named Unity House, where garment workers can enjoy vacation comforts at proletarian prices. There, last week, gathered two dozen members of the A.F.L.-C.I.O.'s Executive Council, finding time between business sessions for golf, gin rummy and fishing in the resort's three-mile-long lake. But for all the resort pleasures, the labor leaders wore solemn faces. They had come to discuss the state of U.S. organized labor as Labor Day 1958 approached-and there...
Damning the Deficits. There was unemployment, still close to 5,000,000. "There may be prosperity again on Wall Street,'' the Executive Council declared, "but for the millions who are unemployed, the recession remains a continuing stark reality." The council's damn-the-deficits prescription: wage boosts, lower taxes, more government spending...
There was also the threat of an auto strike. The labor leaders were glumly aware that the U.S. public, annoyed by rising prices, would take a dark view of a pacemaking U.A.W. strike for new wage boosts. The Executive Council went ahead anyhow, named a seven-man strike committee to "give practical support, organizationally and financially," if Walter Reuther's Auto Workers go on strike...
Commissioner Jacobs met with President Dan M. Potter and other members of the Protestant Council but said only that he would pass their objections to his policy along to the Board of Hospitals. Last week the pro-contraception forces prepared for a long and drawn-out battle; the American Jewish Congress and the American Civil Liberties Union called a meeting to set up a citizens' committee and consider preparing a case for testing in the courts. Their position was best summed up by an editorial in the New York Times: "Freedom of religion works both ways; and in this...