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Wednesday morning, July 11, a miscellany: Mary Berry, Assistant Secretary for Education, HEW; Nicholas Carbone, deputy mayor of Hartford; Sol Chaikin, president of the International Ladies' Garment Workers.' Union; John Filer, board chairman of the Aetna Life and Casualty Co.; Eli Ginzberg, chairman of the National Commission for Employment Policy; Carl Holman, president of the National Urban Coalition; Benjamin Hooks, executive director of the N.A.A.C.P.; Vernon Jordan, executive director of the National Urban League; David Lizarraga, co-chairman of the National Black-Hispanic Democratic coalition; John Lyons, president of the iron workers union; David Mahoney, board chairman...
...Brill, the Teamsters are a metaphor for American society. The Harold Gibbons chapter that closes the book brings this out even more than the stories of the two rank'n'filer Teamsters. Gibbons was a socialist St. Louis Teamster leader, who pioneered in providing his members with a food co-op, his retirees with low-cost subsidized housing, St. Louis with mass transit, and who even supported busing to help eliminate segregated schools before the 1954 Supreme Court decision. And Gibbons supported McGovern in 1972 against the Teamster tide for Nixon. But he backed down when it came to challenging...
Consequently, U.A.W. leaders have talked surprisingly little about wages. Instead, they have made job security their No. 1 demand, responding to membership wishes. As one rank and filer succinctly puts it: "I got a wife and four kids. If they make sure I keep working, I'll be happy with any contract...
...they remain a formidable factor in the American economy. The income of denominations and local churches runs to at least $12.5 billion a year, according to the report of the privately financed ($2.5 million) Commission on Private Philanthropy and Public Needs headed by Aetna Life & Casualty Chairman John H. Filer. That means religious receipts are nearly as large as the total of all other private contributions. Significantly, one-fifth of the $12.5 billion goes to such causes as schools, hospitals and social work. The commission also reports a dramatic difference in religious giving between the rich...
Whenever he can, Miller visits the mines, bridging the gap cultivated by his predecessors. "I want to know what's going on," he says. "I respect any man's opinion. I was a rank and filer, and I still am." His is a new-found confidence, and he wants to make it contagious. "I felt for many years because I had no formal education -this is a feeling that is consistent with most coal miners-that we miners were handicapped," he says. "We were not very vocal about the problems...