Word: hodgson
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...A.F.L.-C.I.O.'s 35-man executive council into session to issue a detailed list of criticisms. Other union executives?notably Leonard Woodcock, whose 1.4 million-member United Auto Workers left the A.F.L.-C.I.O. fold three years ago?flew to Meany's headquarters in Washington to confer. Labor Secretary James Hodgson, the Administration's belated emissary, also stopped by to pay his respects. He was one of the few White House men who managed to get the last word in during a slanging match with onetime Journeyman Plumber Meany (see box, page 10). After being labeled a "janitor" by Meany, Hodgson...
...A.F.L.-C.I.O. and the U.S. Government soon began to snipe at each other. At an annual golfing affair thrown in his honor by the retail clerks' union, Meany groused to some friends at the bar: "You know, until three weeks ago we had George Shultz and James Hodgson coming, and Mr. Shultz even thought the President might stop by. Well, we lost the President and Mr. Shultz, and Mr. Hodgson is probably down in the cellar somewhere." Meany played the course with three lower-ranking officials. His temper grew still shorter when Hodgson treated Teamster Boss Frank Fitzsimmons...
...going to break loose." Not consulted on the Administration's planning for the freeze, Meany & Co. are determined to play a major role in shaping the post-freeze rules, which Steelworkers Boss I.W. Abel and others suspect could last for "months or perhaps years to come." Although Secretary Hodgson made it clear that one purpose of his fence-mending visit to Meany was to assure him that labor will "have a voice in planning what we are going to do in Phase 2," that was hardly sufficient to placate the A.F.L.-C.I.O. chief. "He said the White House wanted...
Another loud demurrer came from A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany. Shultz and Labor Secretary James Hodgson explained the Nixon program to the 35-member A.F.L.-C.I.O. executive council, but they might as well have saved their breath. Meany called the wage freeze "patently discriminatory" against labor. Hodgson insisted that the rank-and-file union man would back the Nixon plan and accused Meany of being "out of step" with the average working man. That struck a raw nerve, for the aged Meany, 77, feels his leadership threatened by younger union Turks. He sneered: "I don't pay too much attention...
...surface, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters seemed to have acquired a new respectability. It had shed its convicted longtime president Jimmy Hoffa and elected a colorless and apparently untroublesome union veteran, Frank E. Fitzsimmons, to replace him. And there was Nixon Administration Labor Secretary James Hodgson on hand at the Teamsters' convention in Miami Beach to congratulate the new leader. Nixon sent a warm letter of "appreciation for the contributions" the union had made "to our way of life...