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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...
...taking bureaucracy into the field will catch on with other departments. Defense Secretary, Melvin Laird, for example, could spend the season at Khe Sanh, getting a sense of what his men are up against. Secretary of State, William Rogers, could summer in the Sinai, while Labor Secretary, James Hodgson, might spend August in downtown Detroit. A summer on Wall Street might hone Treasury Secretary, John Connally's mind. Commerce Secretary, Maurice Stans could work out of the Baltimore docks, and HEW Secretary, Elliot Richardson out of any slum of his choosing...
Last week, after his second recent meeting with industry, professional and university representatives on the unemployment crisis, President Nixon announced a $42 million program, out of existing funds, to retrain and relocate the unemployed. The program, said Labor Secretary James D. Hodgson, reflects Nixon's determination to keep the U.S. "in the forefront of technology...
Another rule of political language dictates the judicious use of silence. Thus last week Labor Secretary James Hodgson announced that henceforth the professional statisticians of the Bureau of Labor Statistics may no longer brief the press regarding monthly figures on inflation and unemployment. The decision, Hodgson said, was made in consultation with the White House "to avoid awkwardness to the professional staff that might result from policy questions." There is more than a suspicion among Washington newsmen that the "awkwardness" has arisen simply because the BLS professionals have in the past explained some disconcerting economic truths that conflicted with official...