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George Meany's orders to the 40,000-member United Textile Workers of America were tough and terse. To avoid suspension, barked the A.F.L.-C.I.O. president, the textile workers would have to clean house, bounce Secretary-Treasurer Lloyd Klenert, who, the McClellan committee revealed, had used union funds for a down payment on a house, charged the U.T.W.A. with such expenditures as his wife's brassières and $2,564.65 for 24 My Fair Lady theater parties. The union must also fire President Anthony Valente, whose home also was financed with union money. Last week, with Klenert...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Clean House | 11/11/1957 | See Source »

...resignation satisfied only two-thirds of the A.F.L.-C.I.O. clean up or get out orders. The house was still not clean: Klenert, in resigning, had woven an agreement for $104,000 in severance pay as a quid pro quo for leaving quickly. But at week's end that too was settled. The union's executive board voted to give Klenert the skid without a quid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Clean House | 11/11/1957 | See Source »

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