Word: labor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...convoluted pipelines of foundations used to distribute CIA dollars seemed to be almost as limitless as the curiosity of the newsmen willing to plow through public-record tax files. Recipients of CIA-suspect largesse made an encyclopedic grab bag of organizations ranging from the now defunct Institute of International Labor Research Inc. (headed by Old Socialist Norman Thomas) to the Billy Graham Spanish-American crusade, from the North American Secretariat of Pax Romana and the John Hay Whitney Trust for Charitable Purposes to the International Food and Drink Workers Federation and the Friends of India Committee...
...little, but the A.F.L.-C.l.O. and the Democrats seem to have become publicly re-enchanted. At the federation's executive-council meeting in Bal Harbour, Fla., last week, a majestic array of high officials-six in all-accepted invitations to demonstrate the President's affection for Big Labor. In return, Meany pronounced: "We have made greater progress with this Administration than with any other in my experience-including Franklin Roosevelt's." It was almost indecently early to be endorsing Lyndon Johnson's 1968 candidacy, but then Meany is anything but coy. "I endorse him right...
...building-trade union discrimination against Negroes. Last week the civil rights question still divided labor's leadership. Walter Reuther, who had quit the A.F.L.-C.l.O. executive council over this and other issues and may ultimately lead his 1.5 million-member United Auto Workers out of the federation, told the Congressional Joint Economic Committee that craft union leaders were "hiding behind pious declarations on paper." His "greatest disappointment since the merger," said Reuther, "has been the failure of the labor movement to solve the problem of minority groups in the craft union setup...
...onetime Bronx plumber who became president of the A.F.L.-C.l.O., George Meany, 72, is the biggest craft union boss of them all. Yet, at a meeting of the executive council in Florida, Meany said: "We make no claim to perfection. I have always said there is discrimination in the labor movement. But we have made tremendous progress...
...should not get on public transport, because they will soil other people's clothes," she writes. "In the train, don't fall asleep on a stranger's knee." Nor should comradely formalities be overdone. Don't, for instance, shout the reverent Communist greeting, "Honor to labor!" to a friend who is sunbathing on the beach: such enthusiasm, she warns, "could appear ironic." More important, when greeting a woman, kiss her hand and address her as "Madame" rather than call her comrade and raise a clenched fist in a party salute. Reflecting Communism's cramped living...