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...objects of TIME'S editors is to make the people who make the news come alive. This week we tell you about a onetime Bronx plumber who is very much alive though not nearly so well known as his new eminence and power would have us suppose. GEORGE MEANY, president of the American Federation of Labor, has long been a force in the labor movement; he is rapidly becoming one of the world's most influential...
Minutes of the Meeting. At 60, George Meany, the Bronx plumber who rose to one of the world's most influential positions, is an impressive man. He is big: 228 lbs., 5 ft. 9¾ in. tall. He is jug-eared, with close-cropped grey hair that has receded far back on his head. His neck is larger than the largest conventional collar size, and his shirts are made to order. So are his suits (eight a year, at $125 a suit). He has huge, deeply calloused, plumber's hands, made to grasp a Stillson wrench...
Picket Courtship. Eugenia operated an embroidery machine in a Bronx dress factory, and George's only real union activity at the time was to walk with her on picket lines when her union, I.L.G.W.U. Local 6, was on strike. (As a working plumber, Meany never went on strike.) In 1919 George and Eugenia were married. Shortly thereafter, perhaps because of Eugenia's influence, he began to take an active part in Plumbers Local 463. In 1920, with the help of some other young dissidents, he was elected to the local board, and in 1922, at 28, he became...
...textiles, paper and chemicals). Within the new federation C.I.O. unions will form a department with its own funds and director (perhaps Reuther). But the A.F.L. will supply 17 of the 27 vice presidents, plus the president. The almost certain choice: dogged George Meany, 61, a onetime Bronx plumber...
TIME should hang its head in shame for the smearing article on Dr. Albert Einstein in its Nov. 22 issue. I feel sure there are millions of Americans who agree with me in objecting to your interpretation of his statement "I would rather choose to be a plumber or a peddler in the hope to find that modest degree of independence still available under present circumstances." A man who so keenly feels his responsibility to mankind is certainly not to be condemned for his desire for more independence...