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...A.F.L.'s Meany and C.I.O.'s Walter Reuther, both newly elected, signed a no-raiding pact and set up a joint unity committee that met repeatedly. When the Roney Plaza meeting opened last week, said a C.I.O. man, "there was nothing left to fight about...
...evening the C.I.O.'s Reuther, with less than half as many members as the A.F.L.'s 10 million, was ready to accept A.F.L. leadership of a united federation. On the other hand, the A.F.L. accepted some C.I.O. conditions, including strongly worded bans on inter-union raiding, union racketeering and racial discrimination. While lawyers put the agreement on paper, the labor leaders laconically announced "constructive progress." That night they went over the five-page text to tone down "emotional" language...
Next morning, joking and relaxed, they met in the Roney Plaza's rose-carpeted Ocean Lounge. Reuther heard C.I.O. Secretary Carey reading aloud a Miami Herald report on the "labor bosses," and exclaimed smilingly: "I resent that. Why don't they say 'Trade Union Statesmen Gather in Miami'?" Meany. a cigar clamped in his teeth, sat at the piano and ripped off jazz melodies. The C.I.O.'s Carey put on a shirt printed with the labels of all A.F.L. unions. By noon the last comma was in place, and the full committee of 20 A.F.L...
...staffs, treasuries, state and local councils will be meshed. The no A.F.L. and 34 C.I.O. unions remain intact, but mergers will be encouraged between competing unions (as in 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...
What the U.A.W. wants is a guarantee of a weekly wage for 52 weeks a year for all its hourly paid workers. If a man is called in one day and then laid off, says Reuther, he should get paid for the whole week. If he is notified in advance of a one-week layoff or more, then he should get enough to "maintain the same living standards as when fully employed." The payments, says U.A.W. with a hint to employers, should be integrated with state unemployment-compensation benefits so that "employers can reduce their liabilities by effectively working toward...