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...most serious split in his official family in the six years of his administration. Aligned with the President: Treasury Secretary Robert Anderson and Budget Director Maurice Stans, who believe that a balanced budget is simply an act of fiscal good faith; Commerce Secretary Lewis Strauss and Postmaster General Arthur Summerfield, who accept the results as a symbol of good management and proper Republican conservatism. Aligned against the President: Labor Secretary James Mitchell, Attorney General William Rogers, and to a lesser degree, Interior Secretary Fred Seaton and Health, Education and Welfare Secretary Arthur Flemming. In tune with the rebels is Vice...
...issues similar to the 1943 Mackinac Island Conference, at which Republicans set foreign-policy aims. The unrest reaches into the Republican National Committee, which as part of its rebuilding is trying to reach labor leaders disgruntled at the Democrats, has been hampered by recent antilabor broadsides of Postmaster General Summerfield and Commerce Secretary Strauss...
Cautious and deliberate by nature, A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany has a terrible temper when pressed-and Postmaster General Arthur Summerfield pressed him. Unless businessmen get into politics, Republican Summerfield warned the National Association of Manufacturers fortnight ago, "candidates hand-picked by union bosses and elected by the campaign activities directed by union bosses will come to dominate the halls of Congress and, Heaven forbid, eventually perhaps the White House itself...
Replying amid wild applause ("Pour it on, George!") at the first convention of the merged New York A.F.L.-C.I.O., Meany last week dismissed Summerfield as "a little ward heeler from Detroit." Then he made his threat: "I have always said that we do not want our own political party, but if we have to do that to lick the people who want to drag us back to the past, we will start our own political party and do a good...
...vice president, Walter Reuther, suggested charitably that Meany was "misunderstood," and then voiced the traditional A.F.L. view: "The American labor movement is committed to work within the framework of the two-party system. A labor party is wrong because it would further fragmentize our society." And, as Republican Summerfield had pointed out, labor did very well for itself in the November elections in the Democratic Party...