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Labor representatives at Wednesday's meeting included Leonard Woodcock, president of the UAW; Harold Gibbons, international vice president of the Teamsters; Howard Samuel, of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers (AFL-CIO); James Matles, of the United Electrical Workers; and John Hein, assistant to the president of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Workers...
...alliance, which will be a nation-wide labor-student group, had its first organizational meeting yesterday. Representatives included Ralph Nader, the presidents of the UAW, the NSA, and the American Federation of Teachers, and Prof. George Wald...
...last point raised the question of the strike against General Motors by the UAW, and Woodcock addressed himself to it. "We have enough money in our strike fund to last until about mid-November," he said. "By then we will be able to tell if this is a strike over basic issues or only a difference of opinion between big business and a big labor union. If it turns out to be a basic struggle, then we will need the help of everyone...
Woodcock, who succeeded Walter Reuther as head of the mammoth 430,000-member UAW, spoke on the eve of today's SDS-University Action Group demonstration at Seymour Chevrolet in support of the auto workers...
...Hamtramck, Mich. Occasionally, one of the men raised a clenched fist in salute, or another flashed a smile for photographers or a V-for-victory gesture, but mostly they were strangely silent. Across the street, pickets patrolled Chevrolet's gear and axle plant, carrying signs that proclaimed: UAW ON STRIKE FOR JUSTICE, or INCREASED PENSIONS or, simply, EQUITY. Said one of the pickets, Robert Jackson: "They told us the strike would last till next year. We're going to see Christmas on these picket lines, but we're fighting for a purpose...