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...been specifically denied during the freeze. As labor sees it, the result is much more than temporary "inequity," as the President described such situations; it is blatant discrimination. "The wage freeze is going to work very well because employers will be only too happy to see it work," says Woodcock...
...five Presidents can play it. In a cool-headed assessment of Nixon's timing, he decided that there was no way to challenge the President on the freeze itself. Thus, his first job was to persuade other labor leaders to begin immediately looking beyond midnight,* Nov. 14. U.A.W.'s Woodcock was among the first to agree. Immediately after meeting with Meany, the man who had accused the Administration of wanting "war" with labor promised that his union would "cooperate in principle" with freeze rules. It soon became clear that Meany's strategy was to stop the shouting and start...
...Democrats are counting on Meany to help them win the 1972 presidential election. His opposition within the labor movement, meanwhile, has all but vanished. His old rival, Walter Reuther, head of the United Auto Workers, died in a plane crash last year; Reuther's successor, Leonard Woodcock, is friendly with Meany and has moved closer to the A.F.L.-C.I.O., from which Reuther had broken away. Another outcast union, the International Chemical Workers, returned to the federation last spring with Meany's blessing...
...confidence of union members was somewhat shaken by the attacks of labor leaders. When asked if they thought that George Meany and Leonard Woodcock were right in opposing the President's freeze, 37% of the union members agreed with them and 54% thought that they were wrong. The leaders had more support among union men than among union women, who have been doing the shopping in these years of inflation. Only 17% of the women agreed with their stand, while 83% did not. In nonunion households, 20% considered the labor leaders correct and 60% held that they were wrong...
...general public has a different view of union members than the members have of themselves. Asked if Meany and Woodcock spoke for the rank and file of labor in opposing the freeze, 48% of the nonunion respondents thought that they did. Only 42% of the union members considered them to be accurate spokesmen for labor's viewpoint. Union and nonunion people split once again on the question of whether or not union members agreed with the President. While 36% of the nonunion households queried thought that the labor union members whom they knew backed the President...