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HOFFA NEVER could make the distinction, Murray Kempton wrote, between mine and thine--for all his right-wing bullshit (rapists should be lined up against the wall and shot, "the sons of bitches") he's a working class rebel. George Meany and Leonard Woodcock seem to like argument and accomodation with presidents and corporate bosses. Jimmy preferred to pound people who got in his way--and men who drive trucks and work in mills like Jimmy's method better...
...organization of the work process. "And I supported that strike," Harrington says. "But we're in a tough position. It's the same thing in New York, where the civil servants crossed the teachers' picket lines. Now we don't like it. but Vic Gotbaum's our friend. Woodcock's our friend, too. And we don't want to embarass them...
...group of mostly liberal thinkers, including Economist Wassily Leontief, Investment Banker Robert V. Roosa and United Auto Workers' President Leonard Woodcock, have called for the establishment of a U.S. office of national economic planning. They have in mind not a stiff bureaucracy that would sap freedoms by handing down directives, but a forward-looking group of several hundred scientists and technicians (and a few economists) who would study the future of the U.S. economy much as a savvy company studies its market. Relying on such factors as population trends and the likely availability of resources, they would try to estimate...
...their own good. Though Detroit has not asked for tariff protection, a recent statement by the Motor Vehicle Manufacturers Association said: "In America, which is in a truly deep recession, one question is how will we be able to continue to support the principle of free trade?" Leonard Woodcock, president of the United Automobile Workers, is trying to document a suspicion that the Rabbit, at a U.S. sticker price of $2,999, is being sold below cost, which would be grounds for a "dumping" complaint to the Treasury Depart ment. Robert Link, a Datsun executive, says nervously that...
...state of the economy, Republicans could hardly be distinguished from Democrats, business executives from labor leaders. All were making much the same speech and the same plea to the President and Congress: do something and do it now. Testifying before the Joint Economic Committee, United Auto Workers President Leonard Woodcock warned of the "worst economic upheaval since the Great Depression. The auto industry is in a state of collapse." Addressing the same group, Henry Ford II agreed: "I have never before felt so uncertain and so troubled about the future of both my country and my company...