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...inflation, and he has dumped the double burden squarely on the shoulders of the American people." With equal passion, the charges were echoed by a succession of speakers at the meeting, including Speaker of the House Carl Albert, Washington Senator Henry Jackson, Public Employees Union Chief Jerry Wurf and four other A.F.L.-C.I.O. vice presidents...
Amid all this, no union has been more aggressive than the A.F.L.-C.I.O.'s 300,000-man American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, whose membership, ranging from clerks to cops, has grown 66% since 1960. According to Union President Jerry Wurf, 47, more city officials had better be ready to go to the bargaining tables-and then to their treasuries. Public workers, he says happily, "are willing to take nothing less than parity with their industry peers...