Word: zagri
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Headquarters representatives of the A.F.L.-C.I.O. were conspicuously absent when Congressman Adam Clayton Powell Jr., new chairman of the House Education and Labor Committee, called a get-acquainted meeting for union representatives and lobbyists. Very much in evidence in a front-row seat was Sidney Zagri, top Washington mouthpiece for Jimmy Hoffa's Teamsters. A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany's reasons for boycotting the meeting were twofold: 1) he refuses to let A.F.L.-C.I.O. officers fraternize with Teamsters, and 2) his opinion of Racist Powell's potentialities as guardian of labor's affairs in Congress: "Terrible...