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...unions comes from the newest member of their high command, William ("Wimpy") Winpisinger. Last week he became president of the 910,000-member International Association of Machinists, a union that rarely makes headlines but ranks as fifth largest in the nation and third biggest in the AFL-CIO. As I.A.M. chief, Winpisinger, 52, automatically becomes a member of the labor federation's 35-man executive council. There he will be in a position to fight against what he regards as Big Labor's drawbacks: stagnating union membership, growing conservatism, weakening political clout -and George Meany...
...lawnmowers as well as his own Oldsmobile and Chevy. But he is one labor leader who states proudly: "I don't mind being called a lefty. We're being centered to death." And in particular, he openly advises Meany, who is 82, to step down as AFL-CIO president when the federation convenes in Los Angeles in December. Says Winpisinger: "I have immense respect for George Meany, but there comes a time when every man passes the apex of his career, and it's all downhill after that. When the polls rate labor just behind Richard Nixon...
...late '30s there was a strike of stevedores in Everett, Mass. The police broke up the peaceful picket line with tear gas. Those were the lean years for unions in America, and these members of the Congress of Industrial Organization (CIO), protesting against conditions in the maritime industry, were banned from further picketing. But the police had arrived on a windy day and there was a school playground to the side of the dock. That day it wasn't only workers who were taken to hospitals; the children also choked and wept as the stinging cloud hit them...
...women readily agreed to help the labor union. They proclaimed the positions the CIO were forced to surrender and formed a new, solitary picketline of two the next day, protesting the police action. Both women wore gas masks; they were a curious sight. The newspapers quickly reported the story of the 75-year-old DuPont, a member of one of the wealthiest industrial families in America, protesting a management decision, and the publicity bore fruit. An enquiry was held, unearthing the information that the police, with the approval of their Chief, had been accepting money not only from the city...
...business lobbyists also roused the folks back home to put heat on Congress. They formed Southern businessmen's groups to exhort Dixie House members, and some corporations sent letters to stockholders urging them to write to Congressmen in opposition to the consumer agency. Says Andrew Biemiller, chief AFL-CIO lobbyist: "One thing they can do is flood that goddamned Hill with letters." Motley adds that the N.F.I.B. can turn out "local auto dealers, local accountants and dry cleaners, hardware dealers, dairymen-Kiwanians, Lions, church people. When we tell a Congressman, 'we've got 600 members in your...