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This has won Shanker a place in the AFL-CIO hierarchy. At 47, he is the youngest member of the AFL-CIO's 35-member executive council and is reputed to want to succeed President George Meany. "Usually, white-collar union leaders don't understand trade-unionism," says New York Labor Mediator Ted Kheel. "Shanker could have been the leader of the Steelworkers...
...CAMPAIGN has been extremely heated throughout, with each candidate charging the other with being a tool of out-of-state interests, Durkin calling Wyman a lackey of the big corporations, and Wyman accusing Durkin of serving "big labor," pointing to the AFL-CIO's $70,000 contribution to the Durkin campaign. Probably neither side scored any points with these too often repeated charges; nor is it likely that William Loeb and his Joe McCarthyite Manchester Union Leader will have a significant effect on the outcome. The Union Leader has however been making an all out effort to defame and misrepresent...
...sign of the increasing edginess in Washington is the rising controversy over the sale of American grain to the Soviet Union. The Ford Administration has publicly endorsed the sale but the AFL-CIO's president, George Meany, vowed that the International Longshoremen's Association would not load such grain unless Ford did more to "protect the American consumer and the American shipping industry." He declared that the Administration must come to him with such guarantees and "with Dr. Kissinger at the head of the parade." Growled Meany: "Foreign policy is too damned important to be left...
...union protests go, the campaign led by AFL-CIO President George Meany and maritime union chiefs against the latest Soviet purchase of American grain is unusual, to say the least. Up in Washington, Meany & Co. last week continued to denounce the grain deal, and to insist that the "boycott" of Soviet ships would continue. But meanwhile down at the Gulf Coast grain ports, loading was going on as usual. The longshoremen have in fact been kept working by court injunctions ever since their job action was announced two weeks ago, and they seem unperturbed. Said Luther Wiggins Jr., a union...
While the phantom boycott has not slowed the loading of the initial 10 million tons of American grain that the Russians ordered in July, it has helped to keep the emotionally charged issue of Soviet sales and rising food prices high up in the public consciousness. AFL-CIO spokesmen claim that their mail is running 20 to 1 in favor of the unions' rebellion...