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...farmers to whom Ford was appealing have been growing increasingly restive over mounting opposition to the sale of 10 million tons of grain to the Soviet Union. AFL-CIO President George Meany spearheaded that opposition last week by announcing that the International Longshoremen's Association would not load the grain on ships until the White House provided assurances that the deal would not increase food prices for American consumers. Seeming to take the farmers' side at the Iowa State Fair in Des Moines, Ford declared that a "sound, fully productive agriculture is a key element in this nation...
...union has been so often investigated and exposed as the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Warehousemen and Helpers of America. As far back as the 1950s, it was dissected by the Senate McClellan committee-which later branded it a "hoodlum empire"-and thrown out of the AFL-CIO as a pariah unfit to live in the house of labor. Since then, it has been the target of endless grand-jury investigations and many exposes of Teamster-Mafia deals, and some of its officers have been jailed; James R. Hoffa ran the union from a cell in Lewisburg federal penitentiary between...
Moreover, the union is almost daily extending its reach into scores of manufacturing and service industries that have little if anything to do with trucking. Expulsion from the AFL-CIO freed the union of the federation's jurisdictional boundaries; its organizers go after almost everyone who earns a paycheck, sometimes extending their efforts to shops that have only three or four workers. Last year the Teamsters participated in a third of the 9,000 representation elections supervised by the National Labor Relations Board, far more than any other union, and won about half-a solid record...
Already, emotions are rising as economically interested groups argue the pros and cons of the new Soviet grain deals. Last week an ad hoc committee of the AFL-CIO maritime unions, which are threatening to boycott the Soviet shipment, met with Butz to protest the sales. "This sounds like the 1972 rip-off all over again, and we won't stand for it," said the Longshoremen's Thomas Gleason, referring to the Soviet purchase of 19 million tons of U.S. grain three summers ago. "Nobody is going to be ripped off," Butz assured the seamen. Said Don Woodward...
...institution or organization that is immune to CIA infiltration. In the course of his work, Agee either met with or knew of CIA agents in the U.S. Embassy, the U.S. military, the Peace Corps, the Agency for International Development (AID), the Catholic Church, various American corporations, the international AFL-CIO, all major Latin American political parties, labor unions and governments, respected newspapers, and even the Olympic Committee for the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City. With a budget for Latin American operations of over $37 million in 1967, Agee implies that the CIA was essentially able to buy whomever and whatever...