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...however, more relief may be given to higher-income groups that itemize their deductions. In conference, some of the Senate amendments may be accepted, bringing the total tax cut to some $25 billion-much higher than Ford initially wanted but still below the $30 billion reduction demanded by AFL-CIO President George Meany, who complained last week that the Government grossly underestimates the severity of the recession (see following story). If all goes smoothly, the Democrats expect the Internal Revenue Service to get most of the rebates in the mail in May and all of them out by mid-June...
...beach, men 15 or 20 years his junior were content to lounge in complacent retirement, but the pink-cheeked, white-haired, blocky figure stumping the hotel corridors was clearly just rounding into top form at the age of 80. Trailing cigar smoke and the unmistakable evanescence of power, AFL-CIO President George Meany last week took firm command of the annual assembly of the nation's labor chieftains at the elegant resort town of Bal Harbour, Fla. When he was through, Meany had displayed his consummate mastery of the labor movement and strengthened his position as perhaps the most...
...union hall of Local 186 of the Cooks and Pastry Cooks Association, AFL-CIO, is on Berkeley St. near Boston's South End, on the second floor of a crumbling brick building. It's an old office, dim with scuffed linoleum floors and paraphernalia all over the walls. Most of the space in the office is taken up by a large room filed with folding chairs that face a podium...
...sympathy and good will he can bank as the bad news accumulates over the coming months. Last week it was announced that industrial production had fallen a dismaying 3.6% in January, the sharpest monthly drop since the Depression year of 1937. George Meany, the redoubtable president of the AFL-CIO, declared, "We're past the recession stage; we're going into a depression." He predicted that unemployment would hit 10% by summer, and that was not far from the estimates of some economists (see ECONOMY & BUSINESS). Teamsters President Frank Fitzsimmons, who supported the G.O.P. in 1972, gave...
...CIO President George Meany called yesterday for a $30-billion tax cut, saying be $20-billion program gaining ground in Congress will not be enough to turn the economy around...