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...CIO Machinists Union and United Air Lines reached an agreement yesterday morning which headed off a strike scheduled for last night. Earlier in the day, Secretary of Labor W. Willard Wirtz announced the settlement of a dispute between the AFL-CIO Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters and the railroads...
Late yesterday President Johnson issued a 60 day injunction under the Railway Labor Act stopping is strike against United Airlines scheduled for next Wednesday by the AFL-CIO International Association of Machinists...
...surprisingly, automation proved the central concern of last week's fifth biennial convention of the AFL-CIO. The federation's president George Meany established the meeting's general tone in his opening address. Automation, he said, offers "no element of blessing.... It is rapidly becoming a real curse to society...
...recapture its former drive. But until now union participation in civil rights has been limited to a few large unions such as the Ladies Garment Workers, the United Auto Workers, and the Sleeping Car Porters as well as numerous locals. The executive council of the AFL-CIO, however, refused to put its prestige and influence behind the March on Washington...
...CIO convention offers one encouraging prospect for the future, though. Never before has there been a similar unaminity among union leaders on the problems their movement faces. Even Reuther and Meany, usually in disagreement, appear to be expressing the same fears...