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...grown in size and efficiency, its problems have expanded so much that they cannot be solved by a shotgun or a long heart-to-heart with an enlightened boss. Labor's problems, indeed, have grown so large that the combined exertions of a Senate Subcommittee and the AFL-CIO may not suffice. Unethical and illegal practices have had had so many years to entrench themselves in organized labor, that citations for contempt of Congress and the AFL-CIO's ethical practices code are merely a first, if difficult, step in the right direction...
Both Congress and the AFL-CIO have had most of their trouble with the million-and-a-half member Teamsters Union. The Senate Subcommittee searched valiantly for a Teamster official who would testify, but by the time their jurisdiction was established, teamster boss Beck was in sunny Nassau and now tours Europe. There is hope, however, that he will testify later this spring...
When the AFL-CIO Ethical Practices Committee passed a code outlawing rackets and racketeers from its member unions, the Teamsters union began to take action on its long threatened plan to quit or at least undermine the AFL-CIO. As John O'Rourke, head of the New York local put it, his boys would cross the picket lines of those unions which "spend all their time kicking our brains...
...never worked for the Times. He is an assistant editor of the AFL-CIO News in Washington...
Another economist taking part in the symposium, Nathaniel Goldfinger of the AFL-CIO, sharply attacked the president's economic policy for its "dogmatic insistence on reducing governmental economic and social activities...