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...conclusion of last week's AFL-CIO unity meeting in New York, one pundit called the merger "the miracle on Thirty-Fourth Street." Few people, remembering the rancorous night when John L. Lewis pulled his Committee of Industrial Organizations out of the American Federation of Labor, could imagine the new labor group as anything except a battleground for rival bigwigs. When Mike Quill and some of the more militant CIO leaders protested the merger heatedly, observers predicted that the miraculous enterprise would shortly founder...
...amazement of many, however, the first formal conclave of the new united organization was marked by a serene meeting of minds between the former heads of the AFL and CIO. Both George Meany and Walter Reuther spoke of the internal amity and potential of the newly-built AFL-CIO. More significantly, both agreed fully on the important subject of labor's future in politics. They attacked the recent statement of Arizona's Senator Barry Goldwater, that the AFL-CIO had "no right to endorse a political nominee" and his suggestion that labor be "politically disfranchised." Reuther replied to Goldwater directly...
...dispute over a time study at the huge East Pittsburgh plant and the men walked out. Twenty-eight other plants went out in sympathy but went back when it was agreed to negotiate the dispute along with the other issues However, this week negotiations bogged down and 46,000 CIO-IUE workers walked...
Although the Yale Daily News has long been an example of the leisurely approach to journalism, it did not seem that it would fall in with the advocates of the five-day week. The five-day week is typical of the welfare state, CIO and all that. We had always assumed the nation's oldest college daily was of sturdier stuff and would be truer to the spirit of the Entrepreneurial Age in which it was founded. But reading back over old issues, it seems that News has taken its lumps on Saturdays. It was on a Saturday that...
...Club on "How should the Massachusetts liberal vote in the coming election?" Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. '38, professor of History, and Mark DeWolfe Howe '28, professor of Law, will speak, with LaRue Brown, head of the Massachusetts A.D.A. and Joseph Cass, director of the political action committee of the CIO...