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Last week's merger of old rivals, amid the peace and plenty of the 1955-model U.S. they helped to forge, had about it a pride in the long way traveled from weakness to strength. Said Walter Reuther, ending the C.I.O.'s 17th and final convention a few days before: "We have brought sunshine into the dark places of America...
...have given millions ... of workers a sense of security and a sense of human dignity." Nominated by Reuther and elected unanimously as expected, the new coalition's first president, stolid George Meany of the 74-year-old A.F.L., expressed his hope for the future. He told the convention: "We have got to give some sober thought today to ... taking our place in the community life of the nation...
...first integration problem arose from the fact that the C.I.O. remained not only intact-as planned-but grew stronger. Thirty-one of its 32 frisky industrial unions (4,600,000 members) formed the new federation's Industrial Union Department, headed by ex-C.I.O. President Reuther. To gain a voice in the new I.U.D., 38 A.F.L. unions with 2.672,000 industrial workers quickly signed up with Reuther's outfit. This move was a surprise to the top A.F.L. leaders, including Meany...
...federation's first internal fracas. Meany and Reuther proved tougher than Beck and Hoffa. As the Teamsters flexed furiously, Meany was asked who would solve the unexpected problem of evaluating which I.U.D. applicant unions were genuinely industrial. Grinned Meany: "Me. in the first instance." Beck and Hoffa soon slimmed their claim of "industrial" Teamsters to 700,000; when Reuther labeled that figure "insane," the Teamsters capitulated and settled...
...National Review," a conservative weekly, Buckley said that "the liberal is very liable to believe, for instance, that Owen Lattimore was unjustly treated, that the Bricker Amendment is bad, that civil rights were nearly destroyed by the right wing, and is completely adjusted to a society where Walter Reuther and George Meany have more power than Rockefeller or Vanderbilt ever...