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'Salem, Oregon, Friday, November 25, 1955
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of i Irin ",lu i V""- " granuiainer, mi mom- no rus selection as me at is na- ine Aru now wnn aooui ll i tains inio more economic ana pom-1 Buy consolidating me cumoersome "Perhaps we don t mean it the
irl I f0.l?v","n, beginning Thurs-1 er and seven younger brothers and ; t i o n a I secretary-treasurer five million members, has been consid- ical activity while taming the CIO ' alliance. I same as others when we say that.
uri tv Dy a joint ; sisters, his lamer Mine, a local years later. ered on the1 whole conservative, to t more moderate course. We have a united labor move- because when we measure the
convention ol the new AFL-CIO. union president and Democratic
irus joint convention, by the parly precinct caDtain. had died
, way, win be in an armory just a Meany, Irish as they come, mar
! few blocks Irom Grand Central 1 ried an Irish girl, a garment work
i Station. The rail terminal is one : ers' union member,
of the structures Meany helped i Meany ' rise in unionism was
I build when as a young man he was swift. Becoming president of the
j lugging hii plumber s wrenches 1 New York Stale Federation of La-
around r.ew ork. i bor in 1934,
Those were the days
Editor's Note AFL
will merge next week
ingle, powerful alliance
million members. Whi
the aims of this group, social-
ly and politically? Will it suc
ceed? Can it reconcile factions
long at odds? The answers
depend largely on one man.
. George Meany. This first of
thren articles by a veteran la
bor reporter looks at Meany
the man.
By NORMAN WALKER
erstwhile Bronx plumber, became
DENNIS THE MENACE
head of the AFL three years aso.
He quickly announced his primary
aim was to arrange a merger with
the CIO.
It seemed an impossible task.
Jealousies and conflicts among ri
val unions and their leaders had
doomed many prior merger at
tempts. Considering all the problems,
three years has been a short time.
For Meany, with his typical plod
ding, make-hastc-slowly approach,
has succeeded in steering the
American Federation of Labor and
the Congress of Industrial Organi
zations into a single, powerful al
liance of 16 million members. It
will end a 20-jcar split in organ
ized labor.
Will the new organization en
dure? What will this formidable
combination mean in terms of new
inroads against employers, in or
ganizing more union members, in i
influencing national politics the
stated union objectives for the
merger?
Answers to these questions large
ly depend on Meany, the pudgy,
225-pound, coldly practical union
veteran. Walter Reuther, dynamic
young head of the CIO, has
stepped aside and Meany. as the
undisputed choice for president of
the new AFL-CIO, will be Ameri
ca's No. 1 labor cljief.
He has tried to calm the fears
expressed by some businessmen
and politicians that the merged
union federation will become a
''giant labor monopoly" seeking
eventually to take over control of
the government.
. "To indicate that the united la
bor movement vill attempt to
horsewhip the rest of the country
is a complete distortion of the
facts," says the blunt-spoken, 61-year-old
Meany.
"It is dedicated, not to predatory
objectives, but to serve as a force
for good in the progress of our
country."
he pushed 72 labor
when bills through the State Legislature
By Ketchnm
fiAE DIJ 60T TO THE ICE CREAM PART VET?
years
Ever since then, Meany has been
a man to be reckoned with in un
joa affairs. While the late AFL
President William Green was in
clined to compromise and avoid
conflict, Meany as his chief lieu
tenant was constantly prodding
Green to take more stands.
Gradually, both before and after
he was selected to head the AFL
on Green's death in November
19SJ. Meany quietly took on all the
old-line AKL chieftains in tests of
strength and, by besting them one
by one, has in practically every
case earned their respect and sup
port. Out in San Francisco at the 1947
AFL convention. Meany tangled
with John L. Lewis, head of the
miners union. Lewis wanted the
AFL to refuse to submit the non
Communist affidavits required by
the newly enacted Taft-Hartley
law. He cowed AFL bigwigs with
such scathing language as "I don't
think the federation has a head
its neck has just grown up and
haired over."
It was Meany who rose to an
swer the attack. "None of us," he
reasoned with AFL leaders,
"thinks it is a good law. But it
was placed oi. the statute books
under the Democratic system, and
the only way it is going to be
changed is by our representatives
under that system."
Just as the convention supported
Meany against Lewis in that in
stance, Meany by courage, persua
sion and Ionic has won all the big
arguments he's had within the fed
eration. There have been a lot of
them.
His determination and diplomacy
In dealing with fellow union lead
ers are largely responsible for
patching together the AFL-CIO
merger. Perhaps these qualities
are a clue to what to expect from
Reds Bid f or
Friends With
India Exhibits
Peddle Idcalogy Along
With Merchandise at
Bis Asia Fair
NEW DELHI ii The Commu
nist world is staging a strong
campaign to win friends and cus
tomers at the Indian industries
fair, largest ever held in South
Asia.
On hand with impressive exhi
bits are Russia. Red China, East
Germany, Poland, Czechoslovakia,
Dnmania and Hungary. The exhi
bits range in size from Hungary's
8 000 square feet to M.OflO for Red
China. All are attracting big
crowds, with the Indians particu
larly curious to see what their
Chinese neighbors are doing.
There are also displays from the
United States. West Germany,
Britain, Austria and the Nether
lands, and smaller stalls from sev
eral other non-Communist coun
tries. Together the Ited exhibits far
outweigh those from the Western
world, even counting the 100.000
square foot American pavilion.
In the field of publicity the Reds
have had it all their own. The of
ficial fair guide carries almost 100
pages of advertisements from Com
munist states and less than half
a dozen from Western govern
ments. Other Red ads appear in
buses and in newspapers.
Trade delegations from the Red
countries are busy holding news
conferences and seeing Indian gov
ernment officers. From these meet
ings emerge daily news stories
giving the impression the Reds are
India's main commercial contacts.
Actually, all but a fraction of
India's foreign trade is with the
I'nited States and Britain. How
ever. Communist countries are
getting an increasing share, and
the picture may change further
when India starts placing orders
for its multihillion dollar, second
li'-e year plan.
The Communists also ere trying
to sell their ideology. Each Red
pavilion has statues or giant por
traits of various Communist lead
ers. Slogans about peaceful coex
istence cover the walls Every ex
hibit is showing as much in the
way of consumer goods as indus
trial items as if to answer West
ern cri'icism that Communism i
nnres the consumer.
Most Western pavilions show
mainly what the nations can sell
India in the way of industrial and
ajricultural equipment. AC S
atomic energy exhibition and the
West German pavilion, probably
the fa'rs bet organized attempt
at selling, help the West hold its
own. Crowds fill the American ex
hibit amphitheater nightly to see
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The smaller CIO, with about live So long as Meany is the doml-1 ment determined to use its best , wealth of this nation we measure
million members, has often been nant (isure in the new setup it brains and brawn and mercy to it by the human yardstick, not by
called "radical" and regarded on will depend much on him whether I c o n 1 1 n u e to move forward." ' tall buildings, roads or natural ra
the "left" on the Amercan scene, uhe distillation of the AFL and CIO i Meany has said. "We like the ! sources, but by the standards of
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