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4 Join Eveuie Oni Began Voting on Polic'y Statements Compromise headed off a battle The heart of the compromise The action also satisfied those and an opponent of the San~--- forthesocial, economicand r4 at the AFL-CIO convention be- was addition of a reference to who were prepared to do battle to dinistas, said the rresolution left a cal justice that the people of 1l tween the delegates who favored Nicaragua in a - paragraph -that prevent a condemnation of the union free to eitherr support or op- agua and El Salvador deserve.'; military support of the Contras in o-riginal ly declared that a Contras. pose aid to the Cot ntras. ~President Kenneth T. Blayirk- Nicaragua and those who sought negotiated settlement, rather than Gerald'F. McEntee, president of The operative s(entences in -the of the ' condemnation of the U.S.-backed American Feder-ati(,-, military victory, holds -the best the American Federation of State, resolution state: Employees took -the rebels fighting to overthrow the hope for El Salvador. County and Municipal Employees, "Unfortunately, thetheReaaneaga Ad-floord-Governmentto argue against the Contras. Sandinista government. By extending- thi's to Nicaragua, -and a leader of the anti-Contra Na- ministration contintues to plac'e em- like others on But even the issue no Blayloczk, th.- though the. resolutions committee was able tional Labor Committee, said after phasis on militarr rathrtan pli-tional Labor Committee, had Li., longer was in serious doubt, nearly to satisfy the considerable bloc of the -debate that the compromise tical solution to t] eled to Central America to se two hours of spirited debate pro- unions whose delegates wanted- a meant that the AFIL-CIO was not Nicaragua and El 1SalvadonflctSalvdor. inThThe himself the co-nditions there. vided the most dramatic moments statement condemning the Contras supporting Reagan Administration resolution continue'- of the convention before the com- and were determined not to accept policies i-n Cent'ral America. "But the AFL-C] IObliees h t Some who argued against WFiv- promise foreign policy resolution AFL-CIO backing for the anti- Albert Shanker, president of the negotiated settlemcint rather than America, although their trips were was accepted overwhelmingly. Sandinista fighters. American Federation of Teachers military victory holiId the best hope (Continued on Page 4) Vol. 28-No. 42 4,,,Is November 1, 1985 President Lane Kirkland. ac- George Meany and Lane Kirkland. cepted the gave] from secretary- "We're proud of California," treasurer Mary Yunt of t-he Orange Henning said, "Sbut today, brothers County Central Labolr Council and sisters, we're even.more proud Monday morning and called upon of the AFL-CIO and what it has the delegates to the 16th biennial done for the working people of AFL-CIC) Constitutional Conven- America." tion to be "open. and receptive to William F. Robertson, executive newv ideas. secretary-treasurer' of .-the- Los As the conventio'n opened min- Angeles CountFdti"on-o u s s -cw 1c UV wm tw rs*as ss * ** n *n Hotel, Archbishop Roger Mahony man of the'Orang'e' County Board of Los Angeles prefaced his of Supervisors,' were introduced invocation with a plea for support before Yunt -told the delegates that of the United Farm Workers. the opportunity .to host the AFL- Mahony, once a member of the CIO convention came at "an im- state Agricultural Labor Relations portant time for labor in Ora'nge Board, displayed a story in the County."9I California AFL-CIO News to il- She said: lustrate the UFW's troubles with "We have felt the effects of an the ALRB under the administration anti-union administration and an of Gov. George Deukmejian. anti-union community perhaps as Yunt introduced Anaheim strongly as anywhere in the United Mary Yunt turns convention gavel over to Lane I Mayor Don Roth and then John F. States . .. But we have used ad- Henning, executive secretary- verse times to improve our self-analysis and internal discus- treasurer of the California Labor methods and our organization. We sion. And in the 'next few days Convntio Demnd Federation. have become involved in com- delegates to this convention will Henning, reminding the dele- munity affairs and gained public consider a variety of well-re- Hat oTrdeDfii gates that California "came onto respect. We're stronger now than searched proposals that introduce the stage of history long before ever before, and poised to try new innovative methods for organizing Plymouth Rock," noted that AFL, approaches to today's challenges. and foir direct action. National A resolution declaring that the export ofjobs abroad. CIO or AFL-CIO conventions had "The AFL-CIO also has used polls show that public opinion once U.S. foreign trade policy must Albi'n J. Gruhn; president of the been brought to the state by the pressure of an adverse ad- again is in favor of labor unionls, promote-and not undermine-the Californlia Labor Federation, Presidents Samuel Gompers, ministration and an adverse public and this new public respect will nation's manufacturing, agricultur- decried the consumerism argu- William Green, Walter Reuther, to grow stronger. There has been (Continued on Page 3) al and maritime industries was the ments that the Reagan Administra- first order of business this week tion has advanced in defense of its as AFL-CIO convention delegates trade policies. 4 Join Eveuie oni began voting on polic'y statements "Reagan has been romancing at Anaheim. consumers of this nation with his "No nation can of free trade and the notion Association as well sustain in- myth Gene Upshaw, president of the League Players definitely the massive deficits now that it brings lower-priced mer- Federation of Professional as president of the Fvederation of " Gruhn said. Professional Athletes. confronting the United States, thie chandise," Athletes and formerly a player for said in a statement He the then-Oakland is one Upshaw was NFLPA player delegates called delegates' attention to Raiders, without. dissent. a recent that showed one of four persons elected as AFL- representative on the Oakeland adopted survey CIO vice presidents and given Raiders, for whom he played 16 They delcared that the United company sold for the same price seasons. He was named an States alone among the nations shirts made in the U.S. at union seats on the Executive Council all-pro and abroad at rates during the convention at Anaheim. lneman In nine seasons. tf'exposes its industrial foundation wages hourly President Lane Kirkland and The new vice presidents will to unl imited erosion from ranging from 19 cents to $1.25 an Secretary-Treasurer Thomas R. take the Executive Council seats of imports." They called for im- hour. Donahue were re-elected by ac- four who resigned from the Ex- mediate steps to "reverse the "Importers and retailers who clamation, as were 29 incumbent ecutive Council upon retiring as. disastrous decline" in thie-balance oppose fair-trade legislation are vice presidents. presidents of their unions. of trade. making enormous profits,'' Gruhn The new vice are: Those who down are added. presidents stepped A parade of delegates took the American or * Larry Dugan Jr., 55, president John H. Lyons, former president floor to speak for the resolution, .",Buy union, buy of the Iron J.C. the next lost job may be your of the C)perating Engineers, who Workers; Turner, many of them presidents of unions he concluded. began as a local officer in Phoenix. Dugan's predecessor as president hit by unemplovment because of own," ,* Robert A. Georgine, 53, head ofthe Operating Engineers; Robert Five AFL-CIO vice presidents G. of the told how the foreign trade deficit of the AFL-CIO Building and Goss Oil, Chemical and The on Construction Trades Department Atomic Workers, and Kenneth J. report the 16th has hurt their unions: James E. and former president of the Brown of the Graphic Communi- biennial Constitutional Hatfield of the Glass and Pottery cations Union. Convention of the AFL- Workers, Morton Bahr of the Lathers Union, which has merged Gene UJpshaw CIO will be continued Communications WoDrkers, Lynn with the Carpenters. The 35-member Executive in next * Milan Stone, 58, of steward in Wisconsin. Committee comprises the week's issue of R. Williams of thie-Steel Workers, president presi- the California AFL-CIO Owen Bieber ofthe Auto Workers, the United Rubber Workers, * U]pshaw, 40, who is executive dent, secretary-treasurer and 33 News. whose first union office was shop director of the National Football vice presidents. (Continued on Page 4) -~~~~~~ I i-##W Wage discr'imination based up'-n-~ denlt of- the Mexican-American par.able wort judgment for Wash- *The refusal of Contra Costa -Sweeney, said: sex and race was the target as Ugal Defense Fund;. Benjamin ing'ton State workers represented County to. ordera. thorou-gh. in- ,- --:-. unions, women's and-icivil rights Hooks, execu.tive director of the -by AFSCME -and the union's vestigation of te.sex-based w'ag"e -h eod,certa .groups and clergy jo'ined in a noon Nationa Assoc6atio'n for thie Ad- -determi"nation to pursue thie case. discrimination thiat the count:d4U°rain/n protest' at Pershing Square in vancement of Colored People;' *A Federal judge's that ruling board has accepted as -a ftiaet,; -o wokr.. sur eo downtown Los Angeles. Eleanor Smeal,. president of the .reaffinned the right of the SEIU to despite demands- from -SEIU,- Ofis.a seX.icm John- J. Sweensey, pr'esident- of National Organization of Women; continue with its comparable worth AFSCME'and Calorii.uNorses4: .ageF+pb the Ser'vice Employees Internat'ion- and Sweeney,-who came directly suit on behalf of some- 70,000 pre-- who this week held 'Mmi ue tiiitl.
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