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Labor Meets for Peace
Widick, B. J. | November 27, 1967 issue

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Until the weekend of November 11 and 12, 1967, the peace movement in the U.S. had consisted of a whole spectrum of church, youth and academic groups, with labor, the most significant social force on the American scene, conspicuous by its absence. The American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations had adopted a posture of blanket endorsement for any and all moves of U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson Administration in Southeast Asia. The isolated voice here and there of skepticism or dissent was unavailing against the hard-line views of labor leader George Meany. His support of the President's policies seemed to be the voice of labor; certainly, it was the only official voice.

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PEACE movements -- United States; LABOR laws & legislation; JOHNSON, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973; PRESIDENTS -- United States; MEANY, George, 1894-1980; SOUTHEAST Asia; UNITED States
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