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Labor at the Altar: A Marriage of Love?
Lens, Sidney | December 17, 1955 issue

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This article focuses on the opening sessions of the convention of the American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO). The new constitution of the merged federations, which puts craft and industrial unions, on an equal level, noted that the schism would have been averted had such a concession been forthcoming two decades earlier. There were worries in both AFL and CIO ranks over jobs and status. Approximately one of every three national AFL jobholders, and two of every three CIO equivalents, faced the prospect of going down a notch in position.

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CONGRESSES & conventions; AFL-CIO; LABOR unions; INDUSTRIAL management; LABOR movement; OCCUPATIONAL prestige
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