the hard hat ultimo

here's a few quotes

from 
  george meany

"undefeated  strong man of labor" 

1946-1980 

  "the union member
 is dtermined to secure 
the good things of life
 for himself and his family
and hopeful of accumulating 
enough to provide reasonable security 

he belives in free enterprise
and capitalism
and wants to earn a piece of it

he believes in private property 
and wants to have some of it 

he believes that everyone should work
for wha he gets

he is ready to help his colleagues get along 
but he refuse to carry a slacker on his shoulders “
                                                 1944

“ our goals are modest

we do not seel to recast american society 
in any particular ideological image

we seek an ever rising standard of living 

more money more leisure 
a richer cultural life “
                     1955

“the one word that best describes day to day
opeation of the union movement is practical 
one set of  problem at a time 
we do not preconceive
we do not fit our program
 into some theoretical all embracing structure “
          1966

“ i don’t know ..i don’t care 
we have never had 
a large proportion 
of the work force organized
nothing like northern europe or britain ...
we’ve  do quite well without it  ...
why organize groups of  people
 who do not appear
 to want to be organized?....
i used to worry 
but quite frankly 
i just stopped worrying ..."

" i run the only people's lobby in town"

“i kept the boys together ”


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herb on this shit ....

“the nations biggest and most cloutful  lobby ? “

" stick together 
play by the rules and we can't lose ? "

“  legislation  reform lifts all jobs ? ” 

“ when it comes to yer orged parts
                          size doesn’t matter ?”


“trickle down unionism ? “


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is there really some relationship
 between org wages and unorged wages

at one time meany was against a min wage

and  supported  child labor and lady labor
restrictions 
cause it
 "keep em 
off the job market"  

a hard guy indeed