Evening star. [volume], February 10, 1955, Page A-6 **, Image 6

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LABOR LEADERS SEAL THE £ARG AlN—Miami Fla.—George Mean; (left), president of
the AFL, and Walter Reuther, president of the CIO, shake hands to symbolize the merger of the
two labor unions. Mr. Meany will head the new organization.
AFL and CIO Chiefs
Meet to Plan Big
Drive for Members
By th« Associated Prow
»PAMI BEACH, Fla , Feb. 10.
—Tile Nation's top union lead
ers. agreed on consolidating
forces into a single organization,
today planned a big drive to
take in millions of new members.
Leaders of the American Fed
eration of Labor and Congress
of Industrial Organizations de
cided to bury traditional rival
ries and embark on the same
sort of intensive mass organiz
ing campaign which sparked the
ClO's surge two decades ago.
The AFL and CIO chiefs
worked but what appeared to be
an ironclad arrangement to
merge into one 15-million-mem
ber union federation.
Predict Union This Year.
A long series of ratifying ac
tions still is required to clinch
the merger, but declarations of
Intentions from principals ap
peared convincing. Both George
Meany. president of the AFL,
and Walter Reuther, CIO chief,
predicted the merger would be
an accomplished fact before the
end of the year.
They said a well-financed or
ganized drive to take in new
members would be launched and
where possible unions in the
same general field would be
combined to make more effective
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i their bargaining and political
powers.
An initial organizing goal was
the chemicals and plastics in
dustries. A field where combin
ing rival unions appeared most
likely w'as in the textile indus
try, where relatively weak AFL
and CIO unions have largely
neutralized each other for years.
There was no way of antici
pating whether the apparently
stronger union setup would
bring on bigger or longer labor
strikes, but it was apparent that
AFL and CIO leaders felt their
hand would be strengthened in
dealing with employers.
In Washington President
John L. Lewis of the United
Mine Workers declined to com
' ment. Rumor has mentioned
him frequently as a possible par
ticipant in moves to set up a
third organization rivaling the
AFL and the CIO.
A spokesman for the Railway
Labor Executives Association,
which embraces 14 AFL, 1 CIO
and 4 independent unions, said
the brotherhoods “applaud the
merger action unanimously.”
AFL Sets 2 Top Jobs.
; In arranging the merger
agreement yesterday the union
chiefs, accustomed to hard
horse trading with employers,
played a give-and-take role with
each other.
The AFL was given the top
jobs in the new setup. Mr.
Meany was assured of the pres
idency and AFL Secretary-
Treasurer William Schnitzler
will have the same title in the
merged federation.
The CIO won the right to
enter the AFL as a union group
and to organize entire plants
from top to bottom in individual
unions without regard for AFL
crafts.
In addition, it was agreed
that leadership for the ambitious
new member organizing activi
ties would come from the CIO.
Mr. Meany and Mr. Reuther
said “no raiding” arrangements
worked out previously between
the AFL and CIO, and within
the separate organizations them
selves, would be cultivated and
developed with other unions en- j
couraged to subscribe voluntarily.
Executive Council Meets.
A first step in the long road j
toward putting the proposed
merger into effect was ratifica
tion by the AFL's executive j
council, which was to meet here
today for that purpose. Mr. \
Reuther scheduled a ratifying
session for CIO union leaders
in Washington on February 22.
Thereafter, a constitution for
the new federation was to be
drawn up along the lines of the
detailed merger agreement, then
voted on by separate AFL and
CIO conventions and finally by
a joint AFL-CIO convention.
It was agreed that a 27-mem
ber executive council, with 17
from the present AFL and 10
from the present CIO, would
guide the policies of the new
federation. All 27 council mem
bers should be vice president*
of the new organization.
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