Evening star., 1952-11-22
Council Of AFL
Meets Tuesday
To Name Leader
Successor to Green
Will Be Picked Here;
Meuny Leads for Job
By jones Y. Newton

The American Federation of La
bor's Executive Council will meet
here at 10:30 am. Tuesday to Sc
lect a successor to President Will
liam Green. who died yesterday,
it was announced today.
AFL Secretary Treasurer George
Meany announced the special
meeting after comforting with the
13 other members of the council.
The man designated by the coun-
Gil will serve until new presi-
dent is formally elected at the
AFL's annual convention next
September.
The death of the 82-year-old
Mr.. Green caused immediate spec
ulation as to who will succeed
him as head of the Nations big
gest labor organization.
Mr.. Green. died yesterday of a
long illness in his red brick home
in Coshocton, Ohio. The funeral
will be at 2 pm. Monday at CO.
Shocton's Grace Methodist Church.
Mr.. Green was a Baptist, but the
Methodist church was chosen be-
cause of its larger seating ca
pacity.
All members of the AFL head
quarters staff here had been in
vited to attend the funeral of Mr..
Green at the Federation's ex-
pense. Special cars for the en-
ployeS will be attached to a Penn
sylvania Railroad train leaving
Washington tomorrow night.
Mr.. Green's biography gave his
age as 79. but the family Bible
showed he was born March 3,
1870,
Most frequently mentioned as
likely to succeed Mr.. Green at the
AFL helm is Mr.. Meany, So. who
has been running the AFL in
recent weeks during Mr.. Green's
critical illness. Actually. he has
been head of the organization
except in title for much longer
as Mr.. Green's health gradually
failed.
Interim Choice Soon.
Mr.. Green had served as presi-
dent since the death of Samuel
GomperS in 1924.
Another mentioned as a pos
Sible choice for the AFL presi-
dency is George M. Harrison, a
federation vice president and head
OF the big Railway Clerks Union.
But, at his Cincinnati home, Mr..
Harrison said mo" firmly and
finally.
For years Mr.. Meany has been
regarded as heir-apparent to the
presidency. There had been many
times in recent years when those
in the top echelons of the AFL
thought Mr.. Green, because of his
age, should have retired. But he
did not wish to quit, and none
suggested it seriously.
Meany in Post IL Years.
MI. Meany took over as secre-
tary-treasurer II years ago after
heading the AFL organization in
New York. He was a plumber
long prominent in the plumbers
union. Mr.. Meany lives here with
his family at 1919 Burdette road.
Bethesda.
Mr.. Green's death came only
II days after CIO President Philip
Murray was fatally stricken in
San Francisco. The CIO con-
vention, meeting in Atlantic City
the week of December l, will select
successor to Mr.. Murray. The
choice most likely will be either
Allan S. Haywood, executive vice
president, or Walter P. Reuther.
president of the powerful United
Automobile Workers.
There now remains only one of
the men who were regarded as the
big three" of organized labor.
He is John L. Lewis, president of
the United Mine Workers, the
most dynamic and colorful of the
three. At 70 Mr.. Lewis appears
as active as ever.
Three From Coal Mines.
All three were coal miners and
learned their union lessons well
as members of the United Mine
Workers. Mr.. Green was secre-
tary-treasurer of the UNIV before
he took over the top AFL Job.
MIR. Murray for years was vice
president of the union under Mr..
Lewis. In 1910 he succeeded Mr..
Lewis as head of the CIO.
There was speculation, too, that
the deaths of Mr.. Murray and
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