Late in this man's career, he was banned from the White House for criticizing Carter's appointment of Alfred Kahn as inflation czar and the policies of the Council on Wage and Price Stability.
Late in this man's career, he was banned from the White House for criticizing Carter's appointment of Alfred Kahn as inflation czar and the policies of the Council on Wage and Price Stability. After World War II, he allied with Matthew Woll, Jay Lovestone, and David Dubinsky to form the Free Trade Union Committee, which was secretly funded by the CIA. Because of his ardent support for the Vietnam War, he refused to endorse George McGovern during the 1972 election. As secretary-treasurer of one organization, this man supported the requirement of anti-Communist oaths within the (*) Taft-Hartley Act, shortly before he succeeded William Green as the head of that organization. After the findings of the McClellan commission were released, this man led the effort to expel the Teamsters from his union. He negotiated the merger of the two largest labor unions in the United States along with Walter Reuther. For 10 points, name this labor leader, who from 1955 to 1979 was the first president of the AFL-CIO.
Late in this man's career, he was banned from the White House for criticizing Carter's appointment of Alfred Kahn as inflation czar and the policies of the Council on Wage and Price Stability.
(William) George Meany