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The 35-membercouncil, headed by AFL-CIO President Second Thoughts George Meany, is expected to But many labor leaders, concentrate oncriticism of the including some who attended Nixon administration, focusing the dinner and later had second on what the labor leaders feel thoughts, were upset with this is catastrophic deterioration of fraternizing with a President the economy. who was allowing unemployUnemployment is at the ment to go up and inflation to highest rate in nine years, continue, among other policies inflation is the worst in 20 inimical to !bor’sinterests. years andinterest rates are the Meany apparently got the highest in 100 years. All this word, since his attacks on the means hardship for the 13.6 administration have increased million union members the and his relations with Nixon council represents, which is have cooled—at least to the about two thirds of total union point there are no longer any membership in the nation public displays of being chummywith the GOP President. Labor Complaints Nixon, obviously with an eye Meany and other labor leaders complain that the Nixon on potential votes in the 1972 administration is basically or- election, continues to try to woo iented toward helping business, labor and the labor vote, with the hope that some of the despite the economic handicaps. benefits will trickle down to There was speculation that, workersand poor people. while on a long weekend athis They point to Nixon’s recent nearby Key Biscayne retreat, proposal to give business a Nixon might stop by the multibillion dollar tax break Americana Hotel Monday mornU.rough liberalized depreciation ing to meet with the labor allowances for equipment, while leaders. at the sametime the President All these differences between vetoed a bill that would have Nixon and labor add upto this: created thousands of new ‘The unionleaders, at this point, federally financed jobs to help plan to doall they can to defeat Nixonif he runs for re-election reduce unemployment. 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