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Behind-the-scenes maneuvering going on to get the United Auto Workers and the Teamste, rs back into the AFL-CIO in 1971. George Meany is reported to be “optimistic.” He’s met with Acting Teamster President Frank Fitzsimmons. but Fitzsimmons can’t commit Teamsters for sure until Jimmy Hoffa gets sprung later this year . . . Also, Meany is said to get along better with new UAW president Leonard Woodcock than he did with the doveish socialist Walter Reuther . . . Most astonishing labor headline of decade, from recent Washington Post: “Conservatism of Harry Bridges/Could Split Dockers.” It was Bridges’ United International Longshoremen’s and Warehousemen’s Union that was thrown out of the CIO in the Fifties for being Communist-dominated. Recently Bridges has been sharply critical of César Chavez (he’d like to organize the farm workers himself) and he’s also reported to be making affiliation overtures toward conservative (hard-hat, pro-Vietnam) International Longshoremen’s Association.

Who’ll it be in ‘72? Retiring Sen. Eugene McCarthy says he plans to stick around Washington after his term expires; plans to take a part in 1972 Presidential contest (presumably as third-or fourth-party candidate) . . . Retiring Sen. Joseph Tydings (he was retired by Republican Glenn Beall) has been tapped, say some Washington sources, to head the Muskie for President movement now; he’ll try to line up support for ‘72 convention . . . Sen. George McGovern has hastened to deny report by Rennie (Chicago Seven) Davis that he had anything to do with the list of American POWs handed to representatives of Sens. Kennedy and Fulbright in Paris Christmas week. McGovern has been moving toward center recently. … At recent Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions meeting President Harry Ashmore volunteered to nominate former Attorney General Ramsey Clark “for President or any office he wants.” . . . Clark, whose Presidential boomlet is gathering steam, has also been invited by Council for Foreign Relations (CFR) to make speech on “Priorities in American Foreign Policy” on Jan. 6—to puzzlement of CFR members who wonder just what Clark’s foreign policy credentials are . . . Fulton Lewis III reports the “New Politics” group has scheduled meeting in February to line up its 1972 Presidential slate. New Politics is expected to name—yes, again—Ramsey Clark as its Presidential candidate, far-out California dove Rep. George Brown as Veep.

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Behind-the-scenes maneuvering going on to get the United Auto Workers and the Teamste, rs back into the AFL-CIO in 1971. George Meany is reported to be “optimistic.” He’s met with Acting Teamster President Frank Fitzsimmons. but Fitzsimmons can’t commit Teamsters for sure until Jimmy Hoffa gets sprung later this year . . . Also, Meany is said to get along better with new UAW president Leonard Woodcock than he did with the doveish socialist Walter Reuther . . . Most astonishing labor headline of decade, from recent Washington Post: “Conservatism of Harry Bridges/Could Split Dockers.” It was Bridges’ United International Longshoremen’s and Warehousemen’s Union that was thrown out of the CIO in the Fifties for being Communist-dominated. Recently Bridges has been sharply critical of César Chavez (he’d like to organize the farm workers himself) and he’s also reported to be making affiliation overtures toward conservative (hard-hat, pro-Vietnam) International Longshoremen’s Association.

Who’ll it be in ‘72? Retiring Sen. Eugene McCarthy says he plans to stick around Washington after his term expires; plans to take a part in 1972 Presidential contest (presumably as third-or fourth-party candidate) . . . Retiring Sen. Joseph Tydings (he was retired by Republican Glenn Beall) has been tapped, say some Washington sources, to head the Muskie for President movement now; he’ll try to line up support for ‘72 convention . . . Sen. George McGovern has hastened to deny report by Rennie (Chicago Seven) Davis that he had anything to do with the list of American POWs handed to representatives of Sens. Kennedy and Fulbright in Paris Christmas week. McGovern has been moving toward center recently. … At recent Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions meeting President Harry Ashmore volunteered to nominate former Attorney General Ramsey Clark “for President or any office he wants.” . . . Clark, whose Presidential boomlet is gathering steam, has also been invited by Council for Foreign Relations (CFR) to make speech on “Priorities in American Foreign Policy” on Jan. 6—to puzzlement of CFR members who wonder just what Clark’s foreign policy credentials are . . . Fulton Lewis III reports the “New Politics” group has scheduled meeting in February to line up its 1972 Presidential slate. New Politics is expected to name—yes, again—Ramsey Clark as its Presidential candidate, far-out California dove Rep. George Brown as Veep.