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One instant plus for Jimmy Carter after the Camp David summit. George Meany, whose address to the United Steelworkers convention had been billed as a rip-snorting attack on the Administration, backed away from that, delivered a mild-mannered (for Meany) slap on the wrist instead. . . . UAW President Douglas Fraser, who took his union out of the Labor-Management Council in July and called a conference Oct. 17 to discuss Labor’s future relationship with the Democratic Party, now says he sees his way clear to supporting Carter for the Presidency in 1980. He says that the President is “better positioned” after Camp David than before to get Labor to go along with him on voluntary wage-price controls. . . . Not mollified is William Winpisinger, president of the 900,000-strong Machinists, who says he will go to Detroit on Oct. 17 to discuss new labor options. Meanwhile the Machinists will withdraw financial support from any congressman who votes for the natural-gas deregulation compromise. . . . Albert Fitzgerald, former head of UE (Electrical Workers), is retiring from union work, he says, to help organize a third major party to represent “Labor’s interests.” . . . Charles Pillard, also of UE, puts the blame for Labor’s legislative defeats this year more on the “ultra-Right” (which has emerged as “the most dangerous, well funded, and well organized enemy we [organized Labor] have ever confronted”) than on the White House. . . . Carter himself, savoring approval he hasn’t known in a long time, hit the campaign trail with a string of one-liners. On last day of the summit, he told a North Carolina audience, “Begin finally said to me, ‘Mr. President, Israel will get out of Sinai if you just let me out of Camp David.’ ”

Notes on the gubernatorial Class of ’74. In Massachusetts, Michael Dukakis is out, a surprise loser in the Democratic primary to Edward J. King, who campaigned as a conservative on fiscal and social issues. . . . In Connecticut, the polls show Republican Ronald Sarasin hot on the heels of Gov. Ella Grasso: Grasso 47 per cent, Sarasin 44 per cent, 9 per cent undecided. . . . In New York, Hugh Carey is now reported even with Republican Perry Duryea, after trailing by a few points earlier on. A Newsday poll puts them both at 46 per cent. . . . In California, Republican candidate Evelle Younger, once described as being “exciting as a mashed-potato sandwich,” has pulled within five points of Gov. Jerry Brown, according to latest Mervin Field poll, which also found that many California voters find Brown to be “wishy-washy,” “opportunistic,” and “inconsistent on Proposition 13.” . . . The California ADA, which endorsed Brown in 1974, won’t do so this year. Says Shirley Wechsler of the ADA: “Brown has no political philosophy. He’s not a liberal, not a moderate, and not a conservative. He’s strictly into power politics and I think that’s dangerous.”

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One instant plus for Jimmy Carter after the Camp David summit. George Meany, whose address to the United Steelworkers convention had been billed as a rip-snorting attack on the Administration, backed away from that, delivered a mild-mannered (for Meany) slap on the wrist instead. . . . UAW President Douglas Fraser, who took his union out of the Labor-Management Council in July and called a conference Oct. 17 to discuss Labor’s future relationship with the Democratic Party, now says he sees his way clear to supporting Carter for the Presidency in 1980. He says that the President is “better positioned” after Camp David than before to get Labor to go along with him on voluntary wage-price controls. . . . Not mollified is William Winpisinger, president of the 900,000-strong Machinists, who says he will go to Detroit on Oct. 17 to discuss new labor options. Meanwhile the Machinists will withdraw financial support from any congressman who votes for the natural-gas deregulation compromise. . . . Albert Fitzgerald, former head of UE (Electrical Workers), is retiring from union work, he says, to help organize a third major party to represent “Labor’s interests.” . . . Charles Pillard, also of UE, puts the blame for Labor’s legislative defeats this year more on the “ultra-Right” (which has emerged as “the most dangerous, well funded, and well organized enemy we [organized Labor] have ever confronted”) than on the White House. . . . Carter himself, savoring approval he hasn’t known in a long time, hit the campaign trail with a string of one-liners. On last day of the summit, he told a North Carolina audience, “Begin finally said to me, ‘Mr. President, Israel will get out of Sinai if you just let me out of Camp David.’ ”

Notes on the gubernatorial Class of ’74. In Massachusetts, Michael Dukakis is out, a surprise loser in the Democratic primary to Edward J. King, who campaigned as a conservative on fiscal and social issues. . . . In Connecticut, the polls show Republican Ronald Sarasin hot on the heels of Gov. Ella Grasso: Grasso 47 per cent, Sarasin 44 per cent, 9 per cent undecided. . . . In New York, Hugh Carey is now reported even with Republican Perry Duryea, after trailing by a few points earlier on. A Newsday poll puts them both at 46 per cent. . . . In California, Republican candidate Evelle Younger, once described as being “exciting as a mashed-potato sandwich,” has pulled within five points of Gov. Jerry Brown, according to latest Mervin Field poll, which also found that many California voters find Brown to be “wishy-washy,” “opportunistic,” and “inconsistent on Proposition 13.” . . . The California ADA, which endorsed Brown in 1974, won’t do so this year. Says Shirley Wechsler of the ADA: “Brown has no political philosophy. He’s not a liberal, not a moderate, and not a conservative. He’s strictly into power politics and I think that’s dangerous.”