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First edition, signed by Goldberg with a short inscription. Foreword by George Meany, AFL-CIO president and David J. McDonald, United Steelworkers president. Hardcover, 319 pages, in original unclipped dust jacket. Book is in very good condition, jacket is good, with some chips, creases, and stains to the jacket. The book is signed to “Lou Nichols.” This is likely Louis B. Nichols who was assistant director of the FBI, third in charge to Hoover. In 1955 Goldberg had a meeting with Nichols to respond to negative information about him in the FBI files. Hoover had been suspicious of Goldberg being a Communist due to his work with organized labor, but Goldberg was never a member of the Communist party. Nichols came away from the meeting to report that an injustice had been done to Goldberg – thus, possibly the esteem mentioned in the inscription. Goldberg (1908 – 1990) was a labor attorney, politician and jurist who served as the ninth secretary of labor, an associate justice of the Supreme Court and US ambassador to the UN. In 1955 after representing various labor groups and becoming the general counsel for the CIO, Goldberg was the negotiator and chief legal advisor in the merger of the AFL and CIO, which established it as the largest and most influential non-religious group in the US at the time. The book covers the AFL’s roots, the creation of the CIO, the merger and his ongoing work with the merged organization.
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