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EARLY CAREER Meany got his start in New York City's Plumber's Union and served as a business agent for Local 463. After that, he was elected president of the New York State Federation of Labor and served until 1939. He served on the National Labor Relations Board during World War II. TENURE Meany was a great believer in the cooperation of Labor and Capital . Under his leadership, the AFL and then the AFL-CIO supported Anticommunist policies. Unions deemed Leftist , including the United Electrical Workers and the Retail Wholesale And Department Store Employees Of America , were expelled from the CIO by the early 1950's. AFL-CIO unions then cooperated with employers to raid and decertify leftist unions. He was a steadfast supporter of the Vietnam War . Meany was close to Jay Lovestone , the former Communist Party USA leader turned anti-communist. Lovestone established the Free Trade Union Committee as the overseas organizing tool of the AFL. Throughout Meany's tenure, Lovestone worked to establish non-communist and pro-American unions around the world. In the course of this work, the AFL collaborated with Latin American dictatorships against communist, radical or opposition trade unions. He is famous for having said toward the end of his tenure that he had "never walked a picket line in his life." He was succeeded by Lane Kirkland . EXTERNAL LINKS Archives
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