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— Griffin Daily News Tuesday, July 18,1972
Page 12
Mayor Daley backing
Sen. George McGovern
By United Press International
While Sen. George S. Mc-
Govern started his pre-cam
paign vacation in a three-room
cabin in South Dakota, Chicago
Mayor Richard J. Daley came
out for him and the Teamsters
Union broke precedent to
endorse President Nixon.
McGovern flew to his home
state Monday to spend two
weeks resting from the 16-
month campaign that brought
him the Democratic presiden
tial nomination. He settled in at
a cabin on Sylvan near
Custer, carefully guarded by a
platoon of Secret Service agents
and state police.
An aide described McGovern
as “bone-tired” and said he
would remain in virtual seclu
sion for a time, but McGovern
took time out to call Daley and
thank him for Daley’s promise
to back the Democratic ticket
this year.
Daley made the announce
ment in Chicago, declaring that
“I am a Democrat” and that he
would support all Democrats
this year. There had been
speculation he would not back
McGovern after Daley’s Chica
go delegation was unseated at
the McGovern-dominated De
mocratic National Convention.
McGovern in his conversation
with Daley described the
gesture as “magnanimous,” an
aide said, and Daley replied he
thought McGovern headed a
“fine ticket.”
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"Quality Reputation For Over 50 Years"
for McGovern and his running
mate, Sen. Thomas Eagleton of
Missouri, from the -labor front.
Frank E. Fitzsimmons, pres
ident of the 2 million-member
Teamsters Union, announced in
California Monday that his
union was endorsing Nixon.
“We cannot and will not
endorse the Democratic ticket,”
Fitzsimmons said. “George
McGovern has not earned the
support of labor.”
Fitzsimmons and other Team
sters officials emphasized their
action by calling on Nixon at
the Western White House in San
Clemente. Nixon extended his
personal thanks.
The Teamsters described
their endorsement as “unprece
dented.” They supported
Hubert H. Humphrey against
Nixon in 1968, and four years
earlier endorsed Lyndon B.
Johnson.
The Teamsters no longer are
allied with the AFLCIO, which
has called its executive board
into session Wednesday to
decide what position it will take
on the campaign. AFL-CIO
President George Meany bat
tled unsuccessfully to block
McGovern’s nomination at Mia
mi Beach.
The AFLCIO has threatened
to withhold its traditional
support from the Democratic
presidential ticket this year.
Democrats continued to sound
the theme that they face an
uphill fight in their attempt to
unseat Nixon. Senate Democra-
IRA agrees to truce
in Lenadoon project
BELFAST (UPI)-The Provi
sional wing of the Irish
Republican Army (IRA) said
today it has agreed to a truce
in Belfast’s Lenadoon housing
development to enable Roman
Catholics to return to their
homes there.
British officials said William
Whitelaw, secretary of state for
Northern Ireland, will meet
army commanders today to
discuss withdrawal of British
troops from the district.
The army said Monday was
the first day without death
from violence in Northern
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tic leader Mike Mansfield said
Monday it would be a “tough
race.” He said Nixon’s foreign
policy achievements had been
“exceptionally good.”
“He’s an opponent you have
to respect,” Mansfield said of
Nixon. “You can’t take him for
granted.”
McGovern spoke at an airport
rally at Rapid City, S.D., before
he journeyed to his cabin. He
said the money spent for
Ireland since the Provisionals
called off their two-week-old
cease-fire eight days ago.
At least 36 persons have been
killed since the truce ended,
bringing the death toll in three
years of violence in the
province to 446, according to
army figures.
Father Jack Fitzsimons, a
Catholic priest, said the Provi
sionals have suspended opera
tions in the I-enadoon area to
enable the 6,000 Catholics he
led out of the district Sunday to
return to their homes.
“The IRA has assured us that
in the interests of the suffering
people they have already for
the past few days suspended
operations in the Lenadoon
area,” Father Fitzsimons told a
gathering of the evacuated
families Monday night.
A Provisional spokesman said
today: “What Father Fitzsi
mons has said is in accordance
with the assurances we have
given him.”
Whitelaw’s office said in a
statement earlier Monday
troops in the area would
"progressively return to their
previous positions” on the
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running the Vietnam war for
six hours would rebuild every
thing damaged by the recent
flood in the Rapid City area.
The South Dakota senator
said he had found in his travels
across the country a “deepen
ing recognition that the time
has come when we must turn
our best energies and our first
attention and our first loyalty
to redeeming and rebuilding
and strengthening our own
country right here at home.”
fringe of the district if the
Provisionals would stop using
the area for sniper attacks on
the army.
Catholic sources said at least
1,500 Catholics returned to their
lenadoon homes Monday night.
The rest spent their second
night in schools in the Catholic
Andersonstown area or in the
Irish Republic.
The Catholics abandoned
their homes to protest the
presence of hundreds of troops
who moved into the area last
week as part of the army’s new
policy of “dominating” districts
used by IRA snipers.
In violence Monday, sniper
attacks wounded a soldier in
Belfast and another in the
border town of Strabane.
Troops said they hit five
snipers in Belfast gun battles.
In Londonderry, bomb explo
sions wrecked a fertilizer
factory, a restaurant and a
grocery warehouse. In Porta
down, 25 miles southwest of
Belfast a bomb exploded in the
city center, damaging shops
and business premises on eight
streets, police said.
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Teamsters break tradition,
endorse President Nixon
RANCHO LA COSTA, Calif.
(UPl)—The Teamsters, largest
independent union in the
country, broke with traditional
labor support for the Demo
crats and endorsed President
Nixon Monday, saying George
McGovern doesn’t care about
middle class workers.
It was another blow at the
McGovern candidacy by orga
nized labor, which fiercely
resisted McGovern’s nomina
tion.
The executive council of the
AFLCIO—to which the Team
sters do not belong—has
scheduled a special meeting in
Washington Wednesday to dis
cuss what stand to take. The
meeting was called by AFL-CIO
President George Meany, a
leading figure in the bitter pre
convention fight against Mc-
Govern.
There have been reports the
giant labor organization, tradi
tionally a very important power
base for the Democratic
candidate, might opt to “sit
out” the campaign, refusing its
support to McGovern but not
going to so far as to work for
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The Teamsters’ decision was
announced by the president of
the 2 million member union,
Frank E. Fitzsimmons, who
said he realized such an action
is “at odds with the traditional
and almost reflex support of
labor for the Democratic
ticket.”
The board had decided to
back Nixon, he said, because
“the blue collar workers, which
comprise the backbone of
America, seem to be of little
concern to the McGovern
ticket.”
Conversations with Teamster
members convinced him the
Nixon endorsement reflects the
wishes of the union rank-and
file, he said.
He said the Democratic
nominee “has not earned the
support of America’s working
men and women. Our members
work hard for their wages.
They are entitled to what they
earn, and they figure the
government ought to get off of
our back and out of our
pockets.”
He said McGovern had cast
antilabor votes on a number of
issues, including right-to-work
laws, and urged Teamster
members “to work and vote to
keep President Nixon in office
another four years.”
The Teamster endorsement
did not come as a surprise,
since Fitzsimmons has support
ed Nixon’s policies in the past,
and was the only union member
to remain on the federal Pay
Board when other labor leaders
quit to protest the administra
tion’s wage controls.
After the endorsement, the
17-member board travelled 40
miles up the coast to the
Western White House, where
they were warmly greeted by
President Nixon.
Presidential Press Secretary
Ronald Ziegler heatedly denied
speculation linking the political
ly valuable endorsement with
President Nixon’s action in
releasing former Teamsters
union leader Jimmy Hoffa from
prison.
The President approved an
early parole for Hoffa, who was
serving a 63-year sentence on a
federal conviction for jury
tampering and pension fund
fraud.
“That is untrue and absolute-
ly absurd,” replied Ziegler
when asked if the endorsement
was part of a bargain involving
Hoffa’s release.
Eye Remember
CINCINNATI (UPl)—Mark
Youtcheff, 37, an unemployed
elephant trainer, apparently
underestimated the memory of
a human being.
Police arrested Youtcheff
after he allegedly tried to sell a
pair of sunglasses to Wesley
Barnett on a downtown street
Monday. Barnett recognized the
sunglasses as the ones he had
left in the glove compartment
of his car earlier in the day.
Don’t Disturb
LONDON (UPl)—The Rev.
Norman Lewis has brought a
SSO suit against the Marquis of
Bath because two rhinos
crashed into his car at the
marquis’ Longleat Safari Park
west of London.
The Anglican vicar said the
rhinos were mating when he
and his wife drove past. He
said the animals charged the
car in apparent anger at being
disturbed.