Social Attitudes Of Trade Unionists

A survey commissioned by the AFL–CIO Committee on Political Education, and conducted by the Joseph Kraft polling organization in January 1967, offers rich information about the state of union membership.

Ostensibly commissioned to prove that the rank and file is overwhelmingly behind President Johnson (or such is the impression one gets from reading the article on the report by Alexander E. Barkan in the August American Federationist), the survey figures seem to show anything but. The findings do confirm that union members, whether young or old, cherish the social legislation and outlook they associate with the Democratic party. But the figures also reveal serious reservations about the President’s policy, and th...