Date: September 26, 1972
Time: 10:54 am – 11:17 am
Location: Oval Office
The President met with Joseph P. Tonelli, Lawrence H. Silberman, Willie J. Usery, Jr. and
Donald F. Rodgers, the White House photographer was present at the beginning of the meeting.
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Greetings
The President’s previous meeting with Joseph P. Tonelli
-Sheraton Hotel 1960
-Fund raising dinner
[Photograph session]
-Oliver F. (“Ollie”) Atkins
The President’ appreciation for Tonelli’s support
-Jobs
-Fair treatment
The President’s foreign policy
-Changes in international relations
-Peoples Republic of China [PRC]
-Soviet Union
-Ending the Vietnam War
-Withdrawal of troops
The President’s domestic policy
-Stabilized economy
-Wage and price controls
-Tonelli’s opposition
-Necessity
-Timing
-World War II
-Harry S. Truman
– Korean War
Vance Hartke-James A. Bourke bill
-Opposition of United Paper Makers International Union [UPMIU]
-Pulp and paper industry
-Exports
-Value
-Jobs
-Pulp and paper industry
-Paper supply
-Newfoundland
-Southern paper mills
-International Paper Company
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An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 10:54 am.
Refreshments
An unknown person left at an unknown time after before 11:12 am.
-Imports from Canada manufacture of pulp paper
-Products
-Corrugated boxes, envelopes, bags
-White House conference
-Pulp and paper industry employment
-Business volume
-Compared with steel, automobile
-Tonelli’s possible testimony
-Union mandate
-Appeal
-Business
-Labor
-International trade
-Soviet Union
-PRC
-Japan
-US trade position
-Competitiveness
-Unfair treatment
-Statistics
-Pulp and Paper Institute
-Tax on paper imports
-Reciprocity
-Exports
-Europeans
-Japan
-Barriers
Effect
-Jobs issue
Tonelli’s responsibilities
-Chairman, Pulp and Paper Union of Europe
-Geneva, Switzerland
-32 companies participating
-Standard of living
-European workers
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-Japan
-Tonelli’s forthcoming trip, November 5, 1972
-Foundation of Pulp and Paper Union
UPMIU convention
-Pulp and paper sulfide
-Merger
-Secretary of Labor’s [James D. Hodgson’s] speech
-White House policies
-Reception
-Denver
-Delegates
-President’s schedule
-San Clemente
-Hodgson’s speech
-Audience size
-Reception
Tonelli’s support for the administration
-Labor-management issues
-National defense
The President’s recent meeting with Thomas W. (“Teddy”) Gleason
The President’s forthcoming meeting with Peter Brennan
National defense policy
-George Meany
-Union support
Foreign policy
-Union support
-Rank and file
-Board members
-Politics
-Meany’s golf game with the President
Labor support
-1972 election
-The President’s 1972 Labor Day speech
-National Commission for Industrial Peace
Labor-Management relations
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-Dispute resolution
-Alternatives to economic pressure
-New York
-Building trade strike
-Tonelli’s recent conversation with Hodgson
-Teachers strike
-[American Federation of Teachers]
-Congress
-Postal strike
-Usery
-Meany
-Rights of government workers to organize and bargain
-Fair treatment
-The President’s Executive Order [11491]
-Broad rights to Federal employees
-Organization
-Kenneth R. Lyons
-John F. Griner
-Endorsement of the President
-Background
-Georgia
-Recent convention
-Opposition
-Joe Gleason
Crossing crafts classification
-Hodgson
-Welders
-Electricians
-Pipe workers
-More pay
-Purpose
National Commission for Industrial peace
-President’s possible conversation with Tonelli
-Timing
-1972 election
-Membership
Hodgson entered at 11:12 pm.
National Commission for Industrial Peace
-Membership
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-Consultation
-1972 election
Crossing crafts
National Commission for Industrial Peace
-Membership
-Number
-Labor, management, government
-Hodgson
-Consultation with Tonelli
-Timing
-January 1, 1973
UPMIU convention
-Hodgson’s speech
-Reception
-News description
-Tonnelli making tape
-Cheer lines
Presentation of Presidential gifts
-Cuff links
-Presidential seal
-Pin
-Paper
White House telephone call to Tonelli
Silberman et al. left at an unknown time before 11:17 am.
Golf
UPMIU support for President
Meeting delay
Tonelli left at 11:17 a.m.