‘ SE RSA OSES BS SESS I fever nel i Li | | JOINT PLEDGE ~ ‘No civil war Teamsters case ATLANTIC CITY _ After the big stick of expui- sion the time had come to speak softly, and this is what chieftains of the AFL-CIO and the Teamsters Union did. “There is no attempt of any sort, and no plan for a war with the Teamsters; and we hope it will never come,” said AFL-CIO president George Meany. “We have no chips on our shoulders,’ said Teamsters vice - president Einar Mohn, the union’s official spokesman at the AFL-CIO convention’ session that voted expulsion of the Teamsters. “But,” Mohn added, “we are not going to play dead just because some- body doesn’t like us.” The growing rumbles of a labor. civil war, which had pre- .ceded the expulsion vote on December 6, appeared to have quieted down. Two possible sources of im- mediate friction were soothed. “As a further safeguard against jurisdictional fare,’ reported The New York Times, “the federation’ seems disposed to put, off a decision on whether to order cancella- tion of mutual assistance pacts now in effect between the Teamsters and a_ half - dozen federation affiliates. Mainten- ance of such pacts with an ex- pelled union violates the AFL- _ CIO constitution. But officials said formal action to end them would not come &t once.” On the Teamsters’ side, a reported threat to crash Unitcd Hatters picket lines in Louis- ville, Ky., as a reprisal against the expulsion apeared to have petered out.’ Alex Rose, presi- dent of the Hatters, presented the proposal for expelling the Teamsters.as chairman of the AFL-CIO convention’s tak ce committee. Meany talked of an “open door.” Mohn about business as usual.