afl is william spriggs, the chief economist. the pandemic created a shortage of many household items, but now several manufacturers are benefiting from lean inventories. this is bloomberg. ♪ vonnie: this is bloomberg markets. i'm vonnie quinn. u.s. durable goods orders rose in september by more than forecast, indicating manufacturers benefit from steady demand and lean inventories. while those inventories are benefiting manufacturers, not so much for consumers. early on, the pandemic created rolling shortages of toilet paper to packaged meat. now consumers face a scarcity of larger household goods as they replace some of their equipment. scarlet fu takes stock. scarlett: shopping for a new freezer or bicycle? join the waiting list. buying things is easier but getting them to your doorstep is a complex choreography of supply chains and shipping. few retailers anticipated any demand surge, while decades of justin faxed -- just in time manufacturing kept inventories lean. the virus also gummed up trade links, resulting in a shortag

this letter from the afl is a particularly scathing letter.overnment's response to the crisis engulfing football given the generosity he feels has been given to the arts, £1.5 billion support package. he said while football grounds in rochdale, grimsby, mansfield and carlisle may seem an awful long way from the royal ballet they are nonetheless equally important part of our national heritage. he also said that clubs feel ignored at best and victimised at worst by the government and he said that clubs could be driven to extinction. the message was clear that he felt that the owner should be on the government to help failing football clu bs government to help failing football clubs and it shouldn't be seen as job done. the department of digital culture, media and sport were quick to respond the letter and they say it has been clear all along that professional football had the means to support itself and that the governments focus will be on sports in sectors that can't support themselves and the government also urge the premier league and afl tw

we'll ask of richard trunka of the afl-cio. this is balance of power on bloomberg television and radio. . david: this is "balance of power" on bloomberg television and radio. i'm david westin. for bloomberg first word news, we go to mark crumpton. mark: there are more than two weeks to go before election day and millions of americans are breaking voter turnout records already. according to the university of florida elections project, more than 17 million people have voted already either in person or by mail. ohio and georgia have already sent records. democrats are casting early ballots at a higher rate than republicans. if joe biden wins the presidency, he plans to build his national security team with officials well-known inside the washington beltway with a lot of experience. mr. barden has two top candidates for secretary of tony, longtime aide lincoln, who served as his national security advisor, and susan rice, the obama-era national security advisor. top pentagon and intelligence posts are also expected to be filled by p

david: thank you so much are being with us, afl-cio president richard trumka. hereter frank luntz is with his results from the focus group on the debate last night. this is "balance of power" on bloomberg television and radio. ♪ >> we are learning to live with it. we can't lock ourselves up in the basement like joe does. >> he says we are learning to live with it. people are learning to die with it. >> you set a vaccine would be coming within weeks. is that a guarantee? >> it is not a guarantee but it will be by the end of the year. >> anyone responsible for not taking control, not saying i take that response ability initially, anyone responsible for that many deaths should not remain as president of the united states of america. david: that was a taste of what we heard and saw last night at the presidential debate. going out to nashville and the scene of the debate where i chief washington correspondent has been covering the event. kevin cirilli, thank you for sticking with us. give us your sense. was a muchear it more civilized debate we saw the first time. k

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so we had to rely on afl-cio numbers and they say only -- [ speaking simultaneously ] >> tell me what they told you. liz: well, first of all, we put in calls to them as well. 96 class actions. we understand, though, that when we're looking at specific citations, we need to know, at least employees need to know if they do go back, and i presume most of them do want to, mr. secretary, that they are going to have employers, most of them are caring about their employees, but that all employers will be held to a standard and it appears your guidelines don't have teeth. what are you going to do about that? >> well, our programs do have teeth, liz. it's funny, again, by saying you imagined our priority was to get people back to work, i almost at that point interjected, get them back to work safely. that has, in fact, been a priority for us from very early on. osha began providing guidance related to covid all the way back in january. it's put out extensive guidance for employers and employees, about 20 different industries and it also has had a very active inspection and investigation progra

east, where workers were you might almost say have made an accommodation with capitalism throughout afl, et cetera. debs, when he ran for president in 1912, got one-third of his vote west of the mississippi river. that's where the socialism are. the strongest was oklahoma. not a state we tend to associate with socialist libber theties. that's where debs did the best. that's where the pop list tr tradition flows into the early socialist party. where farm tendency is rapid and extensive. and remember, oklahoma is a sort of segregated state, but it had not been part of the old confederacy. it doesn't have the kind of wait weight of the civil war sitting on political alignments the way states like louisiana or georgia et cetera. making it difficult for any insurgency. oklahoma gave debs 16%, one sixth of the vote in 19, in 1912. the warden of the state penitentiary took a poll and found a majority of the white prisoners voted for debs. a majority of the black prisoners still would have voted for the republicans. the party of lincoln. the states of like montana, washington, idaho, n nevada,

it is about hubert humphrey speaking at an afl-cio gathering. and it was towards the end of his life. he was still smiling. he knew it was almost at the end. and he had a great quote at the end of his speech. he says, i'd rather live 50 years like a tiger than 100 years like a chicken. but i want to move up to 1968. i met a guy 20 years ago who said he worked on the humphrey campaign in 1968. he said that he came home after working on the campaign, and he was at this hotel. he was looking out at this park, and the news came on and said that there's a humphrey protestors having violence in the park. he called humphrey the next day when they had a meeting, and humphrey said, i know. nixon's been doing it for a while and there's nothing we can do about it. i think from this guy's story nixon was doing it to link humphrey to anti-war protestors, and i was wondering if your guests have ever heard a story like this. thank you very much. >> thanks very much. >> i have heard stories of being paid protesters, and i've heard that in the civil rights movem

a few of them, this is one of the things about it which is very different to other afl affiliated unions is that it knew from the inception was open to organizationing black folks. 1920s is a period where they go to a lot of internal disarray. there's a struggle for control between socialists and the communists. all though they start to really make an effort to organize black women by 1920, because they're a significant number. right. 2500. they start these campaigns but they're interrupted by this internal dissent. some disarray, i'm going to call it, in the union. then they come out of that. the union comes out of that in sub 1928. in '29 the union reaches out. they employ the first black woman organizer. she comes out of the brooklyn ywca. she's sent to labor institute on a scholarship, which is funded in part by the naacp. they realize it's important for black folks to become part of the industrial work force and to join interracial unions. the campaign staff in september of 1929, well, they one month after you enter the depression era. it's very interesting and alice and i have an i

the plans will see the premier league give a £250 million bailout to the afl and 25% of its annual incometaly. club, inter milan, say the results are from a test yesterday at their training ground. the former england and manchester united player is isolated at home. england all—rounder ben stokes is back in action for the first time since the first test against pakistan in august. stokes has been in new zealand spending time with his dad who's been ill. stokes is playing for rajasthan royals today in their ipl match against sunrisers hyderabad. needing 159 to win, stokes opened the royals‘ reply alongside england teammate jos buttler and hit a four on his second delivery. but he was soon heading back to the pavilion, clean bowled in the very next over by kk ahmed. his side are 13 for one from overs. italy's danilo petrucci has become the seventh different rider to win a motogp race this year after victory at the french grand prix. the damp conditions at le mans caused chaos with valentino rossi crashing on the first lap. both british riders bradley smith and cal crutchlow also crashed out

1928 -- it wasn't the afl-cio until 1935. the afl championed him in the state, not nationally in the 1928 campaign. >> beverly gage, the issues john evers was just talking about, did they play out nationally and how strong were the forces behind those issues? >> they did, well, you know, i think al smith is a really good example of someone who was sort of radicalized over the course of his time as a politician. i mean, really starts out as a -- an unexceptional tamminy guy not putting forth particularly creative ideas from what anyone can tell. we don't know that much about what he was doing when he was an early assemblyman. but both through the social turmoil you had during the progressive era and then particularly through the triangle fire which does seem to have been this kind of eye opening moment for him, 146 people died in this fire. mostly teenage girls, mostly teenage immigrant girls who are locked in on the eighth and ninth floor of the triangle shirt waist building, they're forced to jump to their donald trumps -- d

garment industry, and this is one of the things about the ilgw, which is different than every ot -- then afl- affiliated unions, is that the ilgw was open to black folks. almost all of the other unions were not. there were a few black women who joined the union by the 19 -- by 1920. the 1920's is a period where the ilgw is in internal disarray, there is a struggle for control between socialists and communists, and they start to make a real effort to organize black women by 1920 because of their significant numbers. there are 2500. they are interrupted by this internal dissent, the disarray in the union. then the union comes out of that in 1928. in 1929, the union starts to reach out. they actually employed the first black woman who has a really interesting history, she comes out of the brooklyn ywca, the segregated branch, she says to the brookwood -- she goes to the brookwood labor institute on a scholarship which is funded in part by the naacp, and by now people realize it really is important for black folks to become part of the industrial workforce, and to join interracial unions. the ca

he took that to campaign, he had the support afl cio. the afl j.p. it hit in the state but not nationally in the 1928 campaign. those issues that john evers was talking about, did it play out nationally? how strong or the forces behind the issues? >> i think al smith is a good example of somebody who was radicalized over the course of his time on a politician. starts out as an unexceptional tampa the guy who is not putting forth particularly creative ideas. both through the social turmoil that he had during the progressive era and then threw the triangle fire which doesn't seem to have been this kind of eye opening moment for him, 146 people died in this fire. they are mostly teenage girls, mostly teenage immigrant girls who are locked in on the eighth and ninth floor. they are forced to jump to their deaths. he adds up on the commission. he becomes a true progress of in those -- what i would say the radical and did not radical sense of that word. when he begins to work on the commission, they revamp fire codes, they pass legislation to protect women

precautions to jump start the economy, but the head of the largest group of unions, richard trumka of the afl-ciotasy. he wrote an op-ed and it reads americans cannot untangle the economic and public health crises putting us in danger at our workplaces or leaving us without jobs until we first get the virus under control. i want to bring in richard trumka. the aflcio, we should note, has endorsed joe biden. richard, you call the president's approach backward. why? >> because he doesn't understand that in order to fix the economy, first you have to control the virus, and to control the virus, you have to protect workers so that you don't continue to spread the virus and continue to have hot spots. he thinks, if you open the economy, everything will go away and be great for everyone. but you see what the result of that has been. we continue to have hot spots. you can't open schools unless you do it safely. he has it back yards, and i've said that repeatedly. he has an occupational safety and health administration, craig that has been awol in this pandemic. will not issue a safety standard. he even

a few of them -- this is one of the things about the union which is different to other afl-affiliated unions, they were open to organizing black folks. almost all of the other unions were not. and so there are a few black women who joined the union by t 1920. 1920s is a period where the ilgw goes through a lot of internal disarray. there's a struggle for control between the socialists and co communists, there are 2,500 they start these campaigns but they're interrupted by this disarray, i want to call it, in the union. and then they come out of that, the union comes out of that in 1928, '29 the union starts to reach out. they actually employ the first black woman organizer who has a really interesting history. she comes out of the brooklyn ywca, the segregated branch. she's sent to brookwood labor institute to -- on a scholarship which is funded in part by the naacp who realize they really -- it's important for black folks to become part of the industrial workforce and to join interracial unions. the campaign starts in september 1929. one month after, you're going -- you're into the d

i did, and i think i explained this to wolf blitzer, just what george meanie, the president of the aflio did in 1972 and for the first time in his adult life he didn't vote for george mcgovern or for nixon. >> ambassador john bolton, thank you so much for joining us. >> happy to do it. >>> in yet another claim untethered from reality, president trump says our coronavirus numbers are, quote, incredible, that the u.s. is rounding the turn. tell that to more than 83,000 americans just diagnosed with the virus yesterday alone. the highest single-day total since the pandemic started. a doctor who formerly advised the bush white house reacts next. you're live in the "cnn newsroom." >>> president trump today falsely claiming that the u.s. is rounding the turn in the coronavirus pandemic. while speaking at a campaign rally in the battleground state of north carolina. listen. >> but it's a choice between a trump super boom and a biden lockdown. did you hear him the other night? it's going to be a cold dark, winter. very inspiring guy. i even said, whoa. we're rounding the turn. we're doing grea

six wanting to concentrate power in their hands is not for the good of the game, so i don't think the aflith the power concentrated of the big six. david, thank you very much forjoining us. burling on top six. what constitutes of meal, a sandwich, a bowl of soup, a . of meal, a sandwich, a bowl of soup, a pie? pubs in liverpooltold to shut unless they serve food, but what constitutes a substantial meal? good question. is that this group? this is a passkey. what a pasty traditionally be considered a meal? no, but what we've worked out, according to robertjenrick who tried to clear up the confusion, if you put it on a plate like this, and ijust you put it on a plate like this, and i just put you put it on a plate like this, and ijust put a lettuce leaf there on that... you have to do more than one leaf! that is not a solid! he said it doesn't count, but if you stick a salad leaf, that is a meal. that is not a solid! hello. after what was a wet start of this week for most of us, things are currently in the process of drying out. it will continue to do so by next week, with winds and rain wil

coming up, william riggs, afl-cio chief economist. that is at 1:00 in new york and 5:00 in london.mberg on first word news. i am ritika gupta. president trump is mistakenly telling mailing voters having second thoughts they can change their votes in most states. the president tweeted google searches for can i change my vote have been trending upwards. allow handful of states mailing voters to change their ballots after submitting them, and the practice is not common. joe biden thinks he may have a shot at doing something no democratic karen has done in more than 40 years -- no democratic candidate has done in more than 40 years, with the state of texas. toldresidential nominee the station in fort worth the campaign is put out a major effort in texas. president's lead is below the nine point margin of his weight in 2016. the coronavirus surge that started with young americans has now reached the oldest population. counties with the largest 65 and older populations now have an average 19 daily cases per 100,000 residents. that is 67% higher than a month ago. global news -- global new

you can see the union involvement and the head of the afl-cio with them.becomes not just a matter of a support mechanism but a controlling mechanism for the people in the kennedy administration who wanted to be able to have some levels of control over the march and the civil rights effort. >> we are going to take a call here and shortly after the king assassination, robert kennedy assassinated. let's listen to a call. >> hello. i am a killer brother of the construction trade. i do not want to turn this into a union rally, but my first ever political involvement in politics was with hubert humphrey. i was 18 years old. i live in an inner ring that suburb of the city of brooklyn, ohio. he had came to berkeley. he was the vice president. you could ever imagine what was happening in 1968 and 1969 -- and all of the 1960's for that matter. he sat down with our major who turned out to be a mayor for 51 years. they were both mayors. it talked things over. i got drafted the following year. it is a pleasure, the series you are running. thank you for the happy warrio

that nationally when he campaigned and had the support of the aflcio from naeshg state in 1928 and the afl was the aflcio 1935. it was not national in the 1928 campaign. >> beverly gauged those issues that john was just talking about. did they play out nationally and how strong were the forces behind those issues? >> they did. al smith was someone was radicalized over the course of his time as a politician and starts out as an unexceptional tamany guy that is not putting forth particularly creative ideas and we don't know that much of what he was doing when he was an early assemblyman, but both through the social turmoil that you had during the progressiveiary and particularly through the triangle fire which does seem to have been this kind of eye-opening moment for him. 146 people die in this fire, right? they're mostly teenage girls and locked in the shirt waist building and they're forced to jump to their death and he becomes a true progressive in both what i would say is the sort of radical and not radical sense of that word. when he begins to work on the commission they revamp fire co

businesses resentful of wilson's relationship with the afl accused the administration of abusing its war power to pander to labor. in fact, they complained repeatedly that their own civil liberty was under attack. but this sort of uneasy equ equilibrium did not survive the war. in contrast to other wartime expansions in power that have been discussed in this lecture series, enforced conformity did not retreat with the arm miss stis. as civil liberties lawyer gilbert row complained almost exactly 100 years ago, the president told us yesterday that the moment the armistice was signed he took the harness off from business but he did not say anything about taking the halter off from fre speech. this constellation of features provoked progressive repudiation of state repression of a kind that swamped their earlier wartime ambivalence. as they had before the war, progressives who rejected radical methods and aspirations nonetheless believed it was better to tall rate dissent than to push it underground or make martyrs of the agitators. even president wilson purported always to have, quote,