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Victor V. Bussie ( ; January 27, 1919 – September 4, 2011)〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Victor Bussie )〕 was until his retirement in 1997 the 41-year unopposed president of the Louisiana AFL-CIO, having first assumed the mantle of union leadership in 1956. Journalists often described him as the most significant non-elected "official" in his state's politics. Bussie's influence with governors and state legislators became so great in the 1970s that a trade association known as the Louisiana Association of Business and Industry (LABI) was established as a counterbalance to the AFL-CIO. LABI won a huge victory in 1976 with the passage of the state's still-standing right-to-work legislation. ==Defender of the Longs== Bussie recalled having been born in poverty in the community of Montrose in Natchitoches Parish to Christopher "Chris" Bussie and the former Fannie LaCaze.〔 The senior Bussie was a unionized employee of the Texas Pacific Railroad.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Victor Bussie, Labor leader dead at 92 )〕 Bussie had a brother and five sisters, one of whom, Authree B. Gorrell of Austin, Texas, was still living as of 2011. At some point, the Bussies headed south to Rapides Parish because another sister, Fannie Mae Bussie Heard (1924–2009) of Shreveport, was born in Boyce. Fannie Heard was one of the first female Certified Public Accountants in northwestern Louisiana, having also been licensed to practice in California and Nevada.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Obituary of Fannie Mae Bussie Heard )〕 Bussie, who was half Choctaw Indian,〔http://web.archive.org/web/20070808154804/http://www.blueskywaters.com/page_96.htm〕 commented on his background, as follows: :My mother and father struggled to send us to school because of the high cost of school books. There finally came a time when they could no longer afford to buy books for seven children. We children were told that we could no longer attend school.〔(Share Your Huey Long Stories )〕 :That very same year, Governor Huey Pierce Long, Jr., persuaded the Louisiana State Legislature to fund schoolbooks for all children attending public schools. Not only did that mean that my brother and sisters and I could finish our education but also thousands of other children could as well. My family never forgot Huey Long and became longtime political supporters of the Long family.〔 In 1959, as AFL-CIO president, Bussie checked himself into a mental health facility in Galveston, Texas, as a ruse for the confinement of Governor Earl Kemp Long, who was committed by his wife, Blanche Revere Long and Long's nephew, U.S. Senator Russell B. Long. "It’s hard to believe that I was involved in it. It was a mess. He (Long) could have easily sued me, but that never occurred to me. He was a friend, and I just tried to help as best I could."〔Jordan Blum, "Bussie helped strengthen unions in Louisiana", ''Baton Rouge Morning Advocate'', October 20, 2008, p. 1A: http://www.2theadvocate.com/news/31263899.html〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Victor Bussie」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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