Word: afl
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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MIAMI BEACH, Fla., Oct. 2--The Teamsters convention tonight overwhelmingly repudiated corruption charges leveled at James R. Hoffa, Dave Beck and other Teamsters bosses by the AFL...
...AFL-CIO report detailing the charges, based on disclosures before the Senate Rackets Investigating Committee, was read to the convention. It took about two hours as delegates listened silently...
...beat and the considerable praise it elicited, and replied to a Congressional critic, CBS itself made no response to the President's criticism. When some cries arose because the Khrushchev interview had not been followed by a rebuttal, the network obediently scheduled one. That produced more controversy when AFL-CIO President George Meany, scheduled to participate, withdrew after learning that segments of the Khrushchev interview would be re-shown in the course of the program...
Handbills now being circulated by the AFL Building Service Employees Local 254 claim, "AFL Scores Victories over Independent at Bindery and at H.A.A." The Local is seeking to represent unskilled employees, now members of the HUERA and other independent employees' unions...
...University painter sits in a room with three others, chewing a candy bar, and wonders if the AFL-CIO boys can help. A garbage collector rides in the back of his collection truck, sorting out valuables and wondering where the students get their money from...