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WASHINGTON, April 19--Teamsters Union President Dave Beck today launched a fight to void his suspension as an AFL-CIO officer...
...Lewiston, Maine, and in 1951 studied for a year in the field of adult education at the University of Oslo. Between Bates and Oslo, Worthy acted as a public relations assistant to A. Philip Randolph, President of the Sleeping Car Porters Union and now a vice-president of the AFL-CIO. During this time, he received help in his work from the staff and editors of the Afro-American, and when he went abroad, he began sending dispatches to that paper...
GALVESTON, Tex., April 16--The Teamsters' top command declared today that AFL-CIO accusations of corrupt influences were unsupported by specific charges and that it would attend no hearings until "fundamentals of fair adjudication" are assured...
...executive board of the 1,350,000-member union said when a hearing under satisfactory conditions is held the entire board will answer the charges, not just President Dave Beck, target of Senate and AFL-CIO investigations...
Such an attitude puts the AFL-CIO in a precarious position. If they continue their drive to clean their own house, they stand a good chance of dividing it. Nevertheless, the housecleaning, painful as it may be, must take place. If the Senate Committee, state agencies, and federal agencies like the Interstate Commerce Commission would move into high gear, labor's work could be done more quickly and more efficiently...