Word: billing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This coming week in Denver, Bill Green, by now 64, somewhat plumper, a deal more amiable, will gavel to order his 13th annual A. F. of L. convention. There in the big grey municipal auditorium some 600 accredited delegates and a host of other labormen will assemble in what is still Labor's only national congress. The principal item on the agenda is the man who saved Bill Green from innocuous obscurity, and day after day, in the redundant, turgid oratory so dear to old-time labor leaders, John L. Lewis will be damned and double-damned...
William L. ("Big Bill") Hutcheson, the ponderous president of the Carpenters Union, biggest in A. F. of L. (300,000 members). Perennial campaign head of the Republican Party's labor committee, he quit the executive council in a huff last year when A. F. of L. plumped for Franklin D. Roosevelt. Today Carpenter Hutcheson's power is on the wane, partly because his Republican affiliations are no longer of great value, partly because he lost face after John L. Lewis punched his jaw at the 1935 convention...
Matthew Woll, Samuel Gompers' short, swart "Crown Prince," a high-tariff Republican who wears wing collars and is as conservative as a life insurance company president, which he is (Union Labor Life). Luxemburg-born, he is more sophisticated than his A. F. of L. colleagues, dislikes Bill Green almost as much as he does John Lewis...
Suddenly paunchy, peace-loving Bill Green, who might physically have been mistaken for a respectable smalltown bank president, found himself at the helm of an organization whose constitutional preamble starts: "Whereas, a struggle is going on in all the nations of the civilized world between the oppressors and the oppressed of all countries, a struggle between the capitalist and the laborer...
...neighborhood of 60 follows were present in the Dillon Field House lounge to hear short addresses by Coaches Jankko Mikola and Bill Noufield. Also present was Alex Northrop '38, elected captain for 1937-38 after the Yale meet of last...