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...reconstruct!" (foreign residents, including U.S. troops, "will also be encouraged to exchange this greeting"). To keep Koreans on their toes, there will be daily "reconstruction calisthenics" and, just in case any feel downhearted, the "emotional aspects of life" are to be "heightened with public songs stressing antiCommunism, independence, brotherhood and reconstruction, which will be written and sung...
Hoffa flew in with his wife* and three goals: to clear his clouded claim to the Teamster presidency, which he has held "provisionally" under a 1958 federal court order; to centralize union authority firmly in his own muscular hands; to broaden the brotherhood's charter and set the Teamsters free to organize anyone from airline stewardesses to zoo keepers. By week's end, Hoffa accomplished all three...
...Ruled that a railway worker forced to join a brotherhood by a union shop contract can prevent the union from spending his dues on political causes he rejects. By another 5-to-4 majority, the Court ordered the Georgia Supreme Court to work out some dues-collection system that would satisfy dissenting railroaders who made formal protest against their union's political spending. The decision was ominous news to the A.F.L.-C.I.O.'s Committee on Political Education, which gathers in dues from Republican and Democratic workers alike-but which spends its budget ($720,000 in 1959) to lobby...
...there is any such thing as a cinch bet, it is that James Riddle Hoffa will be overwhelmingly re-elected president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters at the union's Miami convention next month. But Jimmy is not the sort to take any chances: his headquarters admitted last week that an "independent" committee (headed by Hoffa lieutenants) had sent letters putting the bite on the union's 3,000 fulltime staff members for $25 each "to defray the election campaign expenses" of Jimmy and Secretary-Treasurer John English...
...Holy Scriptures.'' ¶ The government of the new church must be democratic rather than hierarchical, recognizing that "all Christians are Christ's ministers, even though some in the church are separated and ordained to the ministry of word and sacrament." ¶ In order to recapture the brotherhood and sense of fellowship that should exist in the church between its members and its ministers, "let us make certain that the more status a member or minister has, the more simple be his dress and attitude . . . 'My brother' is a better form of Christian address than...