Word: careys
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Chivalry is very costly," said R. Carey Mcintoah '55, Allston Burr Senior Tutor in Dunster House, where Vicki spent most of Saturday. The supposed highlight of the evening, a gala party in the Dunster House Dining Hall, was fun but rather underattended, according to the guests who did arrive. Left for Vicki's sponsors to mull over was a debt estimated at around...
...Carey had been a stormy petrel in the labor movement for years. At 25, he organized the United Electrical Workers Union. In 1949, after he had trouble with infiltrating Communists, he broke off from the U.E., founded the I.U.E. under the auspices of the C.I.O. He brought it to a peak membership of 397,000 in 1956. Then, owing mostly to Carey's dictatorial methods, it began to lose members...
Last September, dissidents nominated Jennings to run against Carey. For 14 years Jennings had been executive secretary of the I.U.E.'s New York-New Jersey District 3, which has about 40% of the union membership. He was reluctant to tangle openly with Carey; yet he had long disagreed with his boss's tactics. Said he: "Carey's concept of a trade union is simple: if you differ with him, you're a traitor...
...Pilferage. Before Carey submitted his resignation to the I.U.E.'s executive board, he held a poignant press conference. His blue eyes moistened as he said: "I have come to the painful conclusion that I can best serve our beloved union's future, its unity and solidarity, and its capacity for advancing the interests of all electrical workers by resigning from my position as president of the I.U.E...
...Carey claimed that he had been "completely surprised" by the election switch-about, but not everyone believed him. Commented A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany: "Everybody in Washington knew what was going on. The only shock was the amount of the pilferage...