Word: careys
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Dictatorial Methods. Last week James B. Carey, 53, president of the 280,000-member International Union of Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers (I.U.E.), resigned-but only because U.S. Labor Department investigators said that he was in office as a result of cheating in a union election last December. That election pitted Carey against Paul J. Jennings, 47, a longtime I.U.E. official...
...first time in Carey's 15-year reign that he had had a challenger. The I.U.E.'s five-man board of trustees counted the ballots and announced that Carey had won. Jennings filed a federal court suit, charging fraud. Many rank and filers also complained to the Labor Department-and last month Government investigators, acting under the Landrum-Griffin Act, subpoenaed the I.U.E. election records. After completing their examination, the investigators said that Carey had really lost the election by 23,316 votes, instead of winning by 2,193 as the trustees, Carey loyalists, had claimed...
...rank and file. Last year insurgents deposed the presidents of three unions-the International Longshoremen's Association, the American Federation of Teachers, and the State, County and Municipal Employees. Rebels also seriously challenged six other union chiefs, including the International Union of Electrical Workers' eccentric James B. Carey; critics within the union noted that, among his many other gestures that needlessly irritated management, Carey sent Monopoly sets to General Electric executives in jail for price fixing...
...Carey is legislative representative for the Mission Hill residents whose homes are slated to be razed for the construction. The homeowners claim that land owned by Harvard would equally suit the Center's purpose, but a "conspiracy" between Harvard and the Board of Health has led to the present choice...
According to both parties, the meeting brought no significant change in the situation. Carey said that only after a meeting between President Pusey and MUNIT (Mission United Neighborhood Improvement Team) leader Rev. Vincent Kelly would he have additional comments...