Word: cio
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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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...
Both Congress and the AFL-CIO have had most of their trouble with the million-and-a-half member Teamsters Union. The Senate Subcommittee searched valiantly for a Teamster official who would testify, but by the time their jurisdiction was established, teamster boss Beck was in sunny Nassau and now tours Europe. There is hope, however, that he will testify later this spring...
When the AFL-CIO Ethical Practices Committee passed a code outlawing rackets and racketeers from its member unions, the Teamsters union began to take action on its long threatened plan to quit or at least undermine the AFL-CIO. As John O'Rourke, head of the New York local put it, his boys would cross the picket lines of those unions which "spend all their time kicking our brains...
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...