Word: cio
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Jimmy Hoffa had to weather a temporary storm of Senate committee accusations, court injunctions, and ultimatums from the AFL-CIO to achieve one of the most powerful executive positions in organized labor, but his victory will come as a surprise to no one. One thing, however, is certain: Hoffa is now in a fight that started, rather than ended with his triumph at Miami Beach last week...
...immediate problem concerns the relationship between the AFL-CIO and Hoffa's Teamsters. George Meany, president of the parent union, is expected to urge suspension of the Teamsters and the next step--complete expulsion--would be left up to the AFL-CIO convention this December. Hoffa has appealed to Meany and his executive council to drop the ouster movement, but the Ethical Practices Committee has already gone too far to back down now. The result of a clear split between the AFL-CIO and the giant Teamsters bloc would be a labor war injurious both to national business...
MIAMI BEACH, Fla., Oct. 2--The Teamsters convention tonight overwhelmingly repudiated corruption charges leveled at James R. Hoffa, Dave Beck and other Teamsters bosses by the AFL-CIO...
...CIO report detailing the charges, based on disclosures before the Senate Rackets Investigating Committee, was read to the convention. It took about two hours as delegates listened silently...
Then the delegates howled approval of a motion to expunge the AFL-CIO charges from the convention record...