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Dates: during 1950-1959
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In Atlantic City's Convention Hall last week, 879 delegates representing the massive A.F.L.-C.I.O. met with scarcely more than one piece of meaningful business to act upon. The big organization (more than 15 million workers) was clearly a disordered house, thanks to the loss of public confidence in...
The A.F.L.-C.I.O. verdict: out. Gruff George Meany let it be known that the door would be open for the Teamsters' return after expulsion if they should get rid of Hoffa. Nonetheless, the delegates were well aware that their decision might plunge Big Labor into a near civil war...
Just as meaningful as the Teamster ouster at the A.F.L.-C.I.O. convention was the appearance of Labor Secretary James P. Mitchell. He had come to Atlantic City to lay out the Eisenhower Administration's program for labor legislation in the next session of Congress. It amounted to some strong...
Professional labor leaders--in the middle of an Atlantic City convention--wiped their foreheads and returned to the bar. New York politicos mumbled a sigh and turned to their work. "Gee," said Theodore Loos in his subway cab to a lingering reporter, "wouldn't it have been a dandy if...
¶Delegates to the national American Athletic Union convention did away with a couple of bits of unnecessary nonsense. They banned the "Spanish style" javelin throw (in which the spear tosser twirls like a discus thrower and has little control over direction), and they decided that, by next August, Olympic...