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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The 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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Embattled Warrior | 10/8/1957 | See Source »

But U.S. labor has come far since Edmund Cartwright's day. How very far was plain last week when delegates at the Amalgamated Lithographers of America convention in Chicago adopted a proposal to put $1 million in A.L.A. money into a fund to promote technological advances in lithography, provided...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Farewell to Loom-Wrecking | 10/7/1957 | See Source »

¶ In Washington, to the applause of Teamster locals across the U.S., 13 rank-and-file, New York-area Teamsters won a temporary federal court injunction halting the Teamster election on the grounds that some delegates to the Miami convention had been selected unconstitutionally. One day later a court of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Brickbats at the Threshold | 10/7/1957 | See Source »

In Miami on the eve of the convention, opposition candidates scurried about trying to throw up a stop-Hoffa united front. (One powerful new contender: Chicago Vice President William A. Lee.) But Jimmy Hoffa kept his pose as an unstoppable front runner, predicted confidently that he would win on the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Brickbats at the Threshold | 10/7/1957 | See Source »

Then the delegates howled approval of a motion to expunge the AFL-CIO charges from the convention record.

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: Saudi Arabia Asks 'Hands Off,' Blames West for Syrian Tension; Teamster Delegates Uphold Hoffa | 10/3/1957 | See Source »

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