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