Word: conventioners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Between A. F. of L. and C. I.O. there still exists a thin, technical tie: the rebellious C. I. O. unions were suspended last year but they have not yet been expelled. Theoretically, the Great Schism could be healed if the C. I. O. unions would renounce the heresy of...
John Philip Frey, the bespectacled head of A. F. of L.'s metal trades department-C. I. O.'s best hunting ground. Precise, pedantic, he is traditionally secretary of the convention resolutions committee, awes the delegates with his erudition, is often addressed as "Doctor" Frey. This week as...
William L. ("Big Bill") Hutcheson, the ponderous president of the Carpenters Union, biggest in A. F. of L. (300,000 members). Perennial campaign head of the Republican Party's labor committee, he quit the executive council in a huff last year when A. F. of L. plumped for Franklin...
Daniel J. Tobin, president of the Teamsters (160,000 members), chairman of the Democratic labor committee in the last two Presidential campaigns. For his party devotion he expected to be made Secretary of Labor in 1933, was bitterly disappointed when the job went to Frances Perkins-which was perhaps one...
In January 1936 Lawyer Newton Diehl Baker was appointed by the American Bar Association chairman of a committee of lawyers to meet with a committee of editors (under Stuart Perry of the Adrian, Mich. Telegram) and a committee of publishers (under Paul Bellamy of the Cleveland Plain Dealer) to "agree...