Word: greenes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thing that we knew would happen is happening," crowed Laborman Green, meeting with other A.F.of L. bigwigs in executive session in Atlantic City to prepare for the Federation's convention in Houston next month. Since the breakdown of C.I.O.-A.F. of L. peace negotiations last winter, William Green has rapidly gained confidence, and last week he was feeling sure of himself. After a parley with three of Mr. Dubinsky's vice presidents who set out to extend another feeler to Mr. Lewis in Washington, Mr. Green announced that the next peace move would have to come from C.I.O...
...show that he meant business, Mr. Green described the progress of A.F. of L.'s new International Maritime Federation, "the biggest effort we have ever made in the maritime industry." A double wedge to pit Harry Lundeberg's dissident Sailors' Union of the Pacific against C.I.O.'s West Coast longshoremen and A.F. of L.'s Atlantic longshoremen against C.I.O.'s National Maritime Union in the east, the Federation, said Mr. Green, was starting with 25,000 members, aiming...
During this busy week Mr. Green was sought out by the "John L. Lewis of France," Léon Jouhaux of the potbelly and off-centre goatee, whose aggressive political unions are a great concern of Premier Edouard Daladier. M. Jouhaux, en route to an international labor conference called by the "John L. Lewis of Mexico," big-eared Vicente Lombardo Toledano, made a pilgrimage to Atlantic City to discuss with Mr. Green (who is boycotting the Mexico City conference as "communistic") the problems of Labor in relation to world peace and war. Not mentioned was the John L. Lewis...
...William Green's eyes, the main obstacle to his resuming his position as the topdog of U. S. Labor is the superior favor enjoyed by his enemy with the present President of the U. S. In spite of a long telegram which Mr. Green sent to Hyde Park outlining the A. F. of L.'s objections to the reappointment of Donald Wakefield Smith to the National Labor Relations Board, the President promptly did as he was requested not to do. Mr. Green was able to announce, however, that the President agreed with him in principle that the Wagner...
...blow to Mr. Green, however, was the news at week's end that United Mine Workers had signed contracts with 22 of the Harlan County, Ky. coal operators many of whom had been scheduled to stand trial for violating the Wagner Act. Mr. Green, who has been trying to sign up the operators with his rival Progressive Miners of America, charged that the quid pro quo was a "brazen and unlawful" deal arranged by Mr. Lewis under which NLRB would withdraw its charges against the operators, the Department of Justice would quash its criminal indictments. This was promptly denied...