Word: greenness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Like Samuel Gompers in his later years, Mr. Green was not greatly oppressed nor did he struggle very hard. Unions thrive during periods of recovery but his first nine years in office were a period of first boom and then depression, and A. F. of L. memberships shrank steadily from 2,800,000 to 2,100,000. During that era corruption and abuse permeated several craft unions but Labor politics made it hard for Bill Green to take action even against known A. F. of L. racketeers. His crowning ineptness was that unlike John L. Lewis, he never learned...
...come, and it did, when Mr. Green would receive a jolt. A Baptist who never smoked or drank, he has lately begun to take a dry Martini or two before dinner, a definite concession to good fellowship with newshawks, few of whom are teetotalers. After resolutely refusing for 13 years to let any one take press relations out of his stiffening fingers, last August he hired a new press agent-Philip Pearl, an experienced reporter with a wide acquaintance among Washington correspondents...
...Washington Mr. Green lives in a suite at the Hotel Hamilton, though his home is still in Coshocton, where he weekends with his wife and family (five daughters, one son). His friends are largely labormen, and he has been deeply hurt by the names he has been called by his old friend, John Lewis...
...House of Labor, There can be no head of a divided house and probably Bill Green will never again be sole head of the House of Labor. Certainly John L. Lewis, daily rallying new members about him, is very far from beaten. Curiously, it is a matter of almost equal certainty that William Green is also far from being beaten. Although about 1,000,000 workers broke away to form C.I.O., although A. F. of L. organizers have made little headway compared to John L. Lewis' go-getting staff, the strength of A. F. of L. has not been...
...William Green goes to Denver only as a corps commander in the army of organized labor, but as such he is a more potent figure than he was ten years ago as commander-in-chief. For that Army, far greater than ever before, today numbers-including railroad labor with C. L O. and A. F. of L.-some 7,000,000 men, and Labor divided is far from Labor defeated...