Word: internationale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Friends of organized labor have found it a disappointing year since Judge F. Dickson Letts appointed monitors to supervise the activities of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters in preparation for elections which were to be held during the following year. The IBT's success in organizing a group of employees...
The history of the teamsters, however, is not one to encourage the hope of reform from within. Since the founding of the International Brotherhood in 1905, teamster history has revealed two common denominators: violence, and intense local independence: both have played a role in creating the present situation.
Today there are some signs that the court-appointed monitors, despite the odds they find themselves working against, may succeed in cleaning up the union. A few scattered unions have voted in "reform" officials to replace the former supporters of Hoffa. But at the same time, the New York organizer...
The hopes of Judge Letts that an election could be held a year after his appointment of monitors had vanished by last December when he told the Brotherhood not to hold its convention in January, and that it would have to get permission from the court before scheduling an election...
As expenses began to pile up after a year of shooting, Satyajit Ray persuaded the West Bengali government to sponsor his project, as a sort of regional advertising. A year and a half later, on a budget that never reached $ 40,000, Pather Panchali was ready to show. In international...