Word: joppa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Labor Boss Dale's biggest chance to show his muscle came in 1951 after Joseph V. Moreschi, president of the hod carriers union, made Dale the union spokesman for a pool of 38,000 construction laborers building power plants at Joppa, Ill. and Shawnee, Ky. for AEC's A-bomb plant near Paducah, Ky. Teaming up with James Bateman, 63, who ruled the Joppa plant's pipe fitters, Dale lost no time in calling on the Joppa plant's major contractor, Ebasco Services Inc., a subsidiary of Electric Bond and Share Co. Pointing out that...
...time he pulled out 350 carloads of laborers at Joppa, kept the motorcade touring for two days around the plant. Then Bateman pulled out his pipefitters over squabbles about who should unload pipe from trucks. In 29 months, work on the Joppa plant was stopped more than 40 times. Ebasco fell so far behind that the Bechtel Corporation took over its contract (TIME, Oct. 4). The delays added $58 million to the cost of the plant...
labor leaders. Three weeks ago a St. Louis jury found both men guilty of attempting to extort $1,030,000 from the Joppa plant contractors, the 13th and 14th to be convicted in the largest shakedown attempt since the Browne-Bioff syndicate operated in Hollywood...
Testified Dixon: "Last December AEC Assistant General Manager Walter Williams wrote J. B. McAfee, president of Electric Energy, Inc., which built a $197 million power plant for AEC at Joppa, ILL. for suggestions on how AEC could get more power. McAfee wrote back that he thought Electric Energy should not build another plant, instead suggested that a new company handle it. McAfee then telephoned Dixon, a vice president of Electric Energy (which is 10% owned by Middle South) and told him of AEC's need. In January or February Dixon...
...Joppa plant was scheduled to get into operation three months ahead of TVA's. Said Clapp: "Both TVA and E.E., Inc. suffered from delayed deliveries from equipment manufacturers. Both encountered labor difficulties. Both projects missed the completion dates originally scheduled. Trade journals and some of the daily press heralded this 'race' . . . After a while, however, the cries of the professional spectators died down. It began to be apparent that the wrong horse was coming in ahead. Two years and three months from the time construction was started, the first unit at TVA's Shawnee plant...