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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After watching some 50 shivering steel pickets march through the slush, Frank L. Driver, president of Harrison, N.J.'s Driver-Harris Co., put benches in his personnel offices, ordered coffee, sandwiches, crullers and pies, sprinkled the slippery sidewalks with sand. Said one apologetic picket: "The strike was orders from higher up. The company knows it's not our fault...
...have neither the time nor the inclination," said John Lewis when he quit A.F. of L. in 1935, "to follow the peregrinations of the council from the Jersey beaches in the summer to the golden sands of Florida in the winter...
...this week the Old Lion followed the A.F. of L. council to the golden sands of Miami on important business. Ahead of him he had sent a check for $9,000, representing January dues for his 600,000 United Mine Workers. After a decade of wandering, first along the riotous road of C.I.O.'s early marches, then on the thorny path of isolation, the prodigal was back...
...roared into the fold on his own unrepentant terms. He will sit on the A.F. of L. executive council (with the hilarious title of 13th vice president). His daughter Kathryn's catch-all District 50, the most vertical union in the world, fresh from a new conquest of some 1,000 former Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen members on the Long Island Railroad, will have full membership-A.F. of L.'s craft-union tradition notwithstanding...
When tired, lonely William Green, president of A.F. of L., got up to make the.announcement at the Miami Colonial Hotel, he seemed to have taken on a surprising amount of bounce. He was even dressed for the occasion-in a shep-herd's-check suit much gayer than his Baptist tastes usually permit. With Lewis back, A.F. of L.'s membership topped 7,000,000 once again, and C.I.O. could take warning...