Word: laborers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Columnist Westbrook Pegler, fresh from his investigations of California Ham & Eggery, visited the office of State's Attorney Thomas J. Courtney in Chicago. What he found in the records there made meat for two columns about meaty William ("Sweet Willie") Bioff, the boss of A. F. of L. labor in Hollywood studios and a potent figure in the U. S. entertainment industry. Sum of Columnist Pegler's findings was that in 1922 Willie Bioff was convicted of pandering, got a six-month jail sentence and $300 fine, lost an appeal, served only eight days of his sentence. Reported...
...believers in labor unity, it was unfortunate that the New Deal's Thurman Arnold opened his blasts against the A. F. of L. building trades unions, dragged up old A. F. of L. scandals by the dozen, inflamed A. F. of L. conservatives and renewed C. I. O. suspicions, at a moment when sentiment for labor peace was thus growing...
...been too optimistic about it before,wanted the I. L. G. W. U.'s action to speak louder than words for peace. Left-wing charges that A. F. of L. was too reactionary, that many an old-line A. F. of L. leader was a visionless labor boss, he brushed aside-all the more reason, said he, why the progressives should be back in A. F. of L., to moderate such tendencies. "The obstinacy of one organization caused the break," said David Dubinsky, "the obstinacy of the other organization is perpetuating it and making it deeper and wider...
...John L. Lewis, last June, called labor peace "secondary...
...conferences in Detroit last week. He could not abide the taunts of U.A.W.'s keg-headed Richard Frankensteen, who continually brings up the story that back in the bad old non-union days, Chrysler planted a spying boarder in the Frankensteen home. But Mr. Keller's able, labor-wise Vice President Herman Weckler, negotiating with "Durable Dick" Frankensteen and his boss, U.A.W. President Roland Jay Thomas, actually seemed to be getting somewhere. Within sniffing distance was settlement, re-employment of 58,000 idle Chrysler workers and perhaps 150,000 more in closed supply plants...