Word: laborers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fourth of all antitrust complaints have been about the building industry, where restraints of trade are found from cellar to roof: producers of building materials, distributors, contractors, subcontractors, labor unions, and in local legislative restraints of trade, such as building "regulations" that only thinly veil protective tariffs set up for the benefit of local monopolies. (Arnold cites the fact that the plumbing in the magnificent $10,000,000 Department of Justice building is arbitrarily ruled not good enough for private homes in some cities...
Opening Guns. Indicted in St. Louis for conspiracy in restraint of trade were four American Federation of Labor leaders, headed by reactionary, hulking William L. Hutcheson of Indianapolis, president of the carpenters' union (300,000 members). Root of the indictment: a 25-year-old jurisdictional dispute between carpenters' and machinists' unions over equipment installations at the Anheuser-Busch brewery, forcing abandonment of plans to build additional aging and fermenting plants, etc., to cost from $750,000 to $2,000,000. The dispute, said an Arnold assistant, Roscoe Steffen, "could be settled in an hour if the leadership...
...question mark tiepin which Mr. Green always sticks in his flower-patterned neckties symbolized last week not only his personal anguish, but that of many a building-labor chief. Many a citizen still remembers the tie-ups between gangsters and building unions in the Roaring Twenties; that it was from such men as Jake the Bum, oldtime A. F. of L. criminal, that Chicago and New York gangsters learned numerous tricks of the trade...
...reached his hand into St. Louis, Newark, Atlantic City. He spread his power over the newborn labor rackets. He built a $65,000 walled fortress in Florida on Palm Island, near Miami. He turned up at theatres, thick lips puckered, flanked by watchful bodyguards. Honest men patted him gingerly on the back, said of him, "Great fellow, Al." He sat with society in Miami, he had a ringside seat at the big fights. His levy fell on millions-every man paid through his liquor, entertainment, food, clothing. The take of his racket organization was estimated...
...Richard Mitchell's re-employment and denouncing Governor James, who lamely pleaded that St. John's son had known for two months that he was to be replaced. But State Treasurer F. Clair Ross, one of the few Democratic holdovers from ex-Governor George Earle's labor-minded regime, smartly hired Richard Mitchell on the evening of John Mitchell Day, put him to work as an auditor at $1,800 a year...