Word: laborings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Landrum-Griffin bill was "a blunderbuss that would inflict grievous harm on all unions.'' And A.F.L.-C.I.O. Vice President Walter Reuther, attending a conference of the United Auto Workers and the Machinists' Union, said that the President "has been taken in by the opponents of organized labor." The Landrum-Griffin bill, Reuther added, "will weaken the honest labor unions and play into the hands of the dishonest...
...A.F.L.-C.I.O. was all out for the mildest-yet labor bill, filed by California Democrat John F. Shelley (former president of the California State Federation of Labor). The Shelley bill skips over picketing and boycott abuses, requires financial accounting from unions, and also from management "of expenditures for union-busting activities and hiring of labor spies," as George Meany...
...Southern Democrats tempted to vote for a tough bill but under heavy pressure from Speaker Rayburn-"This is a party issue. What are you, a Democrat or a Republican?"-to vote for the Elliott bill. And over the battle hung the prospect of a presidential veto of any labor bill that did not meet the proposition, as the President put it, "that American workers and the public get the kind of protection that Americans deserve...
...gets good wages and working conditions for his "boys." Last week, in a special report to the Senate, the McClellan committee took dead aim on Hoffa's benevolence to the boys. Said the committee: "In the history of this country it would be hard to find a labor leader who has so shamelessly abused his members or his trust." Among 21 counts of "improper actions" by Hoffa and his lieutenants, and parallel charges based on the record of the committee's 1958 hearings...
...Hoffa brought New York City Teamsters locals into the union in 1955, with the help of Gangsters John ("Johnny Dio") Dioguardi and Anthony ("Tony Ducks") Corallo, under low wages and poor working conditions. Hoffa authorized labor contracts in Detroit under which Teamsters Union car-washers got as little as $2.50 for a ten-hour...