Word: localism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Onetime A.A.M.O.N.Y. Employee Eli Kasper testified that a group of ex-convicts, in order to carry out the association's picketing, got a union charter as Local 19 of the Federal Service Workers Union; later became Local 266 of the Teamsters International and as Teamsters could stop truck deliveries...
...Abraham Gilbert, onetime vice president of a local of a repairmen and electrical workers union, said that coin-machine employees make "very good wages" and need no union. Actually, said he, the operators' association needed the union to scare competitors away with picketing. For that reason the association paid dues and union expenses...
Last week the St. Louis Post-Dispatch uncovered a Wimpy-like scheme thought up by tough, well-tailored Harold Gibbons, boss of Teamster Local 688 (9,000 members) and idea man for Teamster Czar Jimmy Hoffa. A free spender who ran through $63,000 in hotel tabs and other expenses in three years, Gibbons has set up a Local 688 charitable foundation to channel money to the United Fund and other St. Louis charities. Where is the money coming from? As new Local 688 contracts are negotiated, each employer will be required to kick in a dollar...
...grant last June by the Institute and funds from local groups financed the preparation of the yet unpublished report by Carter C. Umbarger '59, James S. Dalsimer '59, Andrew Morrison '58, and Peter Breggin '58, members of the PBH committee...
Police snapped a crime wave in the freshman dormitories Sunday night with the arrest of five local youths. The group was apprehended shortly after allegedly taking $250 worth of records from the Holworthy room of William E. Wessels...