Word: membership
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Under Beck, the Teamsters have increased their membership to 1,400,000 and their bankroll to more than $35 million. The union's 850 locals include brewery and dairy workers, cannery employees, nutmeat and potato-chip salesmen. "Dave," says another labor leader, "will take anybody he can get his hands on. A Teamster' to him is anybody who sleeps on a bed with movable casters...
...enemies admit that he has done well for his Teamsters in the way of wages and fringe benefits, and it is upon that fact that Beck justifies all his behavior. Cries he: "Everything else is incidental to wages, hours and improved working conditions for the Teamsters' membership. What are the men getting for what the men are paying?" What the men are getting does not include a say-so in the affairs of their union. Asks Beck: "Why should truck drivers and bottle washers be allowed to make decisions affecting union policy...
...Louis was outraged, not so much at the move itself, but at the way President Deramus did it. After a short, angry meeting, the city's Chamber of Commerce expelled the Katy from its ranks after 45 years of membership. Snapped the Chamber: "The treatment of these employees by the Katy is out of character with responsible business practices and does a great disservice to management here and elsewhere...
...Announcement of the U.S. decision drew a prompt response from the Kremlin. U.S. membership on the military committee, shrilled an Arabic-language broadcast from the Soviet Union, is dangerous to the existence of peace-loving Arab states. It "provides the Pentagon with new opportunities of encouraging Baghdad Pact members to organize various provocations and plots and to interfere with the affairs of Arab countries...
...called it Bethlehem (1740). Winston-Salem, N.C. was started by the Moravians in 1766. All such Moravian settlements were patterned after Herrnhut-all land and commercial enterprise was owned by the church; single men, single women and widows were housed apart. Last week the 55,000 U.S. Moravians (world membership: 300,000) celebrated in decorum and hope, gathered to commemorate their long history with long speeches, their Protestant fervor with prayer. President Eisenhower sent a message ("a vigorous spirit expressed in the sound and good work of the Moravian Church"). So did Dr. Albert Schweitzer from the jungles of Africa...