Word: moreschi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That way was not the traditional way of A.F.L., to which Dubinsky's I.L.G.W.U. belongs. Like A.F.L. Founder Samuel Gompers, its old-line craft unionists cling to the dying faith that wages and hours are labor's only proper concern. If Hutcheson's carpenters or Moreschi's hod carriers got their pork chops, the rest of the world could go hang. Dubinsky insists that pork chops are not enough. He believes that what affects working men anywhere affects working men everywhere...
Congressional tempers were not improved by another choice bit of double-talk before the Senate committee the day before. Squinting through a pair of dark glasses, the A.F.L. Hod Carriers' pious Joseph V. Moreschi listened while his lawyer read his plea...
...committee paid small attention to that plea. It remembered that Joe Moreschi, whose union went 30 years without holding a convention, is under indictment for embezzling $500,000 of Hod Carriers' funds...
Joseph V. Moreschi, head of A.F. of L.'s 250,000-strong hod carriers and common laborers union, not only defeated his critics last week but answered them with winged, not to say haloed, words...
Like many an A.F. of L. boss Mr. Moreschi has been accused of running his union in an undemocratic manner (TIME, Sept. 22). President of the hod carriers for the past 15 years, he had never been elected. He and his six vice presidents, who were appointed, had continued themselves in office by simply reappointing each other. As his union met in convention last week a rank-&-file revolt threatened, but Mr. Moreschi quickly squashed it and, with the backing of A.F. of L. President William Green, triumphantly won the first election the hod carriers had had in 30 years...