Word: pressmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their president, scholarly John P. Frey who presented the original charges against the C. I. O. unions, denounced the Lewis bloc for affording Communists a foothold in U. S. labor organizations. At the last minute, since Mr. McGrady could not be present, George L. Berry, president of the Printing Pressmen's Union and Federal Coordinator for Industrial Co-operation (NRA plan-maker), rushed to Tampa as the Government's umpire...
...forties, he was already 22 years old when he got a job as a pressman on the Boston Herald 42 years ago. A good backslapper and able talker, he rose to head the local union, was spotted by George L. Berry, president of the International Printing Pressmen's Union, who picked him as an organizer. Berry, who belongs to the school of polished labor leaders, insisted that his organizers dress well and stop at the best hotels. Ed McGrady learned his lesson and today, elegant, with a good cigar in his mouth and the double-breasted manner...
...afternoon paper, which had fought him tooth & nail since he invaded Seattle in 1921. Clarance Brettun Blethen's Times not only printed Mr. Hearst's pronouncements, but independently condemned the strikers and their tactics. These, it seemed to rich, reactionary Mr. Blethen, were outrageously irregular. The Hearst pressmen were remaining away from work in violation of their "contractual obligations" and without consent of their international officers. The picketing was being largely conducted by unions, which had no legitimate interest in the dispute. Moreover, Seattle's Mayor sent no police to escort the News's 650 technically...
Last March President George L. Berry of the Printing Pressmen's Union, whom President Roosevelt made official caretaker of the Blue Eagle's benes, announced the organization of a "NonPartisan League," whose partisan object was to swing Labor's votes to Roosevelt next autumn. Co-organizers of the League were two potent proponents of industrial unionism: John Llewellyn Lewis, whose United Mine Workers had already pledged themselves to Roosevelt, and President Sidney Hillman of Amalgamated Clothing Workers. Their immediate aim was to keep Postmaster General Farley from naming President Daniel Tobin...
...helper until he was 21, never got to college. He was a Spanish War private, a World War major of engineers, helped organize the American Legion. At 53 he is not only the Southeast's biggest farmer (30,000 acres) but also, since 1907, president of the International Pressmen and Assistants Union and founder-owner of the nation's biggest color label-printing plant, at Rogersville, Tenn...