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...leadership of his International Longshoremen's Association, switched his membership last fall to the American Federation of Labor's new dock union. One of Billy's cousins who did the same was later found drowned in the Hudson River. Billy McMahon lost only his job as steward of New York's Pier 32. By last week, after six months of waterfront warfare between the A.F.L and the old I.L.A., Billy McMahon had his job back, and the A.F.L. looked like a winner all around...
...NLRB is considering a new election, which the A.F.L. hopes to win. Dock Steward Billy McMahon thinks so. Happily planning to go back to work at Pier 32, he said: "This is very, very good. This is the beginning of the end for the old I.L.A...
...pray with you and for you; give thanks to God that they are not only your flock but also your shepherds . . . Their name is legion, and they come from all classes and walks of life. Offhand, I can think of a Philadelphia lawyer, a school carpenter, a dining-room steward, a housewife, a paper hanger, a commercial traveler, a middle-aged widow, a surgeon and a schoolteacher who are of their number...
...turnabout was the result of increasing pressure on it. Tagged publicly with the Communist label, U.E. recently has lost out in almost every representation election held in new General Electric plants. Dissent and dissatisfaction with its party-line policies have spread among its own rank & file. Said one shop steward: "For years my friends have thought I was a Communist because 1 read the U.E. News." When six members of Local 301 refused to talk about their Red connections before the McCarthy committee last month, other members seized the moment to circulate petitions barring any such Fifth Amendmenteers from holding...
...system as a whole from his headquarters in the Union, the College dining halls are directed by Carle T. Tucker from the central kitchen in Kirkland House. For various reasons based on past problems mainly involving independability, the College employs no dietitians. Instead, Tucker himself holds the title of "steward," and as such serves the same function--making out the menus. Tucker emphatically denies that he is the dietitian or that there are any "female dietitians" in the College at all, and perhaps through modesty, is not particularly anxious to be known as the man responsible for the menu...