Word: superunion
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...ruckus with the actors' unions (TIME, Sept. 11, 1939). Some 48 A. F. of L. unions are concerned in one way or another with show business, including those of the teamsters, upholsterers, costume workers, floor coverers, ornamental iron workers, bartenders. Last week 20 of them joined in a superunion: the Combined Theatrical Amusement Crafts. Its announced purpose: to corral the rest of the 48. Its president is Vincent Jacobi of the stagehands' Theatrical Protective Union No. 1. But observers wondered whether behind the scenes ambitious George Browne might be trying for tsardom again...
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