Word: tampa
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...between New Leaders Bridges & Curran and Old Leader Furuseth, so between old and new leaders in Labor's National organization was the issue drawn. But for the emergency in San Francisco, Mr. McGrady would have been flying 2,500 miles across country to Tampa, Fla. to act as peacemaker in Labor's biggest internal struggle of the generation. At Tampa this week the A. F. of L. holds its annual convention, and the old leaders, heirs of the late Samuel Gompers, headed by President William Green, were preparing finally to expel the insurgent new "industrial" unions headed...
...chief C. I. O. unions boycotted the Tampa meeting and as William Green was about to depart from Washington, Mr. Lewis gave him a parting kick in the pants. He summoned him as a member of the United Mine Workers to answer charges in Washington this week of 1) conspiring to oust the U. M. W. from the A. F. of L.; 2) failure to conform to the official policies of U. M. W.; 3) fraternizing with avowed enemies of U. M. W.; 4) misrepresenting the objectives...
After this indignity to Leader Green, the craft union leaders assembled in Tampa in no conciliatory mood. The Metal Trades Department held their session ahead of the regular A. F. of L. meeting and 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...
Porridge Cooking. If the A. F. of L. chooses a middle course at Tampa and fails to expel outright the industrial unions there will still be two conflicting labor sects, still a breach between the old and new leaders of labor...
...Welcome A. F. of L." said the posters which were ordered for display in Tampa this week, and underneath they were supposed to bear the seal of the Federation, two clasped hands. But when the posters were distributed a square of white paper was pasted over the seal. Those who peered closely at the paper could discern through it the outlines of some jokester's prank. The posters had been printed not with two clasped hands but with two clenched fists shaking at each other...