Word: teamsters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Remote indeed was the chance that any Beck slugger would have been brought to book in Seattle a year ago. Brawny Dave Beck was then still boss over his teamsters, other unions, Seattle businessmen and Seattle politicians. Evidence that Boss Beck might be in a decline appeared early this year, when in Seattle's elections droves of A. F. of L. voters deserted to C. I. O. candidates. The fact that middle-of-the-road Mayor Arthur B. Langlie defeated both labor rivals did not help Dave Beck, did not stop the C. I. O. invasion of his domain...
Died. John Francis Dore, 56, mayor of Seattle, Wash.; of heart trouble and blood poisoning; in Seattle. Bristling supporter of powerful A. F. of L. Teamster Union Chieftain David Beck, he often admitted: "Dave Beck runs this town." Mayor on & off since 1932, he was defeated in this year's primaries, would have been replaced in June by Businessman Arthur B. Langlie...
Beneath the fun ran a muddy stream of intrigue and high politics. The Stage Hands were wangling for jurisdiction over the Screen Actors. Secretary Joe Obergfell of the Brewery Union was there to keep Teamster Dan Tobin from getting any more beer drivers. Lean, pale Charles P. Howard (who is C. I. O.'s secretary but whose union is still A. F. of L.), hovered in the background like an unbidden ghost, protecting his preserve from jurisdictional poaching by letting it be known that his Typographers might soon hold a referendum on joining C. I. O. But the most...
Offsetting the Dubinsky gain, A. F. of L.'s Teamster Tobin last week blamed the A. F. of L., in part at least, for the collapse of the peace negotiations. But the question of war and peace hung mostly on the division within the A. F. of L. itself. In the Executive Council a man's importance depends on the number of votes he can command. Moderate Matthew Woll (who all last week was in touch with C.I.O.'s Moderate Dubinsky) has only 8,700 photo-engravers behind him. Moderate George Harrison has the backing...
...Philadelphia in 1787, St. George's Methodist Episcopal Church-standing today as the oldest church of the denomination in the U. S.-requested its handful of Negro members to segregate themselves at worship. Led by a prosperous teamster named Richard Allen and his friend Absalom Jones, the Negroes indignantly left the congregation, forthwith founded a benevolent organization called the Free African Society. From this group, first which U. S. Negroes formed to aid themselves socially and economically, stem all U. S. Methodist and Episcopal Negro churches. The majority of the Free Africans voted in 1791 to build an Episcopal...