Word: teamsters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Daniel J. Tobin, president of the Teamsters (160,000 members), chairman of the Democratic labor committee in the last two Presidential campaigns. For his party devotion he expected to be made Secretary of Labor in 1933, was bitterly disappointed when the job went to Frances Perkins-which was perhaps one of the reasons why the Secretary of Labor had not been invited last week to speak at next week's convention, an unprecedented slight. In A. F. of L., however, Teamster Tobin's star is still rising, for his loyal men occupy a strategic spot in a sector...
...real stake in this war of Labor against Labor was jurisdictional possession of the West Coast warehousemen, who were ignored by Teamster Beck until Longshoreman Bridges in his "inland march" started to organize them. Today he has 11,000 in the C. I. O. camp. Meantime Dave Beck got the A. F. of L. to award jurisdiction over warehousemen to the teamsters, a meaningless gesture to Harry Bridges, who is now West Coast director for C. I. O. Longshoreman Bridges offered last week to settle the dispute by a National Labor Relations Board election but Teamster Beck, having only...
...strike Mr. Bridges was on the Ryan payroll as an organizer. Not until he was made chairman of the Joint Marine Strike Committee did San Francisco wake up to the fact that there was a Harry Bridges. Old Michael J. Casey, Irish boss of the West Coast teamsters, fought to keep .his men out of the maritime strike, fought the general strike, rising in one meeting to cry: "Don't do it, lads. I know what it means." In the end the venerable old teamster had to play ball with the dynamic young longshoreman, and while they represented...
...After Teamster Casey died last spring at 79, his reins passed to Teamster David Beck pudgy, aggressive "Tsar of Seattle labor" who is out to organize "everything on wheels," a definition broad enough to take warehousemen as well as restaurant help, newspaper circulation hustlers and already organized brewers...
Last April when word spread through the American Federation of Labor that elderly Daniel Tobin of the Teamsters' Union would be reappointed chairman of the Democratic National Committee's Labor Division, John L. Lewis of the United Mine Workers and Sidney Hillman of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers laid their shrewd heads together. Teamster Tobin, they knew, was a stanch craft unionist, one of the twelve A. F. of L. vice presidents who firmly opposed their Committee for Industrial Organization. Almost overnight C. I. O. Leaders Lewis & Hillman formed Labor's Non-Partisan League. To give...