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...matter how hard he tried, ancient (76) Dan Tobin, boss of the powerful Teamsters' Union, could not get very excited about next year's presidential candidates. In last month's International Teamster, he noted that Ohio's Bob Taft would probably be the Republican nominee. But his words about labor's onetime public enemy No. 1 were so amicable ("If Senator Taft gives you his word or promise . . . he will keep that word or that promise") that the Republican Indianapolis News bannerlined: TEAMSTERS' TOBIN TOOTS FOR TAFT...
Writing in the International Teamster, President Daniel J. Tobin took a slap at high-priced labor leaders. The pay should be good, said Tobin, "but I don't believe that we should follow the millionaire class ... In our last convention I refused to be a candidate for office if they increased my salary from $30,000 to $50,000 per year...
Eighteen months ago, as pink-faced, power-hungry Teamster Chieftain Dave Beck was leaning out across the nation to gobble non-teamsters into his big union, a rich and succulent ragout of manpower was uncovered at his very elbow. The independent Aero Mechanics Union began a lingering, unsuccessful strike at the Seattle plants of Boeing Aircraft Company...
What if the truckers didn't want to be interviewed? Beck didn't foresee any trouble. The Teamster census takers have all been instructed to be very "courteous...
...coffee, to weigh-in or unload cargoes, at bridges, tunnels or gas stations. Beck's boys will ask to see their union credentials. Drivers that have them will be allowed to grind on. Those that do not will be neatly listed in Beck's books. Later, Teamster organizers will campaign among non-union drivers, pay calls on their employers, persuade them to sign contracts with the mighty Teamsters...