Word: unionistic
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...before, President David Dubinsky of big International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union resigned as eleventh vice president of the American Federation of Labor. Industrial Unionist Dubinsky's reason: The craft-unionist A. F. of L. Executive Council had exceeded its authority last month in ordering the ten industrial unions composing C. I. O. to abandon their organization within 30 days or be suspended from the Federation...
...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 it a New Deal flavor, they invited in as president George L. Berry, custodian...
...craft union followers resolved themselves into a trial court. Since the first session was long and hot, the meetings were moved from the A. F. of L.'s offices to an air-cooled banquet hall of the Hotel Hamilton across the street from C. I. O. headquarters. Industrial Unionist Lewis could, by looking out his office window, see the back of Craft Unionist Green sitting in shirt sleeves at the conference table...
...brink of what many an observer thought promised to become a historic industrial war, Industrial Unionist Lewis also moved closer last week to a show-down in his struggle with President William Green & fellow craft unionists of the American Federation of Labor...
...John Llewellyn Lewis, whose United Mine Workers had already pledged themselves to Roosevelt, and President Sidney Hillman of Amalgamated Clothing Workers. Their immediate aim was to keep Postmaster General Farley from naming President Daniel Tobin of the A. F. of L.'s Teamsters' Union, a reactionary craft unionist, to be the New Deal's official Labor vote-getter...