Word: unionizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Since 1956, the Metropolitan News Co. of New York, one of 37 concerns that distribute New York papers, has paid out sums totaling $107,768 for "miscellaneous travel expenses." Asked by Chairman McClellan if these mysterious disbursements were payoffs to "some union officials," Metropolitan's Secretary Harold Weinstock took the Fifth Amendment...
...this went to Harold Gross, a convicted labor
extortionist who runs a Teamster local in Miami, has been on Neo
Gravure's payroll (together with four of his relatives) since 1945,
after serving three years in the pen. But a share was slipped to a
Longshoremen's Union official, Cornelius Noonan, who helped Gross
engineer the shakedown.
...tabloid, the left-wing Compass. Referred to an ex-convict (bail jumping, dope peddling) named Irving Bitz, Thackrey paid Bitz $10.000-half what Bitz demanded-for a trouble-free contract with the Deliverers. After collecting the money, Bitz introduced Thackrey to Joseph Simons, then president of the Deliverers' union. The Compass died three years later, but it had no trouble with Simons' union...
...Bradford: "It's a very sad commentary [when] one of the greatest publications in the country ... is subjected to a situation where the publication can absolutely be closed down unless they pay tribute." Moreover, the publishers did not succeed in purchasing peace: just last December, the Deliverers' union went on strike, kept New York's nine major dailies closed down for 19 days at an estimated total cost of $30 million...
...bandanna-hooded woman sprawls beneath her boat to apply a coat of copper paint. In St. Paul, seven families buy seven new houseboats, begin the 322-mile homeward trip down the Mississippi to Clinton, Iowa. In Seattle, 1,000 boat owners, burgees and pennants flapping, parade from Lake Union to Lake Washington to herald the opening of the new season...