Word: unionizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Oddly enough, the boycott bore a union-made label. As a business agent for the A.F.L.-C.I.O. Textile Workers Union, burly Charles E. Leadman bosses the 2,000-member Local 371 at American Viscose Corp., biggest local employer. "Chuck" Leadman and Plant Manager A. G. McVay teamed up last fall to lead moderates against massive resistance, were prevented from getting the school reopened on an integrated basis by Governor J. Lindsay Almond's school-locking order. Soon after, Leadman was outraged when the Negroes rejected his demands that they postpone their applications. "I had to give...
Last fortnight Union Boss Leadman chaired a citizens' meeting that in eight minutes railroaded through a plan to keep the private school going full blast, thus prepared for the boycott. Despite the opening of the public school last week, the viscose plant employees stood by the $1-a-week voluntary check-off system first proposed by Leadman's union to support the makeshift private schools. As a result, townsmen noted last week, Leadman's local is "achieving status by the bucketful...
...Church made its message clear to heavily Mormon (65.5%) Utah. The message: it was high time for the legislature to enact a new Sunday closing law to replace the one declared unconstitutional in 1943. Under similar pressure from the big merchants and supermarket operators (who would have to pay union labor triple pay to stay open on Sunday), both houses of the legislature comfortably passed a bill prohibiting Sunday sale of uncooked meats, groceries, clothing, boots and shoes, alcoholic beverages other than beer...
...fellow citizens for a service splendidly performed." During a 59-day trial, prosecutors charged that Beck cheated the Bureau of Internal Revenue by pocketing Teamster expense funds when other people paid his bills. Beck, already appealing a 15-year Washington state sentence for embezzling union funds, could get a maximum sentence of 30 years on the federal conviction. ¶ In Mineola, L.I., Vincent Squillante, tiny (5 ft. 1 in.) protege of assassinated Albert Anastasia (TIME, Nov. 4, 1957), was sentenced to 7½ to 15 years in prison for running a garbage extortion racket. With him the court sentenced...
...expected to find Russia as much changed from his brief 1929 visit, he said at the airport, as "England is today from the picture painted by Dickens"-an amiable dart at Russia's favorite source of knowledge about Britain). He further hoped during his visit to the Soviet Union to plumb Khrushchev's intentions by dropping a few hints as to matters on which the West might be willing to negotiate at the proposed Big Four conference, e.g., a "thinning out" of Soviet and Western troops in Germany, a joint Soviet-Western non-aggression pact for Germany...