Word: unionizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...This state can't secede from the Union," said he. But the moment the federal courts hand down "a final, unappealable, operating order" to integrate the state's public schools, he intends to invoke Virginia's new state laws of "massive resistance," closing public schools, transferring students, state funds to new private schools, etc. Said Almond: "There's no such thing as limited integration. It's all integration-open the door and let us in, we'll do the rest and destroy you as rapidly as we can in the administrative processes of education...
...scandal-smeared Teamsters Union boasts no handsomer showpiece than Harold Gibbons, 48, international vice president and President Jimmy Hoffa's left-hand man. He has been to college, lectured at Harvard. A slim, fit-looking man. he dresses in dignified executive grey, parades a lofty moral code: "Business ethics aren't good enough for trade unions." But in just two days last week, Arkansas' John McClellan's Senate labor-rackets investigating committee stripped away the veneer, exposed Egghead Gibbons as blood brother to the purple-jawed hoods and goons who have filed before the committee...
Billed as a cooperative witness. Gibbons showed up in Washington with two valises and a briefcase stuffed with union records. But the committee was not so interested in his luggage as it was in the dark record of his labor career, thoroughly documented by committee research and previous witnesses. Items: ^ Far from abhorring violence, as Gibbons piously testified, he is pretty good as an engineer of violence-as the evidence clearly showed. During a St. Louis cab strike in 1953, he used a crew of enforcers that included a procurer, a stickup man, a pimp who put his own wife...
...Boss of a big, independent St. Louis distribution union. Gibbons in 1949 sold out to the Teamsters, dipping into his union treasury-without informing the membership-to help buy off officers of the Teamster local who were discarded in the merger...
...Macy's opened Garden State Plaza, highlighted by a three-level Bamberger's department store (a Macy's division) and such well-known outlets as A.S. Beck, Grand Union, Horn & Hardart. Sales are at a $40 million yearly pace...