Word: unionizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Senator John McClellan had demonstrated with frightening clarity the need for remedial labor legislation. Urged on by Labor Secretary James Mitchell, Massachusetts' Democratic Senator John Kennedy and New York's Republican Senator Irving Ives co-sponsored a fairly satisfactory bill that would require 1) periodic secret-ballot union elections, and 2) regular union reporting to the U.S. Labor Department on financial and other dealings, under threat of subpoena. But Sam Rayburn kept the Senate-passed bill stalled for weeks before finally promising to work for it. If Rayburn gets the measure passed, the Kennedy-Ives bill rates...
...first time I met Kierdorf was in 1956. He laid down a union recognition form and asked me to sign. He came right in here and laid it on my desk. We never had had a union before, and we never had been approached. If our employees wanted a union, we had no objections. We asked for a vote...
Kierdorf said there would be no vote. Just like that. Within a week we had a Teamster picket line. All truck deliveries stopped. We had 20 or 30 meetings with the union. Kierdorf was our man. We didn't deal with anyone else...
...Senator John McClellan and the labor-management rackets investigating committee. What brawny ex-Lumberman George Francis Heid, 35, was afraid of was not the power of the U.S. Government, as represented by the McClellan committee. It was the power of the Teamster Brotherhood, the U.S.'s biggest labor union (membership 1,500,000). Heid knew that testifying against Teamster Boss Jimmy Hoffa and his henchmen might bring ugly reprisals by Hoffa's ex-convict bullyboys. But with a pledge of protection by the committee. Heid huskily admitted that, under Teamster threats, he had perjured himself...
...seven months since he elbowed flabby Dave Beck aside and took over as Teamster president, Hoffa has done nothing to clean the ex-convict thugs out of the Teamsters or sever the businesslike connections between his union and the underworld. Said Chairman McClellan to Witness Hoffa: "You have created an impression in the minds of some people that possibly one of the reasons you don't [act against the hoods] is because you are in the same category...