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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...finger on many another A.F. of L. figure: Jake ("The Bum") Wellner, business agent of the Brooklyn painters; Sam Kaplan, on the executive board of Local No. 306, New York Motion-Picture Machine Operators; John J. Dempsey, international treasurer of the ironworkers. Though a little brown around the edges, their careers have not been blighted. President Green has shouted "We disavow racketeering, gangsterism, and disregard for law most emphatically and without reservation"-but they still have their jobs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Holdup Men of Labor | 9/22/1941 | See Source »

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