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"teamster" Definitions
  1. a person whose job is driving a truck
"teamster" Synonyms
carter charioteer handler trainer driver motorist chauffeur pilot automobilist operator wheelman autoist leadfoot jockey cabbie whip hack coachman engineer car user hauler haulier trucker lorry driver truck driver truckie bullwhacker bullocky carrier More
"teamster" Antonyms
nondriver passenger

602 Sentences With "teamster"

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Like the UAW, Teamster membership has fallen from its peak.
Al Pacino also stars in the film as notorious teamster leader Jimmy Hoffa.
Members in California are seeking a higher company contribution to the plan, Teamster said.
Speedo's Teamster Backpack fits everything from goggles and towels to spare suits and hand paddles.
Commuter train services would not be affected in the event of a strike by Teamster members.
But Ronald Goldfarb, one of Kennedy's colleagues, claimed that it was abandoned because of Teamster intimidation.
UPS said it's hired 40,000 more Teamster workers in the U.S. in the last five years.
The teamster had no idea, but replied that another owner was selling land at $1,000 an acre.
According to the actress, a teamster had told her the car might not be operating that well.
Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden addresses union workers at Teamster Hall Local 249 in Pittsburgh on Monday.
Also, some Teamster boss named Spider would come and beat you to death with a tire iron.
One ailing Teamster plan is larger, with $40.5 billion in unfunded liabilities, for 390,079 workers and retirees.
"It's a sellout move that's very disappointing," said John Souza, 62, a Teamster from Fall River, Massachusetts.
And drivers should know they shouldn't sign anything, as the Teamster could count that as a vote in favor.
It happens to Liz when a writer on the show eats her very special, once-a-year Teamster sandwich.
One reason for Amazon's reticence may be stormy negotiations between its biggest carriers and the Teamster units that represent pilots.
A retired Teamster, he said the book warehouse where he had worked left for Indiana because it could pay nonunion wages.
The horse trainer's mother had a sister who was married to a Teamster who was married to a sister of Mazer's.
He can't stand it when an upstart Teamster rival, Anthony Provenzano (Stephen Graham), shows up late for a meeting wearing shorts.
Moreover, there is no guarantee of Teamster voting rights – would a mother who works two hours a week be allowed to vote?
While these two Ash Williams were chainsawing, a teamster came out of the haunted cabin holding a deer head and making spooky noises.
He became a Teamster, lost the warehouse job he thought would last to retirement, worked construction and started his own asphalt-sealing company.
He was a Teamster and spent most of his career dropping off kegs of Budweiser to local bars and liquor stores in West Los Angeles.
New companies entered the market, many of them nonunion; Teamster representation of garbage collectors and drivers declined from nearly 100 percent to less than half.
"When you're doing private sanitation [in New York], you're not going to make it to the end of your career," Henry, the Teamster organizer, says.
Speedo Teamster Backpack, $57.60 on sale (originally $64), available on AmazonWhen I started swimming, I realized the value of a backpack designed specifically for the sport.
Mob and Teamster leaders were gathering in Detroit in 1975 for the wedding of a daughter of William Bufalino (Ray Romano), Russell's cousin and Hoffa's lawyer.
There&aposs also a new committee — the National Teamster/UPS Committee for Technological Change — that will meet at least three times a year to talk technology.
As far as Teamster antics go, Peter Moser, a Boston labor attorney who negotiates on behalf of employers at Hirsch Roberts Weinstein, LLP, said he's seen worse.
One afternoon around that time, George was riding a horse in the Oakland Hills and stopped to ask a passing teamster about the value of the nearby land.
Mike Walden, a retired Teamster from Ohio who drove a truck for more than 30 years, visited Washington this past week to try to lobby for pension security.
In her interview with Maureen Dowd, Thurman recounted having to drive a car for the movie that, according to a teamster she spoke with on set, wasn't functioning properly.
You call a strike as a teamster, you know, you've got 2 1/2 million people stopping, nothing gets delivered, everything stops, and that's a tremendous amount of power.
Before his death in 2003, the alleged Bufalino crime family member claimed to have killed Teamster leader Jimmy Hoffa (played by Pacino) on the orders of mob boss Russell Bufalino.
The women of "The Irishman," Martin Scorsese's somewhat true story of the mob hit man and Teamster, initially look sparkly and refreshing, an oasis in a desert of suit jackets.
A fifth Teamster, Mark Harrington, 62, actually pleaded guilty to extortion charges last year and was sentenced to six months home confinement, two years probation, and $34,123 in fines and restitution.
A fifth Teamster, Mark Harrington, already copped a plea deal last year that came with a sentence of six months home confinement, two years probation, and $34,123 in fines and restitution.
"I was out five hours yesterday, I didn't have the Kavanaugh thing come up one time," said Wes Epperson, a retired Teamster who has been canvassing for Ms. McCaskill in Independence.
Mike Walden, a former truck driver and Teamster retiree from Akron, Ohio, recognized years ago that pensions such as the one he receives from the Central States were in dire straits.
That probably spells doom for the third major contender from the film, the British actor Graham, who goes toe-to-toe with Hoffa as the showboating teamster Anthony "Tony Pro" Provenzano.
The 8th U.S. Circuit Court affirmed the National Labor Relations Board's findings against Western Refining, which was acquired last year by Marathon Petroleum Corp, in complaints filed by Teamster steward Richard Topor.
Rita Lewis, a widow of a retired Teamster from Ohio, testified that the proposed cuts to the Central States plan could reduce pension benefits by as much as 85033 to 70 percent.
"Unions give us, at least, the right to say that something isn't right," said Peter Kuel, a Seattle Uber driver and elected board member of the Teamster-backed App-Based Drivers Association.
But she had been led to believe by a teamster, she says, that the car, which had been reconfigured from a stick shift to an automatic, might not be working that well.
Ken Jones, a retired mechanic and Teamster union member, backed Trump because he believed Clinton was "crooked" - borrowing Trump's signature insult - and that Trump might curtail illegal immigration, create jobs and fix Obamacare.
But it seems clear that organized crime bosses did not want him to resume the mantle of the Teamster&aposs presidency, and went to the ultimate length, through Sheeran, to prevent his return.
The Treasury Department on Friday rejected an application that would have allowed a pension fund covering members of the Teamster unions to cut benefits for hundreds of thousands of current and future retirees.
I guess the point I'm trying to make is not only does a person never stop learning, but also a person should never, ever refer to herself as the "rock" for a Teamster.
Before I found cooking, I did everything from growing my own weed and selling it, DJing house parties for money, and even working as a Teamster with my dad in a cardboard box factory.
Mike Walden, a retired Teamster and the president of the National United Committee to Protect Pensions, has led fellow retirees to Washington for several years to pressure members of Congress to fix the problem.
So much has been written about Jimmy Hoffa, the former Teamster boss who vanished from a Detroit suburb in 1975, but a new book about him still contains surprises — not least because of who wrote it.
Four months later, Cardinal Health conceded to Teamster demands for an independent chairman and calls from other investors to enhance the company's ability to claw back executive pay for misconduct around, for example, the opioid crisis.
The movie stars De Niro as Frank "The Irishman" Sheeran, a real-life hustler and hitman who served as an American labor union official and later confessed to the killing of Teamster labor union leader Jimmy Hoffa.
The movie follows the life of Frank "The Irishman" Sheeran (De Niro), a hustler and hitman who served as an American labor union official and later confessed to the killing of Teamster labor union leader Jimmy Hoffa.
Mazer had assumed then that the horse trainer was only home for a visit, but on the other hand the Teamster father had recently run off with a cocktail waitress at the Hotel Sylvania, leaving the mother bedridden.
Truckers will not cross picket lines, so if there are picketers in front of a factory that has finished vehicles ready to be shipped to dealers, Teamster truckers will honor the picket line and refuse transport those vehicles.
The Treasury Department on Friday rejected a plan to cut benefits for 270,000 union drivers and retirees who belong to a deeply troubled Teamster pension fund, a decision that could thwart the intentions of other large, financially struggling pension funds.
What is it about portraying a UPS employee or a teamster, claiming that you're trying to deliver a Cash On Delivery package of peacock meat from Lithuania, or pounds of Plaster of Paris, or lamb from Lebanon, millipedes from Alaska, etc.
More than a century before my family arrived in California, a Mexican teamster, known only as Antonio, was among those whose bodies were cannibalized by the Donner Party, the ill-fated emigrants to California who became snowbound in the Sierra Nevada in 1846.
The subsequent back-stabbing, conspiracies, betrayal, and violence pile up in this too-good-to-be-true story of the soldier turned teamster turned hitman Frank Sheeran (Robert DeNiro), who eventually emerges as the last man standing in the most heartbreaking manner possible.
At a Senate Finance Committee hearing in March, Rita Lewis, the widow of a retired Teamster, said that because of the cuts, she was going to have to sell her house and would not be able to help pay for her grandchildren's college education.
The first two-thirds or so of the film is a swaggering chronicle of the life of Frank Sheeran (Robert De Niro), a hitman for crime syndicate boss Russell Bufalino (Joe Pesci) and then for Teamster boss Jimmy Hoffa (Al Pacino), told through Sheeran's eyes.
FLIGHT ATTENDANTS HAVE HIGHER CANCER RISK THAN GENERAL POPULATION, STUDY SUGGESTS Mudry&aposs death came nearly a week after he and his family visited Bally&aposs Atlantic City so the 71-year-old retired Teamster could drink a cold beer and play a few hands of blackjack.
By Barbara Grzincic A federal appeals court on Monday ordered FedEx Freight to negotiate with Teamster locals representing truck drivers at two facilities, rejecting the company's argument that the National Labor Relation Board had improperly changed the standard for determining what constitutes an appropriate bargaining unit.
Two of Boston mayor Marty Walsh's aides are set to go to trial on similar charges next January for allegedly pressuring music festival organizers to hire union workers, and city hall staff emails are expected to feature heavily in the Teamster trial, according to the Boston Herald.
I met the burly ex-Teamster in the late 1980s when I was working on a story for the New York Daily News about Trump's use of yet another dubious contractor to demolish the old Bonwit Teller building to make way for the edifice that would serve as emblem of his empire.
Time telescopes in Martin Scorsese's newest movie, shifting back and forth through decades as old, wistful Frank narrates the tale of his life as a hitman for crime syndicate boss Russell Bufalino (Joe Pesci) and then for Teamster boss Jimmy Hoffa (Al Pacino, who has somehow never worked with Scorsese until now).
Time telescopes in Martin Scorsese's newest movie, shifting back and forth through decades as old, wistful Frank narrates the tale of his life as a hitman for crime syndicate boss Russell Bufalino (Joe Pesci) and then for Teamster boss Jimmy Hoffa (Al Pacino, who has somehow never worked with Scorsese before now).
Unsatisfied with the pace of progress toward improving working conditions, the group rallied a few hundred people, including local teamster chapters, to the Shakopee facility parking lot Friday afternoon to demand that Amazon reduce productivity rates to safe levels, respect the cultural differences of Muslim East Africans, and invest in a community fund to aid in affordable housing for workers.
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February 22, 1957; "More Data of Union Reported Missing". Associated Press. February 23, 1957; "Teamster Admits Destroying Data". New York Times. March 14, 1957; "A Teamster Local, Under Fire, Robbed".
1CLarkin, Jim, "Teamster Tragedy: Carey is Dead, Long Live the Reformers," The Progressive, Vol. 62, No. 1Slaughter, Jane, "Teamster Reform Movement Survives Carey's Debacle," Monthly Review, Vol. 49, No. 11.
A second vote was held, and 70 percent of voters approved the pact."Teamster President and Dissidents Disagree Over UPS Proposal," Associated Press, August 18, 1984; "Suit Charges Teamster Chief 'Rigged' Vote," Los Angeles Times, September 1, 1984; Hartson, "Teamster Leadership Rebuffed In Seeking Contract Ratification," Associated Press, September 20, 1984; Kurtz, "Teamsters Criticized," Washington Post, September 21, 1984; Hartson, "Teamster Members Approve UPS Accord, Union Says," Associated Press. October 31, 1984. In 1987, Presser renegotiated the 1985 contract.
In six weeks Luzena had made the money to pay back the teamster.
Salpuka, Agis. "Teamster Strike Begins As Talks Falter." New York Times. April 1, 1976.
Farrell Dobbs retired in 1972, but remained in the party until his death in 1983. He devoted the later part of his life to historical documentation of the American leftist movement and the Minnesota Teamsters. Dobbs was the author of a four-volume history / memoir of the Minneapolis struggles: Teamster Rebellion, Teamster Power, Teamster Politics and Teamster Bureaucracy. He had completed two volumes of a planned history of the Marxist movement in the United States at the time of his death, titled: Revolutionary Continuity: The Early Years, 1848-1917 and Birth of the Communist Movement, 1918-1922.
Shabecoff, Philip. "Hoffa Plans Bid for the Teamster Job." New York Times. April 29, 1973.
Greenhouse, Steven. "Teamster Counterrevolution: Why It Nearly Won Election." New York Times. December 22, 1996.
Greenhouse, Steven. "U.S. Investigates Campaign Gift to Teamster Chief." New York Times. March 27, 1997.
Greenhouse, Steven. "Doubt on Carey Spot on Teamster Ballot." New York Times. September 12, 1997.
Greenhouse, Steven. "An Overseer Bars Teamster Leader From Re- Election." New York Times. November 18, 1997.
"An Overseer Bars Teamster Leader From Re-Election." New York Times. November 18, 1997.Greenhouse, Steven.
Greenhouse, Steven. "Teamster Vote Drags as Chief Clings to Lead." New York Times. December 13, 1996.
Teamster driving a team of six horses at the Oktoberfest in Munich, Germany Lydia Vargo and Teamster with delivery wagon in Toledo, Ohio A teamster is a truck driver or a person who drives teams of draft animals. Further, the term often refers to a member of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, a labor union in the United States and Canada. Originally the term "teamster" referred to a person who drove a team, usually of oxen, horses, or mules, pulling a wagon. This term was common by the time of the Mexican–American War (1848) and the Indian Wars throughout the 19th and early 20th centuries on the American frontier.
Worried Republicans waited throughout the spring and summer for a Teamster endorsement, but it was not forthcoming. In early August, Presser finally told White House aides that Teamster support for Reagan hinged on whether Reagan would remove Donald Dotson as chairman of the National Labor Relations Board.
5 cents per mile for a horse and one rider, 2 cents per mile for a teamster with two horses, 3 cents for a teamster with three horses, and one with six horses, 4 cents. In the 1850s, about 500 miles of plank roads were built.
Williams, who was working with the Kansas City crime family, agreed to help Presser convince Teamster President Fitzsimmons to make Jackie a vice president. Jackie Presser's subsequent election was unanimous.Serrin, "Teamster Presidency Race Narrows," New York Times, April 20, 1983.Frantz, "Williams Points Finger at Presser," Chicago Tribune, November 3, 1985.
"Teamster Leader Was Paid $530,000," Associated Press, May 2, 1985. In April 1986, as Presser's legal woes worsened, C. Sam Theodus, leader of Teamster Local 407 in Cleveland, announced he would run as the TDU candidate against Presser. Presser's legal problems, however, seemed unlikely to harm his chances for re-election.
August 5, 1970; Bernstein, Harry. "Chavez Union and Teamster Talks Revealed." Los Angeles Times. August 7, 1970; Bernstein, Harry.
March 27, 1971; Bernstein, Harry. "New Teamster-Chavez Peace Treaty Signed." Los Angeles Times. March 27, 1971; Kendall, John.
A person who drives wagons is called a "wagoner", a "teamster", a "bullocky", a "muleskinner", or simply a "driver".
Once Teamster members won the right to vote for top officers, the Teamster reform movement then faced the problem of fielding a candidate to run for office. After extensive internal debate, TDU decided to endorse Ron Carey, head of New York Local 804, for Teamster General President at their 1989 convention. In the ensuing two years, Paff was the acknowledged "field general" of the grassroots operation that led dark horse reform candidate Carey to be elected to the top office in the IBT.Crowe, op cit.
He also began a major lobbying effort, particularly against a proposed labor racketeering bill."Teamster Chief Tells Senators He Opposes Racketeering Bill," Associated Press, June 8, 1983. In October 1983, the TDU announced a slate of candidates to try to oust Presser."Teamster Group Opens Drive Against Presser," Associated Press, October 16, 1983.
Ronald Robert Carey (March 22, 1936 – December 11, 2008) was an American labor leader who served as president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters from 1991 to 1997. He was the first Teamster General President elected by a direct vote of the membership."Teamster Chief Won't Seek Re-election in '91." Associated Press.
Carey proposed the dues hike in February 1994.Applebome, Peter. "Schism and Suit After a Teamster Strike." New York Times.
He worked clearing land, running a sawmill, and as a teamster. In a little more than two years, he saved enough to buy his own team. With multiple extra wagons, this operation quickly expanded into a thriving business. Morgan served as a civilian teamster during the French and Indian War, with his cousin Daniel Boone.
William Milton Breakenridge (December 25, 1846 – January 31, 1931)Arizona in Literature was an American lawman, teamster, railroader, soldier and author.
November 21, 1974.McFadden, Robert D. "New Teamster Chief's Motto: Honest Work for Honest Pay." New York Times. December 15, 1991.
This huge mural celebrates the 1997 United Parcel Service strike victory and includes images of Albert Parsons, Haymarket martyr and his labor activist wife Lucy Parsons. Created in 1998 by Mike Alewitz, located at 300 S. Ashland Teamster City. The building has since been replaced and the mural is gone. Few at Teamster City remember it.
"Teamster Loss Put At $709,420." New York Times. March 23, 1957; Morris, John D. "Inquiry Tracing Funds Beck Used." New York Times.
September 18, 1992; Raab, Selwyn. "Judge Approves Plan to Bar Leader From Teamster Posts." New York Times. April 14, 1993; Raab, Selwyn.
The agreement was announced on August 16, 1983. But in a surprise vote, Teamster members rejected the new wage agreement 94,086 to 13,082—easily reaching the two-thirds majority necessarily to reject a contract under the Teamster constitution. The results were a serious blow to Presser's prestige and power in the union.Heath, "Presser Presides at First Teamsters Meeting," Associated Press, July 20, 1983; Hartson, "Rehiring Agreement Reached," Associated Press, August 16, 1983; King, "Teamsters Reject Concessions Plan," New York Times, September 17, 1983; Townsend, "Teamster Vote Results Seen As Blow to Union Leaders," Christian Science Monitor, September 21, 1983.
15, In some places, a teamster was known as a carter, referring to the bullock cart. In Australian English, a teamster was also known as a bullocker or bullocky. From the Revolutionary War at least through World War I, United States Army enlisted personnel responsible for transporting supplies by wagon and upkeep of animals for this purpose were called wagoners.
Bridges was now leading "the march inland"—an attempt to organize warehouse workers away from shipping ports. Beck was alarmed by Bridges' radical politics and worried that the ILA would encroach on Teamster jurisdictions. But Teamster joint councils in Los Angeles and other California ports seemed unconcerned. As an end run around the complacent joint councils, Beck formed a large regional organization.
A federal district court judge agreed with that decision. McCarthy turned the meeting of the Teamster executive board over to Mathis, who subsequently ruled that no vote could be taken until after the Teamster convention. Mathis retired from his post as secretary-treasurer on October 31, 1991, two months early. Mathis and his wife, the former Myrtle Henson, had five children.
Matthews heard several newsworthy cases, including the passport denial of actor Paul Robeson and the 1956 bribery trial of Jimmy Hoffa, prominent Teamster official.
January 24, 1957; "Teamster Study Is 3 Months Old". New York Times. May 26, 1957; "Senate Votes Inquiry on Labor Rackets". New York Times.
The U.S. Departments of Labor and Justice first began investigating the fund in January 1976.Stetson, Damon. "Teamster Funds Under New Audit." New York Times.
In 1989, Carey announced that he would run for president of the Teamsters union."Queens Teamster Seeks Union's Top Office." Associated Press. September 18, 1989.
After DiGiorgio altered the terms of the election to benefit a Teamster victory, Chavez removed the NFWA from the ballot and urged his supporters to abstain. When the vote took place in June 1966, nearly half of eligible workers abstained, allowing a Teamster victory. Chavez then appealed to Pat Brown, the Governor of California, to intervene. Brown agreed, wanting the endorsement of the Mexican American Political Association.
Tolls of several cents a mile per horse rider or team were established. The tolls allowable in North Carolina were .5 cents per mile for a horse and one rider, 2 cents per mile for a teamster with two horses, 3 cents for a teamster with three horses, and one with six horses, 4 cents. In the 1850s, about 500 miles of plank roads were built.
In 1958, Jimmy Hoffa hired Bender to chair a commission investigating racketeering in the Teamsters. After being appointed as the three-man commission's chairman. Bender proceeded independently to send a form letter to every Teamster local in the country. The letter asked the local officials to supply information on "any racketeering or gangster alliances" of which they might be aware within their respective Teamster subunits.
"Teamsters Are For War," Chicago Daily Tribune, November 23, 1903. However, three Teamster locals in the city—the truck, ice wagon, and coal wagon drivers, which together represented about half the Teamster membership in Chicago—refused to violate their contracts and walk off the job. The three locals went even further, and disaffiliated from the Teamsters Joint Council of Chicago. Furious, Shea called them "cowards and traitors".
The benefit to shipping by truck is convenience. The teamster who picks up the merchandise is contractually bound to ensure its delivery to the products destination. Using Short Sea Shipping adds two more legs to the shipping equation. The first teamster carries the goods from its point of origin to the port authority, from there by barge or ship to the second port authority.
See also Frantz, "Top Teamster Called Informant for FBI," Chicago Tribune, July 27, 1985; Lardner, "Presser Said to Inform on Rival," Washington Post, July 30, 1985.
By year's end, Fitzsimmons had purged a number of Hoffa supporters from the union's top offices.Salpuka, Agis. "Teamster Aide Expects Ouster." New York Times. December 14, 1972.
Chen, David W. "Judge Upholds Ban on Race By Teamster." New York Times. January 2, 1998; "Disqualification Upheld In Teamsters Election." New York Times. September 19, 1998.
6 Slave labor was used in a wide variety of support roles, from infrastructure and mining, to teamster and medical roles such as hospital attendants and nurses.
The party encountered a band of Apache passing through the area. In a brief firefight, a teamster was killed. Carpenter and two troopers dismounted to control their mounts.
" New York Times. March 15, 1957; Loftus, Joseph A. "U.S. Jury Indicts 4 Teamster Aides Silent In Inquiry." New York Times. March 19, 1957; Loftus, Joseph A. "U.
March 24, 1956; Raskin, A.H. "Senators Study Dio Union Tie-In." New York Times. September 14, 1956; Loftus, Joseph A. "Teamster Union Tied to Rackets." New York Times.
December 15, 1996. Federal officials overseeing the election confirmed the victory the next day, and certified the election on January 10, 1997."Teamster Ballot Certified." New York Times.
Despite Hoffa's large electoral victory margins, this did not signal broad approval of his leadership. In particular, Teamsters covered by national contracts, such as freight, UPS, and carhaul workers, expressed growing frustration with the International. After years of eroding wages and working conditions, Teamster members started organizing to pressure their leadership to resist further givebacks. Paff and TDU played a coordinating role, helping to organize "vote no" campaigns in core Teamster industries. These began to bear fruit in the mid-2010s. At UPS, the largest Teamster employer, members narrowly ratified the 2014 national agreement by a 47-53 margin, but rejected 18 key local and regional supplements, preventing the contract from being ratified.
Ranzal, Edward. "7 Teamster Units Face U.S. Inquiry". New York Times. March 30, 1956; Kihss, Peter. "Local Chartered With No Members", New York Times, April 25, 1956; Kihss, Peter.
Cleveland city directories between 1907 and 1920 describe August Michalske as a "teaming contractor", "teamster", or "driver". He attended Cleveland's West High School where he starred in three sports.
Thomas A. Andretta (January 1, 1938 - January 25, 2019) was an American alleged Genovese crime family associate and suspected hitman in the disappearance of former Teamster president Jimmy Hoffa.
A 1992 made- for-TV movie was produced for HBO about his time in office, called Teamster Boss: The Jackie Presser Story, which starred Brian Dennehy and Jeff Daniels.
"… We are engaged in national campaigns that will test the resources of the union. Without a mighty army of Teamster member organizers, we're not going to get it done.""The Mighty Army of Teamster Organizers Wants You." www.teamster.org. "We formed our union with the Teamsters so we could have an opportunity to negotiate for fair pay, benefits and equal treatment," said Nicole Miles, a monitor at First Student in Parkville, Missouri and Local 838 member.
In 1980, Ronald Reagan forged a close political relationship with Jackie Presser. During Reagan's 1980 campaign for president, Jackie Presser served as one of Reagan's hosts at a private luncheon for Teamster and other union leaders and escorted Reagan to private meetings with Teamster officials.Broder, "Reagan, Citing 'the Carter Depression,' Courts Labor," Washington Post, August 28, 1980. After the November 1980 presidential election, Reagan named Presser as a labor advisor to his transition team.
See also: Yost, "Subcommittee to Consider Short- Circuited Investigation of Teamster Boss," Associated Press, May 6, 1986; Lardner, "FBI Hindering Probe of Presser, Panel Told," Washington Post, May 10, 1986.
"Ex-Teamster President Is Tried In a Case of Re-election Fraud." New York Times. August 28, 2001. and he was found not guilty on all charges on October 12, 2001.
The following year, it was leaked that Hoffa had claimed to a Teamster local that Kennedy had been "bodily" removed from his office, the statement being confirmed by a Teamster press agent and Hoffa saying Kennedy had only been ejected. On March 4, 1964, Hoffa was convicted in Chattanooga, Tennessee, of attempted bribery of a grand juror during his 1962 conspiracy trial in Nashville, Tennessee, and sentenced to eight years in prison and a $10,000 fine.Brill, Steven. The Teamsters.
In about 1862 the family arrived in Indianapolis. His first job in Indiana was in a brickyard. A few years later he became a farmer. He was also a teamster in Indianapolis.
George Scranton was born in Madison, Connecticut. Among his siblings was his brother Selden T. Scranton. He attended Lee’s Academy. He moved to Belvidere, New Jersey, in 1828 and became a teamster.
"Chavez Says Pact Means Teamsters Will Leave Fields." New York Times. September 29, 1973; "Meany Hints Teamster Accord With Chavez May Be Near End." New York Times. October 16, 1973; Shabecoff, Philip.
The building's location on Fairview Avenue gave rise to a nickname, "Fairview Fanny", coined by Teamster columnist Ed Donohoe to refer the newspaper's reputation as a stodgy and slow-to-change paper.
LaFayette "Fayette" McMullen (May 18, 1805 - November 8, 1880) was a 19th- century politician, driver, teamster and banker from the U.S. state of Virginia and the second appointed Governor of Washington Territory.
The McClellan Committee turned its focus to Hoffa and other Teamsters officials, and presented testimony and evidence alleging widespread corruption in Hoffa-controlled Teamster units."Inquiry to Stress History of Hoffa". Associated Press.
Keep settled in Honeoye Falls, New York, where he got a job as a teamster on the Erie Canal, and later found a position as a hack driver in nearby Rochester, New York.
In 1952, Jackie Presser became an organizer for the Teamsters. His father, William Presser, was a vice president of the international union and a known associate of Mafia figures in Cleveland, Ohio. Presser quickly rose within the Teamster hierarchy, becoming president of Local 507, a regional elected official, and a pension trustee. In 1972, Presser, his father, and Teamster president Frank Fitzsimmons became criminal informers for the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), offering the IRS incriminating evidence about rivals in the Teamsters union.
Members also rejected several local and regional supplements, as well as the UPS Freight agreement. However, rather than returning to the bargaining table, the Teamster leadership declared the contract ratified. They used a provision in the Teamster constitution that gives the General President the power to ratify a contract when less than two-thirds vote to reject if less than 50 percent of affected members vote overall. With member dissatisfaction growing, Paff and TDU are already gearing up for the 2021 election.
R.B. Marshall named Johnson Peak, in the 1890s, to honor a teamster and guide in his survey party, with Professor Davidson. They also climbed Mount Conness. Johnson Peak is part of the Cathedral Range.
Christopher Evans (February 19, 1847 – February 9, 1917), a native of Bells Corners near Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, was an American farmer and teamster turned outlaw. He was the leader of the Evans-Sontag Gang.
Loftus, Joseph A. "Top Beck Aide Links Hoffa to 'Phony' Teamster Locals." New York Times. August 20, 1957. Between November 29 and December 15, 1955, Dioguardi obtained charters from the Teamsters for seven paper locals.
He has also been responsible for producing many print editorials, advertising, commercials, the Roger Corman feature Supergator, served on the board of the Location Managers Guild of America, and on the Teamster 399 steering committee.
Evidence of widespread corruption within the Teamsters began emerging shortly after Tobin retired.Grutzner, "Racket in Produce By Trucking Union Is Bared At Inquiry," The New York Times, January 27, 1953; Raskin, "A.F.L. Heads Tell Dockers to Clean Union or Get Out," The New York Times, February 4, 1953; "5 Teamster Heads Suspended By Beck," The New York Times, October 23, 1953; "Unionists Held for Trial," Associated Press, October 28, 1953; "7 Bound Over for Trial," The New York Times, October 29, 1953; Loftus, "Beck Takes Over Westchester Unit," The New York Times, December 11, 1953; "Labor Inquiries Pushed," United Press International, December 27, 1953; "Inquiry Accuses Teamster Local," United Press International, February 20, 1954; "Monopoly Is Seen In Garment Wear," The New York Times, April 19, 1955; Ranzal, "U.S. Will Investigate Teamster Rule Here," The New York Times, March 24, 1956.
At the young age of 29, Pete was the solo TDU affiliated delegate to the 1976 Teamster convention, where he spoke out against the International Brotherhood of Teamsters leadership. He was later beaten unconscious for his opposition.
Harry was a typical teamster - hard working and hard living. Evidence of both his life and work exist in the Langenbaker house in the form of personal memorabilia and tools of his trade. Harry, unlike many others, continued to work as a teamster up until 1922 at which time he pulled his wagon to its final resting place at the side of the house and passed the time by making skewers for the local butcher and greenhide whips. In contrast, his wife Mary Ann was ladylike and dainty.
March/April 2009. The union's successful organizing plan has emphasized the Teamster core industries—particularly those in the global supply chain—and the management of Hoffa and the Teamsters Organizing Department involved the entire union. The bulk of the organizing resulted from coordinated, disciplined campaigns in which numerous Teamster local unions and Joint Councils participated. Organizing has been a main theme of Hoffa's administration, culminating in 2005, when the Teamsters Union left the AFL-CIO to found the new Change to Win Federation with emphasis on organizing and growth.
Tension on the New York piers was mounting. ILA loyalists and many other longshoremen were at best suspicious of the IBL, which they viewed as a machine of the Waterfront Commission and a scab union—an organization of workers perceived as having a role in strike breaking. By early March 1954, the storm finally hit when Teamster boss David Beck was perceived as betraying the ILA by refusing to cross an IBL picket line. News spread and on piers up and down Manhattan, ILA longshoremen refused to touch Teamster deliveries.
Adding to the crisis were the Wall Street financial firms that lost billions of dollars for Teamster funds while collecting large management fees. Faced with drastic cuts to promised benefits, Teamster members and retirees organized a pension protection committees with help from TDU. These committees built community alliances and pressured politicians for legislative solutions to the pension crisis. They successfully blocked Central States administrators' proposal to cut benefits in 2015, and built support for the Butch Lewis Act, named for a TDU leader and pension activist who died in 2015.
Four days into the labor dispute, layoffs in the automobile manufacturing industry reached 100,000, putting significant pressure on Fitzsimmons to lower his contract demands.Stuart, Reginald. "Teamster Talks Resume as Auto Industry Layoffs Continue to Climb." New York Times.
The Central Pacific Railroad station was named Tinkers Station from 1867 to 1873, commemorating J.A. Tinker. Tinker was a "rough, hard-driving, hard-drinking teamster" who hauled freight between the mines on Forest Hill Divide and Soda Springs.
169th NY Infantry Regimental roster After the war Chapin farmed, worked as a teamster, and raised a family. He was issued his award on December 28, 1914. Chapin died in Portland, Oregon. He is buried in Rose City Cemetery.
Tom Sexton began work for his father in 1909 at the Lake & Franklin location. His first job was as a teamster delivering grocery in Chicago by horse and wagon. His career spanned 51 years until his retirement in 1959.
In 2004 the BMWE merged with the International Brotherhood of Teamsters and consolidated its strength with that of the 1.4-million-member Teamsters Union. They are in the Teamster Rail Conference along with the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen.
Caffrey was the son of Irish immigrants. He was a teamster by trade and represented St. Patrick's Athletic Association/St. Patrick's Athletic Club. He was born in Hamilton, Ontario and died there from complications after falling ill with Spanish flu.
The committee had focused on some of the paper locals Hoffa had purportedly created to stack votes in his favor during the leadership election.Loftus, Joseph A. "Top Beck Aide Links Hoffa to 'Phony' Teamster Locals." New York Times. August 20, 1957.
Allen, "Grateful Bush Accepts Teamsters Endorsement," United Press International, August 30, 1984; Perl and Russakoff, "Teamsters Endorse GOP Ticket," Washington Post, August 31, 1984.Jackson and Ostrow, "1st Step Taken to Prosecute Teamster Chief," Los Angeles Times, February 2, 1985.
May 10, 1975; "Teamsters Threaten Strike If Farm Bill Is Enacted." Associated Press. May 13, 1975. Nonetheless, a key State Assembly committee approved it on May 12, despite attempts by some Teamster members to intimidate legislators into opposing the bill.
On June 6, 1997, the U.S. Department of Justice indicted Davis on charges of conspiracy, embezzlement, and violations of federal labor law for masterminding the kickback scheme.Greenhouse, Steven. "Teamster Vote Under a Cloud In a Fraud Case." New York Times.
Teamster Airline Division President David Bourne told USAPA that the Nicolau Award would be inherited and could not be overturned. Before the issue could ever move forward, Teamster President James Hoffa Jr. wrote a letter to Mike Cleary declining a merger at this time citing other organizing obligations. It is widely believed that Hoffa did not want to involve the Teamsters before a joint contract with the Nicolau could be implemented. Hoffa was also concerned that a possible deal with American Airlines would cause the property to leave his organization for the larger Allied Pilots Association (APA) once the merger was consummated.
There, he became a member of the National Honor Society, and an all-city and all-state football player. During the summer months, the Hoffa family visited their cottage in rural Orion Township outside Detroit.How one man's bad luck paved way for creation of Cranbrook The Detroit News, January 14, 2002 Hoffa often accompanied his father to Teamster meetings and events, and became a Teamster in 1959 on his 18th birthday. Hoffa holds a degree in economics from Michigan State University (1963) and a Bachelor of Laws degree from the University of Michigan Law School (1966).
Dembart, "Teamster Aide Quits Vice President Post," New York Times, October 9, 1976. As an international vice president, Presser urged the Teamsters to root out corruption and pushed for a massive public relations campaign to improve the union's image. In 1977, the Teamsters built a large public relations operation at its headquarters in Washington, D.C. Presser soon won authorization for a $250,000-a-year advertising campaign, and the union began sponsoring football games on the radio. But that same year Presser, along with Fitzsimmons and 17 other Teamster leaders, was forced to resign as a trustee of the Central States Pension Fund.
Presser quickly established his control over the Teamsters during his first six months in office. He appointed Robert Holmes, a Detroit Teamster leader, as director of the Central Conference of Teamsters; Paul Locigno, a Teamster staffer from Ohio, as director of government affairs; Wallace Clements, a staff political coordinator in the Deep South, as political director; and Vicki Saporta, a longtime organizer, as organizing director. Presser also strengthened the union's research and lobbying shops and established the Titan System, a computer networking system which established email communication throughout the union for the first time.Serrin, "Teamster's Tough Road," New York Times, October 23, 1983.
In retaliation, the board sued McCarthy and Mathis for labor racketeering. A week later, on February 8, 1991, Mathis recommended that the Teamster executive council look into the bidding process McCarthy used to award his son-in-law a contract to print the union magazine. Mathis' move was widely seen as a possible "coup attempt": If McCarthy were found to have committed improper acts, he would be forced to resign—allowing Mathis to become president of the union as well as be seen as a reformer. But the Teamster general board deadlocked 7—7 over the issue, and no investigation was made.
New York Times. April 26, 1956; "Racketeer Is Guilty of Contempt". New York Times. May 10, 1956; Levey, Stanely. "Writ Restores Lacey As Teamster Leader". New York Times. May 13, 1956; "Dio Indicted Here In Union Sell-Out". New York Times. June 20, 1956; "Dio's Locals Face Charter Reviews". New York Times. June 21, 1956; Raskin, A.H. "Senators Study Dio Union Tie-In". New York Times. September 14, 1956; Roth, Jack. "Dio and Unionist Named Extorters". New York Times. October 30, 1956; "Teamsters Spurn 'Dio Local' Order". New York Times. December 5, 1956; "Lacey Will Defy Teamster Chief". New York Times. December 6, 1956; Raskin, A.H. "Dio 'Paper' Unions Offer First Dues". New York Times. December 13, 1956; Raskin, A.H. "O'Rourke Wins Post". New York Times. January 9, 1957. Beck and other Teamster leaders challenged the authority of the U.S. Senate to investigate the union,Loftus, Joseph A. "Teamsters Aide Balks at Inquiry on Union Rackets". New York Times.
March 24, 1957; "Million Teamster Loan To Tracks Under Study." New York Times. March 30, 1957. Beck appeared before the Select Committee for the first time on March 25, 1957, and notoriously invoked his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination 117 times.
40 According to the Indians the battle lasted about half an hour with one person escaping, a teamster, 22 troopers killed along with 8 Indian warriors. Many Indian warriors were wounded. The Indians, as was their custom, took no prisoners.Hyde (1968), pp.
See: Thomas, Jo. "Teamster Informant Drawing Skepticism." New York Times. August 3, 1977. Hoffa intended to publish a book accusing Fitzsimmons of "selling out to mobsters" and giving large low- and no-interest loans from Teamsters pension funds to mob-related businesses.
August 9, 1957. But despite the problems encountered in interrogating Dio, the Select Committee developed additional testimony and evidence alleging widespread corruption in Hoffa-controlled Teamster units was presented in public in August 1957."Inquiry to Stress History of Hoffa." Associated Press.
By 1979, Presser was making $231,676 a year. He drew a salary as both secretary-treasurer of Local 507 and as an international vice president of the union."25 Teamster Officials Made More Than $100,000, Group Says," Associated Press, June 23, 1980.
Von Bergen, "Teamsters Open Convention," United Press International, June 3, 1981; Serrin, "Teamster Delegates Elect Williams. Any Objections?", New York Times, June 7, 1981. During the convention, Presser was asked whether he supported the reaffiliation of the union with the AFL-CIO.
Pete Camarata (born September 7, 1946 in Detroit, Michigan) was a Teamster labor activist and one of the founders of Teamsters for a Democratic Union a rank-and-file union democracy movement organizing to reform the International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT), or Teamsters.
Born in Estillville, Virginia, McMullen attended private schools as a child. He was a Virginia driver and teamster, working in the family owned business and driving a coach. He married Mary (Polly) Wood, daughter of the sheriff, in 1826. They had no children.
James P. Flynn (born February 5, 1934) is an American teamster and film actor. He was a reputed member of the famous Winter Hill Gang. He has been in films including Good Will Hunting, The Cider House Rules and What's the Worst That Could Happen?.
He was born in Brooklyn, and attended Public School No. 27. Then he became a teamster, and later a contractor. He married Margaret Devine (died 1930). Kehoe was a member of the New York State Assembly (Kings Co., 9th D.) in 1903 and 1904.
After relocating to Spokane in 1892, he initially worked as a teamster, before attending business school. In 1908, Geraghty married Nora Toolen. Together, they raised nine children in Spokane. They were members of the Catholic Church, known for supporting Catholic interests throughout the Pacific Northwest.
Teamster members and others tried to seize control of the Assembly committee meeting, standing on desks, chanting, and pushing legislators. UFW members and their supporters engaged in scuffles with these individuals. See: "California Farm Bill Backed By Panel as Unionists Fight." United Press International.
Arsenal Park remains a popular recreation spot, hosting July 4 events each year, and the VFW center and Teamster Temple are active. Lawrenceville was used as a location for some scenes of the film Love & Other Drugs (2010), starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Anne Hathaway.
While the revised deal that members approved eliminated certain concessions, it retained a 15 percent wage cut and a reduction in pension contributions. In October 2015, carhaul members rejected the proposed master agreement by a 7-to-1 margin, then again by a slimmer margin in September 2016, only approving a revised deal in March 2017. Meanwhile, there was growing concern over the solvency of Teamster pension funds, particularly the giant Central States Pension Fund. While the 2008 financial crisis was partly to blame, a bigger problem was that Teamster leaders had let key contributing employers walk away from their pension obligations, leaving the funds in dire shape.
Merlin Edward FikeU.S. MOVES TO BROADEN ITS CASE AGAINST TEAMSTER By BEN A. FRANKLIN, SPECIAL TO THE NEW YORK TIMES Published: November 4, 1982 (February 5, 1925 - February 19, 2018) was an American politician. He was the 24th Lieutenant Governor of Nevada from 1967 to 1971.
Jackie Presser's election was unanimous.Barron, "Jackie Presser Is Dead at 61," New York Times, July 10, 1988."Man in the News: A Blend Reflected in Light and Shadows: Jackie Presser," New York Times, April 22, 1983.Serrin, "Teamster Presidency Race Narrows," New York Times, April 20, 1983.
Consequently, the Cleveland grand jury widened its probe to investigate Presser and other officials of Local 507.Shenon, "Officials Say U.S. Plans Indictment of Teamster Chief," New York Times, May 10, 1986; Jackson and Ostrow, "FBI Prolonged Presser's Role, Sources Confirm," Los Angeles Times, September 14, 1986.
Douglas arrived in Rockhampton in late 1865 and took up a job as a teamster and station-hand at Nulabin pastoral station near Duaringa. After drought destroyed his livelihood, Douglas then became a drover for a time before using his navy connections to again change careers.
Because of Roosevelt's strong relationship with Tobin and the union's large membership, the President delivered his speech before the Teamster convention. Nonetheless, Teamsters members were restive. Dissident members of the union accused the leadership of suppressing democracy in the union, a charge President Tobin angrily denied.
Just a week later, the Teamsters endorsed Reagan. Vice President George H. W. Bush accepted the endorsement in person. The Teamster endorsement was the only large labor union endorsement Reagan received. In apparent gratitude, Reagan named Presser to the second Reagan transition team as a labor advisor.
The builders of bridges on the line, Barry & McLaughlin, had engaged Joseph Shearer, a timber cutter and teamster, to supply timber. On 31 March 1910 Shearer took action in the Supreme Court alleging that Barry & McLaughlin breached their contract by purchasing timber directly from his employees.
119 Teamster Jerry Thornhill, a typical worker, wrote to Money magazine, asking for advice. Thornhill detailed a pay rate of $57,000 per year at a time when members of Congress earned $42,500 annually, professional football players averaged $40,000, and U.S. vice president Nelson Rockefeller earned $62,500.
Cornelius Shea died on January 12, 1929, at Norwegian- American Hospital in Chicago from complications following an operation to remove gallstones."Cornelius P. Shea, Labor Leader, Dead," New York Times, January 13, 1929; "Cornelius Shea, Teamster Czar in Strike, Dies," Chicago Daily Tribune, January 13, 1929.
Geneseo, NY: J. Brunner, 1987. Print. Most were used as dairy barns but some housed teams of oxen which are generally called teamster barns. Sometimes these barns are simply called “gable fronted” and “gable fronted bank barns” Visser, Thomas Durant. Field guide to New England barns and farm buildings.
Sandy was a Missouri muleskinner (teamster), born in Madison County, Illinois on February 24, 1833.New York City Passport Record. U.S. Records Washington D.C. # 6041, May 29, Sandy owned many mining claims, but his most productive was a ten-foot strip being part of the Little Gold Hill Mines.
A third trucking industry contract was settled in May 1988. By this time, however, Presser was too ill to participate actively in any of the negotiating sessions. The new collective bargaining agreement was reached on March 30, 1988. Teamster members cast 63.5 percent of all ballots against the pact.
Because of Roosevelt's strong relationship with Tobin, the President delivered his speech before the Teamster convention. The first real challenge to Tobin's leadership of the Teamsters also came in 1940. The Teamsters paid Tobin a salary of $30,000 that year, when the large union had only 450,000 members.
As the strike collapsed, Shea rushed to Chicago from Indianapolis. He ordered the ice wagon drivers back to work on August 10, and announced that Teamster drivers would deliver any meat butchered prior to the strike. Large amounts of meat began to move through the city on August 13.
The Big Springs robbery earned substantial notoriety for the gang; for Bass in particular, it marks his succession to fame. Before the job, the fatherless outlaw had worked as "farmer, teamster, gambler, cowboy, saloon owner, [and later as a] miner"O'Neal, Bill. "Samuel Bass". Encyclopedia of Western Gun- Fighters.
He emigrated to America with his mother in 1822. His father went in 1810. He early left his father's home near Pittsburgh and worked on railroads and on the Pennsylvania Canal. His first job at the age of 18 was as a teamster for the Pennsylvania Railroad Company.
Coakley was born on December 10, 1865 in South Boston. He attended Boston College but did not graduate due to illness. Once he recovered, he went to work for his father as a teamster. He left this job to work as a conductor for the Cambridge Street Railway.
Paperback ed. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1979. Under his leadership, in November 1967 Local 804 became one of the first Teamster locals whose members qualified for a pension after 25 years of employment regardless of age. He also led long but successful strikes in 1968, 1971, 1974, and 1982.
While TDU survived Carey's removal from office and the return of old-guard Teamster leadership under James P. Hoffa, it was a challenging period for the Teamster reform movement. Under Paff's leadership, TDU focused its efforts on local issues and national contract enforcement. It continued to play a key role in International Union politics, backing Oregon Local 206 head Tom Leedham's challenge to Hoffa's leadership in the 2001and 2006 international elections, then New York Local 805 head Sandy Pope's campaign in 2011. While these were hard-fought campaigns, each came up short, garnering roughly one-third of the overall vote every time save for 2011, where Hoffa won with 59 percent of the vote in a three-way race.
The media soon reported that Presser was reputed to have links to organized crime and that he was the object of a DOL civil suit for financial malfeasance. Reagan and his advisors claimed to have been unaware of the accusations, and Presser denied having any ties to organized crime.Pound, "Union Dissidents and 2 In Congress Assail Teamster In Reagan Group," New York Times, December 17, 1980. Just days after the story broke in the national press, however, New Jersey State Police witnesses testified that Presser was the primary contact for the DeCavalcante crime family of New Jersey and the Patriarca crime family of Boston whenever crime figures needed loans from Teamster pension funds.
Shea was re-elected president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters by a vote of 157 to 14."Fight Ushers In Shea Convention," Chicago Daily Tribune, August 7, 1906; "Shea Controls Convention," New York Times, August 8, 1906; "Teamsters' Union Fight Gets Worse," Chicago Daily Tribune, August 10, 1906; "Teamsters Re-Elect Shea," New York Times, August 10, 1906; "Form New Teamsters' Union," New York Times, August 11, 1906. Over the next month, the Shea and Young factions battled for control of various Teamster locals. In late August, Shea ordered all Teamster locals to hold meetings to vote on whether they wished to remain with the IBT or go with the secessionist UTA.
Dorsey was a "teamster", or a driver at the cotton mill, then general "jobber". His job as a teamster meant a lot of traveling, which suddenly became dangerous after The Fugitive Slave Act was enacted in 1850, as he frequently made visits to Boston and Providence which had a higher chance of slave catchers. A month after it was enacted, Dorsey and 9 other fugitives publicly called out to locals to help them resist any attempts to return them to the South. He and many of his friends were strongly against paying for his natural right to freedom, but with the passage of the act, Dorsey was in significantly higher danger while doing his job.
Sean O'Brien is an American labor leader who currently serves as the Vice President Eastern Region of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters. O'Brien was the youngest person elected as President of Teamster Local 25, a position he still holds, and is the Secretary Treasurer of New England Joint Council 10.
This meant that Fox would not finish work until 7am the following day. Sometimes the teamster dropping Fox at home had to carry the actor to bed. This continued until April when Family Ties finished filming. Gale said that Fox's youth meant he could cope with less sleep than usual.
He was four weeks shy of his 62nd birthday. The proximate cause of death was cardiac arrest, a complication of his cancer and ongoing cardiac problems. Hours after Presser's funeral on July 12, Teamster leaders met at a nearby restaurant and agreed to support William J. McCarthy as his successor.
The AFL asked the TDIU to merge with Young's union to form a new, AFL-affiliated union. The two groups did so in 1903, creating the International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT). Shea was elected the new union's first president. Shea's election as the first Teamster president was a tumultuous one.
The family later returned to Des Moines where Devine's father again worked as a teamster.1920 U.S. Census entry for W.M. Devine and family. Son Aubrey, was age 22, born in Iowa. Census Place: Des Moines Ward 1, Polk, Iowa; Roll: T625_507; Page: 4A; Enumeration District: 84; Image: 932. Ancestry.com.
This house was probably built by Gottlieb Wedige right after this section of the city was platted in 1852. Ferdinand Ewert, a teamster who lived across the street, bought it in 1871. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983, and has subsequently been torn down.
Christopher Alfred "Chris" Dalton (27 November 1896 - 25 May 1975) was an Australian politician. He was born at Teeyarra to teamster George Henry Dalton and Mary Grintell. He was educated at West Maitland and became a bushworker and railway worker. From 1916 to 1918 he served in the AIF with the 13th Battalion.
The film tells the tale of frustrated Teamster driver Don Cardini, abused by spoiled stars and arrogant students, who becomes a ticking time-bomb of revenge. As Don goes on the rampage, his favourite scream queen, Riversa Red, finds herself up for a new role in the greatest gorefest of all: real life.
"We announced two goals for the Teamsters in 2008: To organize 40,000 workers and to elect Barack Obama President of the United States. I am proud to say that thanks to the hard work by so many in our union, the Teamsters delivered on both promises.""43,000 Teamsters Reach Organizing Milestone." Teamster magazine.
He moved on to California in 1850, where he kept a hotel between Sacramento and Auburn. Mathews came south to arrive in the Mormon colony of San Bernardino, on March 30, 1852. Here he was at various times a teamster, miller, Justice of the Peace and finally sheriff.Benjamin Franklin Mathews, from findagrave.
Harry Nelson Routzohn (November 4, 1881 - April 14, 1953) was an attorney, jurist and member of the United States House of Representatives from Ohio. Routzohn was born in Dayton, Ohio, the son of Henry and Mary Routzohn. Henry was a teamster man from Maryland. Harry Routzohn attended the Dayton public grade schools.
While governor, Laxalt worked with Teamster officials on gambling investments in Nevada. Laxalt governed Nevada as a fiscal conservative, but felt compelled to raise taxes at the outset of his administration because of the budget situation. Laxalt did not seek a second term. He bequeathed a budget surplus to his successor, Gov.
On November 8, 1983, Presser underwent triple bypass heart surgery in Cleveland."Teamster Leader Undergoes Triple Bypass Heart Surgery," Reuters, November 9, 1983; "Presser Prepares Concession Proposal," Associated Press, August 3, 1983. By the end of 1983, Presser was making $755,474 a year."The Friends of Jackie Presser," Time, September 2, 1985.
Roman Nose and others rode their horses at top speed in a circle around the wagon train with the objective of depleting the soldier's ammunition. That accomplished, the Indians advanced, most of them on foot, and overran the train, killing all 22 of the soldiers in the corral. One teamster escaped.Hyde, Bent p.
In 1862, Lund immigrated with his grandmother to the United States. He arrived in Utah Territory in September and settled in Sanpete County, following the tradition of many Scandinavian immigrants. In 1864, Lund was a teamster in a Down and Back Mormon pioneer company. The next winter, he served as a school teacher.
Dehn grew up in Brooklyn Park, Minnesota, in a working-class family. His father was a teamster, operating a forklift at a factory. His mother worked part-time at a company making toilet-paper wraps for American soldiers in Vietnam. In 1976, at age 19, Dehn was convicted of a felony burglary.
The Teamsters had endorsed Ronald Reagan for president in 1980, creating a furor within the American labor movement. However, AFL-CIO officials expressed hope that the Teamsters would endorse the Democratic candidate in 1984. This hope proved wrong. Presser announced on June 7, 1983, that he intended to endorse Reagan for re-election. A formal endorsement did not come in January 1984 as expected, and Presser strongly criticized the AFL-CIO for endorsing Democratic candidate Walter Mondale too early in the primary cycle.Von Bergen, "Teamsters Sticking With Reagan," United Press International, June 8, 1983; Serrin, "Teamster Says Union Prefers Reagan to Mondale," New York Times, September 26, 1983; "Teamsters Hold Off," Washington Post, January 20, 1984; "Teamster Complains About Stand On Mondale," Associated Press, March 27, 1984.
Klose, "Former 'Goon' Describes Labor Leasing Scheme," Washington Post, April 24, 1985 Other witnesses testified that Presser had given his approval to the Brotherhood of Loyal Americans and Strong Teamsters (BLAST), a group set up to intimidate TDU members. Testimony before the panel indicated that Presser ordered BLAST members—including regional and local Teamster leaders and staff—to disrupt TDU meetings during the 1983 Teamster national convention. BLAST members drove speakers from podiums, tore down banners, seized and threw away literature, beat TDU members and ejected them from the convention hall.Shipp, "Teamsters' Leader Is Silent at Inquiry by Crime Panel," New York Times, April 24, 1985.Ostrow and Jackson, "Presser Abetted Violence By Teamsters, Panel Says," Los Angeles Times, November 27, 1985.
Shea spent the fall of 1905 and the winter of 1906 solidifying his control over the Teamsters. Shea accused a number of local presidents—all of whom had opposed him in the August 1905 election—with financial malfeasance. He trusted their locals and placed his own supporters in charge of these unions."In Revolt Against Shea," Chicago Daily Tribune, January 13, 1906. In July 1906, Albert Young, still the Teamsters' general organizer, announced he would run against Shea at the union's convention in August."Fight to Defeat Teamster Chief," Chicago Daily Tribune, July 7, 1906. The 1906 Teamster international convention opened in Chicago on August 6, 1906. Fistfights erupted among the delegates, and the Chicago police were called to quell what nearly turned into a riot.
Frantz, "Williams Points Finger at Presser," Chicago Tribune, November 3, 1985.Dembart, "Teamster Aide Quits Vice President Post," New York Times, October 9, 1976. Presser was named to Ronald Reagan's presidential transition team in 1980. When his appointment was made public, it created a political scandal and led to calls for him to resign.
Employees which are not exempted are represented by Teamster Union Local #205, since 2000. Prior to the Teamsters appointment as the bargaining agent, officers were represented by the Fraternal Order of Police. This change was made following successful legal action in relation to allegations of political interference in the belief in would prevent future occurrences.
Tinney was the youngest of seven children born to Irish immigrant parents. His father was a teamster and then a cable car gripman who worked the night shift. He grew up in Bernal Heights and the Outer Mission. Tinney was an excellent student who graduated from St. Ignatius High School as valedictorian in 1927.
Criticisms with this include the lack of adequate tracking of consultant employees. Comparing district to consultant staffing would not be accurate. These contracts were also cited in the confidential OIG report as “vague” in detail. Teamster union officials have also complained about layoffs within Facilities that have resulted in massive district demotions and layoffs.
In 1976, a battle for control inside the Cleveland mafia broke out. Longtime Cleveland mob boss John T. Scalish died without naming a successor. John Nardi, a high-ranking Teamster leader, formed a coalition with mobster Danny Greene to seize control of the Cleveland crime family. They were opposed by Scalish lieutenant James "Blackie" Licavoli.
Eventually Nardi and Greene were murdered by Licavoli, along with several other Teamsters officials. Presser feared he was next. The FBI gave Presser a small radio transmitter that supposedly could detonate a car bomb from a distance. Presser also hired a large contingent of muscular bodyguards who accompanied him everywhere he went (including Teamster meetings).
When the United States Civil War broke, Hanks enlisted as a teamster in the Illinois regiment, under Ulysses S. Grant, despite being technically too old to enlist. Hanks was never to see his first cousin, once removed, in the flesh again, their paths only crossing for a final time when Hanks attended Lincoln's funeral.
The bullock team driver was called a bullocky, bullock puncher or teamster. Many Australian country towns owe their origin to the bullock teams, having grown from a store or shanty where teams rested or crossed a stream. These shanties were spaced at about intervals, which was the usual distance for a team to travel in a day.
The Origin of Suburbs, Localities, Towns and Hundreds in the Greater Darwin area: Driver. Retrieved 6 February 2008. Fry Court in Driver was named after Mr Charles Fry, a teamster who arrived with George Goyder's survey expedition in 1869 to found the colony of Port Darwin. His wife and family arrived with the first European women in January 1870.
UPS employs approximately 444,000 staff: 362,000 in the U.S. and 82,000 internationally. Approximately 240,000 UPS drivers, package handlers and clerks are represented by the International Brotherhood of Teamsters. During the United Parcel Service strike of 1997, the company's only nationwide strike in its history, which lasted 16 days, Teamster President Ron Carey negotiated a new contract for workers.
The Isaac A. Wetherby House is a historic building located in Iowa City, Iowa, United States. This house was built in two parts. The original two story frame section was built in 1854 by Patrick Doyle, an Irish immigrant and teamster. with A single story frame addition was built by portrait painter and photographer Isaac Augustus Wetherby in 1860.
Michalske was born in Cleveland in 1903. His father, August Michalske (1868-1932), was a German immigrant who worked in 1910 as a teamster and in 1920 as "draying" contractor. His mother, Anna (Becker) Michalske (1872-1952), was also a German immigrant. Michalske had three older brothers (Arthur, Charles, and George) and two older sisters (Elizabeth and Laura).
He was born in the Town of Jackson in Washington County in 1873, grew up on a farm and was educated in the public schools of that area and at West Bend High School. Upon leaving school, he moved to Milwaukee, where he learned carpentry and practiced that profession, later going into the teamster, trucking and garage business.
After a deadlocked election, the seating of the "Dio locals", the unseating of the "Dio locals", a grand jury investigation, several rulings by President Beck, and a successful lawsuit by Lacey, Lacey withdrew from his re-election bid and O'Rourke was elected president of the Joint Council.Levey, Stanley. "Teamster Election Ends in a Deadlock." New York Times.
Bill Presser was also intimately connected with the Cleveland mob.Lindsey, "Nixon Plays Golf With Fitzsimmons at Resort Built With Teamster Loans," New York Times, October 10, 1975.Serrin, "Jackie Presser's Secret Lives Detailed In Government Files," New York Times, March 27, 1989.Yost, "Presser's Career A Parade of Sharp Changes In Fortune," Associated Press, May 16, 1986.
In many ways, some scholars argue, labor unions in the United States never recovered this support. Nearly half the Teamster members who went on strike were not rehired. Most were blackballed and had to find work outside the city. Cornelius Shea, although indicted three times, was never convicted of any crimes in connection with the 1905 strike.
He also played the title role in HBO's Teamster Boss: The Jackie Presser Story. Dennehy had a lead role as fire chief/celebrity dad Leslie "Buddy" Krebs in the short-lived 1982 series Star of the Family. Despite his star power, that show was cancelled after a half-season. He starred in the crime drama Jack Reed TV movies.
Johannsen was born April 28, 1872, in Nordstrand, Germany. His family immigrated to the United States in 1881 when he was nine. They settled in the small town of Clinton, Iowa. His father, a poor man with little education, first found work as a brewery teamster but later settled into the profession of a saloon-keeper.
Charles Lee Underhill (July 20, 1867 – January 28, 1946) was a United States Representative and anti-suffrage activist from Massachusetts. He was born in Richmond, Virginia on July 20, 1867. He moved to Massachusetts in 1872 with his parents, who settled in Somerville. He attended the common schools, was office boy, coal teamster, and a blacksmith.
His other writing credits include the screenplays for the television films The Marcus- Nelson Murders, The Atlanta Child Murders, Teamster Boss: The Jackie Presser Story, and Indictment: The McMartin Trial, as well as the film War and Love.Vincent Canby, "Screen: War and Love". The New York Times, September 13, 1985. He also directed the 1978 NBC TV miniseries King.
George Francis Morrison was born on February 22, 1867 in Wellsville, New York. His father William Morrison was born in County Clare, Ireland and worked as a teamster. His mother Susan Maguire was also from Ireland. The Morrisons initially settled in Harrison, New Jersey, where George's three older sisters Elizabeth, Mary Ann, and Margaret were born.
His outburst only angered his opponents in the union. In mid- December, Shea was confronted in his office by Teamster leader who shot at him four times and forced him to dance a jig before fleeing."Teamsters Split Over Contracts," Chicago Daily Tribune, November 25, 1903; "Labor's Leader Made to Dance," Chicago Daily Tribune, December 18, 1903.
"Terms of Peace Wrecked by Shea," Chicago Daily Tribune, June 4, 1905."Shea, Strike Leader, Arrested for Libel," New York Times, June 4, 1905; "Sues and Arrests Shea and Young," Chicago Daily Tribune, June 4, 1905. The arrest infuriated Shea. Late that evening, having made bail, he convened an emergency meeting of the Teamster executive board.
The Gerhards' parents came to the United States as children from Cologne, Germany, in the mid-1800s. They settled in Mascoutah, Illinois, and had moved to St. Louis, Missouri, by 1869. Their father worked successively as a teamster, butcher, and storekeeper in the large German-American community, which included a large number of photographers, retouchers and engravers.
Weldon Mathis was born in Sylvester, Georgia in 1926. He served in the United States Army in World War II. Mathis joined the Teamsters in 1946. Mathis' Teamster career began when he was elected business agent for Local 728 in Atlanta, Georgia, in 1950. He was elected the local's secretary-treasurer in 1953 and its president in 1956.
Shortly after the convention ended, Carey trusteed 10,000-member Local 714 in Chicago, Illinois. The IRB had concluded that Carey supporter William Hogan was running the local for his own benefit, but Carey's action led Hogan to endorse Hoffa—a serious blow to Carey's re-election chances."Teamster Chief Takes Over Chicago Local." New York Times.
Galenson claims that Tobin's "personal honesty was never challenged..." Yet, by the end of his life, Tobin left an extremely large trust fund for his wife, which some observers argue was evidence of corruption. Galenson, The CIO Challenge to the AFL: A History of the American Labor Movement, 1960, p. 471. See "Tobin Left Big Income to Wife," Associated Press, November 20, 1955. Most historians conclude that Tobin may have been somewhat dishonest, but only on occasion, and that in the annals of Teamster corruption whatever crimes Tobin may have committed are small potatoes compared to those of Jimmy Hoffa, Jackie Presser or Dave Beck. See: Garnel, The Rise of Teamster Power in the West, 1972; Witwer, Corruption and Reform in the Teamsters Union, 2003; Phelan, William Green: Biography of a Labor Leader, 1989.
Jacob Kuhrts or Kuhrtz (1832–1926), nicknamed "Uncle Jake,""At the City Hall: Gas Controversy Still in Full Swing," Los Angeles Times, November 16, 1901, page 12 was a sailor, a miner, a teamster, a merchant, a volunteer fire chief and a member of the Los Angeles, California, Common Council, the governing body of that city, during the 19th Century.
In 1987 he was convicted for driving while intoxicated. Police found him in a San Clemente, California parking lot "very intoxicated" and in possession of marijuana. Using Teamster medical insurance from his construction job, he checked himself into the Betty Ford Center in 1988, where he met Elizabeth Taylor. At the time he was living in a small house in Stanton.
In 2017, O'Brien was the lead negotiator for the Teamsters with United Parcel Service (UPS) during bargaining for a new national contract, covering approximately 240,000 drivers, package sorters, loaders and clerks. He was dismissed from his position as Package Division director by James P. Hoffa after reaching out to Teamster Locals and members that had opposed Hoffa's reelection as general president.
David then joined a cattle drive to Front Royal, Virginia for Jesse Cheek. Upon completion of that trip, he joined teamster Adam Myers on a trip to Gerrardstown, West Virginia. In between trips with Myers, he worked for farmer John Gray. After leaving Myers, he journeyed to Christiansburg, Virginia, where he apprenticed for the next four years with hatter Elijah Griffith.
Neylan was born in New York City. After graduation from Seton Hall College in New Jersey in 1903, he went West. California was his destination, but he stopped off in Arizona and worked there for several years as a teamster, bank teller and reporter. The desire for a newspaper career took him to San Francisco and, eventually, a job with the Bulletin.
In the Great Register of 1892,Great Register of Sierra County, 1872 to 1896 he describes himself as a teamster. His obituary describes him as a rancher and indicates that he was extensively engaged in raising stock in the Loyalton area. At one time, he ran a freight line from Marysville to Virginia City presumably what is now Highway 49.
Jerry's Downfall Reserve is located in the north-east of Munruben (). The name commemorates an early teamster who had an accident there. The name Jerry's Downfall has been in use since at least 1866. It has been suggested that he was a Kanaka from Robert Towns' cotton plantation at Townvale, who capsized a bullock dray of cotton while crossing Chambers Creek.
Kern was born on a farm in Norwalk, Iowa, in 1860. At age 19 he went to Colorado, where he was a teamster. He moved through New Mexico to Arizona, where he did railroad construction work. Later, in Prescott, Arizona, he was chief of supplies, or "forage master," under General George R. Crook in the Army's campaign against the Indian leader Geronimo.
Beck and other Teamster leaders subsequently challenged the authority of the Permanent Subcommittee to investigate the union by arguing that the Senate's Labor and Public Welfare Committee had jurisdiction over labor racketeering, not Government Operations.Loftus, Joseph A. "Teamsters Aide Balks at Inquiry on Union Rackets." New York Times. January 19, 1957; Raskin, A.H. "Teamsters Avoid Challenge to U.S." New York Times.
For the next twenty years, Bean lived in San Antonio, working nominally as a teamster. During this time he attempted to run a firewood business by cutting down a neighbor's timber. He then tried to run a dairy business but was soon caught watering down the milk. Bean later worked as a butcher, rustling unbranded cattle from other area ranchers for his business.
Bufalino was a Teamster official for 20 years serving as president of Local 985 in the Detroit-area. A Senate investigation portrayed Local 985 as "a collection agency for gangster-dominated operators". Bufalino was repeatedly accused of Mafia connections. He sued Senator John L. McClellan, an Arkansas Democrat, and Robert F. Kennedy for damaging his reputation with accusations of connections to organized crime.
Presser opened contract talks nearly a year early, and won a moderate wage increase. But four Teamster members sued to prevent a vote on the contract, arguing Presser had given members no time to study or debate the proposal. A federal judge agreed and impounded the ballots on September 19. Undeterred, Presser once more lobbied hard for the a new contract.
On May 7, 1903, the union struck the Kellogg Switchboard & Supply Company. Kellogg Switchboard, too, locked out its workforce and hired strikebreakers. The Teamsters Joint Council of Chicago, a citywide organization of all Teamster locals in the Chicago area, began a sympathy strike on June 24, 1903. The three employers sought injunctions against the sympathy strike, which they won on July 20, 1903.
In 1862, just as the Civil War was beginning, he joined Col. James H. Carleton's California Column. He worked as a civilian teamster and was with the Union forces when they re-captured Tucson, Arizona, from Confederate forces on May 20, 1862. He followed the force to the Rio Grande and remained there until January 1, 1863, when he returned to Tucson.
In 1942, he began a six-year campaign to seize control of the International Teamster newsmagazine. He ousted its editor and won the executive board's approval to install his own man in the job in 1948."Union Editor Is Ousted," Associated Press, September 3, 1948. In 1946, Beck successfully campaigned to amend the union's constitution to create the post of executive vice-president.
The film was based on a novel by Will Henry (pseud. of Heck Allen) which was published in 1963. The novel was based on the legend of Lost Adams Diggings. According to the legend, a teamster named Adams and some prospectors in Arizona were approached by a Mexican Indian named Gotch Ear, who offered to show them a canyon filled with gold.
McCarthy agreed to seek democratic internal reforms and purge the union of corruption. In 1990, McCarthy announced he would seek election for a full term as president. Ron Carey, a Teamster leader from New York City, challenged him for the presidency. McCarthy's political position in the union weakened, and he pulled out of the race in favor of R.V. Durham.
During the 1990s, Meli was tied to labor racketeering. He was named by former Detroit mobster Nove Tocco and retired federal agents as an associate of Michael Bane, president of Pontiac, Michigan's Teamster Local 614, during federal investigations into labor union corruption. In 1979, Meli was convicted of extortion, and began serving a three-year sentence on January 3, 1984.
In May 1994, Carey was accused of corruption regarding a number of real estate deals. The Independent Review Board (IRB), a three- member panel created under a Federal court order in 1989 designed to help supervise the union's elections and rid it of corruption,Shenon, Philip. "U.S. Sues to Oust Teamster Chiefs; Seeks Trustee to Oversee Election." New York Times.
Kilborn, Peter T. "Teamster Chief Outmaneuvers Foes at Meeting." New York Times. July 19, 1996. But once it became clear that Hoffa had a slim majority of the 1,900 delegates, Carey used the power of parliamentary procedure to delay or defeat the proposals, and his supporters brought the convention to a halt by offering amendment after amendment to Hoffa's proposals.
Patrick Casey moved to Aitkin in his 20s, first working as a teamster in logging camps. However he met Warren Potter, a former Civil War colonel who owned a series of retail stores in the area. Casey was hired as the manager of Potter's branch in Grand Rapids. When Potter's business partner David Williard retired, Casey was offered the partnership.
In 1855, Walker obtained a job as a teamster transporting merchandise to Salt Lake City. His sister Ann Agatha was married to Parley P. Pratt and so Walker was able to get a job working for Pratt. Walker then became a blacksmith. In 1861, he married Abigail Middlemass, also a convert to the LDS Church and a native of Popes Harbour, Nova Scotia.
Beck refused to institute any reforms, and the election of Jimmy Hoffa (whom the AFL–CIO considered as corrupt as Beck) led the labor federation to suspend the Teamsters union on October 24, 1957.Loftus, "Labor Suspends Teamster Union," The New York Times, October 25, 1957. Meany offered to keep the Teamsters within the AFL–CIO if Hoffa resigned as president, but Hoffa refused and the formal expulsion occurred on December 6, 1957."A.F.L.-C.I.O. to Go Ahead With Expulsion of Teamsters," The New York Times, December 4, 1957; Raskin, "Meany Will Drop Teamster Ouster If Hoffa Gets Out," The New York Times, December 5, 1957; "Teamsters Await Expulsion Today," The New York Times, December 6, 1957; Raskin, "A.F.L.-C.I.O. Ousts Teamsters Union By Vote of 5 to 1," The New York Times, December 7, 1957.
Trerotola was deeply angered by the 1986 constitutional amendment which allowed Mathis to assume the presidency, and he began building a coalition to oust him. When Mathis called a meeting in Arizona (where Presser was being treated), Trerotola refused to attend. Initially, possible challengers included Joseph W. Morgan (who had sought to become interim president after Roy Lee Williams' resignation in 1983, Walter Shea (director of the Eastern Conference of Teamsters in Washington, D.C.), Donald Peters (a Teamster leader in Chicago), and Arnie Weinmeister (a Teamster official in Washington state and protégé of former interim president George Mock). Mathis suffered another blow to his candidacy on June 28, 1988, when federal officials filed suit in federal court to impose a trusteeship on the Teamsters union.. Presser died on July 9, 1988, triggering an election for a new president.
McFeely, 1981, p. 10 Jesse began assigning various chores which required horses to Ulysses by the time he was eight years old. He soon became a proficient teamster working all day, every day, hauling wood or bark. At ten Ulysses would drive a pair of horses, by himself, from his home in Georgetown to Cincinnati, forty miles away, bringing home a load of passengers.
He has also been the Teamster Union's transportation coordinator and transportation captain in the transportation department on numerous films, including The Departed, Fever Pitch and Jumanji. Flynn appeared in many films shot in the New England area. In show business he goes by the name 'James P. Flynn'. Flynn was cast as a judge in the Boston-based film Good Will Hunting in 1997.
Another name for the occupation was bullwhacker, related to driving oxen. A teamster might also drive pack animals, such as a muletrain, in which case he was also known as a muleteer or muleskinner. Today this person may be called an outfitter or packer.Shemanski, Frances (1984) "Mule Days Celebration", A Guide to Fairs and Festivals in the United States, Greenwood Press, Westport, Connecticut, p.
Mark Morton, president of Morton Salt and an EA member, convinced the railroads to pressure the remaining team owners to lock out their Teamster members as well. The Teamsters upped the ante, and another 25,000 members walked off the job on April 25, 1905, paralyzing grocery stores, warehouses, railway shippers, department stores and coal companies. The EA and its members sued nearly every union as well.
In May of 2018 O'Brien announced his candidacy to run against long standing General President James P. Hoffa of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters The Sean O'Brien and Fred Zuckerman Slate was endorsed by Teamsters for a Democratic Union (a rank and file teamster reform organization) in November of 2019 after a UPS contract was signed, despite a majority of members voting against the contract terms.
Following his CIA career, Burke's brother-in-law and comrade in arms John Ringling North hired him for the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus as an executive director. Though new to the circus world Burke found himself battling cheating ushers p.207 Hammarstrom, David Lewis Big Top Boss: John Ringling North and the Circus University of Illinois Press 1994 and Jimmy Hoffa's Teamster Union.p.
2 Apr. 1997: C10. Online. Nexis. 5 Oct. 2009. The union has been supervised by a court-appointed administrator ever since a consent decree with the Justice Department in 1989. A new election for Teamsters president was ordered by the federal government in August 1997, after federal official Barbara Zack Quindel's investigation uncovered a 'complex network of schemes' that involved the improper use of Teamster assets.
He later had a tumor removed from his pituitary gland."Teamsters Leader Jackie Presser Hospitalized," Associated Press, June 30, 1988. On June 6, 1988, Judge White indefinitely postponed Presser's trial after doctors said the Teamster leader had only six months to live.Woodward, "Judge Postpones Presser Trial," Associated Press, June 7, 1988; Swoboda, "Presser Terminally Ill, Doctor Tells U.S. Judge," Washington Post, June 8, 1988.
A truck driver at work A truck driver (commonly referred to as a trucker, teamster or driver in the United States and Canada; a truckie in Australia and New Zealand; a lorry driver, or driver in Ireland, the United Kingdom, India, Nepal and Pakistan) is a person who earns a living as the driver of a truck (usually a semi truck, box truck or dump truck).
Sandy Bowers Lemuel Sanford Bowers (nickname: "Sandy") (February 24, 1833 – April 21, 1868) was an American teamster of Irish descent, miner and owner of the Crown Point Mine near Gold Hill, Nevada. Bowers and his wife were the Nevada Territory's first millionaires. Their home, the Bowers Mansion, was the first of the stately homes built in Nevada with the wealth from the Comstock Lode.
In 1975, Vito interviewed former Teamster President Jimmy Hoffa; it would be Hoffa's last interview, as he disappeared two weeks later. He left WWJ-TV and joined CNN, becoming the first Detroit bureau chief in 1982. He later became CNN's bureau chief in Rome, Los Angeles, and finally, Miami. In 1999, Vito retired from CNN and became a jury consultant for a Florida legal consulting firm.
The family grew up in the neighbourhood of Davenport, which his brother Charlie described as "one of Toronto's higher class slums". His father was a teamster, and struggled to earn enough money to support the family. In the winter, he ploughed the snow off outdoor skating rinks to earn additional money. Conacher left school after the eighth grade to go to work and help support his siblings.
Hoffa rises to the presidency of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters. His illegal activities include the use of Teamster funds to make loans to the mob. At a Congressional hearing, Hoffa is questioned by Robert F. Kennedy regarding his suspicious union activities. Kennedy and Hoffa engage in a loud and bitter feud, especially after John F. Kennedy is elected President and Bobby becomes Attorney General.
Joseph Ignatius Langtry (2 September 1880 - 30 April 1951) was an Australian politician. Born in Kyabram, Victoria, he received a primary education before becoming a teamster. He moved to Barellan in New South Wales and became a wheatfarmer and publican. In 1940, he was the Labor candidate for the Australian House of Representatives seat of Riverina; he was successful in this, defeating Country Party member Horace Nock.
Prior to the 1970s, no long-lived caucuses existed within the Teamsters union. Challengers for office ran on their personal appeal and individual power base, rather than on caucus or "party" platforms and such challenges were infrequent. The Teamster leadership was well-established and somewhat self-perpetuating, and challengers only rarely achieved victories at the local and (even less frequently) regional levels.Tillman, p. 139-140.
Beck engaged in fierce organizing battles and membership raids against the ILA, effectively stifling the "march inland." The Western Conference of Teamsters, and Beck, emerged significantly stronger from these battles.Galenson, The CIO Challenge to the AFL: A History of the American Labor Movement, 1960.Nelson, Workers on the Waterfront: Seamen, Longshoremen and Unionism in the 1930s, 1988; Garnel, The Rise of Teamster Power in the West, 1972.
Heinrich, "Convicted Teamsters Chief to Resign April 20," Associated Press, April 15, 1983; Franklin, "Teamster Leader Quits to Avoid Jail," New York Times, April 16, 1983. Williams' conviction was no surprise to Presser. Beginning in 1979, Presser began providing the Justice Department with extensive information on Williams. It was Presser who had turned over the critical evidence which showed Williams had arranged to give Sen.
He was born in Arizona City (renamed Yuma), Arizona. His father was Tom Childs, Sr. His mother was Mary Thornberry. Richard Van Valkenburgh Tom Childs, Miner Ajo Copper News, December 12, 1945 Thomas Childs, Sr. was a teamster, stage coach station manager, prospector, miner and rancher in Arizona having entered the territory by 1850. They finally settled on Lytle Creek near present San Bernardino, California.
In April 2008, Dennehy guest-starred as a Teamster boss in "Sandwich Day", an episode of the TV series 30 Rock. He guest-starred in a 2009 episode of Rules of Engagement as the father of the main character, Jeff. Dennehy starred as Elizabeth Keen's grandfather on the NBC series The Blacklist. Dennehy also narrated many television programs including the Canadian-Irish docudrama Death or Canada.
Charles A. Shibell (August 14, 1841 – October 21, 1908) was a teamster, miner, hotel owner, customs inspector, recorder, and Pima County, Arizona County Sheriff and a contemporary of Wyatt Earp and his brothers. Shibell promised a job as Deputy Sheriff to Earp, but when Earp announced his support for Bob Paul as the next sheriff, Shibell appointed Earp's antagonist Johnny Behan to the position instead.
He then opened a stagecoach stop named Desert Station on the road northwest of Tucson which he maintained through 1872. He also resumed the teamster business that year between Tucson and Yuma. In 1874, Shibell, a lifelong Democrat, developed an interest in politics. In January 1875, he was appointed a Pima County Deputy Sheriff by Tucson Mayor William S. Oury and held the office for two years.
The Protestant Reformation in Kranj was led by Gašpar Rokavec, who was succeeded by Jernej Knafel after his death. Knafel was forced to withdraw from Kranj to Brdo Castle during the Counter-Reformation. Economically, teamster services developed in Kranj in the 16th century, with connections to the rest of Upper Carniola and Carinthia. There were also several blacksmith workshops and two foundries along the Sava River.
Edward Shanklin IV's son John Edward Shanklin served as a Confederate Cavalryman in the American Civil War in the 15th Kentucky Cavalry, known at the time as Woodward's 2nd D Cavalry. John Edward enlisted on October 25, 1861. He was injured in service and was reassigned in 1863 as a regimental ordnance teamster in charge of transporting army munitions. John Edward surrendered in Washington, Georgia in 1865.
George served as a hired servant with a Confederate infantry regiment during the American Civil War. While serving at Gettysburg, he fled and went to Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, where he worked as a teamster in a Union quartermaster unit and subsequently enlisted as a white man in the 21st Pennsylvania Cavalry Regiment under the name of George Goosby. (The spelling sometimes varied between Goosbey and Goosley).
When gold was discovered in California, Abbe left his family in 1849 for the gold fields where he was a land speculator and teamster. He came back to Iowa in 1851, but left again for California with his son the next year. In 1854, before he could return to Iowa to bring his family to California, Abbe died at age 54. He was buried in Sacramento.
In the 1980s, Joston's acting career became more sporadic, and he made a gradual transition from acting to working full-time as a teamster on film and television transportation crews. He had begun working as a teamster when he was between acting jobs, which, according to Joston, was much of the time; eventually, he became so busy working on film crews that he rarely had time to look for roles. After 1986, he worked primarily in transportation until his retirement in 1994. In 1982, when Carpenter was scheduled to direct the film adaptation of Stephen King's novel Firestarter, Joston was considered for the role of John Rainbird, the Native-American assassin; but after Universal Pictures executives fired Carpenter from the project (following the commercial failure of The Thing) and replaced him with Mark L. Lester, the role of Rainbird was given to George C. Scott.
They brought their house with them on their horse-drawn wagon. Like many other teamster families it is likely that both the Langenbaker's and their house had already moved several times to various locations at temporary railheads along the railway line. Langenbaker house was assembled on Mitchell Street, Ilfracombe, in about April 1899 and remained in the family until 1991 with the passing of Harry and Mary Ann's youngest son Bernard.
Harry Langenbaker, was one of many teamsters who took advantage of the chance which Ilfracombe offered to keep his teams in work. Bernard Langenbaker, youngest son of Harry and Mary Ann describes his father's life as a teamster: > Dad worked down on the lower Barcoo. Often he would be away for twelve > months at a time, and while there was work to be had he wouldn't come home.
Charles McNeil had been a truck driver before buying in to the Zanzibar. One of his co-workers was Anthony Provenzano, who later became Head of Teamster Local 560; with Provenzano's backing, McNeil broke the color barrier at one of the local trucking companies. James Smith and Charles McNeil bought the Zanzibar in 1961; in 1963 McNeil bought Smith out. He and Dorothy met around 1971 or 1972.
Hugh Murdoch Ross (8 July 1846 - 7 July 1912) was an Australian politician. He was born at Murrurundi to wheelwright John Ross and Mary Mackay. He was a farmer who also worked as a stock inspector, a postmaster and poundkeeper at Quirindi, and as clerk and secretary of the Carriers/Teamster Union at Narrabri. On 20 April 1874 he married Caroline O'Neile, with whom he would have nine children.
In 1906, with his mother's approval, Sanders left the area to live with his uncle in New Albany, Indiana.Klotter, The Human Tradition in the New South, p. 131. His uncle worked for the streetcar company, and secured Sanders a job as a conductor. Sanders falsified his date of birth and enlisted in the United States Army in October 1906, completing his service commitment as a wagoner (see teamster) in Cuba.
William Presser had resigned his vice presidency after being convicted of extortion and obstruction of justice. Allegedly, William Presser met with Roy Lee Williams, then president of the Central Conference of Teamsters, a regional council which controlled union locals in 14 Midwestern states (including Ohio). Williams, who was working with the Kansas City crime family, agreed to help Presser convince Teamster President Fitzsimmons to make Jackie a vice president.
Virgil worked as a teamster and Wyatt manned a pick and shovel. Not long after their brothers Jim and Morgan left the family in San Bernardino and headed for the mining towns of Montana. In spring 1868, Nick, Ginnie, Morgan, Warren, and Adelia returned to the mid-west and Lamar, Missouri, where Nicholas became the local constable. By November 17, 1869, Nicholas resigned to become Justice of the Peace.
Two strikers were killed. Protest rallies of 40,000 were held. Farrell Dobbs, who became the leader of the local, had at the outset joined the "small and poverty-stricken" Communist League of America, founded by James P. Cannon and others in 1928 after their expulsion from the Communist Party USA for Trotskyism.Dobbs, Farrell, Teamster Rebellion, Monad Press, New York, (1972), p21ff, p34, p92 Success for the CIO quickly followed its formation.
Johnson was Henry and Tina Johnson's third child of nine. His parents were former slaves who worked service jobs as a janitor and a dishwasher. His father Henry served as a civilian teamster of the Union's 38th Colored Infantry. He was described by his son as the "most perfect physical specimen that he had ever seen", although was left with an atrophied right leg from his service in the war.
Robert worked as a teamster under Winsor, and by May 1870 had saved enough money to buy a parcel of land. From 1879 to 1881, he worked as a retail grocer. In 1885 he moved the family to Stanton, Michigan, and expanded his land holdings; he was successful in real estate with his brother Hugh, who moved from in 1887. By 1905, Robert was also a notary public.
In the mid-1950s, Midwestern Teamster leader Jimmy Hoffa began an effort to unseat Dave Beck, the union's international president. In October 1955, mobster Johnny Dio met with Hoffa in New York City and the two men conspired to create as many as 15 paper locals (fake local unions which existed only on paper) to boost Hoffa's delegate totals."No Ordinary Hoodlum". New York Times. August 30, 1956.
Roy Conacher was born October 5, 1916, along with his twin brother Bert. They were the youngest children to Benjamin and Elizabeth Conacher and two of ten siblings: five boys and five girls. The family grew up in the Toronto neighbourhood of Davenport, which his brother Charlie described as "one of Toronto's higher class slums". His father was a teamster, and struggled to earn enough money to support the family.
American, Mexican, O'odham, Chinese, and Japanese individuals were present, though the community was totally segregated. Other occupations not gleaned from business directories but listed in the census report include grocer, butcher, restaurant keeper, boardinghouse keeper, musician, stableman, servant, laundress, teacher, carpenter, teamster, photographer, and prostitute. The company also maintained a hospital and attendant personnel at this time. Additional amenities established around 1910 included two firehouses and a movie house.
There, he took a variety of jobs, from tram driver to oil well worker, teamster to fisherman.Trades Union Congress, "Mr Alfred Smith", Annual Report of the 1931 Trades Union Congress, p.308 After some years at sea, Smith returned to London in 1884, where he became a taxi driver. He was a founder member of the London Cab Drivers' Union, and served as its president from 1906 to 1913.
June 15, 1966. Fitzsimmons, however, was to be nothing more than a glorified gofer: > But there is no certainty that Hoffa intends to let Fitzsimmons run > anything. Indeed, few other Teamster big wigs even pretend that the chunky, > amiable Hoffa right bower has the capacity to hold the union together for > long. "He's just a peanut butter sandwich; he'll melt in no time," is the > unflattering comment of one union insider.
Fitzsimmons was re-elected General President of the Teamsters in Las Vegas, Nevada, on June 16, 1976. An insurgent reform group, which later adopted the name Teamsters for a Democratic Union, issued a massive report accusing Fitzsimmons and other Teamsters of corruption and suppressing democracy in the union and picketed the June Teamsters convention.Raskin, A.H. "Teamster Rebels Doubt A Shake-Up." New York Times. May 29, 1976; Dembart, Lee.
Five months later, Beck won approval of a significant reform of the union's internal structure. Instead of the four divisions which existed under Tobin, Beck proposed 16 divisions organized around each of the major job categories in the union's membership. Although nearly 1,000 Teamster leaders attended the conference in which the restructuring was debated and approved, Tobin did not."AFL Teamsters Begin Drastic Revamping," New York Times, January 18, 1949.
Shea was re-elected again in 1905 and 1906, although significant challenges to his presidency occurred each time."Fight to Defeat Teamster Chief," Chicago Daily Tribune, July 7, 1906; "Teamsters Re-Elect Shea," The New York Times, August 10, 1906. Shea's first trial on charges stemming from the 1905 Montgomery Ward strike ended in a mistrial."Jury In Deadlock In the Shea Case," Chicago Daily Tribune, January 20, 1907.
When he was later asked by the media if he had qualms about entering the prison yard, Laxalt, a former trial lawyer, said, "No, not really. Many of them were my former clients!" In 1970, Laxalt lobbied President Richard Nixon to reduce the prison sentence of notorious Teamster leader Jimmy Hoffa after Hoffa was convicted of attempting to bribe Sen. Howard Cannon, whom Laxalt had unsuccessfully challenged in 1964.
The Department of Justice had charged Presser and others with making improper loans to mob-controlled Las Vegas casinos, racetracks and real estate investments. In 1978, Presser was named a defendant in a civil suit brought by the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL), which sought damages and reimbursement on behalf of union retirees.Dobkin, "U.S. Sues to Recover Pension Fund Losses In Teamster Plan," Associated Press, February 1, 1978.
The Elizabeth McCafferty Three-Decker was a historic triple decker house at 45 Canterbury Street in Worcester, Massachusetts. It was a fine example of a Queen Anne triple decker, with bands of decorative shingles and porch with turned posts. It was built in 1894, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990. Its early tenants were primarily machinists and laborers, also including a policeman and teamster.
He left his job and worked as a bullwacker from Fort Leavenworth to Santa Fe. About this time he began using the name Charles A. Franklin. Franklin arrived in Albuquerque on June 20, 1863. He worked briefly for the Rio Abajo Press, then joined the 1st California Volunteers. In this role he served as a teamster escorting Governor John Noble Goodwin party to the newly formed Arizona Territory.
Five months later, Beck won approval of a significant reform of the union's internal structure. Instead of the four divisions which existed under Tobin, Beck proposed 16 divisions organized around each of the major job categories in the union's membership. Although nearly 1,000 Teamster leaders attended the conference in which the restructuring was debated and approved, Tobin did not."AFL Teamsters Begin Drastic Revamping," New York Times, January 18, 1949.
Tobin proved to be an adept organizer. Teamster membership stood at just 82,000 in 1932. Tobin took advantage of the wave of pro-union sentiment engendered by the passage of the National Industrial Recovery Act, and by 1935 union membership had risen nearly 65 percent to 135,000. By 1941, Tobin had a dues-paying membership of 530,000—making the Teamsters the fastest-growing labor union in the United States.
The player can tinkle on them with their hearts, and they will join the player's team, becoming "Teamers" or teamsters. There are two other teams that the player can choose from at the start of the game. When enough pavilions are completed the player can battle the other teamster groups in a tinkle contest. If the player wins, the loser's team members become neutral and can be added to their team.
Devine was born in 1897 in Des Moines, Iowa. His father, William Samuel Devine, was an Iowa native, and his mother, Elizabeth Victoria Foreman, was a Missouri native. At the time of the 1900 United States Census, Devine's father was employed as a teamster living in Des Moines, and Aubrey was the youngest among the nine children of William and Elizabeth.1900 U.S. Census entry for William Divine [sic] and family.
Endorsed by Teamsters for a Democratic Union (TDU), a member-led reform caucus, Carey ran for General President on a pledge to eliminate corruption and organized crime's influence in the union.Carey was not a member of Teamsters for a Democratic Union. See: McFadden, "New Teamster Chief's Motto: Honest Work for Honest Pay," New York Times, December 15, 1991; Kilborn, "Carey Takes the Wheel," New York Times, June 21, 1992.
Carey derogatorily referred to Hoffa as "Junior," and denounced him as a "flunky" of the "old guard", "the same old mobbed-up, on-the-take teamster his daddy was", an "imposter," and all "smoke and mirrors." The war of words became so heated that in late September Carey filed a libel suit against Hoffa."Teamsters' President Sues Rival, Charging Campaign Libels Him." New York Times. October 1, 1996.
Black stump monument at Merriwagga The village of Merriwagga and nearby community of Gunbar, in the Riverina district of New South Wales, have strong claims to the origin of the expression 'black stump'. Gunbar cemetery is the burial-place of Mrs. Barbara Blain, the woman whose accidental death in March 1886 possibly gave rise to the term. Barbara Blain's husband, James, was a carrier or teamster, based at Hay.
His departure was motivated in part by a lung ailment. From Connecticut Hayden went to New York City, where he studied law, before beginning a series of teaching jobs in Kentucky, Indiana, and Missouri. While in Kentucky, Hayden was influenced by Henry Clay's vision of opening the West to settlement by the development of roads and canals. By 1847, he was working as a teamster hauling freight on the Santa Fe Trail.
He campaigned for Ron Carey's reelection in 1996, and for Tom Leedham in the two following Teamster elections. Born and raised in Stoughton, Massachusetts, Allen has lived in Chicago for two decades. He is the son and nephew of United States Marines. His previous books Vietnam: The (Last) War the U.S. Lost and 'People Wasn't Made to Burn': A Trues Story of Race, Murder, and Justice in Chicago were both published by Haymarket books.
Two-thirds of teachers were women. They also worked in iron and steel works (495), mines (46), sawmills (35), oil wells and refineries (40), gas works (4), and charcoal kilns (5), and held such surprising jobs as ship rigger (16), teamster (196), turpentine laborer (185), brass founder/worker (102), shingle and lathe maker (84), stock-herder (45), gun and locksmith (33), hunter and trapper (2). There were five lawyers, 24 dentists, and 2,000 doctors.
New York Times. January 10, 1956.Raskin, A.H. "Teamster Units Stir New Storm". New York Times. February 4, 1956; Raskin, A.H. "Hoffa of the Teamsters Forcing Labor Showndown". New York Times. March 4, 1956. A major battle broke out within the Teamsters over whether to charter the locals, and the media attention led to inquiries by the U.S. Department of Justice and the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations of the U.S. Senate Committee on Government Operations.
February 10, 1957; Raskin, A.H. "Beck Slips Back to U.S. and Faces Senate Subpoena". New York Times. March 11, 1957. Four of the paper locals were dissolved to avoid committee scrutiny, several Teamster staffers were charged with contempt of Congress, union records were lost or destroyed (allegedly on purpose), and wiretaps were played in public before a national television audience in which Dio and Hoffa discussed the creation of even more paper locals.
Galonski received her bachelor's degree from Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, and then a law degree from the University of Akron. In Atlanta, Galonski worked as a flight attendant for Delta Air Lines while in school. A former Teamster, Galonski's father was a member of the United Auto Workers. An attorney by trade, Galonski previously served as a magistrate in the Summit County Court of Common Pleas, including in the county’s juvenile court.
An old story talks about the Hemmadhäddlers, which are said to appear at certain times. A bold teamster from Tieringen was driving an empty wagon over the Weichenwang to Baienberg with a group of men from Hausen am Tann. At midnight he chanced to invoke the Hemmadhäddlers. All passengers survived the encounter with the apparitions, but they had to cut the traces of the skittish horses and abandon the wagon stuck in the deep loam.
Teamsters with horse-drawn wagons would stop at a natural spring in an arroyo of the range to water their horses. A teamster surrounded it with a box to maintain water access, later giving the spring and range their names.Holtzclaw, Kenneth M. Images of America: Moreno Valley, Arcadia Publishing, 2007. . The letter "C" is embedded on the Riverside-facing side. The "Big C" was built in 1957, mostly by UC Riverside students.
When the Nez Perce discovered Major Igles coming up Cow Creek, some warriors went down the canyon to take up positions to meet this threat. Other Nez Perce attacked the wagon train. One teamster was killed and the others fled into willows along the creek or into the breaks. The main body of the Nez Perce helped themselves to some goods in the wagons, set them on fire, and continued on up Cow Creek.
Garnel, The Rise of Teamster Power in the West, 1972. But corruption became even more widespread in the Teamsters during the Tobin administration. By 1941, the union was considered the most corrupt in the United States, and the most abusive towards its own members. Tobin vigorously defended the union against such accusations, but also instituted many constitutional and organizational changes and practices which made it easier for union officials to engage in criminal offenses.
Presser was born in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1926. His grandfather, a Jewish emigrant from Austria, became a garment worker, and was active in and participated in several strikes led by various garment makers' unions in New York City. Presser's father, William (Bill) Presser, was at the time of Jackie's birth a Teamster organizer. The Pressers were very poor: Bill Presser stuffed newspapers into shoes to block holes in the uppers and strengthen worn-out soles.
In an attempt to discredit McCarthy, Presser told the FBI that McCarthy had sought the support of organized crime in an unsuccessful attempt to persuade Presser to appoint him secretary-treasurer in 1983.When the allegations were made public in 1989, federal prosecutors claimed wiretaps on mafia figures' telephones supported Presser's accusations. McCarthy vehemently denied the accusations. Raab, "Top Teamster Informer Told F.B.I. That McCarthy Asked Mafia Help," New York Times, March 17, 1989.
An old story talks about the Hemmadhäddlers, which are said to appear at certain times. A bold teamster from Tieringen was driving an empty wagon over the Weichenwang to Baienberg with a group of men from Hausen am Tann. At midnight he chanced to invoke the Hemmadhäddlers. All passengers survived the encounter with the apparitions, but they had to cut the traces of the skittish horses and abandon the wagon stuck in the deep loam.
The arrest infuriated Shea. Late that evening, having made bail, he convened an emergency meeting of the Teamster executive board. Ensuring that primarily his supporters attended the meeting, Shea pushed through several resolutions calling for the end to peace talks, reaffirming support for the strike, and praising Shea's handling of the strike. Although negotiations with the employers had nearly reached complete agreement, Shea withdrew his negotiators and repudiated the tentative agreements which had been reached.
Police attacked and fired upon striking Teamster truck drivers in Minneapolis who were demanding recognition of their union, wage increases, and shorter working hours. As violence escalated, Governor Olson went so far as to declare martial law in Minneapolis, deploying 4,000 National Guardsmen. The strike ended on 21 August when company owners finally accepted union demands. ;5 July 1934 (United States) :1934 San Francisco General Strike Bloody Thursday - West Coast & San Francisco General Strike.
Eldridge was born on the North Side of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on January 30, 1911, to parents Alexander, a wagon teamster, and Blanche, a gifted pianist with a talent for reproducing music by ear, a trait that Eldridge claimed to have inherited from her.Chilton, pp. 4–5. Eldridge began playing the piano at the age of five; he claims to have been able to play coherent blues licks at even this young age.Chilton, p. 5.
On March 13, 1956, 63-year-old Sherman Sexton died unexpectedly of an aneurysm. He is buried at All Saints Cemetery in Des Plaines. Sherman had begun work for his father at the Lake and Franklin location as a Teamster in 1909 and his career had spanned 47 years. Sherman had led the company from a Chicago-based grocery mail order house to a coast-to-coast foodservice distributor with over $40 million in sales.
An old story talks about the Hemmadhäddlers, which are said to appear at certain times. A bold teamster from Tieringen was driving an empty wagon over the Weichenwang to Baienberg with a group of men from Hausen am Tann. At midnight he chanced to invoke the Hemmadhäddlers. All passengers survived the encounter with the apparitions, but they had to cut the traces of the skittish horses and abandon the wagon stuck in the deep loam.
President McCarthy declined to run for health reasons, and the board selected R.V. Durham, an international vice president, to run as their candidate for president. In February 1991, Mathis backed a decision by Durham to reject a McCarthy-backed candidate for an empty vice presidential seat. The move was seen as an attempt to put political distance between the Durham candidacy and the McCarthy administration, which was increasingly unpopular with Teamster members.
Looking east from D St. toward 3rd St. in downtown San Bernardino in 1864. On May 12, 1864, Nicholas Earp organized a wagon train and headed to San Bernardino, California, arriving on December 17. By late summer 1865, Virgil found work as a driver for Phineas Banning's stage coach line in California's Imperial Valley, and 16 year-old Wyatt assisted. In spring 1866, Wyatt became a teamster transporting cargo for Chris Taylor.
Vincent Raymond Dunne (17 April 1889 – 17 February 1970), also known as Vincent R. Dunne or Ray Dunne, was an American Trotskyist, teamster, lumberjack, and union organizer with the Industrial Workers of the World and the International Brotherhood of Teamsters. He is notable for his leading role in the 1934 Minneapolis general strike, his conviction and imprisonment under the anti-communist Smith Act, and his membership in the Socialist Workers Party and opposition to Stalinism.
Maurice Clifford Townsend, known as Clifford to his friends and family, was born on a farm in Blackford County, Indiana to David and Lydia Glancy Townsend on August 11, 1884. He had one sister, Myrtle, and the two were raised on a country farm. After completing high school in 1901 he worked as a teamster in the oil fields during the Indiana Gas Boom, and later in a factory. In 1907 he entered Marion College in Grant County.
I came to the conclusion > that I did not look very inviting, so back to the corral I went and hunted > up my friend, Mike Nolan, a brother teamster. He was the only one who had a > boiled shirt and store clothes, as we called them at the time. I found Mike > and he loaned me his "duds." Admitted to the dance, he met sixteen-year-old Susan Buhn of Germany, and they were married on May 29, 1865.
For the campaign, the UFW hired 500 organizers, many of them farmworkers. The UFW won more elections than it lost, although in instances where it went head-to-head with the Teamsters, the latter beat the UFW. This indicated that the UFW's greatest strengths were among vegetable and citrus growers, rather than in their original heartlands of the Delano vineyards. The Teamster victories in the Delano vineyards angered Chavez, who insisted that there had not been free elections there.
De Priest was born in 1871 in Florence, Alabama, to freedmen, former slaves of mixed race. He had a brother named Robert. His mother, Martha Karsner, worked part-time as a laundress, and his father Neander was a teamster, associated with the "Exodus" movement. After the Civil War, thousands of blacks left continued oppression by whites in the South by moving to other states that offered promises of freedom and greater economic opportunities, such as Kansas.
Shipwrecked figures signaling to a distant sailing ship, oil painting by Gideon Jacques Denny Gideon Jacques Denny (1830-1886) was a marine artist who was born in Wilmington, Delaware on July 15, 1830. As a young man, he worked on ships in the Chesapeake Bay. He traveled to California in 1849 with the Gold Rush. He worked as a teamster on the San Francisco docks and was a member of the San Francisco Committee of Vigilance.
Dalton was born in Wee Waa, New South Wales and was the son of a teamster. Chris Dalton a member of the New South Wales Legislative Council between 1943 and 1970 was his brother. He was educated to elementary level in country schools and after working in numerous rural jobs he joined the construction division of the New South Wales Government Railways in 1922. He was an official of the Australian Workers' Union between 1935 and 1945.
In the past he had been a teamster, carting wool and supplies along the famous Strezlecki Track and had also tried his luck as a miner and drover at the Arltunga goldfields in the Northern Territory. It may have been a marriage of convenience as Charlotte needed a father for her children; William needed a mother for his two young children, Elsie Bridget (Tooli) and Harold Paul (Sikki). Their dead mother had been an Arunta woman known as Annie.
Calabrese also had worked as an ironworker on the John Hancock Center construction project in Chicago, as a Teamster working for trade show contractor United Exposition at Chicago's McCormick Place and as a Cook County security officer at the courthouse in Maywood, Illinois from 1977 until 1989. In the 1970s, Calabrese and two partners operated a restaurant and lounge in Hoffman Estates, Illinois for a couple of years, and also worked for a private detective agency.
LeSueur was born Caroline Le Gresley on June 11, 1814, in Velle Babet, Jersey, Channel Islands. She married John Le Sueur in 1836 at St. Ouen's Parish Church, and they lived initially the parish of St Peter. Within two years they had two children, a boy and a girl, the first of whom died in infancy. They moved to Saint Helier, the seaport capital of Jersey, where John worked first as a teamster, and then in a candle factory.
Farrell was born in Chicago, to a large Irish-American family which included siblings Earl, Joseph, Helen, John and Mary. In addition, there were several other siblings who died during childbirth, as well as one who died from the great 1918 flu pandemic. His father was a teamster, and his mother a domestic servant. His parents were too poor to provide for him, and he went to live with his grandparents when he was three years old.
While on KYW-TV, Haynes' many stories were local based, she reported on local politics, City Hall and School Board meetings. As time went by Haynes interviewed a wide range of people from Philadelphia mayors and Pennsylvania governors to noted individuals such as Dr. Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., former President Lyndon Johnson, former Vice President of the United States Hubert Humphrey, and former Teamster Union leader Jimmy Hoffa. Later, she began to interview show business personalities.
The Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR) and the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) conducted sit-ins as early as the 1940s. Ernest Calloway refers to Bernice Fisher as "Godmother of the restaurant 'sit-in' technique.""OF TIME AND SOUND, Requiem For A Free, Compassionate Spirit", by Ernest Galloway, published in Missouri Teamster, May 12, 1966, Page 7. In August 1939, African-American attorney Samuel Wilbert Tucker organized the Alexandria Library sit-in at the then-racial segregated library.
Galenson claims that Tobin's "personal honesty was never challenged..." See: Galenson, The CIO Challenge to the AFL: A History of the American Labor Movement, 1960, p. 471. Other historians challenge this conclusion, but conclude any misdeeds Tobin engaged in are minor compared to those of some Teamsters leaders. See: Garnel, The Rise of Teamster Power in the West, 1972; Witwer, Corruption and Reform in the Teamsters Union, 2003; Phelan, William Green: Biography of a Labor Leader, 1989.
Beck opposed the new rule,"Free-Wheeling Teamster," The New York Times, January 29, 1957. but the Ethical Practices Committee of AFL–CIO instituted the rule on January 31, 1957.Raskin, "Anti- Crime Code Backed By Labor," The New York Times, January 30, 1957; Raskin, "Labor Votes to Curb Rackets," The New York Times, February 1, 1957. The Teamsters were given 90 days to reform,Raskin, "3 Unions Ordered to Speed Reforms," The New York Times, February 6, 1957.
He was pardoned by Washington Governor Albert Rosellini in 1965, and by President Gerald Ford in 1975.Schaefer and Duncan, "Dave Beck Dies-Seattle Man Rose To Become Labor Legend," Seattle Times, December 27, 1993. After his release from prison, Beck lived in a basement in a house he himself had built for his mother and sister in the 1940s. He retained his $50,000-a-year Teamster president's pension and became a multimillionaire investing in parking lots.
Paff and the reformers continued to build their organization. As members saw how TDU was consistently standing up to the Teamster officialdom, TDU began to grow. By 1978, the movement was too big to run on a purely volunteer basis, and the TDU Steering Committee voted to hire Paff as its full-time National Organizer. Paff decided to leave his job at Preston, take a very large pay cut, and take the position, which he holds to this day.
A month after his election, Presser proposed a merger of the Teamsters and the International Typographical Union (ITU), a 70,000-member printers' union."Teamster Wants Merger With Printers' Union," Reuters, July 30, 1983; "Printers Proceeding In Talks On Merger With the Teamsters," New York Times, September 28, 1983. AFL-CIO President Lane Kirkland, however, opposed the merger because the Teamsters were not members of the labor federation.Serrin, "Kirkland Opposes Teamsters Merger," New York Times, October 7, 1983.
In May 1986, federal prosecutors again indicted Jackie Presser for fraud."Presser and FBI Agent Indicted," Los Angeles Times, May 16, 1986; Lardner, "Teamsters President Indicted," Washington Post, May 17, 1986; Shenon, "Teamster Leader Is Indicted By U.S. For Racketeering," New York Times, May 17, 1986; "Presser, 2 Aides Plead Innocent," United Press International, May 30, 1986. Presser's declining health caused numerous delays in his trial. He had surgery to remove two cancerous tumors in January 1987.
He also said he had no opinion as to whether the Teamsters should rejoin the AFL-CIO.Serrin, "Ohio Leader Named Teamsters' Chief," New York Times, April 22, 1983. Shortly after his election, Presser told his FBI contacts that anyone who sought to do business with him needed to go through the mafia first. Presser's biggest opponent within the Teamsters was actually William J. McCarthy, president of Joint Council 10 (which covered all Teamster locals in New England).
T. Vincent Quinn was born in Long Island City, New York on March 16, 1903. He attended schools in Queens, graduated from William Cullen Bryant High School, and received his LL.B. degree from Fordham University School of Law in 1924.International Brotherhood of Teamsters, The International Teamster, Volume 45, Issues 9-46, 1948, page 56Fordham University School of Law Alumni, The Fordham Advocate, Vol. 1., No. 2, December 17, 1951, page 3 Quinn practiced in New York City.
In an article in the International Teamster, he wrote that the vote had been up-or-down, with no possibility of amendment. He also reported that he himself had abstained from voting, which made the vote only technically unanimous. After the United States entered World War I, Tobin initially refused to acceded to Gompers' request for a ban on strikes.Foner, History of the Labor Movement in the United States: Labor and World War I, 1914-1918, 1987.
Called "Drop Kick Diabetes," the event raised funds for a Diabetic sufferer who had his legs amputated due to the disease. A then-record 406 fans attended the successful fundraiser. An undisclosed amount of money was raised for the man, but with the Chinese Auction and admission, it is estimated to be as much as 14,000 dollars. Another first for regulars occurred in October, when the KSWA debuted in the "Teamster Temple", on Butler Street in the Lawrenceville neighborhood.
The book begins with Billy as a Teamster and Saxon working in a laundry. Billy has also boxed professionally with some success, but decided there was no future in it. He was particularly upset by one bout in which he was fighting a friend and they had to continue fighting and making a good show of it after his friend injured a hand. Billy and Saxon's early married life is disrupted by a major wave of strikes.
Early in 1933, Shachtman and Glotzer traveled to Europe. While in Britain, the pair were able to meet with Reg Groves and other members of the recently formed Communist League with whom Shachtman had corresponded. When Trotsky's household moved to France in July 1933, Shachtman accompanied them on their journey from Turkey. The Trotskyists expanded their role in the U.S. labor movement through their leadership of the 1934 Minneapolis Teamster strike, which broadened into a citywide general strike.
At the age of 12, Walker became a janitor to help his family. Walker graduated from Valdez High School in 1969. He received his B.S. in Business Management from Lewis & Clark College in 1973 and his J.D. from the University of Puget Sound School of Law (now Seattle University School of Law) in 1983. Walker worked in his family's construction business as a carpenter, laborer, and teamster on the Trans-Alaska Pipeline, which helped him pay for his education.
Beard, 2009 A resident directory from the late 19th and early 20th century includes entries for a shoe manufacturer, teamster, oil dealer, carpenter, and a tin ware dealer. This kind of diversity was part of the philosophy that camp meetings were to be retreats from every day life where participants focused on religious devotion and not worldly goods. A typical day at Asbury Grove began at 5:30 a.m. followed by breakfast served promptly ay 6:30 a.m.
Sturla Jónsson, formerly known as the Progress Party (), was an Icelandic political party. The party was known as the Progress Party from its founding on 17 December 2008 to 5 April 2013 when it was renamed after its founder. The chairman of the party was Sturla Jónsson, teamster and protester, who is today most commonly known for his participation in a documentary movie about the Icelandic financial crisis in 2009. The political ideology of the party is currently unknown.
Hoffa denied the charges, but the arrest triggered additional investigations and more arrests and indictments over the following weeks. "8 Hoffa Aides in Detroit Get Subpoenas to Appear Before U.S. Rackets Jury Here," The New York Times, March 20, 1957; "Hoffa, Attorney Plead Not Guilty," The New York Times, March 30, 1957; Loftus, "Hoffa Urges Court to Quash Charges," The New York Times, April 23, 1957; Ranzal, "Jury Here Indicts Hoffa On Wiretap," The New York Times, May 15, 1957. A week later, Beck admitted to receiving an interest-free $300,000 loan from the Teamsters which he had never repaid, and Senate investigators claimed that loans to Beck and other union officials (and their businesses) had cost the union more than $700,000."Beck Says Union Lent Him $300,000 Without Interest," The New York Times, March 18, 1957; Drury, "Teamster Loss Put At $709,420," The New York Times, March 23, 1957; Morris, "Inquiry Tracing Funds Beck Used," The New York Times, March 24, 1957; "Million Teamster Loan To Tracks Under Study," The New York Times, March 30, 1957.
As they have too many bones with them for a single trip, they leave half of the bones at camp, intending to retrieve them on the second trip. Johnson volunteers to lead the second trip, and is accompanied by a fellow student named Toad, a snake scout named Little Wind, and the teamster, Cookie. As they approach the camp, they see the fires of the Sioux army in the distance. Cookie and Little Wind desert Johnson and Toad, leaving them with the wagon.
In April 1878, a "balky horse" sent six people into the brook, but none were injured. A similar incident occurred in 1837 when a thirsty horse brought himself, the teamster driving him, and the load of paper he was carrying from the mills in Dedham to Braintree into the brook. Moments after leaving Dedham Square for Forest Hills in 1911, a streetcar jumped the track on Washington Street and dangled 35 passengers over the brook. Only two minor injuries were reported.
The strike changed Minneapolis, which had been an open shop citadel under the control of the Citizens Alliance for years before 1934. In the aftermath of this strike thousands of other workers in other industries organized with the assistance of Local 574. The strike also gave the Communist League, later renamed the Workers Party of America, a strong position in Local 574, and in other Teamster locals within the metropolitan area of Minneapolis. Trotskyist strength grew to over 100 members.
The Skillman area got its name when the railroads arrived in the 1870s, according to the Skillman family. Joseph A. Skillman, was a teamster who owned "wild Missouri mules," according to family accounts. When railroad workers were trying to lay tracks, their horses got bogged down in thick, clay mud, and Joseph A. Skillman came to the rescue with his mules. Railroad officials also socialized at the home of another Skillman nearby, and the new train station was named for the family.
Although his relationship with Beeson was never the same, Quantrill remained friends with Torrey. Shortly afterwards, Quantrill accompanied a large group of hometown friends in their quest to start a settlement on Tuscarora Lake. However, neighbors soon began to notice Quantrill stealing goods out of other people's cabins and so they banished him from the community in January 1858. Soon thereafter, he signed on as a teamster with the U.S. Army expedition heading to Salt Lake City, Utah in the spring of 1858.
Many other reports say that one member of the Iron Horsemen was arrested in New York for possession of firearms and cocaine. This man was known as Big Ed. A gang member known only as “Shorty” is said to be the main boss of Eastern Pennsylvania. It’s believed that Shorty has connections in politics, as well as strong influence among local Teamster heads. He’s known to operate a social club in Belle Vernon, Pennsylvania that caters to the local Polish community.
In 1975, two new caucuses formed: Teamsters for a Decent Contract (TDC) and UPSurge. Both groups pushed the national leadership for a vastly improved contracts at UPS and the freight lines. In 1976 a new formal caucus, Teamsters for a Democratic Union (TDU), formed when TDC and UPSurge merged. The new caucus' goal was to make internal Teamster governance more transparent and democratic, which included giving rank-and-file more of a say in the terms and approval of contracts.
Beck also successfully opposed in 1947 a Tobin-backed dues increase to fund new organizing.Davies, "Teamsters Defeat Tobin On Tax Rise," The New York Times, August 15, 1947. The following year, Beck was able to demand the ouster of the editor of International Teamster magazine and install his own man in the job."Union Editor Is Ousted," Associated Press, September 3, 1948. In 1948, Beck allied with his long-time rival Jimmy Hoffa and effectively seized control of the union.
Bace grew up in rural Alabama as one of seven children and was diagnosed with epilepsy in adolescence. Her mother was a war bride from Japan following World War II and her father was a self-educated teamster from Alabama. Due to prevailing attitudes about the illness and about women, her neurologist suggested that she stay home and collect disability following high school. She credited a local librarian and family friend, Bertha Nel Allen, for the encouragement to apply for college and scholarships.
North across Durieu Road, June 2019. Hatzic Prairie is the portion of Hatzic Valley that exists south of Durieu Road. Historically, Hatzic Prairie was first occupied by members of the Kwantlen (formerly Sto:lo) First Nations as a summer camping place. The first recorded settler of European descent was the Irish squatter John or James Kelly in the 1860s who was formerly a Cariboo teamster, and further to being apprehended for illegally importing cattle was deported and left for the USA.
La Cosa Nostra was a Mafia group that rose to economic power through their heavy involvement in unions. The Mafia has controlled unions all over the U.S. to extort money and resources out of big business, with recent indictments of corruption involving the New Jersey Waterfront Union, the Concrete Workers Union, and the teamster union. Restaurants were yet another powerful means by which the Mafia could gain economic power. A large concentration of Mafia owned restaurants were in New York City.
The store became a gathering place for "discriminating gentlemen", attracting the movers and shakers of Seattle, including pioneers, city councilman, business leaders, and even Teamster Boss, Dave Beck.Nogaki, Sylvia Wyland. "Six Klopfensteins Stores To Be Liquidated, Closed" - The Seattle Times 25 Sept, 1992 The store moved again to Fourth Avenue and ownership would be passed to Clarence's son Hugh. In 1966, Klopfenstein's merged with another Seattle clothing store, Leslie - Hughes and for a brief time the company was known as Klopfenstein's - Leslie - Hughes.
Carhaul: Shortly after ratification of the UPS pact, Presser began negotiations on behalf of Teamster truck drivers who deliver new automobiles to dealerships (carhaulers). The carhaul contract expired on June 1, 1985. Presser negotiated a new agreement in mid-June which provided for a minimal wage increase of 60 cents an hour, imposed a two-tier wage system, reduced pay for trips of more than 1,100 miles, eliminated cost-of-living adjustments, and provided for only half-pay for loaded return trips.
On 15 December 1917 Siegel was re-enlisted with the Navy. His draft cardWorld War 1 Registration Card Wisconsin, Milwaukee City, 48-1-15 A, No. 256 states he and Teresa have one child, Margaret Jean "Virginia" Siegel. His draft card also shows that he is a wagon driver "teamster" working for Wells Fargo Company Express. For the first year of his second enlistment Siegel spent his time working in the Navy Yard at Norfolk, VA.:File:1917 go 1919 service.
Historians have noted that the Helena Shot Tower, which allowed a frontier resource to be shipped in a finished form, was significant in the settlement and prosperity of southwestern Wisconsin. The overland teamster route developed to transport the operation's output to the east evolved into a road and then a rail line. Returning wagon teams brought supplies and immigrants. Southwestern Wisconsin, once more closely tied to the Southern United States via the Mississippi River, built a population and culture closer to the northeast.
Finally he settled permanently in Chicago and became a self-employed teamster. He also studied Theology and became a lay preacher of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Although the church never ordained him, he served as a lay pastor in several congregations of workers in downtown Chicago. There he became acquainted with socialist thinking and in 1884, joined the cause full-time, becoming a member of the American Group faction of the International Working Men's Association, and later being appointed its treasurer.
When word of Lajoie's baseball ability spread, he began to play for other semi-professional teams at $2 to $5 per game ($ to $ in current dollar terms). He also worked as a teamster. He left Woonsocket and his $7.50 per week ($ in current dollar terms) working as a taxi driver and joined the Class B New England League's Fall River Indians in 1896. Lajoie played as a center fielder, first baseman and catcher, earning $25 weekly ($ in current dollar terms).
His co-employee was William Rooney, an ex-"slugger" for the Teamsters. Rooney was tried in April 1917 for jury tampering, and Shea defended Rooney in court in regard to the charge (which was dismissed)."Ex-Teamster Chief Tells of Murder Juror," Chicago Daily Tribune, April 8, 1917. In May 1917, the saloon's license was revoked when Chicago officials learned that Shea actually managed the saloon and may have invested in it in violation of the terms of his parole.
Gephardt was born in St. Louis, Missouri, the son of Loreen Estelle (née Cassell) and Louis Andrew Gephardt, a Teamster milkman; part of his ancestry is German. He graduated from the former Southwest High School in 1958. Gephardt is an Eagle Scout and recipient of the Distinguished Eagle Scout Award from the Boy Scouts of America. He earned his B.S. at Northwestern University in 1962 where he was president of Beta Theta Pi, the student senate, and his freshman class.
"Teamster Aide's Conviction May Lead to Fraud." Detroit News. November 21, 1999. Although the AFL-CIO had a policy (enacted in the wake of several Teamsters' scandals in the late 1950s) appearing to require anyone who asserted their Fifth Amendment rights to be removed from office, AFL-CIO President John Sweeney wrote in a letter sent to AFL-CIO member unions in November 1997 that the AFL-CIO policy regarding assertion of Fifth Amendment rights had "never been applied by the federation".
Preston House, at 205 Ferry St. in Thompson Falls, Montana, was built in 1909 by builder Charles H. Doenges, who was the major builder/contractor in Thompson Falls during 1905 to 1913. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986. It has also been known as Brown House. It was originally the home of Celia Preston, a member of the Eugene Preston family which operated a livery/teamster/excavation business on Preston Street in Thompson Falls.
Frank Lentino, a former Teamster who had become a labor organizer for Bartenders Local 54 and Leonetti's conduit for Matthews, introduced him to James Biaco. Lentino and Biaco worked with Matthews to arrange the sale of a city-owned land zoned for casino development. Matthews was offered a hidden interest in the casino development that would follow his approval. Several different locations were used to meet with Matthews, including Shapiro's condominium at the Island House on Atlantic Avenue in Margate, New Jersey.
As the strike began, many UPS executives felt they could pressure Carey into offering the company's final offer to the Teamster membership and that the members would accept this offer. Carey won a major contract victory on August 18, 1997. Talks had resumed on August 7 but ended two days later. After five days of silence, talks began again on August 14 under the personal supervision of Labor Secretary Herman at the Hyatt Regency Washington hotel across the street from the Teamsters' headquarters.
Casey was born Pittsfield, Massachusetts and raised in Milton, Massachusetts. The son of Eileen Kelly and Ken Casey Sr., he is of Irish descent on both sides of his family. His father died when he was very young and he was brought up under the wing of his grandfather, John Kelly, a teamster and union worker.Foley, Denise, "A Chat with Dropkick Murphys' Ken Casey", Irish Philadelphia, August 21, 2012 The Dropkick Murphys song "Boys on the Docks" is dedicated to Kelly.
When boxer Billy Roberts (Conway) marries laundress Saxon (Stedman), he tries to please his spouse by leaving his former profession behind and becoming a teamster driving trucks. However, when their wages are cut, the union calls for a strike. The film is sympathetic toward the strikers, with scenes showing police attacking the teamsters with clubs and patrol wagons being driven over fallen men. The former boxer is attacked and beaten by company scabs, lands in jail following a brawl, and starts drinking.
As part of the sale agreement, Hughes' Hotel Properties, Inc. would accept responsibility for approximately $8.9 million owed to the Teamster Union, as well as approximately $5.9 million in other debts and a balance of $2.4 million to Plaza Tower, Inc. At the time of the agreement, Hughes also owned five other hotel-casinos in Las Vegas. The United States Department of Justice launched an antitrust investigation into Hughes' proposed purchase, after previously investigating his attempt to purchase the Stardust Resort and Casino.
The army remained encamped along the Nueces River till March 1846 when they received orders to advance to the Rio Grande. Instead of following her husband, who was ill, and most of the military wives on ships down the coast, Bowman purchased a wagon and mule team and followed the army on land. She handled the trek with skills the "best teamster in the train might have envied." The first encounter between American and Mexican forces came on March 21, 1846 during the crossing of Arroyo Colorado.
According to his war record, John Leak was born in Portsmouth, United Kingdom, around 1892, although there is no record of his birth in that city. He was the son of a miner, James Leak. His parents were originally from South Wales, and apparently migrated to New South Wales, Australia, well before World WarI, although there is no record of his arrival in Australia. By the outbreak of the war, his parents had died, and Leak was living at Clermont, Queensland, and working as a teamster.
The union has achieved an annual increase in organizing gains every year since, with 2008 marking a record-breaking year. Hundreds of volunteer member organizers have arranged worker-to-worker contacts between Teamsters and unorganized workers in the same craft. In 2009, the Teamsters began a project to recruit and train 1,000 member organizers before the end of 2009 to be ready when the Employee Free Choice Act is passed. "There is no better spokesperson for the Teamsters than a Teamster like you," Hoffa said.
Despite the 1984 press reports, federal prosecutors did not indict Jackie Presser until nearly a year later. For much of the latter half of 1984, DOJ officials delayed issuing a "prosecution memorandum" (an internal DOJ document outlining the charges to be brought, the legal strategy to be employed, and the staff and other resources to be utilized in the prosecution). In February 1985, however, DOJ attorneys finally submitted their prosecution memorandum.Jackson and Ostrow, "1st Step Taken to Prosecute Teamster Chief," Los Angeles Times, February 2, 1985.
But the rest were mainly ordinary citizens. Five of the first six sheriffs had worked for the railroad. O. O. Austin had run engines; Nathaniael Russell and Alex Struthers had worked in UP shops; Asa Bradley had been a railroad conductor; and Con Groner had been a teamster, hostler, and railroader. In part this was simply because the railroad companies, and the people who worked for them, made up the majority of the business and population of Lincoln County at the time up until 1880.
Union Stop & Shop employees walked off the job at 1:15 p.m. on April 11 to strike against the contract proposed by Stop & Shop. The next day the teamster union, which represented the store's delivery truck drivers and warehouse workers, told its members to respect the UFCW's picket line. On April 15, Hockey Hall of Fame defenseman Ray Bourque crossed the picket line at the Stop & Shop in North Andover, Massachusetts; after being filmed by picketing workers, he quickly issued an apology for doing so.
Many of these loans were real estate loans to associates of high-ranking Teamster leaders or to organized crime-connected casinos in Las Vegas, Nevada. Among the loans he later made was a $160 million loan to Argent Corporation, which owned a group of casinos, including the Stardust Resort & Casino. The casinos at that time were infiltrated by organized crime and profits were being heavily skimmed and paid to organized crime. A number of organized crime members were later convicted for their involvement in that skimming.
A number of extant contracts between Salvado and Boxhal indicate that Boxhal worked for Salvado for a number of years. In May 1862 Boxhal and another convict named Charles Delaney were contracted to construct fencing, and later to clear ground; in April 1863 he was contracted as a bullock teamster; and in August he was contracted as a sheep shearer. On 4 May 1863, William Boxhal married Mary Ann Kelly, the daughter of an Irish pensioner guard. He then began establishing himself as a farmer.
Teamster representative, Connie Oser, has alleged that district staff have been removed while consultant contracts have been continuously and repeatedly approved by the board, consultant employees shuffled between companies, and the use of Agency CM, which enables tracking of consultants, difficult. Superintendent Ramon Cortines and former Chief Facilities Sohn have both claimed consultants have been reduced in far greater numbers than district staff. This claim cannot be verified since the use of Agency CM contracts. Allegations have also surfaced against James Sohn’s management staff.
In the subsequent 1998 rerun election he was replaced by old guard favorite James P. Hoffa. While some forecast TDU's demise, Paff worked with the rank and file TDU leadership to keep the reform movement on track. By keeping the movement focused on core substantive issues of union reform, such as contract campaign, member mobilization, and local union elections, Paff played an important role in guiding TDU through that difficult period.Livingston, Sandra, "Teamster Reformers Ready to Move Forward," Cleveland Plain Dealer, November 22, 1997, p.
"Presser Will Advise Reagan On Labor," Associated Press, December 19, 1980; Lindsey, "Admitted Mafia Killer Asserts In Book That Reagan Aide Is Tied to Syndicate," New York Times, December 25, 1980. The courtroom testimony intensified the pressure on the Reagan transition team. Democrats and leaders of the Teamsters for a Democratic Union (TDU), a Teamster reform group, demanded that Reagan remove Presser from the transition team. But Reagan aides said that the transition team had completed its task and the issue was now moot.
After the Civil War broke out in April 1861, Hickok became a teamster for the Union Army in Sedalia, Missouri. By the end of 1861, he was a wagon master, but in September 1862 he was discharged for unknown reasons. He then joined General James Henry Lane's Kansas Brigade and, while serving with the brigade, saw his friend Buffalo Bill Cody, who was serving as a scout. In late 1863, Hickok worked for the provost marshal of southwest Missouri as a member of the Springfield detective police.
In April 1887, the Southern Kansas Railway, a subsidiary of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway, built tracks from Kiowa, Kansas to Fort Reno Military Road near the south bank of the North Canadian River. European-American settlers established Woodward at this junction. The source of the name of the town a mystery. People perhaps named the town for Brinton W. Woodward, usually identified as a Santa Fe Railway director, or bison hunter, teamster, and eventually local saddle-maker Richard "Uncle Dick" Woodward.
American Standoff focuses primarily on two Teamster members and a staff organizer and how they are affected by the strike. However, the film roves over the entire United States, visiting Memphis, Atlanta, Chicago, Boston, and Las Vegas. The strike is placed in the context of Hoffa's struggle to secure his political base within the Teamsters' union. Hoffa not only faced political attacks from union reformers but also from other union leaders who believed they could unseat the newly elected president in the 2002 election.
It lay on the overland route to Melbourne and Mount Gambier, and about 60,000 sheep crossed the best part of the station during the first three months of every year. Bullock teams passing from Victoria and the Tatiara district were continually breaking gates and pulling over the posts. Accordingly, Brown had posts at one gate put eight feet into the ground, and awaited the arrival of the next delinquent. Before long a teamster appeared, and carelessly ran a wheel against one of these deeply embedded posts.
Satank was shot to death before he could manage to fire. (A teamster, Antonio Barbello, was wounded by a random shot in the head.) The evening telegraph., June 23, 1871, FIFTH EDITION, Page 5, Image 5 Memphis daily appeal., June 20, 1871, Image 1 reports that it was the Sgt of the Guard who was stabbed and the at driver of the wagon was also killed Satank's body lay unburied in the road, with his people afraid to claim it for fear of the Army, though Col.
Pritzlaff was born in 1820 in Truskolas, a village in the province of Pomerania, Prussia. In 1839, after the death of his father, Pritzlaff came to America at the age of 19, eventually settling in Milwaukee, Wisconsin Territory in 1841. He worked as a teamster and a cook, and cut timber at Schlitz Park, the former site of the Joseph Schlitz Brewing Company. In 1843, he was employed as a porter by Shepardson and Farwell, which was later acquired by Henry J. Nazro & Company.
Some local Teamster leaders tried to lead the ice and market wagon drivers back out on strike, but Shea denounced them and successfully appealed to the drivers to stay on the job. To keep union members in line, however, Shea reiterated his pledge that no meat butchered after the start of the strike would be hauled. Meat wagons, which had started rolling through the city again two weeks earlier, now remained in the barns."Meat Supply in Drivers' Power," Chicago Daily Tribune, September 2, 1904.
By 1934, Dunne had been organizing teamsters in Minneapolis for twenty-five years and was called "the most effective labor leader in America" by Trotsky. With his brothers Miles and Grant, he took effective leadership of Teamsters Local 574 and knew "four or five hundred workers in Minneapolis [...] personally." During the strike, Dunne and his brothers dealt with espionage from police and private detectives, as well as personal attacks from local newspapers. Nevertheless, the strike would eventually succeed and teamster membership in Minneapolis grew explosively.
Dennis "Denny" Jones (27 January 1874 – 19 January 1936) was an Australian trade unionist and politician. He was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Western Australia from March to June 1910, in unusual circumstances, and ran for parliament unsuccessfully on two more occasions in the 1920s. Jones was born in Woodend, Victoria, to Catherine (née Greelish) and Patrick Jones. He moved to Western Australia in the 1890s, and worked as a general labourer and teamster at various locations in the state's South West.
Meigs's correspondence with Buberl reveals that Meigs insisted that one teamster, "must be a negro, a plantation slave, freed by war," be included in the quartermaster panel.McDaniel, Collected Works. This figure was ultimately to assume a position in the center, over the west entrance to the building. When Philip Sheridan was asked to comment on the building, his reply echoed the sentiment of many of the Washington establishment of the day, that the only thing that he could find wrong with the building was that it was fireproof.
Labor Notes was launched as an attempt to help further those linkages, following the Bituminous Coal Strike of 1977-1978 and the wide-scale cross-union solidarity and energy it produced. The hope was that these reform efforts would strengthen and consolidate the more widespread waves of union militancy found earlier in the decade. Headlines in the first year of Labor Notes had themes like, "Teamster Steelhaulers Show Muscle in Three Week Wildcat Strike." The Reagan-era rollbacks on labor law protections put the labor movement on the defensive.
They made up one- third of factory "operatives," but teaching and the occupations of dressmaking, millinery, and tailoring played a larger role. Two-thirds of teachers were women. Women could also be found in such unexpected places as iron and steel works (495), mines (46), sawmills (35), oil wells and refineries (40), gas works (4), and charcoal kilns (5) and held such surprising jobs as ship rigger (16), teamster (196), turpentine laborer (185), brass founder/worker (102), shingle and lathe maker (84), stock-herder (45), gun and locksmith (33), and hunter and trapper (2).
From 1920 to 1955 only AFL-affiliated unions were represented by the SCLC. During this phase there was a considerable conservative influence from Dave Beck, a prominent Teamster on the West Coast and eventual President of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT). Although he was instrumental in rebuilding the strength of organized labor in Seattle, his conservative business unionism approach was very different from the Council's previous radical ideologies. During the Great Depression, many workers favored Beck's conservative style over the more progressive politics of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO).
During the Middle Ages, guards responsible for the provincial border between Carinthia and Styria were stationed in villages in the area; the hamlet of Straže (literally, 'guards') to the northwest reflects this history. A blast furnace operated near Mislinja from 1724 to 1899, reflected in the hamlet name Plavž (literally, 'blast furnace'). The iron ore for the furnace was transported from Vitanje and Šoštanj. There were extensive teamster operations based in Mislinja in the 18th and 19th centuries, and a glass-making facility operated in the hamlet of Glažuta (literally, 'glassworks') from 1796 to 1860.
Next, Worsnop took up the drudgery of work as a teamster in the north. Finally, in September 1866 he became a clerk in the Town Clerk's department in Adelaide and on 11 January 1869 was appointed acting town clerk taking over permanently later that year. Somewhat surprisingly, given his previous failures, Worsnop proved to be a good administrator and he was able to reduce the debt of the City Council. He was also most concerned with protecting the parklands and fascinated by the history of city and colony.
Gillespie L, Ginninderra, Forerunner to Canberra: a history of the Ginninderra district, ACT Heritage Unit, 1992 The remnants of that homestead is located in present-day Ngunnawal near Ginninderra Creek which is now part of the Gungahlin Lakes Golf Course. Anthony's second eldest son Edmund Rolfe spent his early working life as a teamster, transporting building materials e.g. sandstone, wool, wheat and even drinking water from and to as far afield as Camden and Braidwood.Shumack Samuel (1977), An Autobiography or Tales and Legends of Canberra Pioneers, Australian National University Press.
Along the Humboldt, the group met Paiute Native Americans, who joined them for a couple of days but stole or shot several oxen and horses. By now, it was well into October, and the Donner families split off to make better time. Two wagons in the remaining group became tangled, and John Snyder angrily beat the ox of Reed's hired teamster Milt Elliott. When Reed intervened, Snyder proceeded to rain blows down onto his head with a whip handle - when Reed's wife attempted to intervene she too was struck.
On December 2, 1986, government officials finally testified in open court that Presser was indeed a valuable and high- level informant who had assisted DOJ in exposing other labor racketeers. The FBI, fearing for Presser's life, offered him protection under the federal witness program, but Presser refused."Teamster Chief Was Informer, U.S. Aide Says," Associated Press, December 3, 1986; Noble, "Presser's Lawyer Tells of FBI Link," New York Times, December 7, 1986; Ostrow and Jackson, "Presser Rejects FBI's Offer to Protect Him," Los Angeles Times, December 13, 1986.
Paper locals have sometimes been established by labor union leaders in efforts to fraudulently win internal elections. Perhaps the most famous example is the establishment of the "Dio locals" in the International Brotherhood of Teamsters in the mid-1950s. Midwestern Teamster leader Jimmy Hoffa wished to unseat Dave Beck, the union's international president. In October 1956, mobster Johnny Dio met with Hoffa in New York City and the two men conspired to create as many as 15 paper locals to boost Hoffa's delegate totals."No Ordinary Hoodlum", New York Times, August 30, 1956.
Carey was running to keep the job of Teamsters union president. The exchange was an illegal swap that later resulted in a federal court's voiding of Carey's slim election victory against now Teamster President James P. Hoffa. The swap occurred despite the Federal government's expenditure of $20 million on federal monitors led by the Clinton Administration Justice Department to ensure the union election would be above board. A 1988 lawsuit by the Bush Administration was settled in March 1989 with a consent decree signed by the union and the government that allowed the federal monitors.
Dorfman was eventually indicted, along with several other Teamsters leaders, for embezzlement from the union pension fund, in 1970."Hoffa Union Associate Indicted Over Kickback", Los Angeles Times, Jul 15, 1971. abstract Dorfman was convicted and sentenced to one year in federal prison."Allen Dorfman Is Given Year in Prison, Fined in Teamster Fund Case." The Wall Street Journal, April 27, 1972 abstract He was again investigated in 1973 on similar charges, related to payoffs given to have the Teamsters represent agricultural workers in California, in place of the United Farm Workers Union.
They were to be similar to Texas Rangers and combat outlaws and hostile Indians. His first assignment to the Rangers was to scout near the border of the territory for Indians, and for those who recently killed a teamster there. The Rangers Captain was only able to pay the first months wages, and the Governor despite his best efforts was never able to get them funded by the Territorial Legislature or Congress. On May 20, he wrote Johnston informing them they should continue until the end of the month when their pay ran out.
William Jones (1884–1968), a seasoned veteran of the steam era who established the Wildcat Railroad in Los Gatos, California, was born the son of a teamster in the town of Ben Lomond, California, USA. Jones found employment as an engine wiper at the age of 13 with the narrow gauge South Pacific Coast Railroad at Boulder Creek, California. At 17, Jones was promoted to fireman, and later became an engineer. The South Pacific Coast Railroad, which had been acquired by the Southern Pacific Railroad, was converted to a standard gauge road by 1909.
Hoffa surrenders to federal officials and serves time in a Pennsylvania federal prison while Connelly's uncle, Frank Fitzsimmons, takes over as Teamsters boss. Ciaro, also convicted and imprisoned, is freed and immediately begins working for Hoffa's release. D'Allesandro suggests that the Teamsters endorse Richard M. Nixon for President, so that in exchange for Teamster endorsement, Hoffa will receive a presidential pardon. Hoffa is released from prison and expects to again run the Teamsters, but learns that one of the conditions of his release is that he is ineligible to run the union for 10 years.
Probably due to his experience on the fourth Fisk expedition, Illingworth was selected as photographer to Custer's 1874 military expedition by then-Captain William Ludlow (referred to as "Col. Ludlow" by journalists covering the expedition, perhaps because he received a brevet during the Civil War). Ludlow was the Chief Engineer of the Department of Dakota, and was in charge of mapping and scientific data collection for the expedition. He provided Illingworth necessary equipment, rations and supplies, and added Illingworth to the civilian payroll as a "teamster", with a salary of $30 per month.
Hanlon took graduate level courses towards a Master of Sculpture degree at Boston University from 1988 to 1990 and left school early to work as a sculptor full-time. Prior to attending Boston University, Hanlon completed a Bachelor of Arts in Art Education at Monmouth University in 1988. While at Monmouth, he was a student-athlete and captain of the men's cross country team. Before enrolling at Monmouth, he attended Brookdale Community College and Kean University and then worked in New York City as an ironworker and teamster before re-enrolling in Brookdale.
Johnson was born in Beverly, Massachusetts, and raised in neighboring Middleton, in a union household by his mother, Ann Queenan Richardson, a homeless services provider, and his stepfather, Rodney Richardson, a Teamster. Johnson's birth father, David Johnson, was born to an American father and Korean mother in South Korea. Johnson made national headlines in 2000 when, as captain of his high school football team at Masconomet Regional High School, he publicly came out as gay. His story was reported by major national news outlets, including The New York Times and 20/20.
The Thayer House at 109 Jefferson St. in Thompson Falls in Sanders County, Montana was home of Arthur W. Thayer, a mining entrepreneur and editor of the Sanders County Ledger. The stone house, built in 1907, was described as "The most portentious residence in Thompson" by the Ledger. It is "French southern Colonial" in style and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986. It was built of stone from Thayer's quarry on the Thompson River, with the stone brought during the winter by teamster Eugene Preston by two four-horse sleighs.
While attending the University of Colorado, Ron spent the next 3 years working nights and weekends as a Teamster loading freight onto trucks. His years as a union member instilled in him an understanding of the value of collective bargaining for ensuring a middle-class standard of living. Through the years he has been a member of 3 different unions, including his current membership in AFSCME local 821. Sen. Tupa has taught high school social studies as a teacher or substitute teacher for the last 11 years, starting in 1995.
The Rumula Branch Milne, Rod Australian Railway Historical Society Bulletin, October, 1993 pp243-248 Molloy Post Office opened by July 1905 and was renamed Mount Molloy in 1982. Mount Molloy was named after Patrick Molloy, an early teamster for a stock route and the person who discovered copper at what was to become Mount Molloy. Today the dominant industry of Mount Molloy is now cattle grazing and consists of a few shops and an old hotel. The Mount Molloy State School opened on 23 July 1906 and is located on 30-40 Fraser Road.
"Teamster Wins Contempt Test," The New York Times, June 11, 1957. Rank- and-file anger over the McClellan Committee's revelations eventually led Beck to retire from the Teamsters and allowed Jimmy Hoffa to take over. Immediately after his testimony in late March 1957, Beck won approval from the union's executive board to establish a $1 million fund to defend himself and the union from the committee's allegations."Beck To Use Fund To Tell His Story," The New York Times, March 29, 1957; "Beck Insists Board Approve Publicity," The New York Times, March 30, 1957.
Tyurin, a veteran of the Great Patriotic War, who was seriously wounded after enrolling in the ranks of the armed forces, and was treated in one of the military hospitals of Leningrad.Память народа After the war, he decided to stay in the city. In April 1945, Tyurin got a job as a teamster at the canteen of the Bolshevik plant, and was allocated a room in the hut. It was there that he lived until the moment of his arrest half a year later, and where, according to investigators, he committed all of his murders.
In December 1946, near the hut where the murderer lived, the bodies of two of his victims were discovered. The surrounding buildings were checked, and traces of blood were found in Tyurin's room, which later turned out to be traces of animal blood, but law enforcement agencies became interested in the teamster. At that time, Tyurin returned home to the Ryazan Oblast and, according to the testimony of neighbors, his luggage was around 11 suitcases. On January 27, 1947, when Tyurin returned to Leningrad, he was arrested and interrogated.
On September 4, 1952, Tobin announced he would step down as president of the Teamsters at the end of his term. But as the mid-October Teamster convention neared, Tobin and his supporters formed a draft movement designed to subvert Beck's control of the delegates. Beck retaliated by publicly supporting the draft movement, but privately threatening to strip Tobin of his pension and benefits should he lose an election."D.J. Tobin Set to Retire," New York Times, September 5, 1952; "Battle for Control of Union Is Revealed," New York Times, October 7, 1952.
That effort collapsed in March 1985 after ITU members rejected merger with the GCIU. Again Presser reached a merger agreement with the ITU, and once more Kirkland went on the offensive against the merger. But in August 1985, ITU members once more rejected merger with the Teamsters.Warren, "Printers Reach Accord," Chicago Tribune, January 10, 1985; Noble, "Kirkland Fights Teamster 'Raiding' In Publishing," New York Times, June 26, 1985; Perl, "Typographical Union Prepares to Vote On Teamsters Merger," Washington Post, July 8, 1985; "Typographers Reject Teamsters Merger," Associated Press, August 28, 1985.
Courtney had little interest in doing so, intending to use his defense of collective bargaining as a means of seeking higher office. Modern historians agree that, behind the scenes, Courtney engaged in collusion with gang leaders. The Chicago District Council of Teamsters (an umbrella group for Teamster locals in the area) had broken away from the IBT in 1905, and now Courtney colluded with the AFL and IBT to force the independent District Council back into the IBT. Courtney's chief investigator, Chicago Police captain Daniel Gilbert, became the point-man for Courtney's efforts.
Gilbert to set up a meeting with the Outfit, and turned his union over to the mob. Wallace did the same. On Friday, April 28, 1933, a group of men wielding machine guns entered the Teamsters District Council headquarters building at 637 S. Ashland Avenue in Chicago at about 8:30 A.M. and held about 80 people hostage for three hours. The leader of the gunmen declared their purpose was to break the hold of Murray "The Camel" Humphreys, William "Klondike" O'Donnell, and "Three Finger" Jack White on the Teamster unions.
A rare occurrence in antebellum Virginia, Madden's Tavern once functioned as a prime example of black entrepreneurship. The building was completed in 1840, and was run by a free black named Willis Madden. Before running his own business, Madden worked a variety of trades, including a blacksmith, distiller, cobbler, teamster, farm laborer, and nail maker. Using the money and experience earned from these jobs, Madden was able to buy eighty-seven acres in Culpeper County, and set up his business at the crossroads of Old Fredericksburg Road and Peola-Mills-Kellysville Road.
Cody in 1864 at the age of 19. A young Buffalo Bill in 1871 Buffalo Bill, 1875 After his mother recovered, Cody wanted to enlist as a soldier in the Union Army during the American Civil War but was refused because of his young age. He began working with a freight caravan that delivered supplies to Fort Laramie in present-day Wyoming. In 1863, at age 17, he enlisted as a teamster with the rank of private in Company H, 7th Kansas Cavalry, and served until discharged in 1865.
Alexander Toponce portrait Alexander Toponce (November 10, 1839 – May 13, 1923) was an American pioneer in the Intermountain West region of the United States. His family emigrated to the United States from Belford, France when he was seven and Alexander left home about three years later. He worked as a laborer for several years, mostly in the logging and lumber business, before becoming a teamster, stagecoach driver and freight handler. Toponce headed west when he was about fifteen years old, first to Missouri and then to the northern Intermountain West.
He was also elected a delegate to the Boston Central Labor Council and the local building trades alliance. In 1901, a group of Teamsters in Chicago, Illinois, broke from the TDIU and formed the Teamsters National Union. The new union permitted only employees, teamster helpers, and owner-operators owning only a single team to join, unlike the TDIU (which permitted large employers to be members), and was very aggressive in advocating higher wages and shorter hours. Claiming more than 28,000 members in 47 locals, its president, Albert Young, applied for membership in the AFL.
The Teamsters were vitally important to the Chicago labor movement, for a sympathy strike by the Teamsters could paralyze the movement of goods throughout the city and bring a strike into nearly every neighborhood. But Shea was not an advocate of sympathy strikes, not even when they meant one unit of Teamsters would be supporting another unit of Teamsters. In November 1903, Teamsters employed by the Chicago City Railway went out on strike. Shea attempted to stop sympathy strikes by other Teamster locals in the city but failed.
In 1910 he designed St Paul's Church in Clarence Town on Long Island. In 1911 he left The Bahamas for the United States where he converted to Roman Catholicism. After leading a nomadic existence in Canada and the United States for several years, including working as a labourer and as a railway teamster, he began studying for the priesthood in Rome. He was ordained a Catholic priest in Rome on 27 February 1915, after which he was sent to Geraldton, Western Australia where he worked as a priest, architect and builder.
On that day, his unit participated in the Battle of Chaffin's Farm in Virginia, and it was for his actions during the battle that he was awarded the Medal of Honor six months later, on April 6, 1865. Pinn returned to Massillion after the war where he worked as a contractor and teamster. In 1874 he entered Oberlin College and after graduation served as principal of Cairo High School and taught school in South Carolina. After teaching, Pinn returned to Massillion and read in the law office of Robert H. Folger.
The porches are covered by a truncated hip roof with a deep pediment, and the main roof gable has a square window with original tracery. Features lost due to the application of modern siding include shingle bands between the floors of the projecting window bay, and modillion blocks in the porch's eave. The house was built about 1916, during a major real-estate development phase in the city's southeast. Edna Stoliker, the first owner, was also resident here; early tenants included a teamster, hosemaker, policeman, and railroad conductor.
When Teamster president Jackie Presser was diagnosed with cancer and took a four-month leave of absence on May 5, 1988, Mathis was named interim president. Presser was subsequently diagnosed with brain cancer, setting off a power struggle within the union. The members of the union's freight and warehouse and its air freight divisions voted overwhelmingly against their respective three-year national contracts after Mathis took over. But Mathis declared each contract "ratified" because the "no" vote fell short of the two-thirds needed to reject a contract and authorize a strike.
Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television official site , retrieved 5 February 2008 His television credits also include the role of Bobby Kennedy in Hoover vs. The Kennedys (Gemini nominee for best actor in a miniseries), Going Home (nominated for BAFTA Award), and The Valour and the Horror. Other works include The Sleep Room, Diana Kilmury: Teamster (Gemini nomination for best supporting actor in a drama) and The Diary of Evelyn Lau. Campbell has also worked extensively with David Cronenberg, appearing in such films as Naked Lunch, The Dead Zone, Fast Company, and The Brood.
He left for Wisconsin in 1850, sojourning for one summer in Lake Mills in Jefferson County before moving on to what is now Juneau County, and in 1851 settled in the Town of Wonewoc. In the fall of 1852, he cut a road from his place to the Village of Wonewoc, and also helped open the road to Mauston, over which he was the first to drive a team. In March 1853, he left for California, where he stayed for six years and three months, working on farms and as a teamster.
The Johntown camp was first established in the early 1850s when teamster, James Fenemore, set up a mining camp next to the Gold Canyon road. Two years earlier, emigrants journeying to California, had discovered gold at the entrance to Gold Canyon near Dayton. Johntown site, 1880s For the next 10 years, miners worked the area, "sluicing the placer deposits with primitive rockers and long toms, recovering limited amounts of gold." The canyon was populated just a few months out of the year, when water was available for sluicing.
Several accounts of the event imply that Young promised Kimball and others a guaranteed place in heaven for their efforts, although no direct evidence attributing this statement to Young exist. Kimball served as president of the Bear Lake stake in Utah before moving to Arizona in 1877. He was a teamster, and when he died he was first counselor in the St. Joseph stake. In November 1881, Kimball was making a freight run between Maricopa railroad station and Prescott when he was caught in a snowstorm near Prescott and contracted pneumonia.
Joe Jim Jr. was born about 1820 and his place of birth was given as "Big Bottom", a place along the Kansas River. (Joe Jim Jr.'s birth date on his tombstone is given as 1814 but that date is inconsistent with other statements concerning his age.) He was apparently illiterate. In 1846 and 1847, during the Mexican–American War he and Peter Revard, a mixed blood Osage, drove a herd of cattle from Kansas to New Mexico to feed American soldiers. He worked as a teamster during a military campaign against the Navajos.
William Hanson, The Pastoral Possessions of New South Wales, Gibbs, Shallard & Co, 1889, p. 334 The name lived on in local usage, and there are currently three place names in the vicinity of the original run approved by the Geographical Names Board of New South Wales, i.e. Black Stump Graveyard/Cemetery, Black Stump Creek and Black Stump Resting Place. Apparently a teamster named John Higgins took up land in the vicinity of the Black Stump Run (possibly in the early 1860s when Robertson's Land Bills allowed land selection to occur).
As it is, we must recognise, without stint, the authentic mission of this poet to portray phenomenal phases of bush life. The rest is our loss.""Henry Kendall" Border Watch, 4 November 1882, p2S The Oxford Companion to Australian Literature called the poem "an iconic portrait of one of Australian outback life and literature." They then go on to note that while the poet "applauds the sturdy independence and easygoing nature of the teamster, he also subtly criticises his parochialism and insensitivity to the natural wonders that surround him.
The UFW used these instances of Teamster violence to rally public support for their cause. The AFL-CLIO were concerned by this clash between unions, and Meany struck a deal with Chavez that they would provide the UFW with renewed financial support if it pushed for state legislation to govern the rights of farmworkers to organize. Chavez agreed; although he did not want such a law, he thought that Governor Reagan would never agree to it anyway. The AFL-CIO gave the UFW $1.6 million, allowing the latter to pay Salinas picketers $75 and later $90 a week.
The following reference is from the newspaper The Australasian of 17 July 1869 (page 17): “Cornstalk and gumsucker are both of colonial growth, and so, I think, is… bullocky (a teamster)”. Percy Clarke’s ‘New Chum’ in Australia (1886) has the following reference (page 137): “I knew a ‘bullockie’ (as these men are dubbed) who had a team of twelve beasts under his command which obeyed his every word and never received a word, which a ‘high-born ladie’ might not have listened to”.Ramson, W.S. (ed.), The Australian National Dictionary: A Dictionary of Australianisms on Historical Principles, Oxford University Press, 1988, p. 105.
Gorman was a veteran of the Mexican–American War of 1848 and was at Fort Tejon as a civilian teamster and herder in 1854 while it was being built. In 1876, Gorman Sr. died after he was run over by his own supply wagon. The first post office was established in December 1877 with Henry Gorman, probably James' brother, as the postmaster. (The community today is served by a contract postal unit in the local market, but delivery is through the Lebec post office.) Gorman's widow, Johanna, continued to run the family farm and the roadside rest until she died in 1889.
In 1959, while still based in Chicago as Life's assistant managing editor in charge of news, Rowan spent a month with Jimmy Hoffa to profile the Teamster boss for Life and in 1963 he led the magazine's coverage of the assassination of President J.F. Kennedy. Rowan's team managed to obtain the Zapruder film, which showed President Kennedy's death, and published frames from the film on Life's front page. Leaving Life in 1970 after 23 years working with the publication, Rowan founded his own publication, On the Sound, a magazine, covering the coast between New York City and Boston.
During the hearings, Commission members charged that the Mafia controlled the Teamsters, the Laborers, HERE and the International Longshoremen's Association.D'Alessio, "Chicago Hearings to Focus on Labor Racketeering," Associated Press, April 21, 1985; Jackson, "Teamsters Lead Organized Crime Commission's List," Los Angeles Times, April 23, 1985. Former mobsters described numerous syndicate cash bribes and other payments to Presser.Klose, "Former 'Goon' Describes Labor Leasing Scheme," Washington Post, April 24, 1985; Frantz, "Ex-Teamster Boss Aids Presser Probe," Chicago Tribune, October 2, 1985; Jackson and Ostrow, "Williams Says Presser Offered to Fix Case for $10,000," Los Angeles Times, November 5, 1985.
Meigs insisted that any teamster included in the Quartermaster panel "must be a negro, a plantation slave, freed by war". This figure was ultimately to assume a position in the center, over the west entrance to the building. Buberl created dozens of Civil War statues and monuments for various cities and states, including several for New York veterans associations to be placed on the Gettysburg Battlefield and a bronze bust of President Abraham Lincoln, which was recently sold for $5,800. His impressive New York State Monument crowns Cemetery Hill, and a number of individual memorials for specific regiments dot the battlefield.
Clifton & Aplin Brothers developed into the largest mercantile, shipping, stock and station and financial business in northern Australia, servicing the pastoral and mining industries and had the largest warehouse in Townsville. Branch offices were opened in Normanton in 1871, Cairns in 1876, Burketown in 1879, Brisbane, Cooktown, Rockhampton and Thursday Island in the Torres Strait. The business was recorded generously giving 12 months credit to a regular teamster customer, for 16 tons of goods in 1878. The Aplin brothers were known as hard-riding bushmen who loved the wide open spaces, according to the Townsville Heritage Trail.
236 While Crane biographer Thomas Beer claimed to trace the prototype of Henry Johnson to a Port Jervis teamster named Levi Hume,Wertheim (1997), p. 225 Crane's niece, Edna Crane Sidbury, believed the character and his disfigurement were influenced by a local waste collector whose face was damaged by cancer.Naito (2006), p. 36 In Black Frankenstein: The Making of an American Metaphor, author Elizabeth Young theorized that Crane may also have been inspired by popular freak show attractions such as Zip the Pinhead, whose real name was William Henry Johnson, and Joseph Merrick, the Elephant Man.
This gave leadership to the Trotskyists through the various unions they led within the Central Labor Council. As mentioned below, through organizing the first area-wide contract for any union outside of rail, the Trotskyists established locals of their party wherever there were Teamster locals, from South Dakota to Iowa to Colorado. The party was later driven out of that local by prosecutions under the Smith Act and a trusteeship imposed by Tobin in the early 1940s. More importantly, the strike launched the career of Farrell Dobbs, who played a significant role in the organization of over-the-road drivers throughout the Midwest.
Despite his parole terms, Hoffa undertakes a plan to reclaim his power atop the Teamsters. Hoffa's growing disrespect for other Teamster leaders and related crime family interests begins to worry Russell. During a dinner in Sheeran's honor in October 1973, Russell tells Sheeran to confront Hoffa and warn him that the heads of the crime families are displeased with his behavior. Hoffa then informs Sheeran that he "knows things" that Russell and the other dons are unaware that he knows, and further claims that he is untouchable, for if anything ever happened to him they would all end up in prison.
Born in Willow Springs, Illinois the son of a teamster (wagon driver) of Irish ancestry, Daniel Keefe left school in the fourth grade and began working on the Chicago waterfront. In 1877, Keefe organized fellow workers into the Association of Lumber Handlers (ALH) and in 1882 was elected leader of the organization. While successful in expanding membership of the organization, from the start Keefe was considered conservative within the labour movement, focusing on winning wage rises and keeping the ALH away from broader trade union struggles of the time, notably the Eight-Hour Day movement during the 1880s.
Goddard, a teamster, was active in local civic affairs, notably serving in the Massachusetts Provincial Congress prior to the American Revolutionary War in 1775. Goddard's property was one of several places in Massachusetts used by rebellious colonists for the storage of munitions (probably in the barn, since demolished). During the Siege of Boston, Goddard acted as wagon-master to the Continental Army during the Fortification of Dorchester Heights, a nighttime act that required the wagons to be rendered as quiet as possible to avoid notice. Goddard refused George Washington's offer of continued service in the military effort.
From the age of five, when he got his first job as a paper boy, he worked a variety of jobs including candy maker, a soda jerk, a temp at the post office, a hops picker, a longshoreman, a teamster, a lifeguard, an ambulance driver, among other things. Jackson graduated from San Francisco's Abraham Lincoln High School. He earned a law degree from UC Berkeley School of Law at the University of California, Berkeley. While studying law he simultaneously held down jobs as a dock laborer, Berkeley policeman and an ambulance driver to put himself through school.
Roy Bean was born circa 1825 in Mason County, Kentucky, and was the youngest of five children (four sons and a daughter) of Phantly Roy Bean Sr. (November 21, 1804 – June 13, 1844) and the former Anna Henderson Gore. The family was extremely poor and at age sixteen Bean left home to ride a flatboat to New Orleans, hoping to find work. After getting into trouble in New Orleans, Bean fled to San Antonio, Texas, to join his elder brother Sam. Samuel Gore "Sam" Bean (1819–1903), who had earlier migrated to Independence, Missouri, was a teamster and bullwhacker.
Hoffa was eventually convicted by a federal district court jury on March 4, 1964, on two counts of tampering with the jury during his 1962 conspiracy trial in Nashville, Tennessee, and sentenced to eight years in prison and a $10,000 fine. While on bail during his appeal, a second federal district court jury convicted Hoffa on July 26, 1964, on one count of conspiracy and three counts of mail and wire fraud, and sentenced to five years in prison.Hoffa was convicted of embezzling money from a Teamster- run pension fund and using it to invest in a Florida retirement community.
The bill would offer low-interest loans to struggling funds in order to shore up their solvency. Concerns about eroding wages, contract standards, and pension security fed into the 2016 election campaign, which pitted Hoffa against reform candidate Fred Zuckerman, head of Louisville, Kentucky Local 89. With Paff and TDU once again playing a key role in providing organizing infrastructure, Zuckerman's Teamsters United slate gained broad support among key layers of the Teamster membership, particularly those covered by national contracts. The slate almost defeated Hoffa, winning the popular vote among U.S. Teamsters and regional vice-president slots in the Central and Southern regions.
In the fall of 1985, the Commission heard testimony from former Teamsters president Roy Williams about Presser's connections to organized crime. Under a grant of immunity, Williams testified extensively about Presser's offer to fix a 1974 criminal case for $10,000 and his desire to obtain kickbacks for helping to arrange a 1975 Teamsters pension fund loan to organized crime figures so they could purchase a Las Vegas casino.Frantz, "Ex- Teamster Boss Aids Presser Probe," Chicago Tribune, October 2, 1985; Jackson and Ostrow, "Williams Says Presser Offered to Fix Case For $10,000," Los Angeles Times, November 5, 1985.
Birns was soon recruited by Maxie Diamond, leader of the E. 55th street and Woodland Mob. Diamond was an associate of Teamster leader William Presser and was once referred to by the local newspapers as "Cleveland's Number One Racketeer". Birns became a ranking member of Diamond's gang during the battles for control of the city's dry cleaners and launderers. In 1933, shortly after he hooked up with the Maxie Diamond gang, Diamond narrowly escaped death from gunfire by rival gangsters in what was called by the police, "a continuation of the city's dry cleaning racket war".
Cannon a parcel of land as a bribe to defeat trucking deregulation legislation. Press reports at the time claimed that a ferocious fight erupted over Williams' successor. Williams' resignation came just 15 days before the Teamster convention, at which a successor would have to be elected. In addition to Presser, other candidates for the presidency were reported to be M.E. (Andy) Anderson, president of the statewide Teamsters organization in California; Joseph Morgan, president of the Teamsters in Florida; Don Peters, president of the large Teamsters local in Chicago; and Ray Schoessling, secretary-treasurer of the international Teamsters union and a Williams appointee.
Once in Ravensburg, Erik visits his mother, who faints on the sight of him, as they were told that Erik and Roo were hanged. After a quick explanation, Erik learns from his childhood friend, Rosalyn, that Stefan von Darkmoor, who raped her, is the father of her young child. Roo meets up with his father while buying a wagon, and it is quickly apparent that Roo's father cannot bully him around anymore, and rents out his services as a teamster to Roo. The plot centers primarily on the rise of Roo as an important merchant in Krondor.
Wahlberg was born in the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston. He is the eighth of nine children, with older siblings, Arthur, Jim, Paul, Robert, Tracey, Michelle, and Debbie, and younger brother, Mark, who began his entertainment career formerly as the leader of the early 1990s rap group Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch. He also has three half-siblings from his father's first marriage: Donna, Scott, and Buddy. His mother, Alma Elaine (née Donnelly), was a bank clerk and nurse's aide, and his father, Donald Edmond Wahlberg Sr., was a teamster who worked as a delivery driver; they divorced in 1982.
The Sydney battery was still operating on Police Creek, making a total of three working mills. By June 1932 Mount Coolon Gold Mines had taken over all the batteries and mines on the lode and built a new dam (the existing one) on Police Creek. Mr Cec Hammond, a teamster carting lime and wood to the company's plant, lived in the cottage near the weir. In 1932 Mount Coolon had the highest gold production in Queensland and the Mount Coolon Gold Mines No Liability Company, who had bought out Barclay, had erected a large reduction and cyaniding plant south of the town.
132, 136, 161, 225; J. McDonald, Three Henry Currans, Canberra, 2018, pp. 298-9. Warwick had come from Braidwood, where his father had combined blacksmithing and work as a teamster before buying the Canberra blacksmith’s shop, (near St John’s, Reid) which doubled up as the local post office.Queanbeyan Age, 6 May 1932, p. 2. It seemed like a good business move for the son to take over at Ginninderra and, between them, the Warwicks hoped to dominate the district’s business north of the Molonglo River. But Warwick’s span as the Ginninderra smith ended in March 1891.
Most historians conclude Tobin was correct. For example, Taft notes that the Executive Council ignored parliamentary procedure (including a motion made by Tobin) in order to ram through a motion by President Green to try the CIO unions. Taft, The A.F. of L. From the Death of Gompers to the Merger, 1959; Phelan, William Green: Biography of a Labor Leader, 1989; Galenson, The CIO Challenge to the AFL: A History of the American Labor Movement, 1960. But once the Executive Council's decision was made, Tobin enforced it and ordered Teamster local unions to cut off relations with CIO unions.
Thornton, only 22 at the time of his death, was a volunteer with No. 1 Hook and Ladder Company, as were all his fellow firefighters, with the exception of the Chief Engineer. He worked as a teamster, and supported his mother and two sisters. In a profile of Thornton, in the Torontoist, Kevin Plummer remarked that "Little is known of Thornton.". He described how former firefighter Robert Kirkpatrick, author of Their last alarm, a book about firefighters who lost their lives in the line of duty in Ontario, was shocked to learn that Thornton had been buried in an unmarked grave.
Driscoll's accusations unleashed a flood of allegations and counter- allegations by other witnesses. Shea and Albert Young accused several employers of offering bribes to strike their business competitors, and submitted evidence of previous bribes which the Teamster leaders had accepted. Thorne and the other employers countered that Shea and other union leaders had asked for bribes ranging from $20,000 to $50,000 to call off the current strike."Shea Tells of Bribery," New York Times, June 2, 1905; "Tells of Bribery Behind Strike," Chicago Daily Tribune, June 2, 1905; "Strikers' Price Fixed at $50,000," Chicago Daily Tribune, June 3, 1905.
Important to the strike's victory was the strike daily The Organizer; although Farrell Dobbs was listed on its masthead as the editor, Shachtman wrote much of it and organized its production.Farrell Dobbs, Teamster Rebellion, New York: Monad Press, 1972, pp. 149–150 The Trotskyists' role in Minneapolis brought them closer to A. J. Muste's American Workers Party, which had played a similar role in the Toledo general strike that same year. In 1934, after the CLA merged with the AWP to form the U.S. Workers Party, Shachtman began editing the party's new theoretical journal, New International.
Beginning in 1839 the Ottoman Empire introduced a number of reforms in government starting with the Hatt-ı Şerif of the Gülhane, but these were not applied in Tunisia due to the independence of the Husainid Dynasty and the conservatism of the ruling Bey, Ahmad I ibn Mustafa. It was the death of Ahmad I and the Batto Sfez Affair and its aftermath that allowed France and England to pressure the Bey into granting reforms. Samuel "Batto" Sfez was a Jewish teamster who worked for Jewish political boss Nasim Shamama. Following a traffic accident, Sfez was involved in an altercation with a Muslim.
Ravo, Nick. "Unusual Labor Tension at U.P.S." New York Times. July 28, 1990. Carey's local represented more than 6,600 members at UPS, making it largest Teamsters local within the company, and Carey's criticism of the contract carried great weight within the international union.Ravo, Nick. "Labor Pact Is Ratified At U.P.S." New York Times. August 14, 1990. Carey also criticized McCarthy for refusing to call for a strike vote prior to ratification, for not adequately communicating the "concessionary" nature of the contract to Teamster members, and for helping oversee the loss of nearly 800,000 Teamsters members in the past decade.
Those that could not afford to travel by first or second class in the trains all the way to Montana were told to buy a ticket to Omaha or Lowell and continue their journey by teamster, or ox and wagon. They soon found out, however, that most of these wagons were too full to take them all the way to Montana. Although travel was much faster with the railways, it was still fairly expensive, which helped to keep the stagecoaches in business. This also contributed to the lack of smoothness in the transition from wagon trains to railways.
At age 20, Mason escaped to the "Hayti" section of Springfield, Massachusetts. He worked as a pig farmer, and managed to find "work as a teamster and [dead] horse undertaker". With the reliability of steady income through odd jobs such as collecting old shoe leather which he sold to the Springfield armory which was used to harden rifle barrels, and other menial tasks, Primus was able to make the first of many real estate investments. Daniel Charter, the seller of the property, in fact, loaned Mason the $50 to buy the property, which he paid back in full.
To him, she gave her "true name" as Eliza Miller. She enlisted for the fourth time, managing to stay long enough to fight at the Battle of Stones River on December 31, where she was shot in the shoulder, and her sex was discovered a third time. She left to Bowling Green, Kentucky, where she located a recruiting sergeant, and entered into a cavalry division as a teamster. While on duty, she came across another female soldier whom she had known in her brief time in the 2nd Cavalry, who had taken the name of Frank Morton, alias Sarah Bradbury.
McIntyre's Grave in 1951 In 1918 a Celtic Cross was erected over McIntyre's grave. Ulick Browne Snr remembered the occasion:Exploration of Julia Creek District…, S.U. Browne, p259 > I am pleased to have witnessed in 1918 the arrival at Julia Creek of the > monument now erected at the Grave Hole, put there by the family, the > proceedings directed by Mrs Annie McKay. Melrose and Fenwick of Townsville > supplied and engraved the stone, but by 1957 the inscription was well-nigh > illegible. Bill Horton, teamster, carted the monument on his tabletop waggon > with a 19-horse team (no lorries then); and Bill Norton, butcher and > handyman of Julia Creek, erected it.
On his return home he found his little cabin and clearing gone, and so began again, building a new cabin. In 1829, the Gardners moved to St. Clair County, Illinois. In the fall of 1831, having married the woman who would be his wife for the rest of his life, Gardner, despite working long hard hours as a teamster driving his own ox team, was deeply in debt. He disposed of the oxen and traded a two-year-old colt he owned for some carpenter's tools, and went to Alton, Illinois where he worked as a carpenter and joiner, returning home to visit with his wife and mother.
Gunbar cemetery is the burial-place of Mrs. Barbara Blain, the woman whose accidental death in March 1886 possibly gave rise to the Australian expression ‘black stump’, the name for a sort of nebulous location beyond which the country is considered remote (as in "beyond the black stump" or "this side of the black stump"). Mrs. Blain's husband was a carrier or teamster, based at Hay. Carriers were an integral part of the Riverina economy during the 19th century; they transported wool and supplies by drays drawn by horse- or bullock-teams, travelling across the landscape servicing stations and settlements distant from the main transport hubs of the region.
Joe Allen worked for nearly a decade at UPS between its Watertown, Massachusetts and Chicago, Illinois Jefferson Street hubs. Starting out as a part-time loader he worked his way through a series of part-time sorting and driving jobs until his final year at UPS where he was a package car driver in Chicago's Loop. Allen's work life has largely revolved different sections of the freight and logistics including for such major employers as A.P.A Transport (Canton, Mass.), Yellow Freight (Maspeth, NY), and UPS. He has been a member of several Teamster local unions and a member of Teamsters for a Democratic Union.
Friendly, "Reporters Question Story at Cleveland Plain Dealer," New York Times, October 17, 1982; Neff, Mobbed Up: Jackie Presser's High-Wire Life in the Teamsters, the Mafia, and the F.B.I., 1989; "Justice Department Ends Investigation of Teamsters Official," Associated Press, October 10, 1982. On April 14, 1983, Roy Williams announced he would resign as Teamsters president after being convicted for conspiring to bribe Senator Howard Cannon.Heinrich, "Convicted Teamsters Chief to Resign April 20," Associated Press, April 15, 1983; Franklin, "Teamster Leader Quits to Avoid Jail," New York Times, April 16, 1983. Presser was elected president by the Teamsters on April 21, 1983, to serve the remainder of Williams' term of office.
Presser's diagnosis touched off a power struggle within the Teamsters over who would succeed him. Government attorneys conceded that it was now unlikely that Presser's trial would ever resume. Presser underwent a successful operation to remove one tumor on May 17."Teamsters President Hospitalized, Reportedly Has Brain Cancer," Associated Press, May 14, 1988; Ostrow and Weinstein, "Presser Cancer Report Sets Off Power Struggle," Los Angeles Times, May 15, 1988; Reisner, "Teamsters Officials Meet," Associated Press, May 16, 1988; Weinstein, "Interim Teamster Chief Expects Presser to Resume His Post After Medical Leave," Los Angeles Times, May 17, 1988; "Teamsters President Has Surgery to Remove Tumor," Associated Press, May 18, 1988.
These isolated western stations relied upon teamster routes for important communication and supply lines to the coastal centres of the Kennedy. One of these routes, which was established in the early 1860s and became known as the Bowen Downs Road, ran about from Bowen through Eton Vale, Strathmore, Heidelberg, Hidden Valley (now known as Old Hidden Valley), Scartwater, St Anns and Mount Douglas, then on to Bowen Downs through Bully Creek (in 2007 known as Bulliwallah). With a decentralized system of road administration, no local authority to facilitate road building and a constant lack of money, Queensland's early road networks were generally in poor condition.
Suttor River Causeway on the Old Bowen Downs Road was listed on the Queensland Heritage Register on 18 September 2008 having satisfied the following criteria. The place is important in demonstrating the evolution or pattern of Queensland's history. The Old Bowen Downs Road was established in the early 1860s as a teamster route between Port Denison (Bowen) on the coast and Bowen Downs Station inland, and continued in use until at least the late 1890s. As a vital communication and supply line between Bowen and remote western runs, development and maintenance of the Old Bowen Downs Road was crucial to the growth of the region's economy during the nineteenth century.
Lee Mantle attended local schools and was "placed out" to work for his room and board beginning at age 10. He worked for several years as a cattle herder and farm laborer, earning $50 (about $1,025 in 2020) a year for his family in addition to his food and shelter. At age 16 he obtained a job with the Union Pacific Railroad, which employed him as a teamster to haul ties and other supplies and equipment. After the Union Pacific and Central Pacific completed the first First Transcontinental Railroad at Promontory Point, Utah in 1869, Mantle walked to Malad City, Idaho (about 125 miles).
The frame and suspension were made of wood, and the wheels were often iron rimmed for greater durability. Water barrels were built on the side of the wagon, toolboxes held tools needed for repair, and a feed box on the back of the wagon was used to feed the horses. The early freight wagon was not intended to be ridden upon. The wagon had a brake handle on the left side between the two wheels and a teamster either walked beside the wagon or could ride standing (and could sit for a rough ride) on a pull-out board, called a lazy board, that provided access to the brake handle.
Sheeran begins to carry out jobs for Russell, as well as members of the South Philadelphia underworld, including "painting houses," a euphemism for murder or contract killing. Soon, Russell introduces Sheeran to Jimmy Hoffa, head of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, who has financial ties with the Northeastern Pennsylvania crime family and is struggling to deal with fellow rising Teamster Anthony "Tony Pro" Provenzano, as well as mounting pressure from the federal government. Hoffa becomes close with Sheeran and his family, especially his daughter Peggy, and Sheeran becomes Hoffa's chief bodyguard. After the 1960 election of John F. Kennedy, Russell is thrilled while Hoffa is furious.
Doris Mary McRae (25 January 1893 - 9 November 1988) was an Australian schoolteacher, headmistress and women's activist. She was born at Pakenham to teamster Donald McRae and Mary Jane, née Broad. She was educated at Pakenham State School before winning a scholarship to Melbourne Continuation School, returning to Pakenham as an assistant teacher in 1910. She soon enrolled in the University of Melbourne as an arts student, and by September 1914 was teaching at Faraday Street State School in Carlton. In 1916 she moved to secondary teaching and worked at Echuca High School; she would spend the next thirty-four years as a teacher in a number of schools.
They were living at 323 1/2 North Buckeye, where Charles' occupation was listed as a waiter. The marriage was short-lived, as she was married for the second time on February 23, 1915, to John Clevenger in Howard County.Howard County,Indiana, Index to Marriage Records 1844-1920, W.P.A., Original Record Located County Clerk's Office, Book C-24, page 264. Here location and the occupation of her husband can be traced from subsequent city directories for Kokomo and from census returns. In 1918, they were living at 1525 North McCann, and he was a teamster. Two years later, they were living at 715 West Street in Kokomo, and had a son.
John W. (Jack) Swilling (Sharlot Hall Museum) Swilling was both a Confederate States Army minuteman and a civilian aid to the United States Army during the American Civil War. He worked in a variety of disciplines throughout his life, including as a teamster, prospector, mine and mill owner, and saloon and dance hall owner, as well as a canal builder, farmer, rancher, and public servant. All of this was accomplished while he suffered from periods of excruciating pain resulting from major injuries he suffered in 1854. He took morphine to assuage the pain, which led to dependency problems for the rest of his life.
The following day, a draft NLRB report (stemming from the original 1958 welfare fund ULP) requesting the issuance of numerous ULPs against Glimco and Local 777 was leaked to the press. Hoffa refused to fire Glimco, and the Board of Monitors went to U.S. federal court on August 25 to enforce their order.; On September 2, the monitors revised their order, reiterating their demand that Glimco be immediately fired and adding demands that Glimco lose his Teamster membership and forfeit funds, and that Hoffa conduct an immediate investigation into and an audit of Local 777's funds.; Glimco defiantly predicted he would never be fired.
Extensive organizing also occurred in the West. Harry Bridges, radical leader of the International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union (ILWU), was leading "the march inland"—an attempt to organize warehouse workers away from shipping ports.Nelson, Workers on the Waterfront: Seamen, Longshoremen and Unionism in the 1930s, 1988. Alarmed by Bridges' radical politics and worried that the ILWU would encroach on Teamster jurisdictions, Dave Beck formed a large regional organization (the Western Conference of Teamsters) to engage in fierce organizing battles and membership raids against the ILWU which led to the establishment of many new locals and the organization of tens of thousands of new members.
By the beginning of World War II, the Teamsters was one of the most powerful unions in the country, and Teamster leaders were influential in the corridors of power. Union membership had risen more than 390 percent between 1935 and 1941 to 530,000. In June 1940, President Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed IBT President Daniel J. Tobin to be the official White House liaison to organized labor, and later that year chair of the Labor Division of the Democratic National Committee.Stark, "White House Link to Conciliate A.F.L.," The New York Times, June 11, 1940; "Tobin, to Aid Flynn, Quits White House," The New York Times, August 27, 1940.
Hoffa achieved his goal of unifying all freight drivers under a single collective bargaining agreement, the National Master Freight Agreement, in 1964. Hoffa used the grievance procedures of the agreement, which authorized selective strikes against particular employers, to police the agreement or, if Hoffa thought that it served the union's interest, to drive marginal employers out of the industry. The union won substantial gains for its members, fostering a nostalgic image of the Hoffa era as the golden age for Teamster drivers. Hoffa also succeeded where Tobin had failed, concentrating power at the international level, dominating the conferences which Beck and Dobbs had helped build.
In addition, Hoffa was instrumental in using the assets of the Teamsters' pension plans, particularly the Central States plan, to support Mafia projects, such as the development of Las Vegas in the 1950s and 1960s. Pension funds were loaned to finance Las Vegas casinos such as the Stardust Resort & Casino, the Fremont Hotel & Casino, the Desert Inn, the Dunes hotel and casino (which was controlled by Hoffa's attorney, Morris Shenker), the Four Queens, the Aladdin Hotel & Casino, Circus Circus, and Caesars Palace. The pension fund also made a number of loans to associates and relatives of high-ranking Teamster officials. A close associate of Hoffa during this period was Allen Dorfman.
Unwilling to embarrass an AFL vice president and create a confrontation with the Teamsters, the AFL Executive Council condoned the Teamster raid on the Machinists.The NLRB subsequently held an election to determine who should represent the workers at Boeing. The Machinists won the 1949 election by a 2-to-1 margin. See "Beck Said to Top Tobin in Teamsters," New York Times, September 19, 1948; McCann, Blood in the Water: A History of District Lodge 751, International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, 1989; Rodden, The Fighting Machinists: A Century of Struggle, 1984; Raskin, "Union Leader-And Big Business Man," New York Times, November 15, 1953.
He was elected by acclamation. Beck pushed through a number of changes intended to make it harder for a challenger to build the necessary majority to unseat a president or reject his policies.Changes to the union constitution included expanding the number of vice-presidents, expanding the number of seats on the executive board, expanding the number of delegates, and enhancing the powers and authority of the president. "Teamsters Raise Tobin's Pay $20,000," New York Times, October 15, 1952; "Teamster Chiefs Defeat Opposition," New York Times, October 16, 1952; "Curbs On Officers Rejected By Teamsters," New York Times, October 17, 1952; "Teamsters Elect Beck As President," Associated Press, October 18, 1952.
Perl and Swoboda, "AFL-CIO Chiefs Said to Plan On Readmitting Teamsters," Washington Post, October 23, 1987; Noble, "Teamsters Ask to Be Allowed In A.F.L.-C.I.O.," New York Times, October 23, 1987; Swoboda, "Unanimous AFL-CIO Council Votes to Readmit Teamsters," Washington Post, October 25, 1987. Law enforcement officials said the reaffiliation undercut their effort to put the Teamsters under federal control.Noble, "Teamster Move Is Seen As Harmful to U.S. Suit," New York Times, October 24, 1987; Weinstein, "AFL-CIO Votes to Let Teamsters Reaffiliate," Los Angeles Times, October 25, 1987; Noble, "Kirkland Pledges to Help Teamsters Fight Any Government Takeover," New York Times, October 27, 1987.
The Dotson-led labor board had issued a string of decisions which the Teamsters considered anti-labor. On the eve of the Republican National Convention, Presser told the press that Dotson's removal was a "do-or-die situation" for the Teamsters—which held more NLRB-supervised organizing elections than any other union. Reagan refused to fire Dotson, although presidential aides said that a compromise would be reached over the NLRB's actions.Earley, "Support of Reagan at Issue," Washington Post, August 22, 1984; Hartson, "Labor Relations Board Seen As Key to Teamster Reagan Endorsement," Associated Press, August 23, 1984; Earley, "Teamsters Go Often to NLRB," Washington Post, August 24, 1984.
In early 1985, the President's Commission on Organized Crime issued a sealed subpoena ordering Presser to testify about mafia influence in the Teamsters union. Presser filed suit to have the subpoena thrown out. In March, a federal court refused to bar the subpoena.Seppy, "Court Rejects Presser Bid to Avoid Crime Panel Questions," Associated Press, April 5, 1985; "Teamster Chief Ordered to Testify About Union," Associated Press, April 6, 1985; Nauth and Ostrow, "Judge Orders Presser to Answer Crime Panel's Queries," Los Angeles Times, April 6, 1985. The Commission held its April 1985 hearings in Chicago, and focused those sessions on organized crime involvement in labor unions.
Jackson, "Justice Lawyers Target of Probe," Los Angeles Times, August 27, 1985; Frantz, "Judge Orders Probe of FBI In Presser Case," Chicago Tribune, August 27, 1985; Engelberg, "U.S. Grand Jury to Open Presser Case Inquiry," New York Times, September 18, 1985; Jackson and Ostrow, "Probing Possible False Statements by FBI Agents," Los Angeles Times, April 12, 1986. Justice Department leaders eventually undertook a prosecution of one of the FBI field agents who handled Presser, claiming that he had not been authorized to give Presser permission to engage in the payroll-padding scheme.Shenon, "Officials Say U.S. Plans Indictment of Teamster Chief," New York Times, May 10, 1986.
In 1942 there was some pioneering in the development and use of contour banks, the equipment required a team 4 horses or two Clydesdales, a teamster and two labourers. Through the 1950s Avondale had monitored its sheep flocks as part of the research into Dwalganup strain of clover as a livestock feed and its effect on ewe fertility.Farmnote No 41/2005 Western Australian Department of Agriculture On into the 1960s and 1970s Avondale was involved with the breeding and trial of various cereal crops for use within Western Australia. Since the early 1980s Avondale has focused on environmental and sustainable farming along with farm income supplemental alternatives like marron farming.
Unwilling to embarrass an AFL vice president and create a confrontation with the Teamsters, the AFL Executive Council condoned the Teamster raid on the Machinists.The NLRB subsequently held an election to determine who should represent the workers at Boeing. The Machinists won the 1949 election by a 2-to-1 margin. See "Beck Said to Top Tobin in Teamsters," New York Times, September 19, 1948; McCann, Blood in the Water: A History of District Lodge 751, International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, 1989; Rodden, The Fighting Machinists: A Century of Struggle, 1984; Raskin, "Union Leader-And Big Business Man," New York Times, November 15, 1953.
The Employers' Association of Chicago (EA), an anti-union group, mustered its substantial resources to break the Teamsters' strike. The EA collected $250,000 (about $6.2 million in 2007 dollars) from its members to hire strikebreakers. The EA also raised $1 million (about $25 million in 2007 dollars) to establish the Employers' Teaming Association—a new company which, within a matter of weeks, bought out a large number of team owners and imported hundreds of African American strikebreakers from St. Louis to work as teamsters. Mark Morton, president of Morton Salt and an EA member, convinced the railroads to pressure the remaining team owners to lock out their Teamster members as well.
In 1823, William was recruited in St. Louis by William Henry Ashley, as part of a fur trapping contingent, later referred to as Ashley's Hundred. That was the beginning of a new strategy for conducting the fur trade in response to a change in United States law in 1822. Liquor had been one of the principal currencies traded to Amerindians; such trafficking had been made illegal. The new scheme set up a trapper's rendezvous, a teamster-drover team operating the freight bringing in supplies and returning with furs, and a corp of trappers making their circuit through the year to traps they had set as team members.
In 1884, after two years of working as a wagon teamster at the Johnson mine, Drew, two Mexican men, and a man named Melvin Jones went into the Sulphur Springs Valley to build a cattle ranch at Bass Canyon, bringing a herd along with them. However, when they were riding through the land of Glendy King, the old recluse refused to let them pass. Drew told King that he intended to go on with or without permission so the latter opened fire on Drew with a rifle, shooting the reins out of his hands. Melvin Jones then responded by pulling out his Winchester and shooting King, who died as result.
In 1943 the business, including associated buildings, was sold to Joseph Freckleton a tank sinker and teamster originally from South Australia. By the 1940s the business had acquired the Shell and Qantas agencies and Freckleton was able to take advantage of wartime demand for aviation gasoline and other services during Camooweal's period as a military movements and supply centre. By the late 1940s, in addition to the general store and gallon licence, the Freckleton family owned a number of buildings, including another store, in Camooweal. Around 1950 this store was moved onto the stores allotment and re-erected adjacent to the eastern side of the gallon licence, becoming the third building on the allotment.
Passage is the immediate sequel to Legacy in The Sharing Knife series. It takes farmer's daughter Fawn and Lakewalker maverick Dag back to her home farm as a first step on their 'honeymoon trip' to the Southern Sea, which is analogous to the Gulf of Mexico in The Sharing Knife series' alternate-world setting. At the farm they add the first of a considerable list of fellow-travelers: Fawn's older brother Whit. Once on their way again another odd companion is added by accident, quite literally, as Hod the charity-case helper of the teamster taking them to find flatboat passage on the Grace River (the Ohio River) gets his kneecap shattered by Dag's ill-tempered horse.
Overrend, "Teamsters' Leader Presser, Target of U.S. Inquiry, Dies," Los Angeles Times, July 10, 1988; Gast, "Teamsters President Jackie Presser Dead After Cancer Battle," Associated Press, July 10, 1988; Sanchez, "Teamsters Union Leader Jackie Presser, 61, Dies," Washington Post, July 11, 1988; Barron, "Jackie Presser, President of the Besieged Teamsters' Union, Dies in Cleveland at 61," New York Times, July 11, 1988. With his death, the scandal concerning his prosecution ended. Legal activity continued against the Teamsters union and several Teamster leaders, as well as certain FBI and DOJ agents and officials. But members of Congress, the press and the public lost interest in the prosecution of such "small fish," and the scandal died out.
Against the advice of his father, Marshall Bond decided he wanted to participate in the Klondike Gold Rush and managed to get his father to put up financing in a partnership, provided Louis went along to manage the purchases and expenditures. He left from Seattle in company with Josiah Collins. By Alaska Marshall Bond became upset with the handling of his cargo by the ship crew and organized a shift of the destination from Dyea to Skagway. In Skagway, while waiting for a teamster to carry his supplies, he and other miners became upset by the treatment of the miners by the resident packers, and he and other miner activists formed a committee which took control.
Fearing that the teamsters' union would be crushed, the San Francisco Labor Council directed the City Front Federation, led by its President Andrew Furuseth, including the city's 14 maritime unions, the Sailor's Union of the Pacific, the longshoremen's unions to strike in support of the locked out teamsters. A total of about 16,000 longshoremen, clerks, packers, and warehouse workers on both sides of San Francisco Bay joined the work stoppage, further increasing the tense situation. The lockout spread to the entire waterfront, which shut down much of the Bay Area's transportation and as a result most commerce. A strikebreaking teamster is escorted by a San Francisco policeman during the strike of 1901.
At the union's 1952 convention, Beck was elected General President and pushed through a number of changes intended to make it harder for a challenger to build the necessary majority to unseat a president or reject his policies.Changes to the union constitution included expanding the number of vice-presidents, expanding the number of seats on the executive board, expanding the number of delegates, and enhancing the powers and authority of the president. "Teamsters Raise Tobin's Pay $20,000," The New York Times, October 15, 1952; "Teamster Chiefs Defeat Opposition," The New York Times, October 16, 1952; "Curbs On Officers Rejected By Teamsters," The New York Times, October 17, 1952; "Teamsters Elect Beck As President," Associated Press, October 18, 1952.
Max explains that corrupt police officers helped him fake his own death, so that he could steal the gang's money and make Deborah his mistress in order to begin a new life as Bailey, a man with connections to the Teamsters' union, connections that have now gone sour. Now faced with ruin and the specter of a Teamster assassination, Max asks Noodles to kill him, having tracked him down and sent the invitation. Noodles, obstinately referring to him by his Secretary Bailey identity, refuses because, in his eyes, Max died with the gang. As Noodles leaves Max's estate, he hears a garbage truck start up and looks back to see Max standing at his driveway's gated entrance.
When TDU activists picketed the Teamster convention at which Williams was elected, Presser declared the picketers "an ever-changing cast of union drop-outs, college students, aimless transients and an elite group of zealots who clearly have the clout over the sign carriers" and declared them to be under the control of "Marxist leaders from the International Socialist Party." He also repeatedly referred to Camarata as "Commie-Rat-A."Serrin, "Teamsters Open Convention With Reagan Message," New York Times, June 2, 1981; Serrin, "Dissident Teamsters Count Some Gains Despite Convention Losses," New York Times, June 8, 1981. Camarata accused Presser of hiring a "squad of thugs" to intimidate delegates and provoke violence—allegations which would later prove accurate.
Melvin, "Cleveland Local President to Run Against Presser," Associated Press, April 25, 1986; Richey, "Despite Legal Probes, Jackie Presser Seems A Cinch For Teamster Reelection," Christian Science Monitor, May 12, 1986; Yancey, "Indictment Seen As Unlikely to Harm Presser's Election," Associated Press, May 16, 1986. At the regularly scheduled Teamsters convention in May 1986, Presser was elected to a full five-year term as Teamsters president. Presser arrived in the ballroom accompanied by composer Aaron Copland's Fanfare for the Common Man. Four muscular men dressed as Roman centurions bearing him on a golden sedan chair. Despite being indicted days before on embezzlement and racketeering charges, Presser received 1,729 votes to Theodus' 24 votes.
The 1990 edition of the Gold Cup, run over two and a half miles at Royal Ascot on 21 June attracted a field of eleven runners and took place in driving rain on ground officially described as good to soft. Teamster (Sagaro Stakes, Henry II Stakes) was made favourite ahead of Sadeem and Weld (Doncaster Cup, Jockey Club Cup) with Ashal a 14/1 outsider. The international challenge consisted of Turgeon from France and Tyrone Bridge from Ireland, whilst the other British- trained runners included the Yorkshire Cup winner Mountain Kingdom. Coping well with the difficult conditions, Ashal chased the outsider Noble Savage in the early stages before going to the front before half way.
Shea and another Teamsters leader, Albert Young, accused Thorne and other employers of offering them bribes to strike business competitors, and offered evidence in court of previous bribes which the Teamster leaders had accepted (and which had led to large strikes). Thorne and other employers countered that Shea and other union leaders had asked for bribes ranging from $20,000 to $50,000 to call off the current strike."Tells of Bribery Behind Strike," Chicago Daily Tribune, June 2, 1905; "Strikers' Price Fixed at $50,000," Chicago Daily Tribune, June 3, 1905. On June 3, the grand jury returned bribery and conspiracy indictments against Shea and 19 other union leaders, but none against the employers.
But as the mid- October Teamster convention neared, Tobin and his supporters formed a draft movement designed to subvert Beck's control of the delegates. Beck retaliated by public supporting the draft movement, but privately threatening to strip Tobin of his pension and benefits should he lose an election."D.J. Tobin Set to Retire," New York Times, September 5, 1952; "Battle for Control of Union Is Revealed," New York Times, October 7, 1952. At the convention which opened on October 14, the 77-year-old Tobin was paid well to vacate the presidency. His pay was increased to $50,000 (about $393,000 in 2007 dollars) from $30,000, and the executive board was authorized to pay him this salary for life.
On April 29, 12 prominent labor leaders in Chicago—including Shea; Charles Dold, president of the Chicago Federation of Labor; and 10 local Teamster presidents—were indicted by a grand jury on six counts of conspiracy to restrain trade, commit violence, and prevent citizens from obtaining work."Twelve Labor Heads Indicted in Chicago," New York Times, April 30, 1905. Shea refused to appear in court to provide pre-trial testimony regarding the April 29 indictment. When threatened with jail for contempt of court, he finally appeared but answered all questions with variations of "I don't know.""Strike Parleys Over, Chicago Troops Ready," New York Times, May 24, 1905; "Strike Leaders Defy the Court," Chicago Daily Tribune, May 25, 1905.
So on the night of December 31, Sheriff Crowell, Deputy Sheriff Windus and a teamster named Jonathan May went to the Seminole's reservation just outside town and stealthily positioned themselves around the fugitive's camp. One later account of the incident says that a company of soldiers was to assist in the arrest but if this was true they played no active role in the event. At midnight Sheriff Crowell made his appearance, some accounts say the Black Seminoles were dancing at a church when Crowell appeared and others say that the celebrating took place on the property of the scout Friday Bowleg. According to one account, Adam Payne was dancing when he heard Crowell call his name.
Wyatt Berry Stapp Earp (March 19, 1848 – January 13, 1929) was an Old West lawman and gambler in Cochise County, Arizona Territory, and a deputy marshal in Tombstone. He worked in a wide variety of trades throughout his life and took part in the famous gunfight at the O.K. Corral, during which lawmen killed three outlaw Cochise County Cowboys. He is often erroneously regarded as the central figure in the shootout, although his brother Virgil was the Tombstone City and Deputy U.S. Marshal that day, and had far more experience in combat as a sheriff, constable, marshal, and soldier.Frontier Lawman Virgil Earp Earp was at different times a professional gambler, teamster, and buffalo hunter.
Cuddy Valley, Cuddy Creek and Cuddy Canyon are named for John Fletcher Cuddy, who came to the United States from Ireland during the Great Famine. He joined the U. S. Army and after being discharged in 1853, followed his former unit, the 1st Dragoon Regiment, to Fort Tejon in 1854 as a civilian teamster. He became the herdsman for the fort and found meadow in a valley some miles west of the fort that was ideal for grazing its stock. Cuddy eventually built a log cabin west of the fort in the small valley just southwest of modern Lake of the Woods, and laid claim to land in what became known at the time as Cuddy's Valley, (later Little Cuddy Valley), and raised cattle there.
At age 19 (in 1839) Garrett began working as a clerk and apprentice in his father's mercantile, banking and financial services firm, founded 1819, Robert Garrett and Company, (later Robert Garrett and Sons). He and his brother Henry learned the business from the ground up, as had their father, including how to tan leather from the teamster Alexander Sharp, how to salt pork and how to pack madder and Spanish whiting in barrels. While Henry remained in Baltimore, John Garrett headed west, seeking to expand trade over the mountains. His travels through Virginia into Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana, and beyond taught him that the key to Baltimore's commerce lay in the western states, whose trade came to eastern ports including Baltimore.
The Irishman (titled onscreen as I Heard You Paint Houses) is a 2019 American epic crime film directed and produced by Martin Scorsese and written by Steven Zaillian, based on the 2004 nonfiction book I Heard You Paint Houses by Charles Brandt. It stars Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, and Joe Pesci, with Ray Romano, Bobby Cannavale, Anna Paquin, Stephen Graham, and Harvey Keitel in supporting roles. The film follows Frank Sheeran (De Niro), a truck driver who becomes a hitman involved with mobster Russell Bufalino (Pesci) and his crime family, including his time working for the powerful Teamster Jimmy Hoffa (Pacino). In September 2014, following years of development hell, The Irishman was announced as Scorsese's next film after Silence (2016).
In 1856, on his 26th birthday, something happened to cause him to leave permanently for the West. There is more than a year's break in the historical record, but Swilling apparently joined the Leach Wagon Road Company at Fort Smith, Arkansas as a teamster in the summer of 1857, probably staying with the slow-moving oxen-drawn wagon train until its arrival a year later at Mesilla, in Traditional Arizona, which was then part of the New Mexico Territory. The years between Swilling's arrival in Arizona in 1858 and the founding of Phoenix almost a decade later were active and varied ones. After his arrival in Arizona, Swilling moved to southern California, where he joined in a gold rush near Los Angeles.
Garnel, The Rise of Teamster Power in the West, 1972; Phelan, William Green: Biography of a Labor Leader, 1989. In 1929, the Teamsters and unions in Chicago even approached gangster Roger Touhy and asked for his protection from Al Capone and his Chicago Outfit, which were seeking to control the area's unions.Touhy, The Stolen Years, 1959; Touhy, When Capone's Mob Murdered Roger Touhy: The Strange Case of "Jake the Barber" and the Kidnapping That Never Happened, 2001; "Touhy Accuses Cop in $40,000 Capone Payoff," Chicago Daily Tribune, May 10, 1949; "Touhy Relates How Syndicate Invaded Unions," Chicago Daily Tribune, September 20, 1952; "Cites Gilbert Link to Labor Rackets," Chicago Daily Tribune, August 10, 1954; "Gangster Says Unions Paid to Fight Capone," United Press International, September 20, 1952.
In 1901, a group of teamsters in Chicago, Illinois, broke from the TDIU and formed the Teamsters National Union. Unlike the TDIU, which permitted large employers to be members, the new Teamsters National Union permitted only employees, teamster helpers, and owner-operators owning only a single team to join, and advocated higher wages and shorter hours more aggressively than the TDIU. Claiming more than 28,000 members in 47 locals, its president, Albert Young, applied for membership in the AFL. The AFL asked the TDIU to merge with Young's union to form a new, AFL-affiliated union and the two groups did so in 1903, forming the International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT), and electing Cornelius Shea as the new union's first president.
At night Freckles boards with Duncan, head teamster for the lumber company, and Duncan's wife, who becomes a mother figure to Freckles. Initially terrified of the wilderness after a lifetime in an urban environment, Freckles first conquers his fears, aided by exploration of the Limberlost during its barrenness in the severe winter, and feeds the fickle birds ("my chickens" he calls them) that had once frightened him. With the return of spring and the terror of its inhabitants gone, he develops an interest in the wildlife of the swamp. He is touched by the beauty he sees, and both frustration at his ignorance and curiosity about all he sees lead him, with McLean's help, to purchase several books on natural history.
The EA mustered its substantial resources to break the Teamsters' support for the striking tailors. The EA collected $250,000 (about $6.7 million in 2017 dollars) from its members to hire strikebreakers. The EA also raised $1 million (about $27 million in 2017 dollars) to establish, on April 13, the Employers' Teaming Association-a new company which, within a matter of weeks, bought out a large number of team owners and imported hundreds of African American strikebreakers from St. Louis to work as teamsters and drive the wagons. Mark Morton, president of Morton Salt and an EA member, convinced the railroads to pressure the remaining team owners to lock out their Teamster members as well."Legal Tilt Over Strike," Chicago Daily Tribune, May 13, 1905.
The writs were sweeping in nature. One of the first, if interpreted literally and enforced, would have stripped the unions of their rights to strike: On April 29, 12 prominent labor leaders in Chicago—including Charles Dold, president of the Chicago Federation of Labor; Shea; and 10 other local Teamster presidents—were indicted on six counts of conspiracy to restrain trade, commit violence, and prevent citizens from obtaining work. The unions appealed to President Theodore Roosevelt on May 7, asking him to investigate the causes of the strike. The unions also requested that the president refuse to send troops to Chicago before investigating the status of the strike first. On May 10, Dold, Shea and other strike leaders met with Roosevelt personally in Chicago.
Beck pushed through a number of changes intended to make it harder for a challenger to build the necessary majority to unseat a president or reject his policies.Changes to the union constitution included expanding the number of vice-presidents, expanding the number of seats on the executive board, expanding the number of delegates, and enhancing the powers and authority of the president. "Teamsters Raise Tobin's Pay $20,000," New York Times, October 15, 1952; "Teamster Chiefs Defeat Opposition," New York Times, October 16, 1952; "Curbs On Officers Rejected By Teamsters," New York Times, October 17, 1952; "Teamsters Elect Beck As President," Associated Press, October 18, 1952. After William Green died on November 20, 1952, Meany and Tobin contended for the presidency of the AFL.
Despite Carey's pledge to eliminate corruption and the influence of organized crime in the Teamsters, there were many who claimed that he did little in his first term to tackle the problem. Federal investigators accused Carey of engaging in "halfhearted" reforms, permitting a Teamster with known organized crime links to oversee a corrupt local, hindering court-appointed trustees reforming locals, and setting up an ethical practices committee which did nothing to stop corruption. One organized crime figure, Alphonse "Little Al" D'Arco, former acting boss of the Lucchese crime family, even said he had had a relationship with Carey in the 1960s and 1970s—statements Carey vigorously denied. U.S. Department of Justice officials began an investigation into the accusations in June 1994.
"Teamster Chief Contends Aides Betrayed Him." New York Times. September 24, 1997. On August 17, federal prosecutors said that they had evidence that the AFL-CIO may have contributed $150,000 to Citizen Action for spurious get-out-the-vote efforts in an attempt to get Citizen Action to give $100,000 to the Carey campaign, and that AFL-CIO secretary- treasurer Richard Trumka was implicated in the scheme.The investigation later concluded that Trumka had also raised $50,000 for Carey; that Gerald McEntee, president of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) had pressured a printing firm to give him $20,000 to donate to Carey; and that Paul Booth, AFSCME organizing director, had raised another $27,100 in donations for Carey.
Other federal grand jury indictments for misappropriation of funds in this time period included Ralph Gordon, former business agent in New York City for the American Guild of Variety Artists, and James Hoffa, Teamsters Union president. In July 1963, Barasch found himself pulled into the investigations, when he obtained an order temporarily stopping execution of a federal subpoena requesting records on two Teamster Union welfare funds associated with overseas research foundations. The two welfare funds under investigation included the Allied Welfare Fund and the Union Mutual Fund, for which Barasch served as Trustee. The foundations named included the Chemical Research Foundation and Cromwell Research Foundation, both not-for-profit corporations set up in Liberia and Puerto Rico, respectively, for which he currently served as president.
The Teamsters Union, as of May 2013 has yet to publish a stance on federal backing of this third contender to many shipping markets, MARAD and maritime shipping leaders believe they are helping the Teamsters by moving freight out of areas with low Teamster-to-Cargo Ratios, and in to ports where the ratio is closer to 1:1 or better. They also believe that the Marine Highway can better handle the nation's north-south transit, though there are no east-west sailing corridors and those will always be land-side transits. Truck drivers, under DOT regulation, are limited in the number of hours they are allowed to drive in a day. These limits do not allow for traffic, waiting to load or unload, or check points.
From the SMWIA's point of view, the issue was not democracy but breach of contract: The merger agreement had made it clear from the start that the SMART constitution did not exist at the time of the ratification vote. It was always understood to be the product of conforming the SMWIA and the UTU constitutions – and if the two sides had not been able to come to terms on an issue like craft autonomy, for instance, the agreement included an arbitration process. As far as the SMWIA could see, the union democracy fight was part of the BLET-Teamster effort to sabotage the SMART merger. Over the next two years, the fight would prove to be both brutal and expensive for both sides.
Langenbaker house, a small single story corrugated iron and timber house, was erected in Ilfracombe in 1899 by owner Harry Langenbaker, an outback teamster or carrier by trade. The town of Ilfracombe dates from 1890, when ambitious settlers anticipated the arrival of the Central Western railway. However, some of Australia's largest and best known sheep stations had been established in the area from 1864. Rodney Downs, Portland Downs, Beaconsfield and Wellshot were the original holdings in what later became the Shire of Ilfracombe. From September 1891 Ilfracombe was a strategic railhead for teamster's traffic, positioned close to the final terminus of the Central Western railway line at Longreach to capture road traffic from the large stations toward Aramac and Muttaburra in the north, and to the lower Barcoo in the south.
George D. "Pete" Morrison (August 8, 1890 – February 5, 1973) was an American silent western film actor born in Westminster, Colorado. During his childhood he lived in Morrison, Colorado (named for his grandfather George Morrison) and Idaho Springs, and got his early tastes of horsemanship riding with his father Thomas during the summer. They drove cattle and sheep from the summer ranges in Middle Park and Fall River in Colorado to supply beef and mutton to the mining camps of Georgetown, Idaho Springs, Nevadaville, Black Hawk and Central City. During his mid-teens Pete worked in the mining industry, with his older brothers driving in sections of the Argo Tunnel where Pete was a motorman, hoist operator, topside helper, teamster hauler, assisting several of the larger miners in the Idaho Springs area.
In 1905, Shea led the Teamsters in a walkout aimed at the Montgomery Ward department store in Chicago. The strike, which was unsuccessful, was a violent, long and bitter one. Toward the end of the strike, Shea and several other Teamster leaders were indicted on charges of extortion.Leidenberger, Chicago's Progressive Alliance: Labor and the Bid for Public Streetcars, 2006. Angry at the strike's failure, Shea's apparent guilt in the extortion plot, and Shea's failure to unite the union's two warring factions, union members ousted Shea in August 1907 and elected Tobin in his place by a vote of 104 to 94 Deseret Evening News, August 9, 1907 Tobin took control as president of the international union on August 10, 1907, and moved to Indianapolis, Indiana, (where the IBT's headquarters were then located).
The Prosecutor General of Switzerland, Erwin Beyeler, reportedly requested copies of court files on March 10, 2011, related to money laundering investigations of the Moyanos, and in response, the labour leader threatened to call a general strike. The Ambassador of Switzerland to Argentina, Johannes Matyassy, clarified that the Swiss investigation was limited to Ricardo Depresbiteris, proprietor of the Covelia waste transport company, and that no files pertaining to the Moyanos had been requested. Moyano, his wife, his son Pablo Moyano, and other relatives and associates were later implicated by the Office of Economic Crimes and Money Laundering (PROCELAC) in four cases of racketeering totaling over 570 million pesos (US$100 million) involving Teamster Union accounts and three Moyano family shell corporations located in the same Florida Street address; the cases were formally submitted to prosecutors in September 2013.
Schroeder Mountain is named for John Schroeder (1822–1906), a pioneer, miner, rancher, and teamster. After migrating from Indiana to California following the Gold Rush in 1852, Schroeder bought and sold land in Yuba and Siskiyou Counties, before settling in Sierra County in 1855. The following year he settled on a ranch located several miles west of Loyalton, and east-northeast of this summit. Schroeder was born August 18, 1822 in Rush County, Indiana, the sixth child of Peter and Nancy Schroeder. During the gold rush in 1852, John Schroeder came to California with his brother and nephew. In the 1852 Special State Census John lists his occupation as a miner.Special California State Census, 1852 Family history claims John was a successful miner and professional gambler. According to the relatives remaining in Indiana, John was the black sheep of the family.
Old Bowen Downs Road was established in the early 1860s as a teamster route between Port Denison (Bowen) and Bowen Downs Station near Aramac in central western Queensland. The road was in regular use until at least the late 1890s as a communication and supply line between the interior and the coast. While remnants of the road remain visible between Strathmore Station and Mount Douglas, the stone causeway built in 1876 over the Suttor River at St Anns remains largely intact as an example of early civil engineering stonework in northern Queensland. The Kennedy district was first explored by Europeans in the mid-1840s when Ludwig Leichhardt ventured into the upper Burdekin Valley. The area was not opened for settlement until 1861 and by the end of that year pastoralists had taken up most of the runs in the region.
According to Walter Law, "It is not the cows that have been put in, but those which have been taken out, that have made the Briarcliff herd what it is". The farm's large, light barns had concrete floors, which were cleaned daily, and up-to-date appliances for separating, churning, handling and packing its products. Law made annual five-dollar cash awards ($ in ) to workers in September (giving them out at Dalmeny on December 24), which included "most gentle with cows", "most careful teamster in feeding his horses and keeping his stables clean", "cleanest delivery wagon", "neatest house yard", "best garden truck" and "best-kept room in Dalmeny"; the farm emphasized the commercial value of such virtues. On Christmas Eve, after the Briarcliff Orchestra played George Frideric Handel's "Largo", Law spoke about the farm's improvements that year and awarded the prizes.
Beck was elected to the Executive Council of the AFL on August 13, 1953, but his election generated a tremendous political battle between AFL President George Meany, who supported his election, and federation vice presidents who felt Beck was corrupt and should not be elected to the post. Beck was the first Teamster president to negotiate a nationwide master contract and a national grievance arbitration plan,"Teamsters to Ask Nation-Wide Pacts," The New York Times, September 22, 1953; "Peace Plan Set Up In Truck Industry," The New York Times, August 18, 1955. established organizing drives in the Deep SouthRaskin, "Teamsters Set Up Big Union Drives," The New York Times, February 11, 1956; "Teamsters Map Southern Drive," Associated Press, April 8, 1956. and the East,Raskin, "Teamsters Plan Big Drive In East," The New York Times, January 10, 1957.
In 1942, Beck began a six-year campaign to seize control of the International Teamster newsmagazine. He ousted its editor and won the executive board's approval to install his own man in the job in 1948."Union Editor Is Ousted," Associated Press, September 3, 1948. In 1946, Beck successfully campaigned to amend the union's constitution to create the post of executive vice-president. He subsequently won the 1947 election to fill the position. In 1948, Beck essentially supplanted Tobin as the real power in the Teamsters union. On April 22, 1948, the Machinists (which was not a member of the American Federation of Labor, or AFL) struck Boeing in Seattle. On May 28, Beck announced that Teamsters would seek to organize the workers at Boeing, and formed Aeronautical Workers and Warehousemen Helpers Union Local 451 to raid the Machinists.
The replacements were prompted by the Secretary of War, who stated the swing spans each needed to be at least to accommodate marine traffic in 1896. At first, it was planned to replace both bridges with a single bridge, but Southern Pacific officials were unable to come to an agreement with Alameda County supervisors, and in 1897 the railroad declared the Harrison Street bridge, replacing the Alice bridge, would be devoted solely to rail traffic, accommodating both narrow and standard-gauge trains. During the construction of the replacement Webster bridge, county supervisors initially rejected an offer to use the old Alice bridge as a detour for road traffic, but later accepted, avoiding a more distant route through the eastern part of Alameda, and teamster traffic moved to Alice in December. The old Webster bridge was demolished by January 1899.
Because a sculpture of that size was well out of Meigs's budget, he had Buberl create 28 different scenes, totaling 69 feet (21 m) in length, which were then mixed and slightly modified to create the continuous 1,200-foot (365-m) parade of over 1,300 figures. Because of the 28 sections' modification and mixture, it is only in careful examination that the frieze is seen to be the same figures repeated several times. The sculpture includes infantry, navy, artillery, cavalry, and medical components, as well as a good deal of the supply and quartermaster functions, for it was in that capacity that Meigs had served during the Civil War. Meigs's correspondence with Buberl reveals that Meigs insisted that a black teamster, who "must be a negro, a plantation slave, freed by war", be included in the quartermaster panel.
The two-tier wage system was retained, but the wage difference between incumbents and new hires was dramatically reduced. The employers also agreed to let members vote on any concessionary economic proposals during the life of the contract (under the previous agreement, only Teamster leadership voted on these changes), and were able to make permanent a temporary provision allowing companies to divert freight from terminals where there have been layoffs. But the pact's initial rejection and the snap strike were both seen as blows to Presser's leadership.Perl, "Teamsters Reject New Trucking Contract," Washington Post, July 13, 1985; "20,000 Union Members Go On Strike," Associated Press, July 26, 1985; "Presser Terms Union Demands 'Heavy'," Associated Press, August 1, 1985; Bernstein, "Car-Hauler's Strike Blow to Teamsters Chief," Los Angeles Times, August 7, 1985; "Teamsters Approve Car Haulers Contract," United Press International, September 13, 1985.
A coachman was sometimes called a jarvey or jarvie, especially in Ireland; Jarvey was a nickname for Jarvis. In the first of his Sherlock Holmes stories, A Study in Scarlet, Arthur Conan Doyle refers to the driver of a small cab in London as a jarvey. A coachman who drove dangerously fast or recklessly might invoke biblical or mythological allusions: Some referred to him as a jehu, recalling King Jehu of Israel, who was noted for his furious attacks in a chariot (2 Kings 9:20) before he died about 816 BC. Others dubbed him a Phaeton, harking back to the Greek Phaëton, son of Helios who, attempting to drive the chariot of the sun, managed to set the earth on fire. The driver of a wagon or cart drawn by a draught animal was known as teamster or carter.
In North America, no union currently exists for production assistants, but the affiliation of a production with a union (or unions) can affect the job responsibilities of a PA. Less unionized film productions have more positions that can be serviced by non-union personnel; consequently, PAs on such productions may take on a greater variety of non-traditional duties. Examples of this would be a PA setting a light bounce (grip department) or driving a passenger van (teamster/transportation department). PAs on a union production generally have less variety in their job duties whereas a non-union PA can be asked to perform any kind of task by a department head. In British Columbia, which has the third largest film and television production sector in North America, PAs are represented by the Director's Guild of Canada.
The Irishman (also titled onscreen as I Heard You Paint Houses) is a 2019 American epic crime film directed and produced by Martin Scorsese and written by Steven Zaillian, based on the 2004 book I Heard You Paint Houses by Charles Brandt. It stars Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, and Joe Pesci, with Ray Romano, Bobby Cannavale, Anna Paquin, Stephen Graham, Stephanie Kurtzuba, Jesse Plemons, and Harvey Keitel in supporting roles. The film follows Frank Sheeran (De Niro), a truck driver who becomes a hitman involved with mobster Russell Bufalino (Pesci) and his crime family, including his time working for the powerful Teamster Jimmy Hoffa (Pacino). The film premiered at the 57th New York Film Festival, and had a limited theatrical release on November 1, 2019, followed by digital streaming on Netflix starting on November 27, 2019.
Koyle was born in Spanish Fork, Utah, on August 14, 1864, to John Hyrum Koyle Sr. and Adlinda Hillman. In 1868, Brigham Young called the Koyle family to serve in the "Muddy Mission" near the Muddy River in Nevada. The family returned to Spanish Fork in 1871. Koyle and his father were quarrying stones in a canyon when the boy was 9, when a sudden rockslide occurred and he witnessed the death of his father. At the age of 14, Koyle worked as a muleskinner and teamster, selling goods to farmers in Utah County. On December 9, 1884, Koyle married Emily Arvilla Holt and bought a farm in Leland, Utah. In 1886, Koyle heard a sermon on gaining a testimony through spiritual manifestations, so he prayed to gain a testimony. That night, he dreamed of a lost cow in a field that had an injured horn which poked its own eye.
104 then in the army, he re-enlisted after the war and served with the Western garrisons until 1870. He worked as a teamster in Salt Lake City, when he met John Wesley Powell. Originally hired as a boatman for the second Powell expedition down the Colorado River in 1871, Hillers began to replace Walter Clement Powell, John W. Powell's cousin and assistant to the expedition's photographers, first to E.O. BeamanE.O. Beaman was a New York landscape photographer. He fell out with John W. Powell and left the expedition in January, 1872 and photographed Native Americans in Arizona and New Mexico (Fleming/Luskey, p. 108f. a. 130f. (photography), Jeremy Rowe:Photographers in Arizona, 1850-1920, A History & Directory, Carl Mautz, Nevada City, 1997, p. 77, Dennis Lesard: E.O. Who?, in:American Indian Art Magazine, Vol. 12, No. 2, (spring) 1987, P. 52-61) and then to James Fennemore.
But member outrage at the expenditure was significant, and permission to establish the fund rescinded.Loftus, "Union Said to Bar 5-Year Beck Plan," The New York Times, April 2, 1957; Loftus, "Union Curbs Beck in Publicity Plan," The New York Times, April 3, 1957; "Collusion Check Set By Senators," The New York Times, April 7, 1957. Member anger continued to grow throughout the spring,"Beck Asked to Resign," The New York Times, March 30, 1957; Raskin, "Teamster Leadership Strongly Entrenched," The New York Times, March 31, 1957; Perlmutter, "Teamsters Here Bar $1 Increase in Dues, Vent Anger on Beck," The New York Times, April 1, 1957; Raskin, "Beck Is Rebuffed By Union's Board," The New York Times, April 5, 1957; "Teamsters In Protest," The New York Times, April 7, 1957; "Teamsters In Protest," The New York Times, April 15, 1957; "1,000 Teamsters Ask Inquiry," The New York Times, April 29, 1957.
The Dragoon became a master weapon for civilians who hailed it as a powerful weapon of the time. Famous users included Joaquin Murietta, the California bandit, Charley Parkhurst, California teamster, James Douglas Byrd, Town Marshal, Watsonville, California, 1868, Tiburcio Vasquez, Union general George B McClellan,McClellan's Colt Dragoon at the Smithsonian and fictional Augustus McCrae, in the novel Lonesome Dove, Mattie Ross in the novel True Grit and in the 2010 film version (the 1969 film of that name had Mattie Ross using a Colt Walker revolver, though John Wayne's character Rooster referred to it as a Colt's Dragoon). Charley Parkhurst, while driving freight, was confronted by two bandits whom he dispatched with the Colt Holster Pistol. According to Harper's Weekly, James Butler (Wild Bill) Hickok arrived in Springfield, Missouri carrying a Dragoon though it is generally accepted that he used a Navy in his street duel with Davis Tutt.
Local 1932 members were victims and survivors of the December 2, 2015 mass shooting in San Bernardino, CA. Local 1932 was active in lobbying for victim access to grants to use for medical care in the aftermath of the attack. In November 2016, 500 employees at the San Bernardino County Preschool Services Department joined Teamsters Local 1932. Starting in November 2016, Teamsters Local 1932 began partnering with local businesses in the Riverside–San Bernardino–Ontario metropolitan area (known as the "Inland Empire") to provide members with discounts as a reward for shopping locally. As of January 2020, the program, called "Teamster Advantage," has grown to a network of over 500 local businesses. In October 2018, the union hosted a job fair called “A Day Without a Temp” focused on raising awareness of the increase in temporary and contingent work across the Inland Empire, while providing union job opportunities to those attendance.
He spoke highly of Bernice Fisher and of her importance to the development of CORE.Oral Histories, "The Reminiscences of James R. Robinson" (January, February, March 1999) in the Oral History Collection of Columbia University in New York City.Oral Histories: "The Reminiscences of George Houser" (April 1999) in the Oral History Collection of Columbia University in New York City. Fisher has been called the "godmother of the restaurant 'sit- in' technique" by fellow activist and union organizer Ernest Calloway, who worked closely with Fisher in St. Louis and admired her."OF TIME AND SOUND, Requiem For A Free, Compassionate Spirit," by Ernest Galloway, published in Missouri Teamster, May 12, 1966, Page 7.Fellowship magazine of the Fellowship of Reconciliation 1992, Spring, Summer and Winter issues.Lay Bare the Heart: An Autobiography of the Civil Rights Movement, James Farmer, A Plume Book, New American Library, 1985 Fisher worked tirelessly to establish the Committee On Racial Equality. Soon the founders, including Fisher, changed the name to Congress of Racial Equality CORE.
Stemming from a troop of Scouts de France in the 1960s, the Association des Scouts et Guides de Riaumont (Association of the Scouts and Guides of Riaumont) passed successively by Scouts d'Europe, Scouts Saint- George and the Association Française de Scouts et Guides Catholiques. It is today, a federation affiliated to the Eclaireurs Neutres de France (ENF), a movement of Scouting founded in 1947, approved by the ministry for Youth and Sports. Each weekend, as well as the camp starting every July, the Scout units of Riaumont (willow, wolf cubs, guides, scouts, guides elder and teamster) are opened to all children. The village has some curiosities which exploited with the Scouting, such monument with the memory of the Scouts who died in France, a "Scout" museum which gathers many badges and parts of uniform resulting from various associations or uniforms and objects which have may belonged to Scout chaplains, or with chaplains of the trenches, lasting until the First World War.
In May 1853, Abel and his family migrated as part of the Appleton M. Harmon pioneer company to Utah Territory, the new headquarters of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. After the company's arrival in the Salt Lake Valley on 17 October and his family's initial move to Mill Creek just a few miles south of Salt Lake City, Abel continued to work as a carpenter as part of the LDS public works program. One of his main projects, given his already-rich personal history in temple- building, was the labor he performed in the decades-long construction (1853-1893) of the Salt Lake Temple. By 1860 the Abel family had moved to Salt Lake City's Thirteenth Ward, and only a short distance from the Temple Block. For a short time a 43-year-old white schoolteacher by the name of Alex Warrender, who in 1858 had crossed the overland trail as a teamster, boarded with the Abel family.
On May 15, 1986, Jackie Presser was indicted a second time on fraud and embezzlement charges stemming from the Local 507 payroll-padding case. Presser's indictment came just three days before the opening of the Teamsters convention in Las Vegas, although the indictment was expected to have no effect on Presser's election chances. Also indicted was an FBI agent who was one of Presser's three "controllers." The agent was fired and indicted for making false statements that led DOJ officials to shutter the prosecutorial effort in June 1985."Presser and FBI Agent Indicted," Los Angeles Times, May 16, 1986; Yancey, "Indictment Seen As Unlikely to Harm Presser's Election," Associated Press, May 16, 1986; Lardner, "Teamsters President Indicted," Washington Post, May 17, 1986; Shenon, "Teamster Leader Is Indicted by U.S. for Racketeering," New York Times, May 17, 1986; "U.S. Says Former F.B.I. Agent Blocked Presser's Indictment," Associated Press, October 17, 1986; Jackson, "Agent in Presser Case Fired by FBI," Los Angeles Times, August 27, 1986.
Carey had also swung the Teamsters support behind the Democratic Party, a change from past administrations that had supported the Republican Party. The new administration set out to break from the past in other ways, making energetic efforts to head off a vote to oust the union as representative of Northwest Airlines' flight attendants, negotiating a breakthrough agreement covering carhaulers, and supporting local strikes, such as the one against Diamond Walnut, to restore the union's strength. The Carey administration did not, on the other hand, have much power in the lower reaches of the Teamster hierarchy: all of the large regional conferences were run by "old guard" officers, as were most of the locals. Disagreements between those two camps led the old guard to campaign against the Carey administration's proposed dues increase; the Carey administration retaliated by dissolving the regional conferences, calling them expensive redundancies and fiefdoms for old guard union officers.
Rottenberg, Death of a Gunfighter, p. 36-48. After his father's death, Slade's mother married Civil War General Elias Dennis. He married Maria Virginia (maiden name unknown) around 1857.Rottenberg, Death of a Gunfighter, p. 80-84. In the 1850s, he was a freighting teamster and wagonmaster along the Overland Trail, and then became a stagecoach driver in Texas, around 1857-58. He subsequently became a stagecoach division superintendent along the Central Overland route for Hockaday & Co. (1858–59)Rottenberg, Death of a Gunfighter, p. 112 and its successors Jones, Russell & Co. (1859)Rottenberg, Death of a Gunfighter, p. 7 and Central Overland, California & Pike's Peak Express Co. (1859–62).Rottenberg, Death of a Gunfighter, p. 160. With the latter concern, he also helped launch and operate the Pony Express in 1860-61.Rottenberg, Death of a Gunfighter, p. 173-178 All were critical to the communication between the East and California.
The total wage and benefit package provided an increase of 10 percent over three years, the lowest increase since a national agreement had first been established in 1964. Presser and other Teamster leaders were forced to lobby hard for passage of the agreement. After a month-long ratification battle, Teamsters members narrowly ratified the contract by a 53.2 percent majority.Noble, "Teamsters and Major Freight Carriers Reach A Pact As Other Talks Go On," New York Times, April 1, 1985; Yost, "Truckers Agree to New 3-Year Contract," Associated Press, April 1, 1985; Noble, "Cut In Starting Pay Reported at Pan Am and Truck Concerns," New York Times, April 2, 1985; Perl, "Some Teamsters Find Contract Ominous," Washington Post, April 4, 1985; Warren and Strong, "Teamsters Urge Contract OK," Chicago Tribune, April 4, 1985; Labaton, "Teamsters Ratify Trucking Contract," Washington Post, May 18, 1985; "Teamsters Accept A New Contract," Associated Press, May 18, 1985.
Proctor Muster Roll page 1054 Proctor Muster Roll page 1055 Proctor Muster Roll page 1056 Edward "Ned" Hector (born about 1744) was an African American soldier who fought in the American Revolutionary War. Hector was one of three to five thousand people of color that fought for the cause of American independence.Grundset, Eric G., Forgotten Patriots, National Society Daughters of the American Revolution, (2008), pages 703 - 707Lewis, Noah Being Edward Hector - The Life and Times of a Black Revolutionary War Hero Bulletin of the Historical Society of Montgomery County Pennsylvania, Historical Society of Montgomery County, (1913) Vol.XXXVI, No.4, page 19 He served as a teamster (a wagon driver)Reist, Arthur The Conestoga Wagon-Masterpiece of the Blacksmith p.49;Rees, John U. Wagons and Watercraft During the War for Independence and a bombardier (part of an artillery crew) with the state militia called Proctor's Third Pennsylvania Artillery,Pennsylvania Archives - 5th series – vol.
Finn turned his attention to songwriting, signing to Peermusic (one of the biggest independent publishers in the world) and working with various producers, writers and artists, such as Blue, Atomic Kitten and Natasha Bedingfield whilst also setting up his own record label as well as TV and film work. Reid has gone on to become a solo singer/songwriter in his own right working with major dance, soul and reggae producers such as Axwell on Feel The Vibe, Allister Whitehead, DJ Swami, Mafia & Fluxy, Jupiter Ace and The Teamster to name a few. He has also gone on to tour with the likes of Tom Jones as well as, writing the hit song "Please" and touring and singing with Robin Gibb of the Bee Gees around the World. Reid has also set up his own production company which has seen new artist Linda Kiraly signed to Universal Records in New York City and is currently working with his girl group Cinderella Theory on new material.
Employees at FreshDirect have made several attempts to unionize. In 2004 and 2005, Teamster Locals ran two unsuccessful campaigns to organize FreshDirect's 500 delivery workers. Following these failed campaigns, Local 348S of the United Food and Commercial Workers ran a successful organizing drive in 2006 and subsequently negotiated a contract for FreshDirect's drivers. Although Anthony Fazio Jr., the UFCW local's secretary treasurer, said his union waged a tough fight to win recognition, some plant workers reported that company officials had openly encouraged workers to sign up with 348S. Local 348S has been accused by other unions of collusion with employers, negotiating "sweetheart contracts" with few real benefits for workers and protecting businesses from more aggressive unions in exchange for making it easy for the union to win a unionization election. In the event, the contract negotiated for the drivers included no minimum starting wage, and had a maximum that caps the highest wages the company must pay at $12 to $18.
Chartrand, René Montclam's Crushing Blow, London: Osprey, 2014 page > 35. Chartrand wrote some of the inaccuracies in de Charley's report can be explained in that he was part of the expedition, but he did not see the battle first-hand as de Charley was a medical major who would be kept away from the battle in order to tend to the wounded.Chartrand, René Montclam's Crushing Blow, London: Osprey, 2014 page 35. The Canadian Iroquois praised Léry only for his good luck in taking Fort Bull with so little loss, and pointedly said nothing about any skill on his part: in Iroquois terms praising a commander only for his good luck in conducting operations was an insult as luck was a random quality outside of the control of any individual.MacLeod, D. Peter The Canadian Iroquois and the Seven Years' War, Toronto: Dundurn, 2012 page 33 On the same day, the African-American teamster who had escaped the ambush, came racing into Fort Williams on his wagon with news of what happened.
Evidence was unearthed of a mob-sponsored plot in which Oregon Teamsters unions would seize control of the state legislature, state police, and state attorney general's office through bribery, extortion and blackmail. Initially, members of the union did not believe the charges, and support for Beck was strong, but after three months of continuous allegations of wrongdoing many rank-and-file Teamsters withdrew their support and openly called for Beck to resign.Raskin, "Teamsters Stir Against Leaders," The New York Times, March 22, 1957; "Protests Rise Among Teamsters Against Leaders Now Under Fire," The New York Times, March 23, 1957; Raskin, "Teamster Sentiment Grows to Remove Beck and Aides," The New York Times, March 28, 1957; "Beck Effigy Hanged By Union In Yakima," Associated Press, March 29, 1957; "Portland Teamsters Fight Leaders," Associated Press, March 29, 1957. Beck initially refused to address the allegations, but broke his silence and denounced the committee's inquiry on March 6.Raskin, "Teamsters Hear From Their Chief," The New York Times, March 7, 1957.
Presser also undertook a personal transformation at this time. He stopped wearing flashy rings and loud clothing and began expressing a taste for expensive, conservative, tailored suits. He also undertook a series of diets in an unsuccessful attempt to lose weight (he weighed close to 140 kg [300 pounds] for the rest of his life). In 1966, Bill Presser gave his son Jackie a charter to form a new Teamsters local in Cleveland. Jackie Presser organized 12 workers at a local paint company and established Local 507. Presser hired a number of organizers, and Local 507 quickly organized 6,000 workers in dozens of plants and warehouses in the Cleveland area -— making Local 507 the largest Teamster local in the metropolitan area."Man In the News: A Blend Reflected In Light and Shadows: Jackie Presser," New York Times, April 22, 1983. Bill and Jackie Presser soon were some of the most powerful men in the Teamsters union. By 1972, the father-son combination led the Ohio Conference of Teamsters.
John Sexton & Co. common stock report; March 11, 1961; "Standard & Poor's Corp." Retrieved 30 October 2010. As of June 30, 1961 John Sexton & Co. was generating $49.5 million in sales and the balance sheet had current assets of $15.4 million with liabilities of $4.9 million including $3.9 million of long term debt, $1.0 million of accounts payable and working capital of $10.5 million consisting of short term revolving credit lines. Book value was $16.57 per share. Dividends had consistently been paid since 1935 and in 1961 were paying $0.90 per share. In July 1961, Franklin Sexton, secretary of the company, son of John Sexton, died at age 70. He had begun his career on State Street store in 1909 working for his father, John Sexton, as a Teamster making grocery deliveries in Chicago by horse and wagon. He oversaw the expansion of the country division, expansion of Sexton's national distribution network, the building of the Sexton plant on Illinois & Orleans and led the Sexton coffee and tea product lines.
Durkan attended Forest Ridge School of the Sacred Heart, a private Catholic girls' school in Bellevue. She spent part of her junior year of high school as an exchange student in London and said that "the best part of the experience was traveling through England to Scotland, France, Austria, Switzerland and Germany." A high-school classmate of Durkan's remembers her as “super independent, and rough-and-tumble…strong-willed and adventurous.” Durkan earned her B.A. degree from the University of Notre Dame in 1980. At Notre Dame, she tried out for the basketball team before being cut and ending up as the team’s statistician. After graduating, Durkan spent two years in Alaska, teaching high-school English and coaching a girls' basketball team in the Yup’ik Eskimo community through the Jesuit Volunteer Corps. After a summer working as a baggage handler for Wien Air Alaska in St. Mary’s, Alaska as a dues-paying Teamster, Durkan enrolled in the University of Washington School of Law, earning her J.D. degree in 1985.
The construction of the stage station and the increasing use of the pass by white settlers set the stage for an incident often considered the starting point of Cochise's eleven-year war against the United States, and which was a formative element in the much longer struggle between Apache peoples and American settlers even after Cochise made his own peace. In February 1861, a detachment of federal troops under Lt. George N. Bascom made camp in Apache Pass, near the spring and the stage station, hoping to negotiate with Cochise and his Chiricahua Apaches for the return of a kidnapped child. When Cochise agreed to meet near the camp, Bascom attempted to arrest him and several other Apaches; the resulting stand- off, lasting several days, ended with the deaths of hostages on both sides. The affront sparked a war between Cochise and the Americans that included the Battle of Apache Pass in 1862, and which only ended eleven years later with a treaty facilitated by General Oliver O. Howard and a white teamster and friend of Cochise's named Tom Jeffords.
He lived to be eighty eight years of age, and was a very influential and public-spirited man" Morrison, Annie L. Stringfellow, Haydon, John H., History of San Luis Obispo County and environs, California, with biographical sketches of the leading men and women of the county and environs who have been identified with the growth and development of the section from the early days to the present, Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, 1917 The 1860 Census of San Luis Obispo, lists Joseph See as a teamster worth $600.00 in personal property and landless. "Early grant records for the region show that See Canyon is one of the few areas not covered by an old Spanish grant and may have been public property. As a newcomer to the area, Joseph [See] may have homesteaded/squatted on that area, since no other land was available. Joseph's daughter Rachel and her husband William Calloway are known to have been long time residents of the Canyon and owned 160 acres of the Canyon.
At age 14, he became a teamster on the Erie Canal, then a boatman on the Hudson River, and aged 16 joined the U.S. Navy as an apprentice, and made a voyage around the world which lasted three years. After his return to Brooklyn he worked as a rigger. At age 19, he entered politics as a Democrat, but in 1861 became a Republican. In September 1862, he was commissioned a first lieutenant in the 139th New York Volunteers, and early in 1863 a captain in the 84th New York Volunteers, and fought in the Peninsular Campaign until the latter part of 1863. Worth was a member of the New York State Assembly (Kings Co., 7th D.) in 1864, 1865 and 1866. In November 1866, he ran for Brooklyn Street Commissioner, but was defeated. He was again declared elected to the 91st New York State Legislature (Kings Co., 6th D.), and took his seat at the beginning of the session, but his election was contested by Democrat John Raber who was seated on March 13, 1868. He was again a member of the State Assembly (Kings Co., 6th D.) in 1873, 1874, 1875, 1876 and 1878.
His father, Thomas O'Leary, arrived on the third boat into Moreton Bay as second mate to the vessel, marrying Mary Mangan, one of the passengers, taking up a farming block on the Logan River trying to grow arrowroot, then becoming a teamster taking many trips to the Gympie goldfields, before moving to Brisbane where, in 1858, second son Michael O'Leary was born in Springhill. Michael O'Leary's siblings were John Joseph (1954-1933), Margret (1862-1944), Thomas Mangan (1865-1897), Mary (born 1868), and Brigid (born 1871). In March 1881, Michael O'Leary left Brisbane on the ship Katoomba for the Palmer Goldfields in the far north of Queensland to prospect and travel widely through north- east Queensland's wet tropics, writing about his experiences in local and southern papers, living in North Queensland until he died, in Cairns, on 17 August 1930, aged 72. O'Leary's brothers John Joseph and Thomas Mangan had also migrated to the far north of Queensland, with elder brother John outliving Michael O'Leary having played a prominent role within the Cairns' provisional boards and local governments, and his younger brother having died in a horse accident at Irvinebank.
Shea attempted to stop sympathy strikes by other teamster locals, but three locals walked out and eventually disaffiliated over the sympathy-strike issue. "Teamsters Are For War," Chicago Daily Tribune, November 23, 1903; "Teamsters Split Over Contracts," Chicago Daily Tribune, November 25, 1903; "Labor's Leader Made to Dance," Chicago Daily Tribune, December 18, 1903. A sympathy strike in support of 18,000 striking meat cutters in Chicago in July 1904 led to riots before the extensive use of strikebreakers led Shea to force his members back to work (leading to the collapse of the meat cutters' strike). Barrett, Work and Community in the Jungle: Chicago's Packing-House Workers, 1894-1922, 1990; Halpern, Down on the Killing Floor: Black and White Workers in Chicago's Packinghouses, 1904-54, 1997; "Strike Spreads," Chicago Daily Tribune, July 27, 1904; "Riots In Streets After Nightfall Involve Drivers," Chicago Daily Tribune, August 10, 1904; "Mob of 4,000 Men Charges Police," Chicago Daily Tribune, August 19, 1904; "Meet in Secret to End Strike," Chicago Daily Tribune, August 14, 1904; "Meat Supply in Drivers' Power," Chicago Daily Tribune, September 2, 1904. "Shea, Head of the Teamsters, Has Risen From A Tip-Cart Man," Boston Daily Globe, December 2, 1906; "Strike Spreads Among Drivers," Chicago Daily Tribune, August 9, 1904.
Both unions engaged in jurisdictional strikes against one another. Beatings, riots and bombings occurred in Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, New Jersey and Ohio. Fears grew that the labor war would spread across the country. An NLRB election held in 1949 was won by the United Brewery Workers and defused the tense situation, but raiding continued for the next 20 years."Dispute Hampers Breweries," Associated Press, October 3, 1946; "AFL and CIO Dispute Over Brewery Union," New York Times, October 22, 1946; "Breweries Face Supply Blockade," New York Times, October 24, 1946; "NLRB Voting Set in AFL Beer Fight," New York Times, February 9, 1947; "9 Hurt in AFL-CIO Clash," New York Times, November 27, 1946; "Bombings and Beatings in AFL-CIO Rivalry in Beer Trade Are Told to House Committee," New York Times, March 7, 1947; Committee on Education and Labor, The Pittsburgh Beer War, 1947; Levey, "Beck Details Plan of Teamster Drive," New York Times, January 15, 1949; "CIO Union Defies Beck," New York Times, February 21, 1949; "CIO Brewery Unit Wins," Associated Press, September 2, 1949; "Brewery Tie-Up Reduces St. Louis Beer to Trickle," Associated Press, October 24, 1951; Levey, "Major Test Snaps A.F.L.-C.I.O. Peace," New York Times, March 21, 1952.
"Craft Unionists Win in Federation," The New York Times, October 11, 1933. The raids and new member organizing in the 1930s led to significant membership increases. Teamster membership stood at just 82,000 in 1932. Tobin took advantage of the wave of pro-union sentiment engendered by the passage of the National Industrial Recovery Act, and by 1935 union membership had increased nearly 65 percent to 135,000. By 1941, Tobin had a dues-paying membership of 530,000—making the Teamsters the fastest- growing labor union in the United States. One of the most significant events in union history occurred in 1934. A group of radicals in Local 574 in Minneapolis—led by Farrell Dobbs, Carl Skoglund, and the Dunne brothers (Ray, Miles and Grant), all members of the Trotskyist Communist League of America—began successfully organizing coal truck drivers in the winter of 1933.Korth, Minneapolis Teamsters Strike of 1934, 1995. Tobin, an ardent anti- communist,Dubofsky and Van Tine, John L. Lewis: A Biography, 1992. opposed their efforts and refused to support their 1933 strike. Local 574 struck again in 1934, leading to several riots over a nine-day period in May. When the employers' association reneged on the agreement, Local 574 resumed the strike, although it ended again after nine days when martial law was declared by Governor Floyd B. Olson.
In 1924, an agitator among the Hindu community alleged a mail theft, but the subsequent charges were dismissed.Prince George Citizen, 13 Mar 1924 That year, the town suffered a measles epidemic, and a whooping cough epidemic in 1937.Prince George Citizen, 13 May 1937 Although only a single mention of a house burning to the ground,Prince George Citizen, 1 Jun 1939 it was likely a common occurrence. In 1955, the partly decomposed body of a lone homesteader was found with a rifle shot to the head.Prince George Citizen: 30 May 1955, 2 Jun 1955 & 12 Sep 1957 Nels Adolf Sjolund (1898–1955), postmaster in 1955, proprietor of the Toneko Lodge, and part owner of the general store, committed suicide in a like manner that year.Prince George Citizen: 19 Sep 1955 & 12 May 1959 A resident for 43 years, teamster Orva (1889–1963)Prince George Citizen, 22 Jan 1964 & Mabel (1888–1955) Prather came in 1921. Their children were Iva Pearl (1917–2012), Marjory (1919–2009), Oliver (1921-2015),Prince George Citizen, 22 Sep 2015 Gladys, Julia, Pauline (1928–58), and Arnold (1929–2013).Prince George Citizen, 6 Dec 2013 Buried at Longworth are Orva, Mabel, Pauline and her son, and Arnold and his wife. Pauline and son Raymond (1946–58)Prince George Citizen, 6 Oct 1958 died at the hands of husband John Melynchuk in a murder, suicide at Cloverdale.

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