"Convention Expels Teamsters"
Journal article
By: American Federationist
Date: January 1958
Source: "Convention Expels Teamsters." American Federationist, January 1958, 18–19.
Introduction
During the industrial union organizing drives of the late 1930s, union activists had used the sit-down strike as a successful tactic. Many middle class Americans, however, saw this as willful violation of the law. During mobilization for World War II (1939–1945), quickie strikes and major coal strikes led by John L. Lewis of the United Mine Workers furthered soured public opinion on unions. After passage of the Taft-Hartley Act in 1947, labor leaders and unions had to follow increasingly complicated federal rules, including signing an anticommunist pledge, to use government agencies in labor disputes. By the middle of the 1950s, organized labor had passed its peak years to begin a long-term decline in...
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