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A. F. of L. Versus Seattle Labor.
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- Author(s): Stevens, Cole
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Nation. 9/4/1937, Vol. 145 Issue 10, p239-240. 2p.
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Less spectacular than the struggle in automobiles or steel but almost equally important to labor's future is the life-and-death battle between the American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations now raging in the Pacific Northwest. Seattle and other Pacific Coast cities seem to be a testing ground for the most vicious attacks yet made by the federation leadership upon progressive unionism and the Congress of Industrial Organizations. Pushed out in front by William Green and American Federation of Labor the executive council is Dave Beck, regional vice-president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters. Beck is an ambitious, rotund little man with an unusual talent for employing strong-arm methods with telling effect. He has built up an empire of about 10,000 teamsters in the region around Seattle alone, where his power is most concentrated.
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