Trial Keeps Teamsters Leaderless
Washington dispatch reports the Teamsters faces a federal court trial likely to leave the union without a national leader for weeks. The case centers on 13 members seeking to bar Hoffa from office while Major policy decisions stall as the trial proceeds. Beck remains president amid a theft conviction and pending tax charges. Hoffa faces a separate conspiracy to tap telephones case in New York City.
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Washington
Teamsters
Teamster
Jame-duck
James R. Hoffa
Mors
F. Dickinson Letts
Hoffa
Beck
Dave Beck
Seattle
New York City
Reform Union Split Shakes Bakery Workers Case
The AFL-CIO expelled the Bakery Workers Union amid corruption charges and backed a new Reform group named the American Bakery and Confectionary Workers International Union claiming 50,000 of the old 132,600 members. Four suspended vice presidents Daniel Conway John De Coxcini Amos Muller and Archie Goodman face hearings January 1 alongside former secretary treasurer Curtis Sims. James G. Cross, president of the old AFL-CIO affiliate, refused to leave as the split deepens.
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Old Bakery Workers Union
Aflcio
Daniel Conway
Washington
John de Coxcini
Philadelphia
Amos Muller
Chattanooga
Archie Goodman
Los Angeles
Afl-Cio
American Bakery and Confectionary Workers International Union
Curtis R Sims
Sims
James
G. Cross
Alio
Cross
Two Accused in Buffalo Bank Holdup
Buffalo police held Edmund Stone and Elmer Voight after a bank robbery at a Manufactures and Traders Trust Co branch netted $24,517. Manager LeRoy Rupp identified Voight, while two women provided tips leading to arrests at a nearby rooming house. Money was found in a suitcase in the suspects’ apartment.
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Buffalo
the Manufacturers and Traders Trust Co
West Side Bank
Edmund Stone
Elmer Voight
Denver crew hunted as boy rescued from shaft
A Denver bank getaway leads to a dramatic rescue after a 6 year old boy named David Leonard is trapped in a 18 inch shaft near a rooming house. Firefighters lift him to safety as police and FBI close in on suspects. a neighbor describes seeing a car flee the scene. The boy was hospitalized for shock and exposure, while authorities recover weapons and recover the scene. The case follows a separate local liquor price law dispute involving Rep. Alfred J. Otto.
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Rupp
FBI
Denver
David Leonard
Lyle Leonard
Havin
ST. Paul
Minn
Statelan
Alfred J. Otto
Monkeys, Men, and a Baker Scheme in Chicago
J J Shaffer director of the Chicago Anti Cruelty Society explains sending three men to catch a monkey loose in a felt factory. He says you can't match one man against a monkey as the man will be outsmarted every time. In Washington readers of a move to form a new bakers union have been suspended from a friendship of peace.
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Chicago
J. J. Shaffer
Chicago Anti- Cruelty Society
Mon Day
Shaffer
Washington
Bakers
Winifred
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Bendit
William G. Hinton
Ned
Baker Union
Merchants of Fine
Pat Mason
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George Block & Cw
OFC
Gap
O.ec
Schenioy
Edsel
Edsel Division
Ford Motor Company
Meke
Deales
Harvey MM. Stewart
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