Harold J. Gibbons

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Harold J. Gibbons , full name Harold Joseph Patrick Gibbons , (born April 10, 1910 in Lackawanna County , Pennsylvania , † November 17, 1982 in Los Angeles ) was a leading American trade unionist .

life and career

Gibbons grew up as the youngest of twenty-three children and studied at the University of Chicago . His first stint as a unionist was a senior position with the Union of Warehousemen in St. Louis , Missouri , which was located on the Mississippi Rivers and Missouri Rivers , the fifth largest transshipment port in the United States and was a major railroad hub. The union and Gibbons' influence were correspondingly influential. The St. Louis Union , also under the influence of Gibbons, was considered one of the most progressive unions, negotiating, for example, its own hospital wards, vacation facilities and good pension plans for the union members. The union later merged into the International Brotherhood of Teamsters , or Teamsters for short , the largest single union in the United States, of which Harold J. Gibbons became vice-president. Gibbons was also Vice President of the Teachers' Union and the American Federation of Labor , or AF of L for short . In 1952 he was a delegate from Missouri for the Democratic National Convention of the Democratic Party , in addition a member of the American Civil Liberties Union and the NAACP .

Gibbons died of an aortic aneurysm in 1982 ; In his honor a field of the baseball stadium in St. Louis was named Harold J. Gibbons Field .

US President Nixon's enemy list

Because of his work and his positions, such as his opposition to the Vietnam War , Gibbons was named on the Master list of Nixon's political opponents , the enemy list of former US President Richard Nixon . Its main advisor Charles Colson ordered, among other things, Gibbons to send the tax investigation, but the executive advisor John Dean refused. Nevertheless, the President's advisory staff managed to keep Harald Gibbons away from other politically more influential positions.

Fonts

  • Old challenges and new horizons for US unionism . Laboratory in Mid-America series, 1962.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ R. Bussel: "A Trade Union Oriented War on the Slums". Harold Gibbons, Ernest Calloway, and the St Louis Teamsters in the 1960s. Labor History, 2003
  2. ↑ Government Report: The Senate Watergate Report, 1974, p. 218
personal data
SURNAME Gibbons, Harold J.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gibbons, Harold Joseph Patrick (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American trade unionist
DATE OF BIRTH April 10, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Lackawanna County , Pennsylvania
DATE OF DEATH 17th November 1982
Place of death los Angeles