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Teamsters

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Teamsters
large, powerful union of U. S. truckers. [Am. Hist.: NCE, 2703]
See : Labor


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A refusal of cooks and waiters to serve scab teamsters or teamsters' employers brought out the cooks and waiters.
The whole Water Front Federation, along with its allies in the structural trades, had backed up the teamsters, and all had smashed down ingloriously.
Horsemen, and subsequently teamsters, however, availed themselves of an opening, at the end of the building, to shorten their passage westward, until in time the regular highway was laid out along this course, and houses were gradually built on either side, so as effectually to prevent any subsequent correction of the evil.
 
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