Daniel J. Tobin

Daniel Joseph Tobin ( born April 3, 1875 County Clare, Ireland, † November 14, 1955 in Indianapolis, Indiana) was 1907-1952 president of the union, " International Brotherhood of Teamsters ."

Born in Ireland, Tobin came to Boston in 1890. During the day he worked and at night he went to school. End of the 1890s he had his own small trucking company and married in August 1898 Elizabeth Reagan, who died in 1920. Together they had five sons.

Although he was an independent and self -employed drivers, he entered in 1900 in Boston the "Local 25 " Team Drivers International Union and helped in 1903 to form the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, whose president he became in 1907. He changed his residence to Indianapolis.

Tobin was a magazine out of the union (International Teamsters ) to strengthen the cohesion that was not necessarily given by the autonomy of the individual branches and their freedom of contract, which also leads to legal disputes led to one another. Regardless of bureaucratic details Tobin swung open to the international representative of his union and also went to his interests in the AFL, which were then passed through Samuel Gompers.

In a long juridical dispute with the "United Brewery Workers ' whose driver had the Teamsters like to be represented, he was defeated eventually but before the appropriate committee of the AFL. Because of Prohibition, the brewery driver then appeared in 1933 voluntarily in order to avoid a ban on their organization.

1924 tried Tobin Robert M. La Follette then sr. to become the president of the AFL, but failed. After that, he was a leading member of the Democratic Party and headed the union office of the election committees in the election campaigns in 1932, 1936, 1940 and 1944.

1940, the number of members had increased to about 450,000 and Tobin moved to a salary of $ 30,000. Tobin was considered aggressive anti - communist and was still active in the international trade union issues.

In 1947 he gave the management to his successor Dave Beck and retired in 1952 also as president. The Teamsters had at this time some 1.1 million members.

  • Unionists ( United States)
  • Member of the Democratic Party (United States)
  • Americans
  • Born 1875
  • Died in 1955
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