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Forthcoming is the history of Local 24 from 1941 through 1980 as described by Thomas "Red" Gosser, former Secretary-Treasurer, who also served as Officer and Trustee of Local 24 from 1948 through 1980 and was a former CCC Highway driver and Union Steward.
We broke away from Local 348 because 88% of the members were in the Freight Industry with various trucking companies in the Akron and Portage counties of Ohio. We received our Charter officially on November 16, 1941 with one elected Business Agent and Secretary-Treasurer as full time employees. The Secretary-Treasurer was the Principal Officer of this Local Union at that time and was governed under the International Brotherhood of Teamsters Constitution ByLaws. There were also six other Board Members who were part time officers and worked in the craft. In 1949 or 1950 we purchased a machine shop at 727 Grant Street which you know now. It's on the corner of the freeway and Grant Street, across the street from the Sacred Heart Church. We purchased that machine shop for $35,000. So we put $9,000 into the building and made it a nice union hall. In 1964 and 1965 that building was torn down and your local union and its'members purchased the surrounding homes on Grant Street and Voris Street to which you now know. And we built this new hall. We paid $190,000 cash to have the building built and for the 5 or 6 properties, I just forget, we didn't pay any more than $10,000 or $11,000 or $12,000 for each property that borders Grant Street and Voris Street.
The President of the International in 1941 was Tobin. Then after Tobin came Beck. In the forties' when we first started, not all trucking companies were in the union. We had a one piece paper contract which just spelled out the wages and the company who signed this contract along with the Local Union. |
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