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Daniel J. Tobin
American labor leader
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…the union was headed by Daniel J. Tobin, who increased membership from 40,000 in 1907 to more than 1,000,000 by 1950. It had become the nation’s largest union by 1940. Presidents Dave Beck (1952–57) and James Hoffa (1957–71) shaped the Teamsters into a strongly centralized union capable of negotiating nationwide…
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