Robert Meyner Archives - New Jersey Globe

Labor Leader: Joel Jacobson picked a public fight with Frank Sinatra

September 7, 2026 12:18 amSeptember 6, 2026 9:05 pm

One notable New Jersey conflict of the 1970s was the rivalry between labor leader Joel R. Jacobson (1918-1989) and Frank Sinatra. Sinatra and Dean Martin were playing blackjack before their performance at the Golden Nugget Casino in Atlantic City in...

Labor Leader: Vincent J. Murphy was NJ AFL-CIO president, two-term Mayor of Newark

September 7, 2026 12:15 amSeptember 6, 2026 8:12 pm

One of the most influential labor leaders in New Jersey’s history was Vincent J. Murphy (1893-1976), who spent nine years as the president of the New Jersey AFL-CIO after serving two terms as Mayor of Newark. He was the Democratic...

Labor Leader: Paul J. Krebs, last president of N.J. CIO served one-term in Congress

September 7, 2026 12:13 amSeptember 6, 2026 8:13 pm

The last New Jersey Democrat to lose a U.S. Senate race in New Jersey was Paul Krebs (1912-1996), labor leader and one-term congressman from Livingston. His story involves one of the great New Jersey labor union feuds. The account starts...

Labor Leader: Louis Marciante headed the NJ AFL for 27 years

September 7, 2026 12:06 amSeptember 6, 2026 8:47 pm

Louis P. Marciante (1898-1961) was the president of the New Jersey American Federation of Labor (AFL) from 1934 until his death from a heart attack at age 62 amidst a stressful merger between the AFL and the Congress of Industrial...

Labor Leader: Carl Holderman was a founder of the CIO

September 7, 2026 12:05 amSeptember 6, 2026 8:56 pm

New Jerseyan Carl Holderman (1894-1959) was one of the founders of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) in 1934 and spent more than five years in Gov. Robert Meyner’s cabinet. Among Holderman’s lasting legacies in New Jersey: he was among...

Happy 100th Birthday to Anthony E. Russo, ex-Senator, mayor

August 7, 2026 5:10 amAugust 13, 2026 11:45 am

Former State Sen. Anthony E. Russo, who served in the legislature from 1978 to 1982 and spent 27 years as a Union Township Committeeman – ten of them as mayor — will celebrate his 100th birthday tomorrow. He is the...

A look at federal, county and municipal races in Warren County in 2026

July 11, 2026 2:06 pmJuly 20, 2026 2:25 pm

Warren County remains one of New Jersey’s most reliably Republican strongholds, where GOP dominance is so entrenched that most county and local races this year—including a seat on the Board of County Commissioners—are uncontested. In the contested ones, the GOP...