Robert Meyner Archives - New Jersey Globe

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

September 6, 2021 12:10 amSeptember 4, 2021 3:48 pm

One of the great New Jersey fights of the 1970s was 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: Louis Marciante headed the NJ AFL for 27 years

September 6, 2021 12:09 amSeptember 4, 2021 3:44 pm

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

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

September 6, 2021 12:07 amSeptember 4, 2021 3:50 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: Carl Holderman was a founder of the CIO

September 6, 2021 12:06 amSeptember 4, 2021 3:34 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...

Labor Leader: Joe Fay was elected Local 825 leader for life

September 6, 2021 12:05 amSeptember 5, 2021 6:06 pm

Joseph S. Fay (1892-1972) spent decades as one of New Jersey’s most politically influential labor leaders, but a scandal that landed him in prison also changed the outcome of a race for governor of New Jersey. Fay was the business...

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

September 6, 2021 12:01 amSeptember 4, 2021 3:46 pm

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

Sweeney/Norcross road trips continue

June 29, 2021 7:24 pmJune 29, 2021 10:13 pm

Senate President Steve Sweeney, Assembly Majority Leader Louis Greenwald and powerbroker George Norcross will continue a summer tour of meetings with Democratic lawmakers from Bergen, Essex, Mercer, Middlesex, Passaic Somerset and Union counties. The expanded schedule will follow a similar...