Hired part-time at $15 a week. The Executive Board quit at the first meeting because Whiteside told the Board members the union would no longer pay their phone bills, would no longer pay for post-meeting parties, and would move its offices to less expensive quarters at the Union Club. Worked for the Kenosha Clerks local part-time from 1948 to 1951; no checkoff; part of job was collecting dues in the stores. In 1951, Plopper worked out an arrangement whereby Whiteside would work for both the Kenosha and the Racine Clerks locals, with each local contributing $25 a week toward his salary. He could have received more salary by accepting a subsidy from the International, but this he refused because he did not like writing reports.
