AFL-CIO FOOD AND BEVERAGE TRADES DEPARTMENT
Scope and Content Note: Harry Poole was president of the department. Meyers complained that the RCIA was paying per capita to this department while its president was traveling the country raiding the RCIA. Meyers recruited delegates from all kinds of unions, brought them to department meetings and openly destroyed the department. When the department was revised later on, the two unions were talking merger, and Jim Housewright was made president of the department.