Marty Gaubatz, who has been with Stag for 44 years, celebrates in Bernie and Gene's Tavern in Belleville. He says he's looking forward to seeing a lot of his old buddies again.
"Pickets at the Anheuser-Busch Brewery Wednesday. " The International Teamsters leadership has reversed a decision by the Teamsters Joint Council 13 executive board and certified the results of the election that brought the current leadership of the striking beer bottlers' union to office. The Joint Council 13 board voted unanimously March 26 to order a new election after the current strike. Until late 1973, Local 1187 had been a member of the AFL-CIO and had been known as Local 187. According to the the Joint Council execultive board findings, many union members mistakenly thought the affiliation agreement that brought the local into the Teamsters provided a grace period... (ends)."
"A picket points finger at a truck driver while a security guard checks the driver's paper after the truck crossed the Bottlers Local 1187 picket line in the rain at Anheuser-Busch Monday."