Union Education

Women who joined the Teamsters were regularly pushing themselves to achieve a greater education in union matters. Mrs. Vera Lacey, widow of the late Martin T. Lacey, former President of Teamsters Joint Council 16, and herself a longtime member of Local 832, is shown receiving a diploma from Professor Don Coffee of the Cornell University School of Industrial Relations. Lacey was one of 37 members of Local 832 who took a course titled “Public Speaking at Union Meetings.”