SCHMITT, KARL FELLER (PRESIDENT OF THE BREWERY WORKERS), AND THE TEAMSTERS
Scope and Content Note: Schmitt, always anti-administration in the Brewery Workers International, could never get a majority of convention delegates to go along with him. In 1954, Schmitt preferred charges against Feller and went to see CIO President Walter Reuther, but “he didn't have any guts.” Brewery Workers affiliated with the Teamsters “because Karl Feller made a deal to sell bodies.” If he had agreed to deliver the Brewery Workers, Schmitt could have had the same deal in 1954 when he was offered a regional directorship of the Teamsters at $35,000 per year when he was making only $125 per week. The Teamsters finally got a large segment of the Brewery Workers simply by offering the leadership high paying jobs.