OUR LOCAL’S
EARLY HISTORY
Thomas Brady, was founder of Teamsters Local 331. At the age of 10 he worked in a coal yard to help support his family. Later he got a job driving a team of horses and finally a truck. He would load the truck himself in Philadelphia, drive it to Atlantic City where he would unload it by hand himself. He then reversed the process with goods bound for Philadelphia. He sometimes did this multiple times each day to keep the family together.
In 1932 he was working at Harry’s Express in Atlantic City with his friend Frank Abrimont. The truck drivers there begun to talk about forming a Union. They were all for it, but no one wanted to be the leader because of fear from people hired by the company to break up unionizing efforts.
Finally they formed the Union in 1932 and in 1933 Thomas Brady became the 1st President with Frank Abrimont as 1st Secretary~Treasurer.
Thomas Brady, 1st President of Local 331 at the Humphrey Building at 15 So. North Carolina Ave. in Atlantic City, NJ
Frank Abrimont, Secretary – Treasurer and Thomas Brady, President.
OUR HISTORY IN PICTURES
“We are
not makers of history, we are made of history”
