Beirne began his official union life in 1937 as president of his local and president of the union which represented all Western Electric Co. workers. He became principal officer of CWA in 1943. a post to which he has been reelected every 2 years. His first job in the communications industry began in 1928 at a Western Electric plant in New Jersey. at Jersey City. where he was born in 1911 of Irish immigrant parents. He fortified his early education with night studies at Hudson College and New York University. In 1946 he was named one of the 10 outstanding young men of America by the junior chamber of commerce.
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