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Friends of organized labor have found it a disappointing year since Judge F. Dickson Letts appointed monitors to supervise the activities of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters in preparation for elections which were to be held during the following year. The IBT's success in organizing a group of employees at Cape Canaveral missile test center last week was not a catastrophic setback for the opponents of Jimmy Hoffa and Frank Brewster, but an appropriate final touch in the Teamsters' exhibition of the complete impotence of the reforming forces of organized labor...
...history of the teamsters, however, is not one to encourage the hope of reform from within. Since the founding of the International Brotherhood in 1905, teamster history has revealed two common denominators: violence, and intense local independence: both have played a role in creating the present situation...
...hopes of Judge Letts that an election could be held a year after his appointment of monitors had vanished by last December when he told the Brotherhood not to hold its convention in January, and that it would have to get permission from the court before scheduling an election. Prospects for the future seem to depend on some form of more active federal intervention, not only in the International, but in the Conferences and the locals as well...
...These Things Can Be Dangerous." In addition to buying records from Lormar, operators were forced to pay $3.60 per jukebox per year in protection money. In return they received the combined services of 1) Local 134, International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, run by a business agent named Fred Thomas ("Jukebox Smitty") Smith, and 2) the Commercial Phonograph Survey Co. Commercial, assisted by Jukebox Smitty and a staff of ex-convicts, kept track of operators and their jukebox locations, ostensibly kept peace by preventing raiding. Estimated total shakedown cost to Chicago's operators: $100,000 a year...
...chip on his shoulder. Sometimes, when he saw the placards for a cosmetic lotion urging straphangers to preserve the soft white beauty of their hands, he would take out his pencil and scrawl derisive comments: "How about Negro hands?" or "What if you're Chinese?" Car cards urging brotherhood and tolerance got the inscription: "There is bigotry in America." The girl who often rode with him would remonstrate, but the young man scarcely heard her. Even then, she recalls, "there was a storm within Harry...