Word: crosser
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...represents 22,000 employees in Nevada's casino hotels and restaurants, Bramlet made enemies as effortlessly as gamblers throw dice. Following a strike last March, his own rank and file accused him of selling out to employers with sweetheart contracts. Other union chiefs despised him as a double-crosser. Establishments that resisted his organizers had fire-bomb problems. But like Teamster Boss Jimmy Hoffa, Bramlet is a labor leader who apparently made one enemy too many: the Mafia. Last week, with a chilling sense of déjà vu, the FBI and Nevada authorities were wondering if they...