Word: filings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Supreme Court Justice John V. Spaulding gave the counsel for the Arboretum ten days to file a brief and continued the case until that time...
...hullabaloo over labor-reform legislation, it appears that someone has been overlooked. I refer to the rank-and-file unionist. Without his support, no union boss could afford the elaborate retinue of thugs, lobbyists, and shysters that Hoffa commands. Yet the union members never question Jimmy's methods, so long as he gets results...
Goldfish Bowl. Every labor organization must file comprehensive reports with the U.S. Secretary of Labor on the working of its constitution and bylaws as well as on all financial transactions, including large payments and loans to officers and staffers. Similar reports are required from management on all payments to union officers and to labor-relation consultants. Maximum penalty: $10,000 fine and a year in prison...
...leader. Sure, the argument runs, Hoffa is tough, rough, and he pals with crooks; but at least it can be said for him that i) unlike Beck, he is not interested in making money for himself, and 2) unlike Beck, he is devoted to the interests of rank-and-file workers. The record, which Jimmy Hoffa says speaks for itself, explodes both of these notions as myths...
Hoffa himself, when he was pushing into New York in 1954, tried to undercut New York Teamster Thomas Hickey by offering trucking companies better terms than Hickey - at the expense of the Teamster rank and file. In several states, Hoffa permitted trucking firms, against drivers' protests, to save money by paying drivers an extra 1¼ or 1½ a mile in lieu of more expensive fringe benefits. A confidential memorandum from an Ohio trucking executive reports a conversation with George Maxwell, head of the Steel Truckers Employers Association. Says the memo, photostated by McClellan committee investigators: "George told...