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...operation employing 11,000 unless the steel strike ends within three weeks. Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Co. last week laid off 521 workers at two Midwestern plants, will drop 1,200 more by the end of the month. At General Motors Corp.'s AC Spark Plug Division plant in Flint, Mich, and Harrison Radiator Division in Lockport, N.Y., 900 employees were put on a four-instead of a regular five-day week to conserve steel for use by divisions with less inventory. Some companies with big inventories were in trouble; they were running out of specific types, as shortages among...
Detroit. Hoffa helped Herman Kierdorf get a parole from a prison term for armed robbery, hired him as a Teamster organizer. Hoffa also found a job as a Teamster business agent for Herman's ex-convict nephew Frank, who then set about shaking down small businessmen in Flint, Mich. He was fatally burned last year while setting fire to a Flint dry-cleaning establishment (asked by the McClellan committee to name some of the hoodlums he had got rid of since becoming Teamster president, Hoffa had the gall to list the late Frank Kierdorf). Other ex-convict business agents...
...owners with whom he negotiated as a labor leader. The most profitable trucking deal, as far as the committee investigators could trace, was Test Fleet, Inc., set up for Hoffa by a big Midwest trucking firm, Commercial Carriers Co. Commercial Carriers had some trouble with striking Teamster drivers in Flint. Mich., and Hoffa threw his weight into the dispute in favor of the company. Commercial Carriers then set up Test Fleet, transferred, all the stock to Mrs. Hoffa and Mrs. Bert Brennan in their maiden names, then guaranteed a $50,000 bank loan so that Test Fleet could buy trucking...
Piece by Piece. In Saint John, N.B., collared by a cop after he tore up a parking ticket, Fred Flint was fined $1 for illegal parking, $5 for littering the street...
...studied a typewritten timetable of industrial plant and shopping-center openings and closings. Said he, ruefully: "We'll only have about 20 minutes to eat-we have to be in Flushing by 8. I want to catch that crowd at the shopping center. We have to be in Flint by 9-there's a real good shopping center there. Then we may get home by 11 and that will give me a couple of hours to catch up on paper work so I can get to bed by I -always like to turn in by 1. Then...