Word: hoffa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Miami Beach's Eden Roc Hotel is suitably sumptuous for a display of the attributes of success, wealth and power. There, successful, wealthy, powerful Jimmy Hoffa conferred with the executive council of his corrupt Teamsters Union. It was a time for plans, expansion and confidence-not for worrying over the long, unchallenged record of Teamster racketeering dug up by Senator John McClellan's long-frustrated rackets committee. With his retinue of vice presidents, lawyers and investment advisers, jaunty little Jimmy worked on an 8 a.m.-to-1 a.m. schedule, spending lavishly, granting favors, hearing petitioners, mapping campaigns...
High Wages. Even so, the boycott was more of a success than a failure. In the U.S. 16 unions, including the National Maritime Union, the Seafarers' International Union and James R. Hoffa's Teamsters, banded together to tie up PanLibHonCo ships, primarily in East Coast and Southern ports...
...sales-tax increase against Murray's campaign cry for a higher sales tax. But in the day of rising resentment against labor racketeering, the Republicans have a brass-knuckled charge that the 1956 Loveless campaign was financed by $17,500 of Teamsters' Union funds and have a Hoffa-signed check to prove it. Under Iowa law, out-of-state campaign funds are illegal-but the statute...
...from under the three monitors appointed by a Federal District Court last January to see to it that Jimmy cleans up his union. At week's end two of the three monitors asked the court to cancel plans for the election because Hoffa has not even begun to comply with the monitors' demands for reform. The monitors got some solid support from Senate Committee Chairman McClellan himself...
...family in this country," warned John McClellan, "can escape the repercussions. All of our lives are too intricately interwoven with this union to sit passively by and allow the Teamsters under Mr. Hoffa's leadership to create such a superpower in this country-a power greater than the people and greater than the Government. This situation even now is critical for the nation...