Word: hoffa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fulgencio Batista got ready for the strike by offering immunity to anyone who killed a striker and by threatening to jail any employer who closed shop. He marshaled 4,000 soldiers. His labor lieutenant, Eusebio Mujal, Hoffa-style boss of the 1,200,000-member Cuban Labor Federation, ordered workers to stay on their jobs or lose them for good. Playing the genial host to U.S. newsmen (see PRESS) at a party three days before the strike, Batista said, half in joke and half in earnest: "We'll soon see how hard it is to make this dictator fall...
...biggest, richest and most powerful of them all: the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, which, said the committee, can "stop the nation's economic pulse." The committee accused ousted Teamster President Dave Beck of "thievery" arising from "uncontrollable greed"; it said that the Teamsters' new president, James Hoffa, runs "a hoodlum empire." Said the report: "The power of the Teamsters Union president is extraordinary . . . that this power is now lodged in the hands of a man such as Hoffa [is] tragic for the Teamsters Union and dangerous for the country at large...
Chunky, hard-boiled Teamster Czar Jimmy Hoffa has shown remarkable talents in recent months both for getting into trouble and for wriggling out. Jimmy's latest wriggle: in Washington last week, U.S. District Judge F. Dickinson Letts lifted his own injunction barring Hoffa from taking office as Teamster president. At the Teamsters' marble-and-glass palace in Washington, Jimmy's secretary promptly started greeting telephone callers with a cheery "President Hoffa's office." But Hoffa was a president on a leash, and the other end was held by Judge Letts...
...judge issued his injunction last October on complaint of 13 New York Teamsters who charged that Hoffa finagled the president's chair for himself by packing the Teamster convention with puppet delegates, hand-picked in violation of the union's constitution. Under the arrangement that Hoffa's lawyers worked out with the 13 rebels, these charges remain hanging. In a settlement without precedent in labor cases, Judge Letts, 82, kept jurisdiction over the case, ordered a three-man "board of monitors" set up to look over Jimmy's shoulder and report to the court on what...
...Dist. Court Judge F. Dickinson Letts approved a settlement worked out by attorneys for the Teamsters Union and dissident members who had brought suit to block Hoffa's accession to the presidency...