Word: hoffa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hoffa Victory...
WASHINGTON, Jan. 23--A compromise court settlement today permitted James R. Hoffa to take the presidency of the Teamsters Union, with a board of "watch-dogs" looking over his shoulder...
...union's contracts still have a year and a half to run. For one thing, Dave won re-election to the presidency last year by an uncomfortably narrow edge. On top of that, he faces rugged competition from other labor chiefs, e.g., the Teamsters' tough Jimmy Hoffa, tarred by scandal and scarred by his union's expulsion from the A.F.L.-C.I.O., is out to prove to the boys that he is still their resolute leader by squeezing a whacking wage boost out of trucking firms this spring...
Eager to top Hoffa, McDonald last week unwrapped a gaudy parcel of his own: three-month vacations for steelworkers every five years, in addition to the regular yearly vacations of from two to three weeks. Striking the statesmanlike stance that union presidents assume when explaining how what is good for their unions is good for the country, McDonald argued that three-month vacations would help ease the "disemployment" caused by increasing automation...
Last week Washington's eleven-member Interstate Commerce Commission struck the hot-cargo weapon out of Hoffa & Co.'s hands. Ruling on a case in which nine trucking companies operating out of Oklahoma City had obeyed hot-cargo clauses in refusing to handle goods transported by a nonunion Texas trucker, ICC firmly declared that licensed "common carriers" operate under a "statutory obligation to serve the public" without discrimination-and that this "absolute" obligation cannot be set aside by any labor contract...