Word: hoffa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...eating sharks were everywhere, fanning out among makers of dog food, candy, zippers; they even swarmed around crucifix platers, printers, toilet-seat reconditioners, stone setters. In most instances the "organizers" operated under phony union local charters that were traceable to Dio, and ultimately to Teamster Union Big Shot Jimmy Hoffa...
...garment trucking industry, worked his way (after a stretch in Sing Sing) up into the labor rackets in a queer way. First he ran a few little dress-manufacturing shops. Then he took over a New York local of the foundering United Auto Workers (A.F.L.). With help from Jimmy Hoffa as well as the union's International Secretary-Treasurer Anthony Doria, Dio surrounded himself with mobsters who had grown tired of robbery, bookmaking and drugpushing...
...union to buy Dio's resignation. The price, cash on the barrelhead: $16,000. Dio took the money-and like a feudal prince, took his locals too. He moved over to the Teamsters and began trying to grab the New York Teamster leadership for ambitious Jimmy Hoffa...
...Will Hoffa get himself and his big (1,400,000 members) union kicked out of the A.F.L.-C.I.O.? He seems to be headed for just that despite his insistence that he wants to work his reforms within the parent organization. For in closed sessions with his constitution revision committee, Hoffa is solidifying his position with an attempt to undercut the powers of the Teamsters' four regional conference bosses, thus piling more power on the presidency...
...lifeblood of New York City, and really of the U.S., can be cut off ... We are going to get into mass extortions, misuse of power, and mistreatment of individual union members." Then, with a parade of witnesses, Counsel Kennedy showed how Racketeer Johnny Dio and his friend, Jimmy Hoffa, took over in New York with just such purposes in mind...