Word: hoffa
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James Riddle Hoffa, ninth vice president (of eleven) of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, is a tough, resilient man who can slide on his face in a stable and come out smelling like honeysuckle. Three weeks ago he defied what looked like an open-and-shut case against him to win acquittal on charges that he tried to plant an agent on the staff of the Senate's McClellan committee investigating labor racketeering (TIME, July 29). Last week he turned up cockily for a San Francisco meeting of the Teamsters' constitution revision committee, there unloaded some...
Playing Nasser to the Farouk of discredited Teamster President Dave Beck (Hoffa will almost certainly take over the teamster reins at the union's Miami Beach convention next month), Jimmy Hoffa allowed that he is considering a plan to combine all the nation's transport unions (aviation, trucking, shipping, railroading) into one council. Said he: "You can't have a one-city strike any more, or a strike in just one kind of transportation. You have to strike them...
Even before Hoffa sang his melody, the same theme was batted out by none other than Harry Bridges, Red-lining boss of the West Coast International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union, and a dedicated enemy of George Meany's A.F.L.-C.I.O. (the C.I.O. ousted Bridges and his union long ago). Crowed Bridges: "There's one thing I know. If the Teamsters and the two dock unions [i.e., his own and the East Coast's International Longshoremen's Association, also ousted] got together, they'd represent more economic power than the combined A.F.L...
Bridges, who already has a death grip on Hawaii's economy by his control of the docks and the plantation workers, then added what may yet be the result of Jimmy Hoffa's muscle-flexing: "Hoffa is too tough for the A.F.L.-C.I.O. to handle. They can't keep him in that league...
...troubles are not over: this week in Washington, members of the Senate committee investigating labor racketeering, already proved specialists in underwater demolition, will call on Iceberg Johnny Dio to explain just exactly how he used his paper locals to help Midwest Teamster Jimmy Hoffa win control of New York City's 125,000 drivers...