Word: hoffa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Jimmy Hoffa, who left school at 14, addressed Economics 284 yesterday on "Collective Bargaining in the Over-the-Road Transportation Industry...
...Beck had been seriously interested in cleaning up the I.B.T., one of his first targets should have been New York, where a specially created federal grand jury last week began an investigation of seven racket-linked teamster locals that Hoffa recently set up to insure the election of pro-Hoffa officers by the New York Teamsters Joint Council. (The election itself is being disputed in the courts.) Beck, however, professed a complete lack of interest in the New York situation. He insisted solemnly that "in my opinion it was an honest election." He also made it clear that the shelving...
When the Honolulu meeting was over, a reporter asked Dave Beck if the decisions taken had been designed to "put the brakes on" Jimmy Hoffa, whose organizing talents have spread his domain into 27 states. "Positively not!" boomed Beck. "Why in hell would we want to put the brakes on anybody who is doing that good a job of organizing? I wish I had 40 more like...
James ("Jimmy") Hoffa, vice president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, will speak to an economics seminar next Wednesday, it was learned last night. Hoffa will address a meeting of Economics 284 on Collective Bargaining in the Over-the-Road Transportation Industry at 4:00 in Littauer Lounge...
Generally considered one of the most powerful figures in the American labor movement, Hoffa, who left school at the age of 14, gained notoriety recently when he led a movement to unite the Teamsters Union with the International Longshoremen's Association. The Longshoremen's Union had been expelled from the American Federation of Labor because of alleged racketeer connections. The alliance was believed to constitute a major threat to the new coalition...