Word: hoffa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Piggyback's big success naturally worries truckers, and Teamster Boss Jimmy Hoffa assesses trucking companies $5 for moving any trailer that made part of the journey by rail. Despite heavy pressure from the trucking industry, the Interstate Commerce Commission recently refused to reverse its 1954 decision approving piggybacking. The railroads expect piggybacking to double by 1970, eventually account for as much as half of all U.S. freight moved by rail...
...A.F.T. is still a small, poor organization. Other unions boast lavish headquarters in Hoffa Hacienda style; the A.F.T. makes do with an ancient brownstone in Chicago, where it was born 47 years ago. It gets only $650,000 a year in dues, and its paid staff totals 25, including President Carl J. Megel, 63, a mild if tough-talking former high school science teacher and athletic coach. A.F.T. has 450 locals, including 32 at college level, but only about 50 are nerved to act like labor unions and clinch collective bargaining agreements...
Next to Jimmy Hoffa, there is no terrible Teamster whom Bobby Kennedy's Justice Department would rather put away than Anthony ("Tony Pro") Provenzano, 46, the chunky, highly paid boss of Local 560 in Hoboken, N.J. As counsel for the Senate Rackets Committee in 1959, Bobby himself first put the national finger on Tony by quizzing him about payoffs from trucking officials in return for labor peace. When court-appointed federal monitors supervised the Teamsters for a time, Provenzano was one of three officials they ordered Hoffa to fire. Instead, Hoffa elevated Tony to a vice-presidency...
Boastfully parading Hoffa's friendship Tony Pro beat back every challenge by Hoboken Teamsters who objected to his terrorizing rule of the local. When the dissidents met, bullets whizzed warningly past their meeting place. Tony's more outspoken critics were battered by thugs. With less than half of his 14,000 members turning out for elections, Tony kept winning. But last week he lost in a place where it really hurt: a federal courtroom...
Hard-eyed Teamster Boss Jimmy Hoffa seems to get into and out of hot water almost as regularly as a wash-and-wear shirt. He has been on trial in federal courts four times in the past six years, escaping with two acquittals and two hung juries. Last week fresh difficulties with the Feds descended upon Hoffa: a federal grand jury in Nashville, Tenn., indicted him on charges that he "did unlawfully, willfully and knowingly" conspire with six co-conspirators to influence members of a jury. The alleged jury tampering occurred while Hoffa was on trial in a federal court...