Word: hoffa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Philadelphia, where he had gone to try to settle a dispute with local truckers, Teamsters' Boss Jimmy Hoffa munched a lettuce salad and talked about U.S. labor's troubles. Whatever Bobby Kennedy or anyone else may think about Hoffa's moral character, he possesses one of the shrewdest minds, and is one of the best organizers, in U.S. unionism today. Said Hoffa: "Everybody's running scared, that's what's wrong. The trouble is we're in an age of labor leaders. They're looking toward retirement and they want...
There are a lot of miles between New York, Philadelphia and Miami Beach. And there is a lot of difference between Bert Powers, George Meany and Jimmy Hoffa. Yet those three scenes tell much about the U.S. labor movement-and its present state of disrepair...
This leads of course to the spectre of compulsory arbitration. And Jimmy Hoffa, for one, has a pungent opinion of that: "Bull. You don't have no unions with compulsory arbitration. The arbitrator don't know nothing about your union or the business or what's wrong. He throws one side a crumb and the other a piece of bread, or maybe the other way around. The truth don't lie in the middle of anything. The truth is the truth...
...Bobby resigns as attorney general 'to take the law into my own hands on the Hoffa cases.' Loses position...
...meeting of the local, third largest in the Teamster stable, Tony Pro was voted a raise of $50,000. That brought his salary to $95,000, a tidy $20,000 more than Hoffa makes, and $75,000 more than Tony was drawing only two months ago. The union voted him a first raise of $25,000 late last December...