Word: hoffa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Finally Miller gave up, declared a mistrial-and for the fourth time in five years Teamster Boss Jimmy Hoffa walked free from a federal trial...
This time the charge was that Hoffa and another Teamster official had violated the Taft-Hartley Law by making $1,008,057 out of a trucking company with which the Teamsters did business. If Hoffa was worried about whether the rap would stick, he certainly managed to conceal his anxiety. During the long wait for the jury, he strutted around the corridors and delivered himself of some cocky, colorful opinions. "These FBI agents," harangued Hoffa, "are all stool pigeons. A bunch of rats and stool pigeons. Give one of them a local with 10,000 members...
...Justice Department's methods, Hoffa claims, "Our phones are tapped and our hotel rooms are bugged. We'd make remarks just to see, and the Government attorneys would know next morning what we'd said. We're building a new $800,000 office building in Detroit, and they come to me and say the whole place is wired and bugged. I say, 'Hell, whaddya expect? Go on and finish the building...
Cleveland entered its third week without newspapers-even though Jimmy Hoffa's Teamsters, who led the walkout Nov. 29, have now negotiated a settlement with both the morning Plain Dealer and the evening Press. Irate at this early surrender, the American Newspaper Guild voted overwhelmingly to continue the strike on its own. replaced the departing Teamster picketers with Guildsmen...
Cleveland's two daily newspapers were hopefully getting ready to rev up their presses following a strike that has blacked out that city's news-by-reading since Nov. 29. Two unions-the American Newspaper Guild and Jimmy Hoffa's Teamsters-had shut down the morning Plain Dealer and the afternoon Press & News after coming to a stalemate in negotiations on job security and wage increases. At week's end, a local citizens' committee talked the drivers into returning to work and was waiting for assent from the Guild. All told, the strike cost Cleveland...