Word: hoffa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...among the 2,200 delegates had come to Miami with more on his mind than girls and giggle water. That man was testy, arrogant James Riddle Hoffa, 48, boss of the 1,700,000-member union and maverick of the U.S. labor movement...
...season, he plays poker and cribbage with union buddies, attends union social functions, and has been known to shell out of his own pocket for old union friends who fell on hard times. On first-name terms not only with Reuther but with "Jimmy'' (the Teamsters' Hoffa), "Jim" (the Electrical Workers' Carey) and "Dave" (the Steelworkers' McDonald), he frequently puts in phone calls to them to settle a point of argument. "If you treat most people right," says Seaton, "you get treated back the same...
Despite the all-out opposition of James Hoffa's Teamsters Union, U.S. railroads last week won a crucial battle in their campaign to regain some of the business they have lost to the trucking industry. By a vote of 10 to 1, the Interstate Commerce Commission ruled that the railroads could offer cut rates on piggybacking-the carrying of freight-loaded truck bodies on railroad flatcars-in cases where the shipper himself provides either the trailer or trailer and flatcar...
...everyone kicks in (and they had better), the total will come to $75,000. "You never know where there's going to be opposition," explained a Hoffa aide. "It's good to have a little dough in the coffers, just in case." What if all that money is not really needed? "If we don't use the money, we give it to a local charity...
...seemed that Jimmy Hoffa might just like to remember those who forgot to remember...