Word: hoffa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When the first transport leaves for the moon, a labor reporter commented recently, James R. Hoffa would like to have its crew wearing Teamster buttons. If nothing is done to curb his power, it its more than likely that he will get his wish...
Last week's decision by a federal court, ordering the dissolution of the board of monitors assigned to clean up the Teamsters Union, ended one of the only restraints on Hoffa's designs...
...union firmly behind him, Hoffa feels ready to begin a mass organizing drive that would extend Teamster jurisdiction even further, and include thousands of workers in key industries with little or no connection with trucking. Though he envisions a combination of vast size and economic influence, Hoffa denies that he could with a single strike order halt all trucking in the country; it wouldn't be good business, he says...
...U.S.A. Slices of fictional personal histories are wedged between slabs of headlines and impressionistic biographic profiles of real-life movers and shapers. Instead of U.S.A.'s sardonic portraits of such tycoons as Carnegie, Henry Ford and William Randolph Hearst, there are acid sketches of Dave Beck, Jimmy Hoffa and Harry Bridges. Dos Passos' own fictional characters are manikins, but they acquire a certain animation and excitement by being placed on the revolving stage of 20th century social and intellectual history...
That would give him power to paralyze the whole U.S. economy. But Hoffa promised to exercise that power like the true labor statesman that he is. "There just won't be a national strike," he said. "It isn't good business for the union." The guarantee was every bit as good as Jimmy Hoffa's word...