Word: hoffa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...A.F.L.-C.I.O. were conspicuously absent when Congressman Adam Clayton Powell Jr., new chairman of the House Education and Labor Committee, called a get-acquainted meeting for union representatives and lobbyists. Very much in evidence in a front-row seat was Sidney Zagri, top Washington mouthpiece for Jimmy Hoffa's Teamsters. A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany's reasons for boycotting the meeting were twofold: 1) he refuses to let A.F.L.-C.I.O. officers fraternize with Teamsters, and 2) his opinion of Racist Powell's potentialities as guardian of labor's affairs in Congress: "Terrible...
Teamster Top Dog James Riddle Hoffa is the nation's biggest labor union boss, but he has long hungered for one big bone that some other labor chiefs have. Unlike the Auto Workers' Walter Reuther or the Steelworkers' David McDonald, he cannot call an industry-wide strike because his 1,700,000-member union is divided into regions, with individual contracts, which expire at different times. Last week, soaking up the Miami sunbeams at a Teamster board meeting, Hoffa announced that he was clearing the road for an industry-wide contract...
Steadily, Hoffa has been signing standard three-year contracts for the Teamster regions, now has uniform terms covering 25 states and many of the major U.S. haulers. Contracts in a score more states come up for renewal during the next six months, and Hoffa will demand the same expiration date on each one: February 1964. Then, he will hold out for a nationwide pact...
...dealt with at once. "This war," American spokesmen have said repeatedly, "is for the minds and hearts of men." And yet this country's own ideals are undermined and effectively negated by the persistent atrocity of racial discrimination. Nor is race relations the only domestic vulnerable point: every Hoffa, DeSapio, and McCarthy encourages the tendency of Afro-Asian heads of state to accept United States dollars and laugh at United States propaganda...
Bobby Kennedy's Justice Department has Jimmy Hoffa indiced on 217 separate counts, ranging from conspiracy to obstruct justice to lascivious carriage... The Classics Club production plays at the Loeb Drama Center before audiences of 25, 16 and 12. Stephen A. Aaron '57, eminence grise of the Center, terms the turn-out "somewhat disappointing." ...The biggest blizzard in history hits the Boston area, crippling the MTA for three months. Arthur D. Trottenberg, new director of he system, says (every day) that he expects service to resume...