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...Jimmy Hoffa's Teamsters started the strike in the first place, by leading four other shop unions in a walkout April 12−a movement sympathetically, if not enthusiastically, joined by the American Newspaper Guild. As the other unions trickled back to work, the Teamsters stubbornly held out; they settled only after pinching an extra penny or two an hour more than anyone else. The long layoff cost both sides dearly: an estimated $12.5 million in revenue for the papers, some $3,000,000 in wages for the strikers. But the Minneapolis strike raised a question that was even...
...When the unions throttled the city's two newspaper voices, they clearly miscalculated management's means−and wil−to resist. The papers simply refused to cave in. In dealing with the holdout Teamsters, the Star and Tribune proved just as stubborn as Hoffa...
...House, Kowalski has opposed U.S. atomic testing, criticized U.S. policy toward Castro's Cuba as unduly harsh, and championed organized labor (Jimmy Hoffa recently made a special trip to Connecticut to put the Teamsters' seal on Kowalski's candidacy). He also got ideas about the Senate, and while Ribicoff played cozy (he still has not formally announced, hopes to be drafted at the Democratic state convention next week), Kowalski went to work. His old sponsor, John Bailey, now also Democratic national chairman, has tried every sort of persuasion and pressure to get him out of the race...
Said he: "It would be absolute suicide." The next day Hoffa was accused of conspiring with Commercial Carriers Inc., a Michigan trucking firm, to violate provisions of the Taft-Hartley Act that prohibit payoffs from employer to employee...
According to the grand jury indictment, Hoffa and the late Owen Bert Brennan, Teamster vice president, got $1,008,057 from Commercial Carriers, a company bound by contract to Teamster Local 299 (president: Jimmy Hoffa). Under the scheme, Commercial Carriers set up a company named Test Fleet in Nashville, Tenn., then transferred all of its stock in the firm to the wives of Hoffa and Brennan, taking care to muddle the trail by using their maiden names, Josephine Poszywak (Mrs. Hoffa) and Alice Johnson (Mrs. Brennan). Commercial Carriers then agreed to lease Test Fleet's ten trucks...