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...this has not gone unnoticed by Teamster Boss James Riddle Hoffa, a general who does not like to see his troops being ridden out of town on a rail. Piggybacking, claims Hoffa, has already cost the jobs of 20,000 teamsters. To fight the rails, he is pushing a new "tax" on truckers, requiring them to pay $5 into the union's welfare or pension funds, beginning next year, for every truck they Diggy back. Hoffa has already signed the irst such contract with Midwest truckers...
...rails' auto-hauling business, assures complainants that "trucks will continue to handle the majority of the volume of car shipments." On hauls of up to 300 miles, trucks are still more economical; but for anything longer, when drivers must be put up overnight, rails win hands down. Even Hoffa's $5 tax will not cut seriously into the savings on long hauls...
Apparently the Russians considered Melekh exceedingly important. His counsel was expensive Edward Bennett Williams, the U.S.'s most famous criminal trial lawyer. Sometime defender of Senator Joseph McCarthy, Teamster Boss James Hoffa and Gambling Chieftain Frank Costello, Lawyer Williams had several conferences with Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy about the Melekh case-a strange twist, since Bobby Kennedy has long been bitter toward Williams for thwarting his efforts to bring down his old enemy Jimmy Hoffa...
...Abyssinian Baptist Church, threatened three collections per Sunday service until the crash campaign was completed. In the capital for a radio interview the same day. Preacher Powell, who has been indicted but never convicted in a still pending income-tax-evasion case, exuded brotherly love for Teamster Boss Jimmy Hoffa. Said the House Education and Labor Committee chairman: "Mr. Hoffa has completely vindicated himself before the courts. If he is as bad as he is supposed to be, then why isn't he in prison...
...cocky boss of the Teamsters has indeed hitched his wagon to a star. Only by offering unorganized labor something better than the economic security of benevolent despotism which Hoffa offers can the AFL-CIO unhorse...