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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...
Notwithstanding the dangers inherent in the concentration of such power in any single individual, Hoffa's past activities make him a poor candidate indeed to bear the responsibility. The Federal government has not stopped him. If he is not to take upon his shoulders the mantle of Protector of the Economy, united labor and intelligent management must act first. The AFL-CIO has so far shown little concern for the Hoffa threat. Though it has refused to readmit the Teamsters, the general enthusiasm for "ethical practices" so outspoken three years ago has largely waned...
...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...