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Through the shot and shell of 2½ years of pounding by the McClellan committee, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters' President James Riddle Hoffa held hardest to his No. 1 point: Hoffa is an innocent victim whose only crime is that he gets good wages and working conditions for his "boys." Last week, in a special report to the Senate, the McClellan committee took dead aim on Hoffa's benevolence to the boys. Said the committee: "In the history of this country it would be hard to find a labor leader who has so shamelessly abused his members...
...Hoffa brought New York City Teamsters locals into the union in 1955, with the help of Gangsters John ("Johnny Dio") Dioguardi and Anthony ("Tony Ducks") Corallo, under low wages and poor working conditions. Hoffa authorized labor contracts in Detroit under which Teamsters Union car-washers got as little as $2.50 for a ten-hour...
...Hoffa's Vice President Harold Gibbons, in 1958, crudely manipulated votes at a Joint Council 13 election in St. Louis to assure his election as local president...
...Burns outpolled Republican Quinn by a fateful 3-2. This was just the kind of odds that suited Quinn bes't. He cultivated the independents, pounded hard at the news that Burns's powerful backer, the I.L.W.U., was flirting with the idea of an alliance with Jimmy Hoffa's highly unpopular Teamsters. In the election, Quinn not only carried populous Oahu but captured thousands of votes that the I.L.W.U. was supposed to deliver from the outlying islands...
...Live." The wildest attempt to shoot down the bill came from Jimmy Hoffa's Teamsters and their lobbyist, Sid Zagri (TIME, July 27), but the quiet power play came from none other than A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany himself. Making a personal trip to Speaker Sam Rayburn's office last fortnight, cigar-chomping George Meany growled out the facts of life as he saw them. Labor, longtime friend of the Democrats, could not live with the bill as it was being written, he warned. "We can't live with the hot-cargo clause...