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...President George Meany to lay the organization's objections before the House Education and Labor Committee next week. Even as the A.F.L.-C.I.O. leaders were meeting, a vastly powerful outcast from their ranks was dramatically demonstrating the vital U.S. need of new labor legislation. In Brownsville, Texas, Jimmy Hoffa, president of the thug-ridden International Brotherhood of Teamsters, threatened anarchy if the Kennedy-Ervin bill is made law. Cried Hoffa to a regional Teamsters' convention: "If such a law is passed, we should have all of our contracts end on a given date. We can call a primary...
Sitting in the driver's seat of his rough-and-ready Teamsters Union, Jimmy Hoffa last week set out full blast to run down the mild-reforming Kennedy labor bill, which rolled through the Senate (TIME, May 4) and is due up soon in the House. While Hoffa's aides in Washington were buttonholing Congressmen in an effort to kill or soften the bill-aimed principally at the Teamsters' own flagrant abuses of power-Boss Hoffa popped into Nashville to blow the horn not only on the legislation but on his archenemy, A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany...
This in itself could be labeled just so much horn blowing in a traffic jam, but the effect of Hoffa's campaign, both in Washington and the field, was to embarrass the A.F.L.-C.I.O., which kicked Hoffa out a year and a half ago. Meany is on record in favor of the Kennedy bill's restrictions against Hoffa's hoodlum unionism, but at the same time he opposes the minor "Bill of Rights" amendments, which would also curb activities of unions in general. Result: if he continues to support the bill, some of his A.F.L.-C.I.O. supporters...
...Hoffa Threatens Strike
BROWNSVILLE, Tex., May 19--James Hoffa today threatened a nationwide strike of all labor if Congress harnesses unions with antitrust laws...