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...principal effect of this bill is delivered against honest and legitimate trade unionism." Added A.F.L.-C.I.O. Special Counsel Arthur Goldberg in a hot opinion to state labor leaders: "It is plainly an anti-labor bill." Replied DiSalle with equal heat: Such labor leaders as the Teamsters' Jimmy Hoffa and Dave Beck have gone "a long ways toward destroying what we fought...
...Frontal Attack." The indictment caused a wince of pain from the department because the trustbusters had begun their campaign against the highly regarded International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union and not against some out-of-favor union such as Jimmy Hoffa's Teamsters. But First Assistant Antitrust Chief Robert Bicks said: "It would be a perversion of our function to discriminate between 'good' and 'bad' unions. The question is whether unions are violating the Sherman Act." I.L.G.W.U. President David Dubinsky, who has fought hard and with distinction against sweatshop operators and racketeers...
...Newfoundland, where Premier Joey Smallwood is renowned as one of labor's best friends, one of labor's worst friends got a toe hold almost surreptitiously. Jimmy Hoffa and his racket-ridden International Brotherhood of Teamsters quietly set up two locals with 1,200 members. Alarmed, Smallwood last week bounced into the provincial legislature to denounce Hoffa & Co. as "pimps, panderers, white slavers, murderers, embezzlers, extortionists and dope peddlers." The legislators speedily responded with a sledgehammer law: the provincial government can now dissolve any local upon evidence that a "substantial number" of its union officers have been convicted...
Sentenced last week by a federal court in Tacoma, Wash, on six counts of income tax evasion: Dave Beck, 64, longtime Teamsters Union president, nudged-from office by Jimmy Hoffa in 1957, and in trouble with the law ever since. Sentence: five years' imprisonment and $60,000 fine, plus $10,961.52 in court costs. Said U.S. District Judge George H. Boldt in a lecture from the bench: "Mr. Beck plundered his union, his intimate associates, and, in some instances, his personal friends-most of whom quite readily would have given him anything he asked...
Today there are some signs that the court-appointed monitors, despite the odds they find themselves working against, may succeed in cleaning up the union. A few scattered unions have voted in "reform" officials to replace the former supporters of Hoffa. But at the same time, the New York organizer of the Teamsters, long famed for his honesty, has been replaced by a known stooge of Hoffa who was installed by the Executive Committee of the international. Every step forward seems to involve another backward...