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Miami Beach's Eden Roc Hotel is suitably sumptuous for a display of the attributes of success, wealth and power. There, successful, wealthy, powerful Jimmy Hoffa conferred with the executive council of his corrupt Teamsters Union. It was a time for plans, expansion and confidence-not for worrying over the long, unchallenged record of Teamster racketeering dug up by Senator John McClellan's long-frustrated rackets committee. With his retinue of vice presidents, lawyers and investment advisers, jaunty little Jimmy worked on an 8 a.m.-to-1 a.m. schedule, spending lavishly, granting favors, hearing petitioners, mapping campaigns...
...cleanup. Judge Letts found that the Teamsters had been treating the board's "orders of recommendation" purely as "recommendations," had done nothing substantial to clean up. Henceforth, he ruled, the Teamsters would take "orders" from the monitors. One immediate effect of his ruling is to postpone the convention Hoffa had scheduled for March to have himself re-elected president, a move that would have automatically dissolved the board of monitors...
...Replied Hoffa cockily: "What the hell, it just means another fight." It could mean a great deal more than that. If Judge Letts sticks to his guns, the ruling could lead eventually to Hoffa's being kicked out of the Teamsters' presidency. It was the most serious legal step against Teamster corruption since the Senate committee began its exposures, and, in the light of the "big week" in Miami, it came none too soon. "Now we have a blueprint to get something done," said Monitor Chairman Martin F. O'Donoghue. "We haven't even begun...
High Wages. Even so, the boycott was more of a success than a failure. In the U.S. 16 unions, including the National Maritime Union, the Seafarers' International Union and James R. Hoffa's Teamsters, banded together to tie up PanLibHonCo ships, primarily in East Coast and Southern ports...
...sales-tax increase against Murray's campaign cry for a higher sales tax. But in the day of rising resentment against labor racketeering, the Republicans have a brass-knuckled charge that the 1956 Loveless campaign was financed by $17,500 of Teamsters' Union funds and have a Hoffa-signed check to prove it. Under Iowa law, out-of-state campaign funds are illegal-but the statute...