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...union's contracts still have a year and a half to run. For one thing, Dave won re-election to the presidency last year by an uncomfortably narrow edge. On top of that, he faces rugged competition from other labor chiefs, e.g., the Teamsters' tough Jimmy Hoffa, tarred by scandal and scarred by his union's expulsion from the A.F.L.-C.I.O., is out to prove to the boys that he is still their resolute leader by squeezing a whacking wage boost out of trucking firms this spring...
Among the blackjacks of power that Jimmy Hoffa's 1,400,000-member Teamster Brotherhood uses to dominate the U.S. trucking industry are collective-bargaining clauses barring trucking companies from transporting "hot cargoes." A hot cargo can be anything at all, even frozen food; what makes it hot is that, somewhere in the course of its travels, it has been handled by a company that is nonunion or is having union trouble. By forcing trucking firms to contract not to handle hot cargoes, the Teamsters make it more difficult for other truckers to hold out against Teamster pressure...
Grinning widely, James Riddle Hoffa, 44, president-elect of the Teamsters Union, hopped out of a Manhattan federal courtroom one day last week, grabbed the telephone and called his wife in Detroit. The good news from Jimmy: a jury, after a four-week trial, failed to agree on whether Hoffa was guilty of conspiring to tap telephones illegally in his Detroit headquarters between...
Last week Washington's eleven-member Interstate Commerce Commission struck the hot-cargo weapon out of Hoffa & Co.'s hands. Ruling on a case in which nine trucking companies operating out of Oklahoma City had obeyed hot-cargo clauses in refusing to handle goods transported by a nonunion Texas trucker, ICC firmly declared that licensed "common carriers" operate under a "statutory obligation to serve the public" without discrimination-and that this "absolute" obligation cannot be set aside by any labor contract...
...A.F.L.-C.I.O. verdict: out. Gruff George Meany let it be known that the door would be open for the Teamsters' return after expulsion if they should get rid of Hoffa. Nonetheless, the delegates were well aware that their decision might plunge Big Labor into a near civil war as they trudged out of the Convention Hall to a tune barked out by the organ: Anything Goes...