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...clearly a disordered house, thanks to the loss of public confidence in trade unionism engendered by revelations of corruption in the Teamsters Union and other unions. The business: whether or not to boot out the mighty Teamsters (1,400,000 claimed members), who had arrogantly elected Tough Boy Jimmy Hoffa their president (TIME, Oct. 14). Under the relentless prodding of President George Meany, a tough guy of another stripe, the A.F.L.-C.I.O. voted to throw out the Teamsters by a 5-to-1 margin...
...four hours the debate droned on. One by one, Teamster partisans pleaded for charity, invoked in lofty prose the memory of bleeding feet at Valley Forge and treachery among the Twelve Apostles. It was all useless. Word came, too, that even cocky Jimmy Hoffa had tried surreptitiously to work out a last-minute deal with George Meany, but Jimmy had been too busy to settle on a date. He was busy, in fact, in Manhattan federal court, where he was standing trial on wiretapping charges. (Teamster ex-President Dave Beck was tied up in Seattle, where he was on trial...
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J., Dec. 6--The AFF-CIO today expelled the International Teamsters Union by a 5-1 margin on charges it is dominated by corruptive influences, principally President-elect James R. Hoffa...
Contacted during a recess in his federal court trial on wiretap charges in New York, Hoffa said the ouster wouldn't weaken the union...