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...testimony, theA.F.L.-C.I.O.'s rock-firm President George Meany ordered the 160,000-member union to get rid of Cross or else. Last week the Bakery Workers' Cross-bossed executive board balked at the order. Meany & Co. promptly suspended the union, sending it to join Jimmy Hoffa's Teamsters in exile from the housecleaning united labor movement...
Died. Martin T. Lacey, 75 (less one day), iron-jawed, dent-nosed sparkplug (since 1903) of the New York labor front, kingpin Teamsters union leader who fought the Beck-Hoffa-Dio racketeers for his New York Teamsters' Joint Council 16 presidency but lost it to Hoffa's pal, John J. O'Rourke, last January; of a heart attack in his sleep; in Washington Township...
TRUCK RATES will go up for second time this year because Jimmy Hoffa's central states conference teamsters are riding toward another pay raise. Midwest truckers are resigned to a boost in present $2.34 hourly minimum, possibly as much...
...George Meany and his executive council held firm. After 90 minutes of discussion with Hoffa and his general executive board, the council huddled in executive session for an equal period of time. At length, Jimmy Hoffa, cooling his heels in an outer office, was called in to hear the verdict: the Teamsters were suspended by a 25 to 4 vote (the four: representatives of the Teamsters, the scandal-tinged Bakery Workers, the powerful Carpenters, the Letter Carriers). Under George Meany's tough hand, a powerful majority had shown that the A.F.L.-C.I.O. would risk its own future to protect...
Taps. His troubles were still multiplying. In Manhattan, a federal court ordered Hoffa to stand trial promptly on charges of perjury and wire tapping. And in Washington, 13 rank-and-file union members were awarded a preliminary injunction preventing Hoffa and his newly elected fellow officers from assuming their new jobs. If the plaintiffs win their suit and prove that the Hoffa gang was illegally elected, new elections, supervised by court-appointed officials, will probably be ordered. By that time, James Riddle Hoffa might not be available for candidacy...