Word: laborings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...what really accounts for whatever lingering esteem there may be for Jimmy Hoffa is' the image of him as a dedicated labor leader. Sure, the argument runs, Hoffa is tough, rough, and he pals with crooks; but at least it can be said for him that i) unlike Beck, he is not interested in making money for himself, and 2) unlike Beck, he is devoted to the interests of rank-and-file workers. The record, which Jimmy Hoffa says speaks for itself, explodes both of these notions as myths...
Hoffa, the committee found, has been involved in many business undertakings, including two summer camps, oil leases, a cattle farm, intricate real-estate deals, and various trucking ventures in which he got generous help from trucking-company owners with whom he negotiated as a labor leader. The most profitable trucking deal, as far as the committee investigators could trace, was Test Fleet, Inc., set up for Hoffa by a big Midwest trucking firm, Commercial Carriers Co. Commercial Carriers had some trouble with striking Teamster drivers in Flint. Mich., and Hoffa threw his weight into the dispute in favor...
...labor bill might trim Hoffa's power, especially if the Senate adopts the House bill's restrictions on blackmail picketing and secondary boycotts-longtime Teamster weapons. But with his lawyers already at work looking for loopholes, Hoffa is going to make every effort to go on behaving like Hoffa. Last week he finished buying control of the Miami National Bank so that he can use the bank to get around labor-bill controls on what he does with Teamster welfare-fund money. He plans to channel welfare-fund millions into Miami National and then distribute the money...
...cancel out any labor-bill ban on secondary boycotts, Hoffa is already setting timetables to rearrange Teamster contracts so that they will all expire at the same time. He plans to try to work out arrangements with other unions so that their contracts will run out at the same time as Teamster contracts. "This bill is going to bring on national bargaining," Hoffa predicted. "That's where those smart guys in Congress outsmarted themselves...
...contrast, Democratic candidates seemed almost locked in a closet-and indeed, one was. Massachusetts' Senator John Kennedy spent the week behind closed doors, trying to work out a labor bill as a member of the House-Senate conference committee. Minnesota's Senator Hubert Humphrey was openly fretting because his Capitol Hill duties kept him off the campaign trail-and out of the news. If Missouri's Senator Stuart Symington had done anything newsworthy in the last month, it had certainly escaped the attention of most observers. Adlai Stevenson, returning from Europe, again denied that...