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...archenemy, Fellow Senator Richard Neuberger. Backers of Massachusetts' Jack Kennedy were hurt some, but Teamster-backed Wayne Morse already has done nearly as much damage to Kennedy's chances as possible by attacking him up and down the state for his part in framing the Landrum-Griffin labor law. Most grieved were the friends of Morse's fellow liberal Democrat, Minnesota's Hubert Humphrey, who probably will lose most of his votes to Morse. The Humphreyites could hope that Favorite Son Morse will take Oregon's 17 delegates to the Los Angeles convention and some...
After years of exploiting unionism to build personal empires, two of the leading robber barons of the labor movement last week began to feel the restraints of the three-month-old Landrum-Griffin labor-reform bill...
...Hutcheson, 62, who inherited the presidency of the 850,000-member A.F.L.-C.I.O. United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America from his father, William L. ("Big Bill") Hutcheson, was sued by two Baltimore members for failure to treat his office as a "position of trust," as defined by Landrum-Griffin. The charges grew in part out of the Senate rackets committee hearings, where Hutcheson refused to answer questions, and out of a grand jury investigation, which led to Hutcheson's indictment on a charge of bribery in an Indiana state highway scandal. Specific complaints against Hutcheson and some...
James Riddle Hoffa, 46, Teamster boss, built much of his empire by refusing truck service to companies picketed by labor racketeers seeking shakedown money out of phony organizational or recognition strikes. Landrum-Griffin's provisions outlaw the shakedown forms of organizational picketing, also prohibit Hoffa from automatically rejecting "hot cargo" from any company with labor troubles. Last week, at a Chicago meeting of his huge Central States Conference, Hoffa declared that he would not only observe the new law's restrictions, but also bitterly laid out a go-it-alone policy as far as all non-Teamster unions...
...resigned from the court-appointed national board of Teamster monitors last July in order to carry on his anti-Hoffa fight in the locals. Schmidt went before Federal Judge Thomas H. Meaney in Newark, charged that in the October meeting Local 560 insurgents had been denied protections guaranteed by Landrum-Griffin. Meaney slapped Provenzano with an injunction that adjourned all union business meetings until the insurgents could exercise those rights. Result: Provenzano's forces caved in, last week signed a court stipulation postponing the election until mid-January, giving insurgents a fair chance to run a slate against...