Word: lukens
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...weeks now, Teamster President James Riddle Hoffa has been working hard to lance the most painful of the infections-but the old surgical methods are not what they used to be. Jimmy's main target is Cincinnati, where Dairy Driver James Luken, 39, former president of the city's Joint Teamster Council, last month led four dissident locals out of the union (TIME, Aug. 25). Hoffa at first sent in a team of 30 lawyers, organizers and well-muscled workers from loyal locals-headed by Harold Gibbons of St. Louis, his national second-in-command-to bring...
...Cincinnati revolt against Hoffa was led by an outspoken ex-milkman named James T. Luken, 39, president of the Teamsters' Cincinnati Joint Council, who has long tried to curb Hoffa's power grab from within the union. But after the Miami convention, where Hoffa showed "the most complete dictatorial control that I have ever witnessed or read of in a free society," Luken decided that enough was enough, went home to persuade his workers to vote...
...fought the threat. As soon as the Cincinnati vote was scheduled, he sent in his strong right arm, Vice President Harold Gibbons of St. Louis, to direct strategy. After the vote, Jimmy named Gibbons as "trustee"; Gibbons announced he would challenge the result in court on the ground that Luken had failed to use a secret ballot. To Gibbons' surprise, Luken petitioned the National Labor Relations Board for another election, hopes to have it scheduled by Labor Day. "That will permit Mr. Gibbons to get back to St. Louis," he cried, "and try to turn the hose...