Word: teamster
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Rumors spread quickly and are embellished extensively in these small coal towns, adding to the atmosphere of distrust and fear. A new man in town is immediately suspected. For instance, during my visit I was widely thought to be a Communist, a Teamster organizer, a management spy, and a conspirator with the strikers...
...Howell sees it, his only chance of combating this despondency and supporting a strike is inducing the Teamsters to organize the county. Practically every miner in McDowell watched Dave Brinkley's report on Jimmy Hoffa and his union, and to them Hoffa looks like the messiah. "Jimmy could do it," was the general opinion. "He's tough--if we get him in here that will fix things up in short order." Tough men themselves, these miners are convinced Hoffa will understand them and their problem. But a Teamster representative recently studied the situation and reported that it was almost hopeless...
Asked about Teamster Union President Jimmy Hoffa, Kennedy stated, "What I think of him and he thinks of me in immaterial." Kennedy denied Hoffa's charges of a "personal vendetta" against the Teamsters and their leader. The Attorney General said that 117 Teamster officials and close Hoffa associates have been indicted and 55 convicted during the last two years...
...head man of the Teamsters union. Jimmy Hoffa is an absolute but generous ruler, firm in the conviction that there is money enough in the Teamster till for every loyal lieutenant. Last week Anthony ("Tony Pro") Provenzano, 45, burly Hoffa protégé and chief of Union City, N.J., local 560, reached in for an even larger share than the boss takes...
...meeting of the local, third largest in the Teamster stable, Tony Pro was voted a raise of $50,000. That brought his salary to $95,000, a tidy $20,000 more than Hoffa makes, and $75,000 more than Tony was drawing only two months ago. The union voted him a first raise of $25,000 late last December...