Word: teamster
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...said Hoffa had slugged him was Samuel Baron, 59, the 5-ft. 6½-in., 152-lb. field director of the Teamsters' warehouse division. Baron told how he and labor's little Napoleon had been feuding for years. During an argument in the union's Washington headquarters, Baron said, Hoffa suddenly began advancing on him with fists clenched and jaw muscles twitching. "I thought," said Baron, " 'This man is absolutely out of his mind.' Before I know it, he swings and catches me in the left eye and knocks me down...
...court, Hoffa pleaded not guilty to the charge of assault and was granted a jury trial. If convicted, he could get up to one year in jail and a $500 fine. But Baron, for one, was not optimistic about the chances of any other Teamster witness testifying against their hard-bitten boss...
According to the grand jury indictment, Hoffa and the late Owen Bert Brennan, Teamster vice president, got $1,008,057 from Commercial Carriers, a company bound by contract to Teamster Local 299 (president: Jimmy Hoffa). Under the scheme, Commercial Carriers set up a company named Test Fleet in Nashville, Tenn., then transferred all of its stock in the firm to the wives of Hoffa and Brennan, taking care to muddle the trail by using their maiden names, Josephine Poszywak (Mrs. Hoffa) and Alice Johnson (Mrs. Brennan). Commercial Carriers then agreed to lease Test Fleet's ten trucks...
Warming up at a press conference for a bit of political education work among his Iowa minions in Des Moines. Teamster Boss Jimmy Hoffa righteously excoriated Old Enemy Bobby Kennedy for "acting like a little hoodlum" and "not representing this country's democracy in a proper manner." The Attorney General's offense: "He travels around the world in his shirtsleeves...
...Teamster officials deny that the union is behind the battle of the buckshot. "We don't condone any violence," says Robert Cook, president of Atlanta's Teamster Local 728. "A scab is one of the lowest-down humans there can be, but I'm against anybody shooting at anybody." Still, eight striking Bowman Teamsters have been arrested since November. And last week Sam Webb, president of northern Alabama's Local 612, was indicted for assault with intent to kill in the Warren shooting...