Word: teamster
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this has not gone unnoticed by Teamster Boss James Riddle Hoffa, a general who does not like to see his troops being ridden out of town on a rail. Piggybacking, claims Hoffa, has already cost the jobs of 20,000 teamsters. To fight the rails, he is pushing a new "tax" on truckers, requiring them to pay $5 into the union's welfare or pension funds, beginning next year, for every truck they Diggy back. Hoffa has already signed the irst such contract with Midwest truckers...
Apparently the Russians considered Melekh exceedingly important. His counsel was expensive Edward Bennett Williams, the U.S.'s most famous criminal trial lawyer. Sometime defender of Senator Joseph McCarthy, Teamster Boss James Hoffa and Gambling Chieftain Frank Costello, Lawyer Williams had several conferences with Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy about the Melekh case-a strange twist, since Bobby Kennedy has long been bitter toward Williams for thwarting his efforts to bring down his old enemy Jimmy Hoffa...
...with Producer Jerry Wald on the filming possibilities of a book that interested him. Result: Wald has been meeting with Bobby Kennedy and other veterans of the Senate labor racketeering committee staff to work out the details of the" movie version of Bobby's own story of the Teamster investigations, The Enemy Within...
...project for his Abyssinian Baptist Church, threatened three collections per Sunday service until the crash campaign was completed. In the capital for a radio interview the same day. Preacher Powell, who has been indicted but never convicted in a still pending income-tax-evasion case, exuded brotherly love for Teamster Boss Jimmy Hoffa. Said the House Education and Labor Committee chairman: "Mr. Hoffa has completely vindicated himself before the courts. If he is as bad as he is supposed to be, then why isn't he in prison...
...union firmly behind him, Hoffa feels ready to begin a mass organizing drive that would extend Teamster jurisdiction even further, and include thousands of workers in key industries with little or no connection with trucking. Though he envisions a combination of vast size and economic influence, Hoffa denies that he could with a single strike order halt all trucking in the country; it wouldn't be good business, he says...