Word: teamster
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...assassin, Jack Ruby, to the Mob. Ruby had ties to mobsters in Chicago, New York, Los Angeles and Dallas, and even, as a boy, to the infamous Al Capone. Nor did the commission seem impressed that Ruby, twelve days before he shot Oswald, asked a notorious Teamster racketeer from Chicago, Barney Baker, to "straighten out" a troublesome union dispute at Ruby's Dallas night club. (The commision might have been more interested, of course, had the FBI disclosed that the CIA had recruited Chicago gangsters to kill Cuban Premier Fidel Castro.) There is no evidence that organized crime...
...present spans are dangerous and jam with traffic during rush hours. In Lewiston, Idaho, the Potlatch lumber company is fighting the Sierra Club and others for permission to cut unsightly swaths through stands of white and ponderosa pine to meet the national building demands. Says Jim Hilbert, a local Teamster official: "Sure, we ought to grow. Create more jobs. City fathers run this place, and they don't want growth. But you can't stop it." William H. Cowles III, publisher of the Spokane Spokesman-Review, says hopefully: "We can learn from others, and maybe we will be wise enough...
DIED. John L. McClellan, 81, Democratic Senator from Arkansas, whose investigations of labor unions and organized crime led to the imprisonment of Teamster Bosses Jimmy Hoffa and Dave Beck, and to Mobster Joseph Valachi's televised exposes of the Mafia; of a heart ailment; in Little Rock. Elected to the Senate in 1942, he soon became known as a cotton-country conservative-defending military expenditures, opposing the "socialistic" measures of F.D.R., advocating strict penalties for criminals. One of the first Senators to speak out against Joseph McCarthy, in 1955 he replaced the Wisconsin Senator as chairman of the Permanent...
More than that, while singing to the jurors, Gallina also told federal officials that he could identify the killers of Teamster Boss Jimmy Hoffa. Missing for two years, Hoffa presumably was rubbed out by members of the Genovese family for disrupting lucrative deals it had developed with the Teamsters since 1967. Gallina informed the Feds that he had hidden a tape-recorded account of the killing that included the voices of mobsters who had a hand in it. He said Hoffa's body could be found from information on the tape...
Once, some ex-Teamsters, now working for the company, drove up, and one of them boarded the bus where I was talking with the workers during lunch break. He ignored me, and began to lecture the workers on the evils of the UFW, and promised that if they voted "no union" and signed a petition he had with him, the Teamster dues would end. Actually, this petition was meaningless because the vote was UFW vs. "no union"; the dues to the Teamsters would stop anyway, whether or not the UFW won. It was obviously a list to separate...