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What if we who receive or ship merchandise by Teamster-member unions refuse to do so if Hoffa is made president...
Alas for the poor Senate anti-rackets committee when Teamster Vice President James Hoffa "swaggered into the McClellan hearing like a crowing cock into a coop of capons." The illusion is perfect, with the committee certainly discovering its impotence in the fray, but we'll bet our bottom forceps that Hoffa joins the capon ranks in no time. New Capon Hoffa, certainly economically "fattened for the table" (Webster), will join the docile when the committee leaves the roost for the chopping block...
Around the tables in Seattle's posh 410 Restaurant sat some of the top men in the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, quietly talking strategy. At one table, the comments were mixed with uneasy hope and stifled distress. There sat two men who had dared to come out against arrogant, front-running Midwest Teamster Czar James Riddle Hoffa, who claimed that he would win the brotherhood's presidency at the quinquennial convention in Miami Beach, Fla. Sept. 30. Tom Hickey, longtime New York Teamster enemy of Hoffa, was one; the other was Tom Haggerty, secretary-treasurer of a milkwagon...
...Look at the difference between tables," murmured Bill Franklin, secretary-treasurer of the Western Conference of Teamsters, who sat with Hickey and Haggerty. "Not a man at this table has ever done anything he needs to be ashamed of. The best thing Jim Hoffa could ever do for the union is to stand up right now and say he'll withdraw. But there's no chance of that." Said Tom Haggerty: "Well, it's up to us to dignify the name of our union." Franklin talked of the support behind Hickey and Haggerty and a third anti...
...City 'trucking firm decided that it would be cheaper to slip a Dio mobster a few grand than to get stink bombs hurled into trucks or emery powder sneaked into motor oil. In recent years, armed with "paper local" labor-union charters obtained with the friendly conspiracy of Teamster Big Wheel Jimmy Hoffa, Dio collected wads of cash from employers in return for promising freedom from strikes, picket lines and other union nuisances...