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...career hoodlum. Raised on the lower East Side, Dio at 20 was milking protection money from garment-district truckers, at 23 was sent to Sing Sing by Racket-Busting Tom Dewey, at 26 emerged to try new fields. Last spring District Attorney Frank Hogan charged Dio had been helping Teamster Boss Jimmy Hoffa in an attempt to control Manhattan teamsters...
...tapes a Teamster intimate scoffed: "The Oregonian or the Journal won't take the Teamsters on ... All the Oregonian's got to do is [fool] around with the Teamsters and the first thing you know, them guys will be up there wanting 10 or 15 cents an hour, and the Oregonian can't afford it." Day after day, naming names and quoting conversations, the Turner-Lambert series produced fresh sensations. The paper charged that two officials in Portland, Multnomah County District Attorney William M. Langley and Sheriff Terry Schrunk, were mixed up with the racketeers who were...
...many cases the power of racketeers is so great that such a move could never begin, even if it ever did, the move would hopelessly split the unions wide open. Just recently, the AFL-CIO Longshoreman's Union called upon the parent organization to deliver an "ultimatum" to the teamster's union, run by James Hoffa, "to clean up their organization." There is too great a chance, however, that Hoffa might simply laugh and with his union, which is the nation's largest and most strategic, leave the ranks of the AFL-CIO as the old Longshoreman's Union...
...Beck had been seriously interested in cleaning up the I.B.T., one of his first targets should have been New York, where a specially created federal grand jury last week began an investigation of seven racket-linked teamster locals that Hoffa recently set up to insure the election of pro-Hoffa officers by the New York Teamsters Joint Council. (The election itself is being disputed in the courts.) Beck, however, professed a complete lack of interest in the New York situation. He insisted solemnly that "in my opinion it was an honest election." He also made it clear that the shelving...
Hoffa's attempted deal with the I.L.A. had demonstrated that his prime interest is not a clean waterfront but a teamster-dominated waterfront. It was characteristic of the methods that have made Jimmy Hoffa, 43, one of the hottest new stars in labor's firmament and the man most likely to succeed the aging (61) Dave Beck as boss of the 1,400,000-man I.B.T...