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...Teamsters," Marcello allegedly claimed at one point, while two FBI agents posing as California insurance salesmen kept their secret tape recorders turning. Marcello had told his new-found friends that certain officeholders in Texas and Louisiana could be persuaded to help them land insurance contracts covering state and municipal employees-for fat personal fees. But that, Marcello suggested, was nothing compared with the millions of dollars that could be drawn from the huge health and welfare insurance funds of the Teamsters Union. Marcello claimed that Teamster President Frank Fitzsimmons was too ill to block a change. Allen Dorfman, a Chicago...
Apart from its covert schemes, the FBI's new interest in political corruption has concentrated on at least one other U.S. Senator: Nevada Democrat Howard W. Cannon. A court-authorized FBI wiretap on the telephone of Allen F. Dorfman, a former Teamster consultant who had long maintained influence over the huge pension funds of the various Teamster unions centered in Chicago, led agents to question whether Dorfman might have enticed Cannon into shaping a bill deregulating the trucking industry into a form more acceptable to the Teamsters. As chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee, Cannon was a key figure...
...Teamster-baiting, in fact, has become a way of life for I.T.A. President Mike Parkhurst, 46, a burly, boisterous former trucker who started organizing the independents almost a decade ago. His monthly magazine, Overdrive (circ. 51,000), is the main trade publication of the independents. Parkhurst freely admits that one of the goals of the present strike is to weaken the Teamsters. He wants the independents to carry freight at the same rate as the Teamsters, clearly a challenge to the monopoly that has benefited the nation's biggest union for so long...
Frank J. Weissbecker, director of the Food Services Department, said yesterday the distributors who supply food to the University are responsible for delivery, and would probably use an alternative trucking company if the Teamster strike begins to affect their deliveries...
...Buildings and Grounds official said yesterday that only if the strike grows within the next few weeks to include more local Teamster unions will it endanger the University's oil supplies...