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...dire need of cash, he was rescued by the Teamsters Union, which proffered him a $2,000,000 loan. Soon after, he flailed the Kennedys for "railroading" the Teamster chief. Under the headline, GOD BARRED BY HOFFA'S JAILERS, he recently castigated prison authorities for returning devotional material that some nuns had sent to Convict Hoffa. He explained his own devotion to Hoffa. "As is this newspaper," he wrote, "the Teamsters are concerned with mercy, charity and helping the average citizen of the U.S. gain the highest possible living standards...
...confrontation between Mayor John Lindsay and the Teamster-affiliated Uniformed Sanitationmen's Association had been abuilding for months. The mayor thought that he had a tacit understanding with Union President John DeLury for a reasonable settlement. The city was willing to give an annual increase of $350, plus fringe improvements, to the 10,000 workers who now receive $7,956 after three years' service. But DeLury, apparently unable to sell those terms to his men, demanded $600. After sporadic negotiations, the union staged a wild rally at city hall two weeks ago, virtually forced DeLury to call...
...Teamster-oriented papers found that they could not absorb such featherbedding, and shut down. That left one paper, the Daily Press, still in business. How long is anybody's guess, since the Teamsters are insisting that the Press alone hire all their out-of-work members. Meanwhile, management of the two struck regular dailies and the unions are not even talking...
Married. Dave Beck, 73, erstwhile Teamster boss, who in 1959 drew five-year jail sentence for tax evasion, served 30 months; and Helen Reynolds, 55, longtime friend of his first wife, who died in 1961; she for the first time...
Filling the Gap. That wasn't the only gun jumped by Teamsters. Aware of the financial success of one of the interim papers during the last strike, three Teamster Union members helped form ahead of time a corporation designed to put out a paper once there was a shutdown. The Daily Dispatch was the result. Other Teamsters were also distributing two more interim papers, the Daily Press, which calls itself "the paper you've waited for since 1964," and the Daily Express, which boasts that it is "Michigan's largest daily newspaper." There is at least...