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...years Gibbons had absorbed Hoffa's crudities in the interests of his handsome (about $30,000) salary and his secret hope, confirmed only to his closest associates, that one of Bobby Kennedy's lawsuits would stick, send Hoffa to jail, and place Teamster power in Gibbons' own hands. But after the most recent dressing-down by Hoffa, Gibbons took stock of anti-Hoffa senti ment on the 15-man general executive board, and seemed ready to go along with a demand for Hoffa's resignation by ten of the 15 board members, as reauired...
Piggyback's big success naturally worries truckers, and Teamster Boss Jimmy Hoffa assesses trucking companies $5 for moving any trailer that made part of the journey by rail. Despite heavy pressure from the trucking industry, the Interstate Commerce Commission recently refused to reverse its 1954 decision approving piggybacking. The railroads expect piggybacking to double by 1970, eventually account for as much as half of all U.S. freight moved by rail...
Next to Jimmy Hoffa, there is no terrible Teamster whom Bobby Kennedy's Justice Department would rather put away than Anthony ("Tony Pro") Provenzano, 46, the chunky, highly paid boss of Local 560 in Hoboken, N.J. As counsel for the Senate Rackets Committee in 1959, Bobby himself first put the national finger on Tony by quizzing him about payoffs from trucking officials in return for labor peace. When court-appointed federal monitors supervised the Teamsters for a time, Provenzano was one of three officials they ordered Hoffa to fire. Instead, Hoffa elevated Tony to a vice-presidency...
Carefully kept from the locked-up jury was an even more unsavory aspect of life-and death-in Tony's union. During the trial, Walter Glockner, 27, a Dorn driver, Teamster steward, and a Pro foe, got into an argument with one of Tony's relatives at a union meeting, knocked him to the floor. Next morning Glockner was shot to death as he left his Hoboken home for work. He died just a week before he was to have kept an appointment with Justice Department officials to tell what he knew about the local...
Hard-eyed Teamster Boss Jimmy Hoffa seems to get into and out of hot water almost as regularly as a wash-and-wear shirt. He has been on trial in federal courts four times in the past six years, escaping with two acquittals and two hung juries. Last week fresh difficulties with the Feds descended upon Hoffa: a federal grand jury in Nashville, Tenn., indicted him on charges that he "did unlawfully, willfully and knowingly" conspire with six co-conspirators to influence members of a jury. The alleged jury tampering occurred while Hoffa was on trial in a federal court...