Word: teamsters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Labor. One of the most significant NATIONAL AFFAIRS stories of recent years has been the revelation of corruption in the Teamsters Union. More than two years ago, TIME looked into the Teamsters' aromatic stable in a cover story on Dave Beck, then boss of the union. On Labor Day, 1957, TIME summed up the congressional hearings on labor up to that point, and concluded: "There is a strong likelihood of more restrictive labor laws." After three years of congressional investigation of the Teamsters, TIME decided that it was time to restudy and recap the record, which Teamster Boss Jimmy...
...This ain't my kind of place," growled Teamster Boss James Riddle Hoffa. His cold, hard eyes swept across the well-groomed grounds of the Greenbrier Hotel at White Sulphur Springs, W. Va. He spat on the lawn. "We are paying the bill." he said, "but those intellectuals, those lawyers, picked out this place. This is their kind of place. They like to play golf and that stuff...
Jimmy Hoffa's top lawyers, 110 strong, were gathered at the stately Greenbrier last week for a three-day meeting "to figure out how we can live under this new law," as Hoffa put it. Hoffa's fight to emasculate the House labor bill had failed. Teamster Lobbyist Sidney Zagri's warnings of political reprisals had stirred more anger than fear on Capitol Hill. Now, confronted with the prospect that a tough bill might emerge from the House-Senate conference. Hoffa wanted his lawyers to help him find easy ways to evade...
...SHELLEY BILL, sponsored by California Democrat John F. Shelley. Mildest of the three, it would merely require labor unions to open their books for inspection. It carried the faint blessing of A.F.L.-C.I.O. Chief George Meany, but not of Teamster Hoffa, who opposes reform of any kind...
Jimmy Hoffa himself came through swimmingly. At a dinner for his 400 lobbyists, he promised to "elect" a Congress that would dance to Teamster pipes. When he heard this, Missouri's Democrat Clarence Cannon, who had pledged his vote to Sam Rayburn, announced that he would have to vote for Landrum-Griffin...