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...being one of Nixon's most faithful liege men. As presidential counsel, he worked out the legal basis for Nixon's impoundment of funds, broad use of pocket vetoes and Executive privilege. He also helped arrange Nixon's commutation of jail sentences being served by Teamster Boss Jimmy Hoffa (which was widely interpreted as a political gesture in return for Teamster support of Nixon in the election) and by Mafia Capo Angelo ("Gyp") DeCarlo. Nonetheless, Clark MacGregor, who headed the re-election committee after John Mitchell resigned, recalls Dean not as part of the power elite...
...odds against Chavez are long. If many more growers sign with the Teamsters, his union could be wiped out; and most growers are eager to get rid of the U.F.W. at nearly any price. Many of those in the Coachella Valley signed Teamster contracts after only a single day of formal bargaining, during which, Chavez charges, no genuine farm workers sat at the negotiating table. The Teamsters accepted a contract calling for a wage of $2.30 an hour this year, a bit less than the $2.40 that Chavez got for his followers, and also allowed growers to bring back...
When a group of three-year contracts that Chavez had negotiated expired on April 14, only two Coachella Valley growers renewed them. Thirty others, who raise 85% of the valley's table grapes, signed with the Teamsters, who have long represented drivers trucking grapes out of the packing houses to market. Chavez bitterly told a group of laborers that the agreements "weren't contracts, they were marriage licenses. Tomorrow you will see the growers and the Teamsters skipping hand in hand into the fields on their honeymoon." He called a strike that last week began spreading into Arizona...
...labor federation's support for a new nationwide grape boycott. It will be much harder to popularize, though, than the boycott that became a flaming liberal cause toward the end of the '60s. Chavez this time cannot ask consumers to shun all grapes, only Teamster-picked ones, and shoppers have little way of telling which those are. Chavez has strong verbal support from the AFL-CIO, which booted the Teamsters out 15 years ago; but as yet he has received no federation money -and his union has no strike fund...
...move to thwart the U.F.W. drive to organize California lettuce pickers is a prime example of Teamster tactics. Hours before the U.F.W. campaign was to begin, the Teamsters rushed through their own contract with the growers; the union did not bother to fill in the sections on wages and benefits, and the growers said nothing about a representation election. Last December, the California Supreme Court upheld the farm union's charge that the Teamsters and the growers had conspired to sabotage the U.F.W., opening the way for Chavez to resume his organizing program. But the Teamsters still claim command...