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Normally AFL-CIO Chief George Meany treats former Teamster Boss Jimmy Hoffa with the silent contempt he might reserve for a scab laborer. But a few weeks ago, Hoffa delivered a diatribe that Meany could not ignore. Publicly championing a Teamsters assault on Cesar Chavez's United Farm Workers Union, Hoffa declared that the fledgling AFL-CIO affiliate must be stamped out because "Chavez is incompetent." An angry Meany responded at a press conference by charging that the Teamsters, whom he booted out of the AFL-CIO 15 years ago, were guilty of "strikebreaking...
...spokesman from the A&P Boston headquarters said yesterday that A&P stores in Boston purchase UFW-label lettuce and only supplement their stock with lettuce that bears the Teamster Union label when UFW lettuce is in short supply...
Jones called the Teamster Union label "illegitimate" and said that the A&P Company "knows very well that workers who pick Teamster Union lettuce are not unionized...
More than half the book is a recapitulation of Teamster corruption just before and during Hoffa's tenure as international president. This is a familiar witch's brew of paper locals, hanky-panky with the enormous pension funds, involvement with a Mafia Who's Who, intimidation of the few labor leaders who protested the corruption of their union. Far fresher-and perhaps even more significant at this stage-is Sheridan's detailed reconstruction of the efforts, after Hoffa's convictions, to keep him out of jail and, those failing, to get him an early release...
...target of the most intense pressure was Edward Grady Partin, the Baton Rouge Teamster official who had provided the most damning testimony at the jury-tampering trial. Partin had been having his own troubles with the law and seemed vulnerable. He was variously approached with offers of money and protection if he would help Hoffa and threats of further prosecution if he would not. Until Richard Nixon took office in 1968, Partin was relatively safe. But old and rather dubious criminal charges against him were revived when the Republicans took over the Justice Department. By then Hoffa's appeals...