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...rating; out of uniform he served as vice president of the N.F.L. Players' Association. Unlike St. Louis Cardinals Linebacker Dave Meggyesy or New York Jets Wide Receiver George Sauer. who recently left football because they felt it was dehumanizing, Parrish claims to love the sport. Now a Teamster official, he "retired," according to his own account, because he was blacklisted from a game that gave him a fierce sense of his identity...
...James Hodgson coming, and Mr. Shultz even thought the President might stop by. Well, we lost the President and Mr. Shultz, and Mr. Hodgson is probably down in the cellar somewhere." Meany played the course with three lower-ranking officials. His temper grew still shorter when Hodgson treated Teamster Boss Frank Fitzsimmons and his aides to a special briefing on the freeze at the Labor Department, apparently because their reaction to the Nixon program had seemed favorable. In fact, although the Teamsters hailed it as a "bold measure," they went on to criticize the same inequities Meany had singled...
...discovered corruption in a union, he has demanded the removal of its leaders, the surrender of some of its autonomy and the substitution of control by an executive council of the A.F.L.-C.I.O. In this way, he has steadily built up the power of the federation. When former Teamster Boss Dave Beck lectured him on how union funds should be invested in common stocks, Meany shot back: "You are a good businessman. You belong in the business world and not in the labor world...
...union also had just raised its dues, and had given Fitzsimmons complete authority to dispense fat Teamster funds for political campaigns (in addition to giving him a $25,000 raise to $125,000 a year-biggest salary of any U.S. union official). Moreover, Fitzsimmons was a loyal Hoffa lieutenant who had been serving as the acting Teamster chief at Hoffa's direction. And suddenly the U.S. Board of Parole scheduled an unusually early rehearing on whether Hoffa should be released from prison. If he is and the Teamsters support Nixon for reelection, many would wonder whether a deal...
...hard to imagine that Hoffa, now 58, will keep hands off this flourishing empire when he gets out of prison. He is not the kind to take orders from the man who was once his protege. Hoffa, in fact, will still retain a Teamster title or two. While in prison, he was elected head of the Michigan Conference of Teamsters as well as president of his home-town local in Detroit. No law bars him from assuming these posts once he is out of prison. From there, it might be only a short sprint back to the summit...