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...Last December a petition seeking his parole was sent to the White House with some 250,000 names. Probably no one has worked for him harder than William Loeb, archconservative publisher of the coincidentally titled Manchester (N.H.) Union Leader, which once received a $2,000,000 loan from the Teamsters' pension fund. Only last month the Union Leader broke a murky story that Edward Partin, the Louisiana Teamster whose testimony helped convict Hoffa of jury tampering, had repudiated what he said in court. But there has been no confirmation of the story from either the Justice Department or Partin...
...weeks, top Teamsters had been nervously waiting. Would their tough little boss Jimmy Hoffa run for the presidency of the union again, even though he is still serving a 13-year sentence for jury tampering and pension-fund fraud in Lewisburg (Pa.) Penitentiary? Last week the word finally came down: he would not. Making the announcement in the Teamsters' ornate Washington headquarters, Hoffa's son James, a Teamster lawyer, said that his father was bowing out in favor of the union's acting president, Frank Fitzsimmons...
Plainly relieved, the Teamster executive board voted unanimously to support Hoffa's choice, who will have no trouble getting elected at the union convention that begins July 5 in Miami Beach. After Hoffa's latest bid for parole was turned down in March, some of the Teamster leadership begged him not to try to run for office from prison...
Hoffa, however, did not base his decision on any such selfless consideration as the welfare of his union. The Washington Post alleged that the Teamsters offered him $100,000 a year for the rest of his life if he would give up the presidency. Payments will begin when he is released from jail. As part of the deal, his ailing wife Josephine will keep her $40,000-a-year job directing political activities among Teamster women; young Jimmy reportedly will be named general counsel of the union at $50,000 a year. A Teamster official denied...
With the conspicuous exceptions of Teamster Bosses Dave Beck and Jimmy Hoffa, no union leader in recent American labor history has drawn as much legal flak as Tony Boyle, irascible president of the United Mine Workers of America. The Labor Department recently filed suit against the 66-year-old labor chieftain charging numerous irregularities in his last election. A group from his own rank and file is suing him and other top union officials for $75 million for conspiring to misuse pension and welfare funds. And in Washington County, Pa., District Attorney Jess Costa is readying the trial...