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Press v. Privacy. After obscenity, the court faces more redolence: Teamster Boss Jimmy Hoffa's 1963 conviction (eight years, $10,000) for fixing a 1962 Tennessee jury that acquitted him of the charge of taking a bribe from a trucking company. Hoffa protests that the Justice Department's tampering evidence came from a "spy," planted among his entourage, who violated his right to counsel by attending some of Hoffa's conferences with his attorney. Hoffa Lawyer Z. T. Osborn Jr., who got 3½ years for tampering with another Hoffa jury, protests the Government...
...representation election among its employees to decide the question of union representation fairly and finally. It was unclear why DiGiorgio management would agree to this, the first representation election ever held among farmworkers, when relatively little pressure had yet been put on them. At just this time, however, the Teamsters' newly formed agricultural union announced its intention of challenging the NFWA in the election for the right to represent the campesions. Four Teamster panelled trucks appeared outside Delano's single swanky hotel, and the Teamsters opened an office on Main Street...
...campaign lasted the rest of the summer. Each side put out reams of mimeographed pass-out sheets attacking the other, while DiGiorgio was resolutely ignored. One of the best NFWA organizers, a young Mexican-American, was offered $20,000 a year to organize for the Teamsters. He refused and was subsequently beaten, allegedly by Teamster supporters...
...next day's Delano Record stressed that these results were still unofficial, but the Teamster trucks were conspicuously missing from their places at the motel, and the Teamsters office on Main Street was closed...
...Teamsters will negoiate a contract for the shed workers and the NFWA will negotiate for the fieldworkers. DiGiorgio will probably try to make the Teamster contract the dominant one, but forcing its second field contract still constituted an enormous step forward for the NFWA...