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When the first transport leaves for the moon, a labor reporter commented recently, James R. Hoffa would like to have its crew wearing Teamster buttons. If nothing is done to curb his power, it its more than likely that he will get his wish...
...Teamster Top Dog James Riddle Hoffa is the nation's biggest labor union boss, but he has long hungered for one big bone that some other labor chiefs have. Unlike the Auto Workers' Walter Reuther or the Steelworkers' David McDonald, he cannot call an industry-wide strike because his 1,700,000-member union is divided into regions, with individual contracts, which expire at different times. Last week, soaking up the Miami sunbeams at a Teamster board meeting, Hoffa announced that he was clearing the road for an industry-wide contract...
Steadily, Hoffa has been signing standard three-year contracts for the Teamster regions, now has uniform terms covering 25 states and many of the major U.S. haulers. Contracts in a score more states come up for renewal during the next six months, and Hoffa will demand the same expiration date on each one: February 1964. Then, he will hold out for a nationwide pact...
...brushes with courts, congressional committees, ethical practices committees and assorted reformers, Teamster Boss James Riddle Hoffa has earned a reputation as a thoroughly bad egg. But, curiously, even some of his critics pay him at least one grudging compliment: despite his many faults, they say, Jimmy Hoffa always takes good care of his Teamsters. Last week a federal grand jury in Florida leveled charges against Hoffa that, if proved, should smash forever the notion that he cares a hoot about the welfare of his union's members...
After examining evidence supplied by agents of the Justice Department, the Internal Revenue Service and the Post Of fice Department, the federal grand jury indicted Hoffa and two other men on twelve counts, charged them with misusing money from the Teamster treasury. According to the indictment, Hoffa, Henry Lower, former president of Detroit's Automobile Drivers and Demonstrators Local Union No. 376, and Robert E. McCarthy Jr., former branch manager of Detroit's Bank of the Commonwealth, took $500,000 out of the treasuries of the Teamster organizations in Detroit and deposited the money in a non-interest...