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Labor: As a sponsor of last year's labor-reform measure, Kennedy can appear before non-labor audiences as a fighter against union corruption (a stance immeasurably helped by Teamster Boss Jimmy Hoffa's implacable hatred). Before farm audiences, traditionally hostile to labor unions, Jack benefits from identification with his younger brother Bob. the aggressive, much-televised counsel of the Senate's McClellan Committee and author of a briskly selling book about labor corruption, The Enemy Within, At the same time, Jack has tried hard to persuade labor leaders that he is organized labor's staunch...
...little tent of blue which prisoners call the sky drew closer for ex-Teamster Boss Dave Beck, 66, now tending his manifold private interests in Seattle. The State Supreme Court of Washington upheld his conviction for pocketing $1,900 from the sale of a used Cadillac that was owned by the trusting Teamsters...
...Traveling to Toledo last January, Oregon's volatile Democratic Senator Wayne Morse delivered a lecture on labor legis lation to the Toledo local of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters. Last week Wayne Morse, the only Democratic Senator who voted against the Landrum-Griffin labor-reform bill last year, volunteered that he had collected a standard lecture fee, $500 and expenses, from the Teamsters for his Toledo talk. Then he made a fine distinction: the fee was paid by the local, not by International head quarters. Said Morse primly: "I wouldn't accept a fee from [Teamster Boss] Jimmy...
...Humphrey U.A.W. official groused that it was impossible to get Humphrey literature distributed in plants with Catholic shop stewards. But Kennedy worked hard for the labor vote, shaking hands at factory gates, attending shop meetings, cultivating labor's rank and file; he was doubtless helped too by Teamster Boss Jimmy Hoffa's foray into Wisconsin to carry on his vicious vendetta against the Kennedys. Kennedy ran well enough in the farm districts to prove that he has some farmer appeal but lost by enough to prove that he is vulnerable to Humphrey's pounding at his agriculture...
...legal strategy was voted down. Monitor Smith, unaccountably reversing his former stand, accused O'Donoghue of being obsessed with "getting Hoffa." Then last fortnight Monitor Maher announced he would retire because of heart trouble. Hoffa named as his successor Detroit Lawyer William E. Bufalino, president of Teamster Local 985, a jukebox operators' and car washers' union described by the Senate rackets committee as "a leech preying upon workingmen and women to provide personal aggrandizement for Mr. Bufalino and his friends...