Word: truck
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...While trucking-industry management generally likes Hoffa and looks upon him with some awe, bigger fish tend to fear him. At the biggest dinner of its kind ever held in Detroit, more than 2,600 well-wishers last year paid $100 apiece in honor of Hoffa's 25 years in the labor movement (proceeds for a children's home in Israel). Scores of important names in the Midwest seized the chance to shake the hard, square hand of Hoffa. And though General Motors, Ford and Chrysler employ only 500 Teamsters (out of a total payroll list...
...labor and big business. There is no room for the small business or the small union." Neither, if he had his way, would there be room for education. Snarls Hoffa: "I don't have a man working for me who don't come off a truck or off the dock. I don't have any college boys, and I don't need them...
Hoffa continued to crawl. He saw nothing wrong, he said, about the conflicting interests he had been maintaining; he admitted that a dishonest union boss might take advantage of business deals and loans made with employers of truck drivers, but fortunately for the Teamsters, Hoffa protested, he is an honorable man. But he could not recall, for example, where he had borrowed part of $20,000 that he had invested in one company; neither could he remember why he borrowed $5,000 from a businessman who had a Teamster contract...
...Yorkshire miner's son who went into the pits at 14, Frank Cousins switched to truck driving when depression made mine jobs scarce. Humping meat and machinery long distances at low pay, he caught the eye of Ernie Bevin just before World War II, and became a T.W.U. organizer along the northern roads. Brought to London in 1944, he scorned the desk, never lost a chance to get out among the men, in truckers' cafes and pubs, on docks and in warehouses...
...which normally suffers from a surfeit of mediocre daily newspapers, was suffering from an even worse complaint: no newspapers at all for the past three weeks. All six city dailies* had been struck by the mailers, the essential musclemen who get the papers from the press to the delivery truck. Though they are affiliated with the tough, conservative International Typographical Union, the Boston mailers struck independently for higher wages, hoping to build up their bargaining position against the day next year when the Boston Globe moves into a new plant where automation will cut down the number of mailers...