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Born in Brazil, Ind., Hoffa at four lost his coal prospector father, at 14 quit school to go to work full time. His self-introduction to the labor movement came at 19, when, as a 32?-an-hour warehouseman for a Detroit grocery chain, he led a successful wildcat strike of fellow employees. Within three years he had taken over Teamsters Local 299 in Detroit, was president of the Michigan Conference of Teamsters...
...hour, plus another 69? an hour in fringe benefits. Relations between Republic and the I.A.M. have been poor ever since the union organized the plant in 1950. The union now has 12,000 members, leaving another 7,000 workers nonunion. The local is faction-ridden, has twice pulled wildcat walkouts. After a 1952 "sick" strike, the irritated international censured the local leaders...
German Remedies. Germany was feeling what might be called the dislocation of prosperity. Burgeoning industry has sucked the labor market dry, forcing up wages and prices; Hamburg's shipbuilding yards and North Hessian heavy industries are plagued by wildcat strikes. Sure to find jobs elsewhere, ten out of every 100 of West Germany's coal miners have left their underground jobs in the past six months. Result: a sharp cutback in coal production. One group of German steel mills was again forced to buy expensive U.S. coal to keep its busy blast furnaces going...
...Dulles. He explained that Costa Rica's President (1917-19) Federico Tinoco had given him the pistol in 1917, when Dulles was traveling on horseback through the jungles of Central America. It turned out that Dulles on this ride had indeed used his Smith & Wesson, to kill a wildcat...
With the deep-throated blasts from her funnels drowning out the catcalls from striking pickets on the pier, the Queen Elizabeth, world's largest passenger liner, sailed from Southampton last week with a full crew complement of 1,250. With that, the three-week-old wildcat strike of British seamen collapsed. Two days later the strike's organizers ordered their men back to work, and the strike, which had stranded hundreds of U.S. tourists and clogged British ports with merchandise, was over...