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Headquarters representatives of the A.F.L.-C.I.O. were conspicuously absent when Congressman Adam Clayton Powell Jr., new chairman of the House Education and Labor Committee, called a get-acquainted meeting for union representatives and lobbyists. Very much in evidence in a front-row seat was Sidney Zagri, top Washington mouthpiece for Jimmy Hoffa's Teamsters. A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany's reasons for boycotting the meeting were twofold: 1) he refuses to let A.F.L.-C.I.O. officers fraternize with Teamsters, and 2) his opinion of Racist Powell's potentialities as guardian of labor's affairs in Congress: "Terrible...
...conferees was New Jersey Democrat Frank Thompson, regarded as a close friend to labor-although not to Jimmy Hoffa's racket-riddled International Brotherhood of Teamsters. In working for a middle-road labor bill, Thompson had won the enmity of Hoffa's top lobbyist, blundering, blunderbussing Sidney Zagri. Soon after Zagri denounced Thompson as an enemy to labor, Thompson began getting threatening telephone calls, finally reported them to the FBI. Driving to the Capitol one morning last week. Thompson was stopped at a red light when a green Ford truck pulled up next to him. A man leaned...
...lawyers, 110 strong, were gathered at the stately Greenbrier last week for a three-day meeting "to figure out how we can live under this new law," as Hoffa put it. Hoffa's fight to emasculate the House labor bill had failed. Teamster Lobbyist Sidney Zagri's warnings of political reprisals had stirred more anger than fear on Capitol Hill. Now, confronted with the prospect that a tough bill might emerge from the House-Senate conference. Hoffa wanted his lawyers to help him find easy ways to evade...
...Live." The wildest attempt to shoot down the bill came from Jimmy Hoffa's Teamsters and their lobbyist, Sid Zagri (TIME, July 27), but the quiet power play came from none other than A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany himself. Making a personal trip to Speaker Sam Rayburn's office last fortnight, cigar-chomping George Meany growled out the facts of life as he saw them. Labor, longtime friend of the Democrats, could not live with the bill as it was being written, he warned. "We can't live with the hot-cargo clause...
Near week's end the committee adopted the only practical defense against the tormentor: it would go on with its work. Members voted 17-13 to keep in the bill most of the provisions Zagri opposed, even revised the hot-cargo section to make sure that it would control Teamsters without forcing legitimate strikers to go through picket lines. Scheduled for final committee vote this week-and near enough to the Senate version to have a good chance of becoming law-the labor reform bill was a stronger piece of legislation than it would have been without Zagri...