Word: teamsters
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James Riddle Hoffa, 46, Teamster boss, built much of his empire by refusing truck service to companies picketed by labor racketeers seeking shakedown money out of phony organizational or recognition strikes. Landrum-Griffin's provisions outlaw the shakedown forms of organizational picketing, also prohibit Hoffa from automatically rejecting "hot cargo" from any company with labor troubles. Last week, at a Chicago meeting of his huge Central States Conference, Hoffa declared that he would not only observe the new law's restrictions, but also bitterly laid out a go-it-alone policy as far as all non-Teamster unions...
...section designed to ensure honest union elections does not go into effect until Dec. 13. This 90-day delay was intended to give unions time to make their constitutions and practices more democratic. But it served quite a different purpose for Anthony Provenzano, heavy-handed agent of Top Teamster James Riddle Hoffa and indicted (bribe taking) boss of northern New Jersey's big (12,000 members) Teamster Local 560. In the local's October meeting Provenzano and his toughs squelched a band of insurgent members, railroaded through a scheme to hold elections in Jersey City a week earlier...
Provenzano's plans would have succeeded but for Manhattan Lawyer Godfrey Schmidt. 56, who resigned from the court-appointed national board of Teamster monitors last July in order to carry on his anti-Hoffa fight in the locals. Schmidt went before Federal Judge Thomas H. Meaney in Newark, charged that in the October meeting Local 560 insurgents had been denied protections guaranteed by Landrum-Griffin. Meaney slapped Provenzano with an injunction that adjourned all union business meetings until the insurgents could exercise those rights. Result: Provenzano's forces caved in, last week signed a court stipulation postponing...
Proving that old teamsters never die, fading ex-Teamster Boss Dave Beck, 65, convicted tax dodger out on bail pending his appeals, put on a natty brown suit, shuffled down to his Seattle parking lot, put in a day's work. Huffing and puffing, he explained: "Business was not building up the way it should...
...Teamster president James R. Hoffa has canceled his previously announced Nov. 5 address to the Harvard Law School Forum. In a telegram sent yesterday morning to the Forum, Hoffa said that his "heavy schedule" would not allow him to meet the speaking commitment...