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Normally AFL-CIO Chief George Meany treats former Teamster Boss Jimmy Hoffa with the silent contempt he might reserve for a scab laborer. But a few weeks ago, Hoffa delivered a diatribe that Meany could not ignore. Publicly championing a Teamsters assault on Cesar Chavez's United Farm Workers Union, Hoffa declared that the fledgling AFL-CIO affiliate must be stamped out because "Chavez is incompetent." An angry Meany responded at a press conference by charging that the Teamsters, whom he booted out of the AFL-CIO 15 years ago, were guilty of "strikebreaking...
Open Door. A humble servant to Hoffa all through his labor life, a man whom AFL-CIO President George Meany had called a puppet, Fitz suddenly leaned back in Jimmy's big white chair in the Teamsters' marble palace in Washington and decided that he liked the feel of the job. More important, President Nixon liked Fitz in the job. Seeking labor support for his reelection, the President dropped by a Teamsters executive board meeting in Miami Beach that June of 1971 to pay his respects to the new boss personally. Said Nixon: "My door is always open...
...good-will gesture to the Teamsters, Nixon commuted Hoffa's sentence in December 1971-almost six months after Fitz took over-but only on one condition: Hoffa could not "engage in the direct or indirect management of any labor organization" until March...
...Hoffa's probation ends next month, and he is now hoping that the legal restrictions on his union activities will be dropped, either by presidential pardon or by a direct challenge in court. If he succeeds, he might easily win back the Teamsters presidency, and that prospect does not particularly please either Fitz or the Nixon Administration. Said one labor observer: "Hoffa is too unpredictable...
This week Hoffa is 60 years old -his birthday falls on Valentine's Day -so the boys decided to give him a large party. They rented the huge Latin Casino outside Camden, N.J., and sent out 2,000 invitations. Fitz sent his regrets, saying that he had a prior commitment in California. And none of the other 16 members of the national executive board showed up either. But the middle-echelon Teamsters packed the house. Looking tanned and as fit as ever, Hoffa bounced out of a red Cadillac with his wife Jo, obviously enjoying the movie-premiere spectacle...