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...Cincinnati Right-Hander Joey Jay, who had never won more than nine games in a season for the Milwaukee Braves be fore they traded him off last winter, became the first National Leaguer to win 20 games in 1961 by winning a 1-0 four-hitter from his former teammates. In the American League, Detroit's Frank Lary finally joined New York's Whitey Ford in the 20-game circle with a 3-1 five-hitter against Kansas City...
...leave Teamster Local 405 and join an independent union. The NLRB has not certified the result because of a challenge to six ballots, but rebel leaders are confident that the vote will stand. > In Chicago, where cab drivers and mechanics recently voted out a Hoffa pal, Hoodlum Joey Glimco, and his Teamster Local 777 as their bargaining agent in favor of a new independent union (TIME, July 28), two other Teamster locals are on the verge of revolt...
...Abata who finally rallied anti-Glimco forces, organized an independent union, began a battle to turn out Pal Joey. Some of his aides were roughed up, and Abata himself received so many threats that he asked for and got constant police guard. Finally, last May, the NLRB upheld Abata's contention that the Teamsters and cab companies had been guilty of unfair labor practices. The NLRB ordered an election...
...Crack in the Dam." No sooner was the date set than Hoffa flew to Chicago to help Pal Joey. At a mass meeting of drivers, he blasted Abata, warned that "he wants to take away your bargaining power." He also pulled a typical Hoffa trick. Just as onetime Heavyweight Champion Joe Louis had been brought into court four years ago to impress eight Negro jurors when Hoffa was on trial for bribery, the Teamsters' boss enlisted Track Star Jesse Owens to impress Local 777's large Negro membership. Said Owens: "The situation of some Negro cab drivers...
...neither Jimmy Hoffa nor Jesse Owens could explain away the sordid past of Joey Glimco. Filing into voting booths set up in 23 garages, the drivers and mechanics turned out Joey and the Teamsters by a vote of 2.122 to 1,760. Abata, whose Democratic Union Organizing Committee will now represent Chicago cabbies, was elated. "This is a trend," he said, "a crack...