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Show Page 4 SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, FRIDAY, JUNE 26, 1959 the presidency. Then came a compromise: Hoffa could become president of the union, but the' court board would designate a three-ma- n of monitors to scrutinize his actions and to preside over a clean-u- p ledeglatesr $50,000 Loan The first board of monitors inThe same day, Hoffa defended a $50,000 loan made by the Team- cluded Schmidt, a Teamsters atsters Union to the trotting torney named L. N. D. Wells, and track where Owen Bert Brennan a retired judge. This trio, with Schmidt in lone dissent, let Jimraced his horses. my continue along his Trial way. Jimmy Hoffa went on trial in Washington in 1957 on charges of Cleanup attempting to bribe a Rackets ComThen the judge resigned from mittee investigator, John Cye the board, and Martin ODonoghue, Cheasty, into filtering secret information to him from the Commi- counsel for the Plumbers Union, ttees files. During the trial, a was named chairman. Since that Teamsters lawyer has group of Hoffas pals, including moment, the and Schmidt and Barney Baker, ran up $8,000 been in dissent, worth of hotel bills and expenses ODonoghue, acting as a majority, a sitting around Washington, and the have demanded vigorous cleanup union. the of bills were paid by the union. With both the Rackets Committee and the Monitors after him, Jury in 1958, decided to The jury that tried Hoffa was Hoffa, thus, an investigative board of appoint composed of eight Negroes and his own. For chairman, he chose four whites. It finally freed Jimmy, Bender, affable, bumbling, but not until Jimmys friend, For- George barrel-shape- d former Congressman mer Heavyweight Champion Joe Senator from States and United Louis the famed Brown Bomber Ohio. had made several conspicuous appearances in the courtroom to Old Technique shake hands with Jimmy and wish The technique was not new. him well. When Dave Beck first got in trouble with the Rackets Committee, Senator Ives he hired as legal counsel Former Although Jimmy was found "not Senator James Duff of Pennsylguilty, many were unconvinced vania, who, like Bender, was a Reof his innocence. One was Senator publican defeated in the 1956 elecIrving Ives of New York. bowed out Senator Ives: I said you tried to tion. Duff, however, a short and bitter experience. after fix the Committee staff. You got It is difficult to discern what off, but you had no business get-- , Bender did other than ask officers ting off. of the nations most corrupt unHoffa: Would you explain? themselves were Senator Ives: Yes. One of our own ion whether they did cost his services But staff members.. You remember it corrupt. in the union $28,300 salary and u as well as I have two , Hoffa informed he and convictions in your background. expenses union. in the clean You misused union funds, accord- that all was ing to the records we have . . . Ousted Opponents you have been supporting conNot satisfied with the Bender victed crooks for years. You have hired burglars, robbers, and whitewash alone, Hoffa. called a narcotics pushers. You know that March, 1959, union convention to d free himself of the as well as I do. chief his ousted Hoffa: I dont know anything about monitors and also Teamsters opponent within the narcotics pushers. Senator Ives: They have been in Union, Thomas L. Hickey, from his $20,000-a-yejob as the unthe union anyway. Hoffa: They have not been in my ions general organizer in New York. union. Senator Ives: They have been in the Teamsters. I dont know if Hickey Fights its yours or somebody elses. Hickey, who is still secretary-treasurThere are individuals on the of Local 807, the largest Teamsters officers lists who Teamsters unit in New York, has have exhausted their appeal, who fought Hoffa corruption every step are still on the list. You read of the way, and unsuccessfully ran them this afternoon, some of against Hoffa for the union presithem. dency is 1957. His steadfast fight Hoffa: Excuse me. against racketeers has earned HicSenator Ives: All you do is make key the title of Honest Tom. excuses. Now, really, I listened to you. You have not done, really, Rank and File one effective thing to clean up Teamsters Why do this mess . . . not rise up against such high handSenator Ives spoke a truism. edness on the part of the Tiny TyThere are no visible signs that rant who has made their union his Jimmy Hoffa has attempted to private financial domain? There are clean up this mess. two major reasons: Hoffa Plans Conquest (Conclusion) free-wheeli- ng do.-Yo- court-impose- ar er What he has done, however, is try to whitewash his union and himself, and to employ a former United States Senator to accomplish his goal. Fraud The story behind Jimmys move is this: In 1957, 12 New York Teamsters and their attorney, Godfrey Schmidt, launched a rank-and-fi- le court fight to prevent Hoffa from being elected president of the union, charging that the convention has been fraudulently packed with Hoffa supporters. When this maneuver failed and Jimmy was elected, the 13 rebels set out through the courts to prove that most of the delegates to the Miami Beach convention that elected Hoffa were chosen in violation of the union constitution Monitors While the fight went to court Hoffa was not allowed to assume Approval majority of the Teamsters themselves although informed daily via newspapers, radio, television, magazines and newsreels of Hoffas misdeeds apparently approve this concept. There are signs, however, that the forces of good are at last catching up with tiie evil that is Hoffa. A George Meany George Meany, who led the move to oust the Teamsters from the AFL-CItold the parent unions convention last yean Not a single union that came under the control of this man (Hoffa) that he didnt in some way dip into its treasury and use its money for some purpose other than a trade union purpose. And in using this money there was always some little gimmick there for himself and his hoodlums connected with him. O, m Turning Point The period covering December, the early days of January, may, however, have marked the turning point in Hoffas career. events These were the of those days: December 9: Two rebel members of the Teamsters Union charged that Federal Judge James C. Con-nof Cleveland, who was on the unions Christmas gift list and allegedly received an expensive champagne bucket, ruled against them in an intra-unio- n case without hearing their side of the argument. December 10: Hoffa announced in Miami Beach that the Teamster Union would organize 10 million city, county and state employees, including police and firemen. 1958, 1959, fast-breaki- ng el 10 Million December 10: Hoffa announced that Former Senator George Bender had found no taint of corruption in his union. Secondly, the truck drivers and other workers who make up the unions membership are largely poorly educated individuals whose lives are dominated by the economic struggle for survival. The teamsters union generally has raised the economic standard of these individuals. They know, also as do freight line owners that Jimmy Hoffa knows the trucking business as well, if not better than any individual in the United States. . Try Bribe December 19: Monitor Godfrey Schmidt said the Teamsters had offered to pay him $155,000 it owes him as a bribe to get off the board. LEGAL NOTICES THE 'AMERICAN STATES-MA(The Utah Statesman) has been approved by the Judges of the Third Judicial District of the State of Utah as a newspaper qualified to publish notices, advertisements, etc, as provided by the statutes of the State of Utah. N NOTICE OF DELINQUENCY AND SALE ATLAS MINING AND MILLING CORP. 15 East 4th South December 19: Bernard Adelsteon, business agent of Teamsters Local 813 in New York and New York Salt Lake City, Utah Garbage King Vincente Squillante, tied closely toegther in a conspirPursuant to an assessment levied acy to control the Long Island cart- on the 20th day of April, 1959, ing industry, were found guilty of there are various and numerous extortion. certificates of stock of the above mentioned company upon which Investigation December 23: The Treasury De- the assessment has not been paid partment revealed in Washington and said assessment with reference that it will investigate Hoffas fin- to said certificates is therefore deancial dealings and the Justice De- linquent. The stock certificate, the partment indicated a federal grand amount of the unpaid assessment, jury will be summoned to investi- and the respective shareholders gate political expenditures by the shall' be announced at the time of the Public Sale. union. Menace In accordance with the law and an order of the Board of Directors made on the 20th day of April, 1959, so many shares of each parcel of such stock as may be necessary will be sold at the President Suite, Mezzanine Floor, Newhouse Hotel, 4th South and Main Street, Salt Lake City, Utah, on the 30th day of June, 1959, and at the hour of 10:00 oclock am. to pay the dePolice Union toDecember 29: Henry Feinstein, linquent assessment thereon, with the cost of gether president of Teamster City Em- and expenses of the sale.advertising ployees Local 237, in New York, announced his union would picket ATLAS MINING AND MILLING CORP. police headquarters throughout New York City on January 12 as a T. J. Christiansen first step toward organizing the Secretary 24,000 police of the nations biggest said he He would all off cut city. deliveries of vital supplies gasoline, fuel, oil, food an other facilities to all police installations in Commies in the U. S. the city. The Communist Party in the United States is tied directly with Bribery O.K. Moscow and has international flaDecember 30: Glenn W. Smith, president of the Chattanooga, Ten- vor, guidance, and authority. nessee Teamsters local, testified in There is no decentralization; Mosfeleral court that bribery of pub- cow issues the orders. At the 16th lic officials does not violate his Annual Convention of the unions constitution or bylaws and Communist Party held in New York 2 in 1957, a resoactually is not frowned upon by the City, February lution was over some oppopassed union. sition. In the published Proceedings Picket Police of the convention there is on. page December 30: New York City 65 the following: Police Commissioner Stephen P. 7. Strengthen the Partys interKennedy angrily attacked "the nationalism: The Communist Party Teamsters plan to picket police inin the United States must, of stallations and stated: if the police are unionized, I advise the course, base its policies upon spepeople not to waste their money cific American conditions and upon paying a police commissioner a the class and national interests of salary. Hoffa would be the police the working class, the Negro people, commissioner, so why waste the and other democratic strata who form the great majority of Amerimoney. December 30: Hoffa ordered can people. This, however, in no Feinstein to cancel his plans to cut way conflicts with the Partys need off supplies to police headquarters, to carry on a vigorous international but said he could go ahead with struggle for such overriding interpicketing as a means of adver- ests as peaceful coexistence of all tising the unions campaign. nations, world socialism, and other issues. The true national and international intrests of the people are Mayor Angry December 31: New York City harmonious, not contradictory. Our Mayor Robert Wagner, angrily Party an American party, indepenpounding a table, attacked Fein- dent, and Leninist must cooperate stein and said he may take disci- freely with all other Communist plinary action against Feinstein, parties. who is on the city payroll. December 27: The Senate Internal Security Subcommittee urged a federal grand jury probe of Hoffas plan for alliance with other transport unions. The subcommittee reported branded the proposed confederation a definite menace to our national security, both economically and militarily. 9-1- . Comply 83-ye- ar court-appointe- le Domination Contempt December 18: The Rackets Committee voted to cite William Presser president of the Ohio Conference of Teamsters and a Hoffa buddy, for contempt of Congress. The Committee asked the Justice Department to determine whether Presser had committed perjury. Extortion December 11: Federal Judge F. Dickenson Letts, respected d old jurist, ruled that the monitors possessed the power to clean up the union through the ousting of corrupt officers and the inauguration of new voting and bookkeeping procedures. Judge Letts ordered Hoffa to comply with the Monitors decisions or possibly face contempt charges. Judge Letts also canceled the March, 1959, convention Hoffa had Corruption scheduled to rid himself of the First, the union itself is pierced monitors. through with corruption and fear from top to bottom. Those union Appeal officers and members at all levels December 11: Hoffa ordered his who are not part and parcel of Hoffas reign by hoodlumism dare attorneys to appeal Judge Letts not speak out for fear of losing ruling, but the lawyers indicated their jobs or suffering physical privately they doubted that a higher court would review the ruling. violence. rank-and-fi- Whitewash ther, obssessed with the need for social change. He is not George Meany, dedicated to the strength and unity of the trade union movement. Hoffa, who has used the union to gain monumental power and a huge bankroll, and Dave Beck, who used it to attain a plush life, social prestige and access to the White House, both operated under the same concept: As long, as we provide our members with higher wages and other benefits, the union and its funds are ours to use as Friday, June 26, 1959 Bender Reaps ... Halt by Order December 14: Senator John McDecember 31: Monitors ChairThat is the most perfect governClellan reported to the press that man Martin F. ODonoghue said he ment under which a wrong to the Benders services for three and a would order Hoffa to halt the pro- humblest is an affront to all. , half months had cost the union posed picketing of New York police Solon (638-55-8 B.C.) $28,300. headquarters. He termed the plan We are served worse by many "atrocious. servants than by a few. Reproves Hickey B.C. Aristotle (384-32-2 Blackmail December 14: Hoffa ordered Thomas L. Hickey removed as genWe should never create by law January 2: Labor Secretary eral organizer of the Teamsters in James P. Mitchell said the Team- what can be accomplished by morNew York and had him replaced sters plot to organize the police ality. by John ORourke, who pleaded was strictly blackmail." Montesquieu (1689-175the Fifth Amendment before the January 3: The New York press .It may be laid as an universal McClellan Committee and who was reported that Hoffas plan to organ- rule that a government which atNon-dedicated chosen president of Joint Council ize the police of the Big City was tempts more than it ought will perHoffa, in many ways, is a busi- 16 in the paper local scandal all but in the grave. form less. nessman. He is not Walter Reu- - of 1955. The End Macaulay (1800-1855) 9) |