European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 13, 1962, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stars and stripes wednesday june going ail out to nil Hoffa and Fife Hoffa in teamsters Union presi Dent and some five dozen of is cronies Are now under indictment in one of the most searching prose cution efforts Ever mounted by the a  it extent and determination Seldom Jave Baen matched in  Otighe department of Justice j _ r Kokis the end in sight. A s or More stolid juries a Lull Are at w0rinajo cities from coast to skilled sleuths in the or de i be rime _ and racketeering a Tecton of the Justice department criminal division Are cons finlly checking new leads 1 new Federal weapon andean important new Legal tool is at Viand. A Law passed by con becoming effective june is the government with. New j.js1 to investigate  or Union welfare and Jpe Ngoh funds. " r \ to Hoffa has estimated to this re Porter that the Over All assets of the teamsters Union and its Vari oils subsidiaries arc about $1 bal Hon. Tbs is a great Deal of Money nost of it is held in teamsters \ pension and welfare fund  of such irid Are Gen cautious and Tigh Wist de but so been shoving some of trusts a Jipp Odd hotels and. Teamsters. Gibbons also had been Baron s immediate Boss it being presumed by Baron probably correctly that he has lost his Union Job. There have been rumours Hoffa and Gibbons Haven t been hitting it off so Well but it appears that in the Hoffa Baron fight anyway Gibbons is with Hoffa atty Gen Kennedy though undoubtedly personally directing the drive against Hoffa and his boys won t say a word about it for nearly three Lye Arfi Kennedy As chief counsel for the Somite rackets investigating committee dug doggedly into the Aff Nurs of Hoffa and bigwigs of the teamsters and other labor unions., Hoffa Seldom misses an occasion to voice criticism of the attorney general and president Kennedy As Well As sen. John l. ,d-ark., chairman of the former rackets committee. The government is spending millions of the taxpayers Money to fall Fry Bobby s vendetta Hoffa says its costing us Money for defense against these charges that we could use for collective bar gaining and other Union purposes. And what has the government come up with  the government is currently pressing the mall fraud indict ment against Hoff. Efforts of teamsters lawyers to get the indictment dismissed have just been turned Down by a . Court which ordered the Case to trial sept. 10 at Tampa Fin. In this Case Hoffa and a Detroit Bank employee Robert e. Mccarthy jr., Are accused of using the mails to defraud in a scheme to divert some 500,000 in teamsters funds to develop an isolated area into vacation and retirement Homes Telsfor teamsters members nobody got defrauded out of a Quarter Hoffa instill. So where in the hell is the problem stories about the cose make it took joke to f i a put ?500,000 in his kick. Which Ain t bad if you can do it but i did  one of the mysteries about Hofft is what he does with i Money. He apparently maintains no Bank accounts and does his business on a Cas h basis. In a recent interview he said he had read in he papers that he was rumoured to have Large sums slashed away in Switzerland an Mexico if they re no closer than that they re not very close he laughed. As i always say show me wherein is and i la give you half if Hoffa is harried on the Lealend he s not doing too Well on the Union end of his affairs either. Four big new York City area locals recently went Otlet in strike in Defiance of Hoffa s contrary instructions. Hoffa sent an emissary to a pre strike meeting with the suggestion the workers take the employer s offers As a fair settlement Antty they weren t satisfied Witk git Hoffa would be glad to do negotiating. Well be sold Down the �., protested one Union member & 11 sent Menf that was applause and cheers. Some relatively Small group have defected to Therio and Hoffa has snatched of other unions already groups of workers. Stilt biggest i Hof fit s teamsters claiming Toj 1.5 million members still is Tajfel i the nation s biggest single  Union some weeks Tina it pc i Over about 50,000 Mumbert Ottoiii laundry workers Union expulsion from the Al Cio alleged corruption. But Hoffa suffered a blow Wjt a the bakery & confectionary wet ers Union another Organ let a expelled by the Al Cio Rebuff a personal Hoffa bid to join us teamsters. They voted instead to negotiate a merger with a new Al Cio bakery workers Union i place like Faey r Motel and More than $4 million in i Nau la Kousch took s Neap Tork restaurant. .tT--�n,T.-toT to min. I str -.fr. Vow i  �iri$rhm9hb Osbu i to to mum Der Roll no. Ii  Airport to a rim Are he. Lev am re Tarj ttto.1 to s it  on a Colv an h.rnry a care it  dlr Anler. I a Bop. Kobert cwm., Deconn. A forecast Lias soviet output lagging .a4rprme a Talve of. An la Elnola fac tuner Kroehle said to live be a a a. A i says the Manit to a in Ink  Al Ofir life Tione and won to Volunteer to trial to he j3aron is under 24-hour. Marshals at his -re-pj6ays a Jias been re ,.asked tothe Case v among of r those  imm Washington Nan a top european1 statistical economist  Industrial production of the soviet Union by 1972 will reach a level the . Recorded in 1956 it still will 0 e Only 70 per cent of the probable 1972 level in the United states. The expert is or. Rolf Wagen Fuenty director general of the Sta tvs us Bureau of the european communities. His views Are published in the bulletin of the euro Pean Community just Mode Avail Amble Here. The relative economic growth rates of the United states Western Europe and the soviet Union have been the subject of  among economists. The so Viets have contended their Superior rate of growth will enable them to overtake the United states Indus trial machine by 1970,. Although Wagenfuehr anticipates Only modest growth in the . Omar the period his figures still show the us. Ahead in 1972l total so jct Industrial production How Ever is Likely to surpass that of the Tsu-opean1 Community at that in terms of per capita product i of however the West fares Bome what better by 1972, he figures per capita production in Europe will be 68 per cent that of the United states per capita production in Trio soviet Union 53 to 63 per cent of int in the . Per capita production in Europe will be 107 to 327 per cent of Tantin the soviet Union. Wagenfuehr uses 1056 As his base year. At that time he concludes total Industrial production in Surope and in the soviet Union reached a level roughly 45 per cent of the total in the . This com the element Oparison leaves out population in the next three years production in Europe increased by 16 per enl that in the soviet Union 2g per cent and the level in the u.s7fell by 3 per cent. Projecting into the future Wagenfuehr estimates the rate of Industrial growth in the United states at Only 3 per cent a year. 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