European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 3, 1966, Darmstadt, Hesse Jimmy Hoffa carries on his desperate fight a staff writer time Shadow of prison Walls May a 1 edging closer to James Riddle italia but in Tough Tutto bus of the team Union to Sun very much la the is thaw no Hera of quit Toni the pres Meacy at the Tram i a guest and a tone Tom Bald the Lew actually lands him imn Tan of to face. He May not give pens Ike. A Laws 1m by my teamster in in branches Puhm Bella from Inanc any More Auto ims to to own Legal de tank. But tymm to Bola Honor oct. N to new part Ntow my Legal Tow a Sartos at Saflar attain i planned. A Boa to la May Satot prison Tan of. If the courts finally Ida Oal in Calls a stroller mint to prison pea totem rumours inside asm Ajr Beho win Irr to install caretaker president until be i free to none leadership. Masu Iwato of twice convicted Howato it Aytac Tol Watt Taf tame pending of to Ewort Appeal. Hebe used to with he Bofja to my Iii i to. Sack to Ca Shes to Wrt a hard a is Suffi a _ Bola tem Pertha of Sav um7 he s to will be made to unseat Hoffa until i appeals Are exhausted in the supreme court. This could drag on for months and one Hoffa opponent in the onion said ii be comes into the july a convention a tree Man he May try to change the Union Constitution to provide for a but. This source said he would havea real fight on his what is the secret of Loffa i hold on the apparent loyalty of the vast majority of teamsters rank and file Al most everyone in the Union even the anti Holla element agrees the Guy has done an outstanding Trade Union Job. Both in contracts arid organizing said one teamster source. Almost one out Lour of every election supervised by the National labor relations Board involves the teamster. In addition to the Basic truckers an warehousemen represented by the Union teamster Orga Nuen have gone after membership among airline worker poultry Farmers cemetery workers Bokee pers and hairdressers among others. Well take anything that in t taken one teamster official said. He did t need to add the teamster frequently try to oust existing Union. In Hoffa s reign membership has risen by some my. Cams country truck driven paid on mileage basis now make up a year. The War Alioune Man Nom make in than $1 i an boor and Herfa a Mac a major break Hirn Sigli in Alran hindi lower a acc Del Lere Nual in Anilu in slates whirr to Tother Union find it a to Iii h la get a foothold but his Hli Spil Trinni Piilini it a the National truck uni Brno Flat de last year Lor More than 400.000 Drivers of 14.pm firms providing in Esti mated ims million a year in added wages and fringe benefits. The teamsters from the Al Cio in 1 97 on corruption charges built their own rival Empire including a political action Arm called i k it Haifa estimate total Teu Imarri assets at i billion. He runs the Empire from a huge Plush office that looks out on the building in Washington. Hoffa office is lined with toy trucks and other Model representing the utter activities. Joffa at is is a Short meet but a u. Solid muscular 179 pounds. He neither drink nor smoke and Pride himself on i physical fitness keeping in trim in a basement gym in car Arifi Marble Palace Headquarters. But a Friend once noted Jimmy Limu Scle Only from the Ean he can rattle off fact and figures on teamsters attain at the drop of a ques to Justice department Over the Yean painted a different picture of Lofta in took menu of charge of try log to bribe Senate investigator wire tapping telephones to keep tabs on his own employees using the mall to de fraud in a Florida real mat Deal involving teamster fund accepting ii million in Kickback from trucking orm beating up a team Stan employee. None of the charges Ever stuck unt Hoffa s conviction at Chattanooga. Tenn., March 4. I a. Of trying to bribe juror who heard the Kickback Cane at Nashville. Tran. The Kickback Cas ended la a mistrial. The sentence eight Yean la prison and a 111. Fine. With scarcely a breather Offu hustled out to Chicago where a few months later a was convicted in another fed eral trial of fraud in multimillion Dollar manipulations of teamsters . The sentence five years in prison and a Tine. The highest Puld labor Union presi Dent at a year. Hoha in t Hurt ing for pin Money. But with the team Tan Treasury closed to him for Teg a feat he May soon be in serious Finan Cial trouble. The labor department re ported oct. M the Cost of Lus Nashville. Chattanooga and Chicago trials alone were h7�,1h paid Tor out of teamster fund. A band of Philadelphia rank and full rebels want that and Money spent de fending All other teamster official paid Back by Hoffa and other teamster leaders. The total i estimated by on Ontl Llota lawyer a possibly up to h million if it All came out of the team Ster local and International treasuries Llota has Long rankled at the of the teamsters As a hoodlum Ridden Union. But be has had Little Loray about the More than 40 convictions of teamsters officials in the past live years stemming from charges including bribery arson carrying concealed weapons perjury extortion a tear Gas attack on a non Union trucker Strong Arm Shakedown and other violence. Holla s reign begun in 197 alter for Mer president Dave Beck went to prison on an income tax conviction has Bee marked by turmoil and Cronl Rovery from the Start. While the teamsters executive boar has pledged not to try to oust Haifa before his appeals Are exhausted Union sources say the talk is much More out in the open now about a possible successor. 3. 1m the Stais and St mks ii
