> Leigh Meyers wrote:
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>> The Teamsters as a force for structural change in unions?
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> Happy 30th anniversary of Jimmy Hoffa's disappearance!
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> Doug
Who was Hoffa?
Jul. 29, 2005
BY DAVID ASHENFELTER
Knight Ridder Newspapers
(KRT) - James Riddle Hoffa, the legendary but controversial labor leader, was president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters from 1958-1971.
He was born in 1913 in Brazil, Ind. The third of four children, his father was a coal-mine driller who died when Hoffa was 7.
Hoffa's mother, who had taken in laundry to help supplement her husband's meager income, moved the family to Detroit in 1924, where she worked in a laundry and in auto plants.
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The 62-year-old former Teamsters boss was hoping to regain the presidency of the international Teamsters union after serving a prison sentence for jury tampering and misuse of union funds. He vanished July 30, 1975, after going to meet with Anthony Provenzano and Anthony Giacalone. http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/nation/12259299.htm
The Cast of "characters": http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/nation/12259335.htm
My conspiricy theory: "Lucky" Luciano was released from a federal pen and repatriated to Italy to set up an intelligence network to feed the OSS. In return, the US allowed the mob to muscle their way into the US unions, and gave them deals on large chunks of property throughout the western United States.
Later, in the 60s, CIA analysts were quitting the Company saying they couldn't tell the difference between the CIA and the Maf.
Was the CIA attempting to control the US unions using the Mafia as proxy?
Hmmmm
Leigh www.leighm.net