On 10/29/2014 7:45 PM, Wayne.B wrote:
On Wed, 29 Oct 2014 18:25:44 -0400, F*O*A*D wrote:

I knew Jimmy
Hoffa -distantly- in Detroit when the Teamsters were aligned with my UAW
client, I knew Roy Williams pretty well from my reporter days and his
union days in Kansas City, and I did some work for the Teamsters when
Jackie Presser ran the show. Jackie had a habit of calling me early
Sunday mornings...it was a bit of a startle the first few times.

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With friends like that you really don't need any enemies.

I had a neighbor at one time who was a self proclaimed union hotshot
with "connections". He disappeared one day - couldn't have happened
to a nicer guy.


We had two dirty business agents who screwed the Union. One slapped the
girl he was dating around, her father was a big "Italian" guy from
Windsor Locks, and a week or so later the girl got her fiance to go down
parking by the river where he apparently held his hand outside of the
car, shot himself in the forehead and the bullet ended up in the
passenger seat, the pistol in his lap.. Suicide it was ruled.. The
next guy came home one night and found his home burned, family dead....
not fun guys...