Jimmy hoffa Quote by Charles Brandt

“The workers stayed in the plant instead of walking out, and this had clear advantages: they were directly blocking the use of strikebreakers; they…

— Howard Zinn

“Brennan. Brennan was president of his own Detroit Teamsters local and had an arrest record for violence that included four incidents of bombing company…

— Charles Brandt

“And on the other side of the ledger, unions like the Teamsters often employed their own muscle, their own reigns of terror, including bombings,…

— Charles Brandt

“Sometime in the fifties I remember seeing On the Waterfront in the movies with Mary and thinking that I’m at least as bad as…

— Charles Brandt

“A couple of years after they both got out they had a sit-down at a Teamsters Convention in Miami to try to square the…

— Charles Brandt

“Born on St. Valentine’s Day in 1913, Jimmy Hoffa was seven years older than Frank Sheeran. Yet both grew to manhood in the same…

— Charles Brandt

“Jimmy Hoffa’s first notoriety in union work was as the leader of a successful strike by the “Strawberry Boys.” He became identified with it.…

— Charles Brandt

“As Hoffa told Johnny Dio in one of those wiretapped conversations that he couldn’t remember: “… treat them right and you don’t have to worry.”…

— Charles Brandt

“The Teamsters pension fund organized by Hoffa almost immediately became a source of loans to the national crime syndicate known to the public as…

— Charles Brandt

“The next year, Kroger refused to negotiate a new contract, and Hoffa’s victory was short-lived. But on the strength of his stand with the…

— Charles Brandt

“Time magazine reported in June 1975, a week before the assassination of Sam “Momo” Giancana in Chicago and a month before the disappearance of…

— Charles Brandt

“Bobby Kennedy gave Cheasty a job with the committee at a salary of $5,000 a year. The FBI planted microphones and set up cameras.…

— Charles Brandt