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Subject: Re: truck drivers--unions
Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2000 18:12:01 -0500
The Teamsters were the union for the truckers. Very powerful!
delilah
At 14:27 11/7/00 -0600, you wrote:
>I have been told by my Uncle that my Father was always writing to the
>government.
>
>My uncle was at our house once when my dad got a reply to a letter he
>wrote
>to the government saying - "somebody was worse then Jimmy Hoffa". I
>don't know who the somebody was.
>
>I already contacted the FBI and they have nothing on him. neither does
>the selective service.
>
>
>
> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Gayle
>>
>> You are correct on local truck drivers, but most Long Haul Trucking
Companies
>> were forced to have Union Workers about 1940 era. The Union's were very
>> power minded at that time and many strange incidents occured. My family
(who
>> owned a large Trucking Inter/Intra State Firm) had many incidents with
>> drivers being hurt and also not allowed to unload trucks at that time in
many
>> parts of the country. I had assumed with the different locations that he
>> might of been Long Haul. My brother in law says that the Union kept
track of
>> the number of years a man was a member up to his retirement. He stated that
>> if you wanted to work you had better be a Union Member.
>>
>> Pat
>>
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