Teamsters Boss Jimmy Hoffa might not win any national popularity contests. But when it comes to elections within his union, he is usually unbeatable.
The latest anti-Hoffa effort came last week in the Philadelphia area, where a group of rank-and-file rebels sought to win a National Labor Relations Board election, take 8,000 members of Local 107 and three other locals out of the Teamsters and into the A.F.L.-C.I.O. The Hoffa forces were headed by ham-fisted Raymond Cohen, 55, for eight years 107s secretary-treasurer. Last August, it took more than 100 Philadelphia police...
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