After his steamrollered re-election as president of the powerful Teamsters Union in Miami last month (TIME, July 14), James Riddle Hoffa seemed about as securely in control of his czardom as any tyrant could be. But last week in Cincinnati, 4,000 members of four Teamster locals voted all but unanimously to disaffiliate from Jimmy Hoffa's empire and sign on with unions belonging to the A.F.L.-C.I.O.
The Cincinnati revolt against Hoffa was led by an outspoken ex-milkman named James T. Luken, 39, president of the Teamsters' Cincinnati Joint Council, who has long tried...
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