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Teamsters - USA - Who was Hoffa?
Detroit, MICH,USA - Detroit Free Press - USA -July 30, 2005: -- James Riddle Hoffa, the legendary but controversial labor leader, was president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters from 1958-1971... In 1931, at age 18, the feisty Hoffa organized a successful sit-down strike that got dock workers better pay. The next year, he became an organizer for the Teamsters and worked his way up the ranks, eventually becoming president of Local 299 in Detroit... On July 30, 1975, Hoffa vanished from the parking lot of a Bloomfield Township restaurant, where he had gone to make peace with a New Jersey mobster. Hoffa was never found...
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