Was Jimmy Hoffa A Hero Or A Criminal?
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Another organizer was Jimmy Hoffa, in his short 62 years in this
world has caused a change that will live in the minds of many people
forever. But there is one question that bothers many people, was Jimmy
Hoffa a hero or a criminal? Hoffa was born James Riddle Hoffa, the second
of the four children of John Cleveland Hoffa and Viola Riddle Hoffa. Hoffa
was born on February 14, 1913 in Brazil, Indiana. When his father, a coal
driller who suffered from an occupational respiratory disease, died in 1920,
his mother, who was already taking in laundry, began doing additional work
as a domestic and cook in order to support the household (WB Enc 269).
Jimmy Hoffa was a man who loved and respected ...
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at the Christian Seaboard
Congregational churches, and Hoffa attended Sunday school there.(Current
Bio) In 1922 the Hoffas moved to Clinton Indiana, two years later they
settled in Detroit, Michigan, in an apartment on Merritt Street on the
city's brawling, working-class West Side. There he and his brother were
derided by their peers as "hillbillies" until they won acceptance with
their fists. At the Neinas Intermediate School in Detroit, Hoffa was a
bashful B student who won prizes in gymnastics. After school he worked as a
delivery boy, and following completion of the ninth grade he dropped out of
school to take a full-time job as a $12-a-week stockboy in Frank and
Cedar's department store. In 1930 he left that job to become a freight
handler at the Green Avenue warehouse of the Kroger Grocery and Baking
Company.(H oyt 44). The Kroger Company was Hoffa's first fight with the
authority of a large company. Deplorable working conditions, low pay, and a
sadistic foreman at the ...
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among his peers as a tough and effective
bargainer. In 1964 he negotiated the union's first national contract with
trucking companies. Under Hoffa's leadership the Teamsters union membership
grew to more than two million. Hoffa was long rumored to be associated with
organized crime, having links to mafia figures such as Anthony Provenzano,
a Teamster boss,and Anthony Giacalone, a Detroit mobster. Jimmy Hoffa used
his influence in the mafia to get what he wanted done in the business world.
This technique was effective yet illegal. The United States Department of
Justice was unsuccessful in its prosecution of Hoffa until it enlisted the
help of Edward Grady Partin, a Baton Rouge, ...
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