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attributed to Hoffa was "a
danger to. the welfare of the
Nation"
Senator Mcclellan said more
than 100 witnesses would be
called in the hearings pointing
up to the key position Of Joint
Council No. 16, Hoffa's success
full efforts to obtain control
over that organization, and
Dio's activities in the labor
movement.
The Joint Council is made UP
of SO locals having a union
membership Of $4,000 in the
New York area. Mr.. Kennedy
portrayed its key position
graphically with a chart show
ing the New York area and
about 40 or more services con-
trolled by the Teamsters or
ganization.
Tells Of Di0's Activities
The services included food
and milk deliveries. ambulance
service and deliveries Of all
sorts of supplies and finished
products.
AS a preliminary to the call.
ing Of the first witnesses in the
afternoon, Mr.. Kennedy gave a
rundown on Dio and his activ-
tiles in the labor movement
and how Dio came to be in
volved with 'Hoffa and the
Transfers.
He said Dio started out as a
head knocker" for a trucking
association and was sent to
Jail in the late 1905 by Tom
Dewey. then district attorney
in New York. He said Mr..
Dewey described Dio as "a
young gorilla who began his
career at Is"
Afterwards, Dio operated
dress firms in New Jersey and
sold one of them for $4,000
more than it was worth on the
promise that he would keep the
plant from being organized.
Enters Union Field
Thereafter, about 1850, Dio
moved into the labor union
field in this way as described by
Mr.. Kennedy:
A man named Sam Zakman,
described as a former Commu-
mist who fought with the Com
munists in Spain, undertook to
get a union charter and
eventually obtained one from
the United Automobile Workers
AL.
About a week after getting
the charter, Zakman teamed up
with Dio, who promised flnan-
cial backing for the union in
its drive Ito organize the I'M
organized in New York"
Zakman was kicked out later
and Dio took complete control
of the union. On April %,
1851, the unions charter was
withdrawn and a second one
issued listing Dio as an officer.
Later Dio undertook to or
ganize New York taxicab driv-
ers and set up a new union.
The Local 1902. UAW-AFL,
which Zakman had started.
was chartered for the cab driv-
ers and a new local. No. $40,
received what is called an
amalgamated charter for gen.
eral organizing purposes. Ac-
cording to Mr.. Kennedy. Dio
was president of $40 and man.
ager Of 102.
Is Charters Listed
Dio subsequently became di-
rector of the UAW-AFL in New
York City and under his leader
ship, Mr.. Kennedy said. is local
charters we're granted of which
only seven or eight lasted for
any time.
In 1858 Mr. Kennedy said
that George Meany, then pres
ident of the AFL and now head
Of the AFL-CIO, raised ques-
tons about Dio's background
and the men he was bringing
into the labor movement, and
demanded that he give up or
ganizing the cab drivers as be-
ing a group within the jurisdic-
ton of the Transfers and not
the JAW.
"Hoffa met Dio and had close
relations with him." Mr.. Ken
nedy related as he traced the
development of dos and
Hoffa's power in the labor
movement in New York.
He said Hoffa requested Dio
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