Hoffa Page #3

He makes you his partner

when there's nothing.

When it's time to give

the ham-and-eggers a Christmas bonus,

does he make you his partner then? No.

I'll tell you when he makes you a partner...

- You armed? You packin'?

- Always, Jimmy. Always.

- Don't lighten up on me now.

- Oh, no.

- I'm serious, Bobby.

- Did I get to be this old?

You got the piece

stashed the roadhouse?

Yeah.

Can you get to it?

You wanna go check it?

- I'll check it, you need that, but it's there.

- Go check it.

- Where the f***'s D'Allesandro?

- I don't know.

- Why don't you call him up?

- He ain't gonna be in.

Call him up. Where is he?

What the f***?

I'm sitting here f***in' shotgun

for a simple meeting, f***in' guy, see?

- I'm sorry he ain't here.

- You f***in' wops.

You people.

You cocksucker, why you wanna

be born into a race like that?

- Bad judgment.

- You're f***in' A well told.

You go sit, look out the roadhouse, huh?

The booth the meeting's supposed to be.

Call the motherf***er. Tell me.

Thing is, I'm not sitting here all day.

- I'll call him.

- Leave me the piece.

- I'm gonna go naked?

- You got the one at the roadhouse.

What are you worried about?

Get outta here.

Do something for a living.

Blew the f***ing rod

and busted through the fan belt.

I'm supposed to be in Cleveland 4:00.

I know. What am l, a f***ing idiot? I know!

The booth.

Excuse me.

There's a big sign: "booth reserved."

- What?

- Way it is.

- OK, come on. I was just going anyway.

- Sorry.

- One coffee here, two to go.

- You got it.

Will you give me a f***ing break?

Hey, hey, look. Get it out to me, OK?

Because I can't move

my f***ing rig without it!

Look, just, just get it to me.

Would you just get it to me?

Hey, I need it! I need it!

Would I call if I didn't need it? I need it!

Hey, look, just tell him

I'll get back to him, all right? When?

Five minutes. Five minutes. Thank you.

F*** you.

- I need that back in five minutes.

- F*** off outta here. I'm busy.

Yeah. This is Bobby Ciaro.

Sal, where is he?

Because I'm asking. Because I'm

sitting out here to meet with the fella.

When was that?

Well, then, where is he?

If he calls, you give him the 7488 number,

the booth, the roadhouse.

And we're waiting,

but we aren't gonna wait all day.

You can't use it, son. I'm sorry.

Who the f*** are you?

Excuse me, will you?

You're blocking the view.

Who are you?

- You a union driver?

- Yeah, I'm a union driver.

That's who I am.

That's who the f*** I am.

Aw, wait a minute. I am a man

with a legitimate grievance

and a legitimate position.

I'm here in the legitimate interest

of my fellow Teamsters

and my fellow drivers, who,

under the law, have a right to elect...

You say legitimate?

Your people, for the last six weeks,

have tied up this entire nation...

- My people?

- Your people.

My people? What about your people?

The over-the-road drivers

have a right to a decent wage,

to representation...

- President Roosevelt had decreed...

- Hey.

I'm an American citizen,

but President Roosevelt,

in all due respect to him,

don't make the laws.

And neither do the newspapers!

When President Roosevelt

and when the newspapers

are hired by the Teamsters to replace me,

then I will abide by your opinion.

Wait a minute.

Would you wait one minute?

Get the f*** out of my way.

- Have you extended the truce?

- Are the Teamsters gonna back down?

The Teamsters are not gonna back down.

We have been out six weeks.

We can stay out 600.

And we'll prevail because of the strength

of our almost one million members

in the organization of

the Railway Transport Agency

and in the improvement...

Am I going too fast for you?

Of the living conditions of

their workingmen.

I believe the correct place

to negotiate this...

I don't give a sh*t what you believe.

We are workingmen,

and the law of the land says that

we have the right to collective bargaining.

I have men that I am responsible to

that have sent me here to negotiate.

I sit in a room and I am told "Take it

or leave it" for the last three months.

I say I leave it. I cannot accept an offer

that I am not empowered to accept,

and you throw the President in my face!

I'm gonna tell you something.

I'm gonna tell it to you straight...

And who are the Secret Service?

They are the Pinkertons of old.

- Jim?

- They are...

I don't think a lot of guys know

who the Pinkertons are.

Are you f***ing writing this?

You wanna write this?

- Jimmy...

- Get him outta here. Get outta here, Pete.

- Jimmy, telephone call.

- I don't wanna talk to nobody.

- It's Dan Tobin.

- Did I say I don't wanna talk to nobody?

- Did I say who I did wanna talk to?

- He says he needs to talk to you.

- Get outta here!

- He says he needs to talk to you.

All right. Give me that phone.

Hello. Dan?

No? What the f*** am I gonna do?

I gotta hold out.

Dan. Dan...

Dan, they're giving me nothing that I...

The membersh...

Listen... Listen.

Listen, they're gonna...

They're gonna cave!

Give me another week, and l...

You wanna run this local, come down here.

You wanna unseat me? You tell me!

Barring that... Barring that...

Jimmy... What does Tobin want?

What's he want?

He wants the President to like him.

Wants me to call off the march tonight.

Wants me to settle RTA.

Don't you got to?

He wants to run this local,

he can come down here.

He wants to replace me, let him do that.

- If Tobin says...

- Yeah, yeah.

Can you get me there?

Dan Tobin wants to tell me

something that I don't know...

- Come down. I'll listen to him.

- Yeah, you're right, Jimmy. You're right.

When the President of the United States

comes out against the workingman...

- The f***ing local is a ship upon the sea.

- Right, Jim.

The man on board...

Can you get me there?

- Yes, sir.

- Pick it up, Petey.

Get down. Stay down!

Get down. Stay down!

Who the f*** is it?

Looks like the f***ing safety patrol.

- I'll go talk to 'em.

- Where you going?

- Give me the umbrella.

- Where you going?

- Don't worry.

- I got him.

- Keep 'em covered.

- Stay down.

Said there's gonna be an ambush.

'Course there's gonna be an ambush!

- Well, it's good to see you out here.

- How you doing, Jimmy?

- Jimmy.

- We're getting to 'em now.

We're getting to 'em now. That's right.

- You marching on 'em tonight?

- We're working on that.

- How you doing?

- I'm fine.

- Hey, Jimmy.

- Jim, Jim, message.

Call Dan Tobin, New York,

right away, this number.

- All right.

- He says hold off the march.

- Thank you.

- He says the mood of the newspapers...

Am I f***in' deaf?

I heard you. Get back in the line.

- Go get 'em, Jim.

- I will, don't worry.

I'm gonna get 'em, all right.

Fellas, good to see you out here.

You're doing a good job.

Doing a good job.

They're gonna cave in, don't you worry.

How are you, kid?

Hey, Bob, how you doing?

I've been good. Good to see ya.

How's it going? Huh?

- I been better.

- You holding up? Family eating?

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