Hoffa Page #5

- All right. Go ahead.

All right. Look.

You take your 20 mil.

We're gonna put it out.

- We pay five points. That's one mil a year.

- One mil.

- Two 1/2 points, that's 25 grand.

- On top the mil?

- Perfectly legit. Call it a service charge.

- Now, the rate goes up, the loan goes up.

The rate goes up, loans go up,

everything goes up.

Same two and 1/2.

Let me go back.

- We're going to Nevada.

- Going to Nevada.

To down... 20 mil. Teamsters getting...

I'm talking basically.

Two, three streams of income,

which all are, mind you, legal.

They're all legal.

Your money, four and 1/2 percent.

- That yearly?

- Yearly?

- Yearly.

- Yearly.

- All right, you say the points...

- Just let me finish.

One:
Four and 1/2 percent of the total.

- Basically...

- As what?

Two and 1/2 service charge

and the one and 1/2?

- As what?

- Let me finish.

All right. This is the same

two and 1/2 plus the one and 1/2...

No, no, let me, let me finish.

F***in' crazy.

Go ahead. Get up, Fitz.

The fighting's over.

A small percent.

Listen what I'm telling you.

Different scenario, okay? The difference...

- Two and 1/2 and four, say 40.

- That's the one and 1/2...

- No, different scenario.

- Beauty.

This goombah. This guinea.

Reaches under his coat,

takes out his piece.

Kaboom! There goes the deer.

Can't even hunt for shooting targets.

Ya-boom, ya-boom, ya-boom!

Great outdoorsman.

- Have to go over some of your testimony.

- All I'll do is tell the truth.

- Did you shot a deer in cold blood?

- He pulled a knife on me.

This goombah... Wait, wait, wait...

This goombah is reaching around

in his pockets. Can't nobody find a knife.

He takes out a nail file.

He's skinning a deer with a nail file.

International Brotherhood of Teamsters.

Please let me through.

Hold it, buddy.

I have a very important message

for James R. Hoffa.

Not much hunting he done

right up till here.

- James. James R.

- Just a minute.

So hardly it occurs to me to ask him,

heart in my throat,

"Bobby, where did you learn to skin?"

- James, I have a very important message.

- I'm telling a story. I'm telling a story.

It's a very important message to you,

you understand, not to me.

It's not that important to me at this moment.

- OK.

- OK?

- Just a second.

- All right, I'll tell you later.

Washington. So...

Come to order.

Everybody take a seat, please.

I lost my train of thought. More about

the great outdoors after the ladies' lunch.

- How's it gonna go?

- How's it gonna go?

I'm gonna win. Right will prevail.

This... mooch... Why doesn't he get a job?

Trying to make a reputation for himself.

Wants a reputation?

Why doesn't he rob a bank?

Someday you gonna organize the cops?

Hey, that's easy. Someday I'm gonna

organize the crooks, and we all sit down.

- Mr. Hoffa.

- Nice suit, Jimmy.

Well... Joe got it for me.

He didn't want me to look bad

next to the distinguished Senate committee

and their lawyers.

Mr. Hoffa. Please take your seat.

Sister M.

- Frankie eating all his spinach?

- Can you believe it?

Mr. Chairman...

Mr. Chairman, I would like to apologize

for delaying these proceedings.

- On the night of March 13th...

- Excuse me. Was I interrupting you?

- I thought you'd finished.

- No, I was just expressing a thought.

It was of no consequence.

You go on with what you had to say.

All right. All right. Well, then,

why don't we talk about Joe Holtzman?

- He was a close friend of yours?

- I knew Joe Holtzman.

- He was a close friend of yours?

- Now, just a moment, Bob.

I said I knew Joe Holtzman.

He wasn't any particular friend of mine.

Your turn, Bobby.

Mr. Hoffa...

would you allow, as a Teamster official,

a man who is a Communist?

We don't have any Communists

in our Teamsters...

- Just answer the question, please.

- Just a moment, if you will...

That I know of.

But if the membership saw fit

to elect a man who had been tagged...

Tagged, mind you, as a Communist...

And no proof was presented

under our constitution,

and you don't have to read it to me

because I helped write the article,

we would be not allowed to discharge him

from his elected position.

Is there any question in your mind

that Mr. Bridges and Goldblatt

are Communists, Mr. Hoffa?

I don't know whether they are or not.

I'm not dealing with Khrushchev.

I'm dealing with Goldblatt,

and I deal with Goldblatt

the way our secretary Herter

would deal with Khrushchev:

on the basis of what is good for

the American worker, the American citizen.

- I'm not in bed with them.

- Well, l, uh...

- I don't think that the...

- That's what you think.

...comparison quite holds.

The fact that Mr. Bridges

has ties with the Communist party...

Leaders of the world...

And that Mr. Goldblatt is identified

continuously and repeatedly

as an important member

of the Communist party.

These people are leaders of a local

with whom you made an alliance.

I don't know if Harry Bridges

is a Democrat... Excuse me...

I don't know if Bridges is a Communist

or if Goldblatt is a Communist.

This is not the issue

under the question of transportation unity,

but they have been elected

under the free democratic process

of America and the Taft-Hartley laws.

Mr. Goldblatt filed for 10 years,

according to his testimony,

non-Communist affidavits.

You think it's wrong, you investigate that.

What do you mean?

There is no question about Mr. Goldblatt,

although there can be a question

about Mr. Hoffa...

Wait a minute. Wait a minute.

Just a moment.

Don't you say anything about

a question about Hoffa.

There is no question about Hoffa,

and don't you say that either.

Don't you say that I'm a Communist

or even affiliated with one.

You said that enough around this country,

and I want the American press to know

that I resent the fact that there is

any inference that I am a Communist,

that I am associated with

or controlled by Communists,

and don't you use this as a sounding board

for headlines for that purpose.

And I appeal to the chair that

that be taken out of the record,

and that nobody cast any aspersions

about my loyalty to this country.

I object to that!

I'll straighten the record out.

I was talking about

Mr. Bridges and Mr. Goldblatt.

- Don't put me in their class, then.

- Did you put him in their class?

No, I just said that although there might be

some question about Mr. Hoffa...

Instead of... What I said was

Hoffa instead of Mr. Bridges.

What I meant to say was that

although there might be

some question about Mr. Bridges,

there is no question about Mr. Goldblatt.

- Evidently, you agree with the same thing.

- Just one moment...

You agree, otherwise you wouldn't

have said "Don't put me in their class."

Don't put me in their class

that they're tagged,

in a class that they're tagged, I said.

But I want to have, if you will, sir,

the record cleared that there are

no aspersions made in any way

that I am associated with or controlled

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