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or any part of the Communist party.

I resent it, sir!

All right. All right. We refer now...

to the pension fund...

To your stewardship, we could say,

to your creation of same.

In amassing these funds,

this war chest, this unholy war chest...

Mr. Kennedy, you have used this term,

"war chest",

to which you have now added "unholy"...

- Wait a minute...

- If I may finish.

You may finish in a moment, sir.

When I am done, then you may finish.

The movement of organized crime

into the ranks of labor,

the corruption of leading Teamster officials

with gangsters...

Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman,

if I might, point of order. If I might.

I think that it is unfair to allow

this impression to exist publicly,

as it's created by these hearings,

that I am controlled by gangsters.

I am not controlled by them.

I would be very sympathetic if it wasn't

for a fact you got people in Detroit,

at least 15 who have police records.

You've got Joey Glimco in Chicago.

I say you're not tough enough

to get rid of these people.

I don't intend to be tough.

I don't wanna be tough.

I intend to follow the constitution of

the International Brotherhood of Teamsters.

We're talking about the vicious co-option

of the field of labor, and you sit there, sir,

who have single-handedly

created this monster,

who have forged this bond

with improper, with criminal activity...

If it please the committee,

my client has been convicted of nothing.

He hasn't been convicted, but he will!

If James R. Hoffa is acquitted,

I will, uh... jump from the Capitol dome.

Aw, f*** it! Hey, I'll answer their questions.

Where... Where... This little piece of sh*t.

Yeah, I made a pension fund.

For the benefit of who, Paul?

For the benefit of who, huh?

He couldn't find a workingman

if you drew him a diagram.

This little f***

born with a dick in his mouth.

Mr. Hoffa, do you have a statement?

Kennedy seems sure of himself.

He's gonna jump from the Capitol dome.

Bob Kennedy, Robert Kennedy,

whatever you wanna call him,

has an exaggerated sense of

his own entertainment value.

He asserts your only motive

in inaugurating the pension fund...

...was the accumulation of personal power.

The assertions that Mr. Kennedy

propounds here

lack only the merit of being true.

This three-ring circus,

the newspapers and the TV

and the media and all the rest of it,

is designed and intended to

bring him to the public eye.

To bring him to the public eye.

And what has this law clerk done

with his little vendetta

except picking on the workingman?

In my opinion, it's union-busting.

That's what it is,

and nothing more elegant than that.

Hoffa will be acquitted,

because Hoffa is innocent

of the vicious and unsubstantuated

charges that face me here.

And then Bobby Kennedy can jump off

the Capitol dome or whatever else

he thinks will bring him to the public eye

at that time. That's all I gotta say.

- Jimmy.

- Yeah. I hear you.

- Hey, Jimmy, we're with you!

- How are you, Pete?

- Jimmy. Ted Harmon, Detroit News.

- I know who you are.

These allegations will affect your run

for presidency of the Teamsters.

How these allegations gonna affect

my bid to become president

of the International Brotherhood

of Teamsters? That your question?

My opinion, the first ballot will be the last.

You know, Ted,

the Detroit News, hometown paper.

You'd think in a city built by the automotive

industry, I'd get a fair shake from the press.

You guys been printing a lot

of detrimental stuff about me.

What can I tell you?

We print it 'cause it's true.

Is that the thing?

Well, you go on printing it, then.

- I wanted to ask you about test fleet.

- What is that?

- About your test fleet company.

- Yeah, huh?

About using Teamster muscle to compel

certain companies to lease trucks from you.

Nothing could be further from the truth.

We possess facts and figures

which establish that it is true.

Well, you got those facts and figures.

Why haven't you run them, then?

- We plan to, next week.

- I'd be careful about that, I were you.

See, as I said, this is something

of a volatile time, this time here.

Hearings, elections coming up.

If I was gonna print something,

I'd be, oh, so sure it was true.

It is true. We're gonna run it.

I thank you for your reaction.

And to the picnic.

Somebody ought to give that punk

a dose of reality.

Yeah. Somebody ought to give it to him.

We're with you, Jimmy!

The idea being, if it's got wheels,

it's in Teamster jurisdiction.

If you wanna organize,

you gotta be a f***in' man.

You don't go out to rub pussies

or to bring back an excuse.

You wanna organize,

the guy says take names.

Do not take no for an answer,

because if you will not

take no for an answer,

eventually the answer comes back yes.

Get the sh*t.

This it? Let's see it.

- Here you go.

- Thanks.

Put the paper under it.

- What was I saying?

- Billy.

The most stand-up guy I ever met,

Billy Flynn,

back we're organizing the laundries.

Billy gonna light up this laundry.

- Light it up?

- He's gonna firebomb it.

They don't wanna come around or sign up.

They never heard of the Teamsters.

Billy torches the joint. Too much fuel.

Burns up entire body. Dyin'.

In the hospital, dyin'.

Priest comes up. Give me the ribbon.

Priest comes up...

Yeah, put your finger there...

Priest. "My son, confess

the sh*t that you did.

Confess, and meet God

with a clean conscience. "

Looks the priest in the eye.

"F*** you."

His dyin' words.

"Never let down.

Never let up. Never forget."

What's in the package?

Guy's dick and balls.

Get this sh*t. Come on.

OK, read it back to me.

"Successful in verifying on three occasions

charges of bribery against James Hoffa."

- Ted.

- "In light of...

- Sure?

- Came for you.

Yeah?

"In light of which the attitude of the

Senate committee, although combative,

"is both, it would seem,

justified and necessary.

"The power to organize does not

and must not include

the power to coerce, either in... "

The boardroom,

the courtroom, or the streets.

"The J&H Sales Company,

later called National Equipment,

"own trucks which deliver automobiles

on large, open racks.

This is prosaic enough. However, if Hoffa

did not feel guilt about it..."

Kill the story.

- What?

- Kill the story. Kill the Hoffa story.

- I...

- Kill the f***in' story!

Vice president in charge of finance...

Jerome Dempsey.

Vice president for planning...

Jerry Laughlin.

Our negotiating team...

Vice President Dave Miller

and John Breen.

Head of the Benevolent Association...

John Patrick Deedy.

Head of the finance committee...

Billy Flaherty.

The strengths, the depth, which makes,

which made and which will make

the international run.

Join with me in welcoming to you

and using for the first time that title:

the president...

president of

the International Brotherhood of Teamsters:

James R. Hoffa!

Tomorrow morning, you go in,

you fire every one of these cocksuckers.

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