If you have issues viewing or accessing this file contact us at NCJRS ...

other words, whatever the drivers earned for that week,
we got ten percent.
MR. HARMON: The labor officials were paid off
in order to e.nsure the SUccess of the scheme?
MR. RISPO: Yes, sir.
MR. HARMON: Everybody benefitted here except
for the union members, is that right?
MR. RISPO: Yes, sir.
MR. HARMON: Now did you ever have a Teamster
official turn you down; in other words, say that he
wouldn't go along with the scheme?
few times.
a common experience?
MR. RISPO: Yes, sir. It happened to me a
MR. HARMON: Would you explain that? Was that
MR. RISPO: No, sir, it wasn't. But I had
went to South Carolina to Crown Cork and Seal operation.
And there was a Teamsters official out there by the name
of Frank Wood, Teamsters Local 28. I went in and ex-
plained to him what I was going to do; that I was going
to fire this guy.
And he said, "No, you are not." He said,
"You are in my jurisdiction. You ain't firing nobody.
You ain't changing nothing. I want you to get out of