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hundred locals are heavily influenced or controlled
by organized crime syndicates. Many of these, how­
ever, are very major locals embracing thousands of
members in strategic cities, enabling gangster domina­
tion of the internationals, even though in the majority
of the locals the officers and the membership are not
corrupt.
This week, we are going to focus primarily on
the International Brotherhood of Teamsters and the
Laborers' International Union of North America.
We have also examined and will continue to
examine problems of racketeering influence in the
Longshoremen's Association and the Hotel and Restaurant
Employees Union, but our work on those two will be pre­
sented at another time and in another format.
This week, we will also take a look at certain
of the so-called independent unions and the somewhat
related infiltration of legitimate business in connec­
tion with those unions.
Our work to date supports this intelli­
gence analysis and the figures on Federal indictments
and convictions also supports them. Of the 930
indictments handed down against labor unions during
the period 1980 to 1984, 45 percent involve those four
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