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Williams election bv Teamsters angers local truckers
By TIM ELMER Staff Reporter
A few phone calls yesterday to Topeka lumber companies asking permission to interview truckers who are members of the Teamsters union resulted in the realization that I wasn't going to get very far until I first talked to Bill Moore, Route 7, Topeka, the head of Local 696.
I called the union headquarters and asked to talk to Moore, explaining who I was.
"Well, he's not back from the convention," the secretary said.
I heard her whispering to someone across the room, "It's the reporter. It's the reporter."
It was clear that the word had reached the union local that a reporter was asking questions about Roy. The union president as president of the Teamsters union.
Williams, long-time head of the Teamsters union in Kansas City, was elected president of the union Thursday at the union's 22nd international convention in Las Vegas in spite of that he is a tool of organized crime.
After half a dozen more calls to local trucking companies, two agreed to let me talk to their truckers as they pulled in from the day's run.
At the Lawrence Freight lines, 3121 E. 6th St., Topeka, it once again seemed as if I had run up against a wall of the first two truckers refused to talk.
George Morris, 2725 Belle, Topeka,
manager of the company, casually
shuffled over to where I stood. "I was
afraid this was going to happen," he
said. "It's a strange, thing, they just
talk to talk about it."
A third trucker pulled in. He was willing to talk.
"Yea, Williams is a pretty good man," Tom Mackey, Route 1, Auburn, said. "Who else will there to vote for?" he asked.
I mentioned Pete Camarata
"Imtentioned Pete Camaraat.
"Oh, I don't know him," Mackey said.
Camarata, of Local 299 in Detroit, was Williams' only opponent in the
election. He represented Teamsters for a Democratic Union, a group which is trying to push for reform in the union. He was unanimously supported only of the nearly 1000 votes cast.
Earlier this month, the Senate Permanent Investigations subcommittee released a report accusing Williams of being controlled by organized crime. He was indicted in 1962, 1972 and 1974 on charges of embezzling union funds and tampering with records. In 1962 the charges were dismissed and he was cleared of the charges in 1972 and 1974.
Mackey said it didn't make any difference to him whether or not Williams was connected with organized crime.
"Hell, look at them big oil company," Mackey said, "they aren't any different. It all boils down to big money."
"I don't feel like I have any say in the union," Mackey said. "They send you a ballot and everything but it doesn't tell me who is running, who body knows that. No one sends them in."
The union doesn't care any more about the rank and file than do the oil companies about their customers, he said.
The last trucker pulled in. He reluctantly answered a few questions. I asked him what he thought about Williams' $225,000 salary.
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It was 4:30 p.m. and time to move on to Mid American Lines, Inc., 112 N. Monroe, Topeka. Inside the warehouse, three men were sitting on wooden crates and talking. They seemed happy to see me.
"He might be worth it," Tom Morse, 3726 N.E. Seward, Topeka, said. "Look at what the president is getting. He's talking any more for us than Williams."
"I don't like him," Clyde Norris, 3937 S.E. U.S. Highway 40, said. "He is just the rest of them, embezzling on the money funds, and I don't go along with that."
I asked them what they thought about Williams.
Norris said he had retired from the Teamsters union in April after having been a member for 41 years.
"Roy Williams' got a lot of power
somewhere," he said. "He has run this local in Topeka for over 20 years at
Norris said he thought that the rank
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"I feel like if 696 is going to vote for Roy Williams, they should have a vote
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here at this local before he goes to caucus or whatever you want to call it, but this doesn't take place," he said. "I never felt like we had representation in the union on anything that ever went on there. The only thing we ever voted for in my life in the union was whether to take a strike vote."
Harry Morgan, 5223 S.E. 2nd St., Topkea, had been sitting quietly on his crate. He suddenly perked up.
"I'll tell you what I think about it," he said. "It's plain and ridiculous."
"But hell." Morgan said, "look at Bogart and Sinatra. Those people are damn sure connected with the Mafia and no one says anything about it."
Norris and Morgan said they thought that the union was probably tied to organized crime.
There are lots of other companies and organizations that are run by the Mafia but no one makes a stink about them, he said.
"I am not justifying the union," Morgan said. "I am just saying you gotta have apples and apples but a lot of the time they make a big apple out of one when the other is the same damn size."
It was 5 p.m. Conversation came to a halt.
Increase in larcenies at KU; police director cites reasons
By DAVE McQUEEN Staff Reporter
Except for an increase in larceny, criminal activity on the KU campus for the first quarter of 1981 showed little change from the same time last year, according to Jim Denny, KU police director.
This is in contrast to figures released by the Kansas Bureau of Investigation, which showed crime up 15.6 percent statewide over the same period. Lawrence figures, which don't include the KU campus, showed a 6.6 percent jump, the smallest of the five largest Kansas cities.
However, Denny said the increase could be attributed to several factors. Last year's figures exclude calls to the Jayhawker Towers, which the police over last month. Previously, they were patrolled by Lawrence police.
According to monthly reports kept by KU police, the only significant change in campus crime occurred in larceny. In the first three months of the police investigation 108 reported larcies, that number jumped to 212 in 1981.
Denny estimated that thefts at the Towers accounted for over one-fourth of the increase.
"Too many people think that leaving their dorm room is like leaving their bedroom," he said. "If you had an apartment downtown, you wouldn't leave without locking the door first, would you?"
"We've undergone quite a program in crime prevention and education on this campus," he said. "We hit them pretty hard, but we would represent an increase in reports."
A crime prevention program encouraging people to report minor or suspected thefts could also be a factor according to Denny.
Denny cited several ways in which Denny could protect themselves and their belongings. The most important one, he said, is to realize that you could viktimize it.
People living in the residence halls should think of their room as an apartment and keep doors locked whenever out of the room, Denny said.
Despite the increasing number of thefts, Denny considers KU a safe place.
"Overall, we have a very safe campus here," he said. The amount of assaults and violent crime is very small. But the University you have an increase in population, you'll have an increase in crime."
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