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Socialist Press no. 134, 24 January 1979 · scan p. 7 · Membership Split Hurts · about 901 words

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Some of these sweetheart deals have been profitable for Williams and his friends. In Kansas City, union officials Hayes, Clevenger and Robert Williams took $2,000 from Paul Byers Transportation to "hold down the price" for the company in negotiations. Hayes admitted he arranged $300 monthly payments.

Pay-off

Stanley Stanhope, a BA in Williams' Local 41, took $1000 from Ideal Truck Lines allowing the company to fire two men. The company also paid $200 a month for "labor peace" (no grievances). When he went to jail, the local raised his salary!

Roy Williams was one of the first Central States Pension Fund Trustees. If the fund has become "the bank of organised crime" , then it is men like Williams who have made it so.

A 1971 Labor Dept. investigation reported that Williams is "under the complete domination of Nick Civella" . Civella is head of the syndicate in Kansas City, currently in prison on a gambling conviction.

In 1973 Williams was promoting a Legal Defense Benefit Program to the members of Local 41. Williams drafted a letter Union stationery which said that if the members were interested, the union would try to negotiate a $A per

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