In this extended edition Part III of our series on the death of Jimmy Hoffa and the fall from power of labor in the US; we pick up in the 1950s and early 60s, which sees the Teamsters Union at the height its power. Despite escalating waves of prosecutions and new laws criminalizing their tactics by a rogues gallery of Jim Crow senators and grim capitalist republicans, the IBT organizes the south with boycotts, blockades, and bullets, and Hoffa runs headlong into the ruling-class opposition that will eventually put him in prison.We then take a close look at two very different pro-Hoffa locals in the teamsters empire: The social-democratic, humane Local 688, and the gangster-duchy of New Jersey Local 560. 688, headed by the socialist fellow-traveler and (Hoffa room mate) Harold Gibbons and militant black organizer Ernest Calloway forms a oasis of a we ...