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Title page: Investigation of Improper Activities in the Labor or Management Field, Hearings before the Select Committee, Eighty-sixth Congress, first session, July 1, 6, 7, 8 and 9, 1959, Part 55.
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McClellan Committee hearings, Part 55: July 1, 6, 7, 8 and 9, 1959

Part 55 of the Senate Select Committee on Improper Activities in the Labor or Management Field hearings, printed in 1959, including the July 6 session on Teamsters Local 560 and New Jersey trucking companies.

Date
1959-07-01/1959-07-09
Kind
hearing
Source
Internet Archive, scan of the printed hearings (Boston Public Library copy)
Retrieved
2026-10-12
Docket
Investigation of Improper Activities in the Labor or Management Field, Hearings before the Select Committee, 86th Cong., Part 55
Rights
A work of the United States Congress, printed by the Government Printing Office. Public domain in the United States under 17 U.S.C. § 105. The scan is of a GPO printing; Internet Archive marks it not in copyright. The stored page image was taken from the Internet Archive scan; quotations follow the Archive OCR, checked against the page image.

The title page reads “Investigation of Improper Activities in the Labor or Management Field. Hearings before the Select Committee on Improper Activities in the Labor or Management Field, Eighty-sixth Congress, first session, pursuant to Senate Resolution 44, 86th Congress, July 1, 6, 7, 8, and 9, 1959, Part 55,” printed by the Government Printing Office in 1959. Page II lists the committee: John L. McClellan, chairman; Karl E. Mundt, vice chairman; Robert F. Kennedy, chief counsel. Pages run continuously in the 19000s. The stored image is the title page.

The witness index includes the New Jersey Local 560 testimony of July 6, 1959: Arthur Pitman (page 19239), Walter A. Dorn (19246), Anthony Provenzano (19264 and 19268), Anthony Castellito (19269), Michael G. Communale (19286) and Joseph Adelizzi (19297). The rest of the volume belongs to the committee’s continuing inquiry into the Teamsters and was not read for this page. The exhibits list includes checks drawn by Dorn’s Transportation payable to Communale.

Only the July 6 Local 560 testimony was read: Pitman, Dorn and Provenzano. The Archive’s catalog record gives the series date as 1957; the volume prints 1959.

itemTestimony of Arthur Pitman, Hoboken trucking company president, July 6, 1959 (McClellan Committee, Part 55, pp. 19239 ff.)A New Jersey trucking executive tells the McClellan Committee that Anthony Provenzano, then a Local 560 business agent, asked him for $5,000 and said he "wouldn't be in business too long" if he did not pay, and that he eventually paid $2,500.itemTestimony of Walter A. Dorn, Dorn's Transportation Co., July 6, 1959 (McClellan Committee, Part 55, pp. 19246 ff.)A trucking executive tells the McClellan Committee that in 1952 two Local 560 business agents told him "if I wanted to stop having trouble I had better get him some money," and that he paid Anthony Provenzano about $1,500 in cash at the Swiss Town House in Weehawken over the next fifteen months.itemTestimony of Anthony Provenzano, July 6, 1959 (McClellan Committee, Part 55, pp. 19264–19268)Anthony Provenzano, with counsel, answers nearly every question from the McClellan Committee, including whether he was president of Teamsters Local 560 and whether he took money from Pitman and Dorn, with "I respectfully decline to answer because I honestly believe my answer might tend to incriminate me."itemSenate Resolution 74 (85th Congress), as stated at the first McClellan Committee hearing, Part 1 (1957)The chairman's opening statement in Part 1 of the hearings of the Select Committee on Improper Activities in the Labor or Management Field: "Senate Resolution 74, 85th Congress, agreed to January 30, 1957, established this select committee."itemUnited States v. Provenzano, 334 F.2d 678 (3d Cir. 1964)The Third Circuit affirmed Anthony Provenzano's Hobbs Act conviction. He was indicted in 1960, as an officer of Teamsters Local 560, for extorting $17,100 from Dorn's Transportation Company between 1952 and 1959.