Teamsters Chief Will Not Seek Reelection

Teamsters Union President William J. McCarthy, citing personal reasons, announced Wednesday that he will not run for reelection in next year’s government-supervised elections, the first in which union leaders will be chosen directly by the rank and file.

A majority of the union’s 21-member board quickly backed R. V. Durham of North Carolina, a Teamsters vice president, to replace McCarthy. But Jack Cox of Los Angeles, a board member who withheld his endorsement of Durham, said he might run for the union’s presidency.