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...months in 1957 the U.S. watched with fascination and with shock as a Senate investigating committee poked into labor's darkest corners. The faces on the television screen were scarcely those of labor leaders concerned with the betterment of the workingman. Instead, they were suety Dave Beck, president of the powerful International Brotherhood of Teamsters, angrily shrilling the Fifth Amendment and standing revealed as a man who would enrich himself at the expense of an old friend's widow. And last week there was Beck's heir apparent, Teamsters' Central Conference Boss Jimmy Hoffa...
...political climate in which organized labor lives and breathes. Just four years ago, the weight of political pressure was for softening the Taft-Hartley law in labor's favor. In fact, the notion of a tougher law seemed unthinkable. But in 1957 the U.S. saw how Dave Beck and Jimmy Hoffa used the nation's mightiest union to grasp for personal wealth and power. And in 1957 the role of unionism in a peacetime economy was called into question as rarely before. As of this week, there is no longer the slightest chance that Taft-Hartley will...
...last week, Senator John McClellan's labor-rackets committee stopped the caravan to take on some extra cargo, and headed on. Destination: the front door of James Riddle Hoffa, slick, front-running mastermind of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, who hopes to take over the presidency from Dave Beck next month. The weighty new cargo, the committee hoped, would prove once and for all that Jimmy Hoffa hooked up with racketeers in what was eventually a successful attempt to seize power in the Teamster organization in New York...
...Hoffa," testified Hickey, "interceded for Mr. Dio. [Mr. Dio] impressed Mr. Hoffa no end." At a high-level meeting with Dio, Hickey and Dave Beck, Hoffa tried to win Beck's agreement to sweep Dio into the Teamsters Union with a Dio-controlled taxicab local, but, said Hickey, A.F.L. Boss George Meany (now president of the A.F.L.-C.I.O.) killed the move. In the end Hickey discovered that Hoffa had sneaked Teamster charters through to Dio anyway. Announced Hickey: he will run for the international presidency against Hoffa late next month. Asked John McClellan: "If you should be elected, would...
...Associated Press last week filed a party story that raised eyebrows from Washington, D.C. to Washington State. Under a Greenwich. Conn, dateline, A.P. reported: "Dave Beck Sr. and Dave Beck Jr., labor leaders under fire of the Senate labor rackets committee, were guests at a party which also was attended by Robert F. Kennedy, chief counsel for the rackets committee, it was confirmed here today." The A.P. went on to identify "Mrs. Dave Beck Jr." as one of the guests at the party, which was given by Mr. and Mrs. George Skakel Jr. "in honor of Mrs. Kennedy...