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...Dave Sr., continued Levine, tried to run the show. "He asked that his son be appointed president of the company. During the course of the discussion, Mr. Beck got quite angry, and I refused to go along with his demands. [But then] I received a call from my brother [saying that the Teamsters] refused to unload this particular truckload of whisky. So I mentioned it to Mr. Beck. And Mr. Beck says, 'Well, you see what I mean, Levine, you don't get along very good with the members of Local 174, and my family is stockholders...
Since another part of that interest entailed a loan-for which Beck was a guarantor-to Levine's company from Seattle's First National Bank, Levine saw what Dave meant. "I asked Mr. Beck, 'Well, you win, what do you want?' He said, 'I would like to have my son as president of the company and to have him have the complete say-so of drivers and of trucks.' So I agreed. That is what I had to do." Junior promptly became K & L's president, and next day the whisky truck...
John L. Wilson, Anheuser-Busch executive vice president, reluctantly discussed the extent to which his company suffered under Dave Beck's heavy hand for the sake of an assumed guarantee of labor peace implied by Beck control-despite the fact that Anheuser-Busch always retains the power to cancel any of its distributorships without notice. Interoffice memos referred to Dave Jr. as "a spoilt child," to Old Dave as "His Majesty the Wheel." Even so, Old Dave was handy to have around. Wilson admitted that he got Beck to intervene on the brewery's behalf in a union...
Donol Hedlund, a respected and influential Seattle mortgage banker, flushed deeply, swallowed hard, spun the saddest yarn of all. With Joseph McEvoy, the nephew of Beck's wife, and one other associate, Hedlund established the National Mortgage Co., thanks partly to the $35,000 contribution from Uncle Dave to McEvoy. Then Hedlund, Beck and Teamster Lawyer Simon Wampold organized an outfit called the Investment Co., which drew brokerage commissions on Teamster money invested by Beck. Through the mortgage company, Beck put a tidy $9,000,000 in Teamster funds into mortgages, and through this company, Beck's family...
Within this interlocking framework, by Hedlund's painful testimony, Beck pulled his worst on a Teamster's widow. Ray Leheney was a union official and longtime friend of Beck. After Leheney's death, Beck first collected nearly $80,000 in assessments and contributions from union members to form the Ray Leheney Memorial Fund for the benefit of Mrs. Leheney. Then, as the trustee of the Teamster funds, he "loaned" the National Mortgage Co. $71,407, with which he and Hedlund bought contracts at a discount. After some $10,000 in payments had been made on the principal...