Word: becking
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...many ways he seemed like a throwback to the lumber barons, the cattle kings and the mining magnates who had ruled the West before him. Like them, he had seen the West as a vast, unfenced, unclaimed territory where a strong man could take what he wanted. Beck had wanted its roaming herds of labor. He rounded them up, hogtied them, and branded them by the thousands. He fought off Rustler Harry Bridges with one hand while piously rustling the herds of lesser unions with the other...
Though truckers are the elite of the Western Conference, it is a corral which also contains dozens of other, oddly unrelated trades. In Beck's domain "teamsters" make beer, can fruit, dehydrate vegetables, sell and service automobiles, pump gasoline, work in warehouses, and clean suits. They are undertakers, cow punchers and aircraft mechanics...
...Dave Beck not only dominates western labor; he dominates great chunks of business as well. He sees himself as a kind of self-appointed price-wage czar. With deadpan audacity he has used his power to prevent cutthroat competition, to punish price cutters, and to help firms with teamster contracts make a safe margin of profit...
...some businessmen resent his interference, fear and respect prevent outcries. The sound of the name Dave Beck still touches the nerve centers of thousands with the impact of a fist on bone. But the great majority of employers think he is wonderful and applaud like happy seals when he speaks at the Chamber of Commerce...
With a Capital E. They have their reasons. Beck abhors strikes and stands for free enterprise with a capital E-as long as it is run Dave Beck's way. He is an able, honest, startlingly frank man-and in recent years he has become startlingly reasonable. He is full of the kind of civic pride which rich industrialists had once reserved for themselves; he wants his minions to prosper. His word and his contracts are as good as gold. He not only gets pork chops for his unions but disciplines them with an iron hand...