Word: becks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Teamster Boss Dave Beck is proud to point out that he once was a Seattle laundry driver. By last week. as Beck made his third appearance before the Senate committee investigating labor racketeering. so much of his dirty laundry had been washed in public that the Teamsters were ready to wring him out of office. Because there is no clear-cut constitutional procedure for impeaching him now, the reformers looked toward September when the International Teamsters open a convention and hold an election in Miami Beach, Fla. First to volunteer to take a crack at Beck...
Meanwhile, Committee Chairman John McClellan scrubbed away at Teamsters' employees, past and present, and an assortment of businessmen with a common compulsion, i.e., an urge to do Beck favors. Among them...
WASHINGTON, May 20--Fellow union chiefs today found Dave Beck guilty of "gross misuse of union funds entrusted to his care" and virtually read him out of the labor movement...
...Executive Council, organized labor's highest tribunal, removed Beck permanently as an AFL-CIO vice president and council member on charges leveled by the Senate Rackets Investigating Committee...
...pudgy, 62-year-old Beck the unanimous action was a heavy blow. His own Teamsters Union is reported taking steps to oust him as president, even though these moves are slow in taking shape...