Word: becks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nominate Beck for the Man of the Year. He has served as a perfect example to union laborers by showing them where their weekly dues end up. I only hope that the Senate investigators continue to probe into the union bosses and rout out the undesirables, silk shirts...
Lobster-red with ire, Teamster President Dave Beck gabbled away to newsmen last week in his $30-a-day, two-TV suite at the Galvez Hotel in Galveston, Texas, where he was on hand to attend a meeting of the Teamsters' General Executive Board. "This whole damn business don't bother me a damn bit," he huffed, meaning the Senate investigation in which he dodged behind the Fifth Amendment 142 times in reply to questions about his handling of $320,000 in union funds (TIME, April...
...pleaded the Fifth so often? Explained Beck: it was all to keep from embarrassing politicians who got campaign contributions from the Teamsters. "If I did go ahead and talk, it might blow the lid right off the Senate." Next day South Dakota's Republican Senator Karl Mundt, a member of the special investigating committee, threatened to call Beck in again to "put up or shut up" about that lid. Beck hastily protested that he had been "misquoted...
When it came time to waddle into the closed-door executive board huddle, Dave Beck looked tense and twitchy. Five hours later he bounced out beaming. The General Executive Board had resolved that 1) the A.F.L.-C.I.O.'s suspension of Beck as an A.F.L.-C.I.O. vice president was "illegal," and 2) the Teamsters would refuse to appear before the A.F.L.-C.I.O. Ethical Practices Committee "on May 6, 1957 or at any other time" until they got guarantees of a "fair" hearing...
...other Teamster chieftains made it plain that the resolutions were not to be interpreted as a personal victory for Beck. Growled Jimmy Hoffa, Teamster boss in the Central States: "I don't think anybody won a victory." If Dave Beck had been the only top Teamster in trouble, the others might have dumped him overboard. But with Central Conference Chairman Hoffa facing federal charges of conspiracy and bribery and with Western Conference Chairman Frank Brewster thickly splashed with scandal, the Teamsters decided to put up a united front-even if it was only a front...