Word: becks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Indicted by a federal grand jury in Washington last week: James Riddle Hoffa, 44, a vice president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, boss of the teamsters' powerful Central Conference, with headquarters in Detroit, and challenger to I.B.T. President Dave Beck. The charges, all based on Hoffa's offer of $18,000 and payment of $3,000 for documents filched from the McClellan committee files (TIME, March 25): 1) bribery, with a possible penalty of three years' imprisonment and a fine of three times the bribe total; 2) conspiracy, five years and $10,000; 3) obstruction...
...Army during and after World War I, and returned to Seattle to become recording secretary of the Teamsters' Local 174 in 1921. His salary: $2 a month. During those early years, he was senior to and far overshadowed a turnip-shaped young Seattle Teamster named Dave Beck. "Frank had the interests of the working stiff at heart," recalls a Teamster veteran. "He'd put his neck on the line any time to sign up a new member, while Dave was making speeches at union meetings." But in 1925, when the Teamsters held their national convention in Seattle...
...Tough?" Dave Beck issued directives, made statements, planned strategy, and, without suffering a single bruise on his pudgy body, became chairman of the Teamsters' Western Conference. Frank Brewster was his enforcer - and he was a good one. Arrested three times for picket-line brawling, Brewster once landed his mighty right hand on a policeman. Another cop remembers what happened after Brewster was taken to headquarters: "We stopped the elevator between the first and second floors and we worked him over. I've never seen a guy get such a beating. Finally he slumped down on his knees...
...Ignore." In 1953 Dave Beck was named president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, and Frank Brewster took his place at the head of the Western Conference. His duties kept him traveling, and so did his horses; he therefore sold his Seattle home and began living in hotel rooms. Under Brewster, the West Coast Teamsters have given heavily to charity, sponsored a classical-music program on television, with Seattle Symphony Conductor Milton Katims presiding...
...Frank Brewster's past remained an embarrassment. When, as befits an ambitious labor statesman, a biography was being written about President Dave Beck, the authors had a problem: how to deal with the part Brewster had played in Beck's life. They suggested to Beck that Brewster could be handled in one of three ways: 1) he could be played up as a picket-line hero, 2) he could be treated as a roughneck problem child, 3) he could be ignored. Beck sat thinking for a long while, finally moved his soft hands across the table and made...