Word: becks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Seattle local won a court order for an independent audit of their books after telling the Superior Court that they feared a "very bad situation." At a Seattle warehousemen's meeting, not a single member voted for a resolution of confidence in Brewster and International President Dave Beck...
...Illinois, a 600-member La Salle local, long at odds with its parent union, issued a call for the resignations of Brewster, Beck and four other top Teamsters and urged that the international union be placed under trusteeship. A Toronto local flatly rejected Dave Beck's requests for financial aid for conducting the legal defenses of Teamster leaders. Chain letters were circulating in Los Angeles advising Teamster members to withhold their union dues. Brooding about the hundreds of thousands of dollars Teamster leaders had admitted "borrowing" from the union, a Los Angeles truck driver grumbled...
Perhaps the most significant reaction came from a non-Teamster: the No. 2 man in U.S. labor, A.F.L.-C.I.O. Vice President Walter Reuther. Said Reuther in Detroit: "I believe that Mr. Beck's use of union funds to further his own personal investments is highly improper, inexcusable and morally indefensible." As for Brewster, Reuther said that if 10% of what the McClellan committee heard about his activities is true, he "is unfit to hold union office or any position of public trust." To guard against the occurrence of Teamster-type racketeering within his own United Auto Workers, Reuther announced...
...Brewster said that he and Teamsters' International President Dave Beck were partners in a service-station across the street from the union's Seattle headquarters. From 1950 to 1955, according to McClellan committee evidence, Teamsters' units gave the Brewster-Beck service station at least $165.000 worth of business...
...time Frank Brewster had thankfully left the hearing room, the McClellan committee was already gearing itself for an even more important Teamster: President Dave Beck, who was scheduled to show up this week (Counsel Kennedy promised to prove that Beck had taken at least $270,000 from the Western Teamsters). But although he would soon be smothered by Beck headlines. Frank Brewster would not soon be forgotten. The meaning of his testimony was perhaps best phrased by Republican Committee Member Karl Mundt of South Dakota. Amid all the big moneymaking of the Teamsters' leaders, asked Mundt, where did "John...