Word: becks
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...with nothing to hide, Boss Beck's recent behavior had been highly peculiar. Within the past three weeks he had: 1) declined, pleading illness, to appear before a Senate subcommittee investigating misuse of union funds; 2) turned up, bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, at the Miami Beach midwinter meeting of the A.F.L.-C.I.O. executive council. There he cast the sole vote against a policy statement calling for removal of union officers who plead the Fifth Amendment, particularly at Government rackets investigations (TIME, Feb. 11). After the vote Beck stamped out, and the word was that he was headed home...
Explained Beck in London: "My schedule isn't an ordinary schedule. It keeps me moving all the time." Nonetheless, said he, "I have no objection to appearing before any committee"-as long as it does not "interfere with my schedule...
From a transatlantic plane at London Airport last week strode Teamster Boss Dave Beck, ready for the question uppermost on the minds of newsmen: Had he left the U.S. to dodge the investigation by a special Senate committee into labor racketeering? Snapped beefy, truculent Beck, whose 1,400,000-member union will be the center of the probe: "Why should I dodge? I have nothing to hide...
Both Congress and the AFL-CIO have had most of their trouble with the million-and-a-half member Teamsters Union. The Senate Subcommittee searched valiantly for a Teamster official who would testify, but by the time their jurisdiction was established, teamster boss Beck was in sunny Nassau and now tours Europe. There is hope, however, that he will testify later this spring...
This done, the council got down to cases on the matter of self-policing. With Dave Beck absent (explained Beck's aides: Mrs. Beck was ill, and Dave decided to take her out for a drive), it unanimously adopted a tough ethical-practices code. Highlights...