Word: becks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pink-cheeked and cold-eyed, Teamster Chieftain Dave Beck is one labor leader who not only admires the U.S. Big Businessman but considers himself a self-made if not yet fully recognized member of their lodge-he is proud of having made a fortune as a capitalist himself...
When a group of 200 Harvard Business School graduates asked him to address them at Pasadena's high-hat Huntington Hotel last week, Beck (perhaps not knowing they had first failed to get eleven less controversial capitalists, among them Studebaker's Paul Hoffman and Lockheed's Robert Gross) was proud and happy to oblige. "I contend," said Beck, "that we are in a very serious recession. Ten weeks ago, I stated that the auto industry was in a terrible condition. Everybody said I was a prophet of gloom. But about three weeks later the Wall Street Journal...
...business, a big business. I've got 32 million dollars in my treasury. As a businessman, I can see we're going into a severe recession . . . and I think business should call us in to discuss it." He did not blink when he was asked: "Mr. Beck, in view of this recession you speak about, wouldn't it be unwise for your men to ask for more money?" Said Businessman Beck: "Since I firmly believe we are in a recession, I am cautioning the members of this international union to study very carefully before they shock industry...
When negotiations with the union began last fall, the stores not only balked at wage increases but insisted that the driver-helper and parcel-post featherbedding clauses be modified. After the strike began on Dec. i, Dave Beck, the Teamsters' international boss, asked both sides to arbitrate. Management's answer was that its right to use the Government mails was hardly a subject for arbitration. The local union also rejected Beck's plea and the strike broke out in violence. Store windows were smashed, paint and gasoline bombs thrown against cars of customers and nonstrikers...
...mark for a close third place in League play, Penn has been stronger than expected this season. Joe Sturgis, Bart Leach, and Captain Dick Heylinun--all of them among the top eight scorers in the league--are helping to fill the gap caused by the graduation of Ernie Beck, who topped the E.I.B.L. scoring race for three seasons...