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...appetizer, McClellan's committee heard about the Teamsters' free and easy ways with union funds. The Teamsters' Western Boss Frank Brewster, who came to power as Dave Beck's first lieutenant (and followed Beck as chairman of the union's Western Conference), was described as having ordered a $3,900 Teamster loan to a Seattle racketeer for opening a tavern and gambling joint in Spokane...
...Brewster was also identified as having okayed a $17,000 union loan to help get another Seattle gambler out from under a federal tax lien. Dave Beck himself, it was said, ordered a $30,000 loan to finance a saloon operated by a University of Washington classmate of Dave Beck Jr. in a building owned by Teamsters' President Beck...
...expand his illegal operations (he was game for anything except that he "never took a nickel" from a madam) around Portland. He was referred to Seattle Gambler Tom Maloney as a man who could help him by reason of being "a very close friend of [Teamster Boss] Frank Brewster." Gambler Maloney, said Witness Elkins, looked upon the Teamsters as "God or something" and was fond of boasting that "we could eventually take over the whole state of Oregon if we had their backing." Elkins, Maloney and-although they had previously been committed to another candidate-the Teamsters decided to back...
...first-class bungler and, said Elkins, the Teamsters sent in another man to help with the Portland racketeering. He was Seattle Gambler Joseph Patrick McLaughlin, alias Joe McKinley. The difference between Gamblers Tom Maloney and Joe McLaughlin was explained to Elkins by none other than the Teamsters' Frank Brewster. Testified Elkins: Brewster once said that " 'Tom Maloney is a blubberheaded, blabbermouthed so-and-so, and I have known him 20 years, and I have put him in business 20 times and he messes up every time . . .' I told him I agreed with that, certainly, and he said...
...Government Operations Committee to cite for contempt four Teamster officers who had refused to testify about the union's financial affairs on the ground that the subcommittee was without jurisdiction. Among those cited: Einar O. Mohn, Beck's personal assistant, and Seattle's Frank W. Brewster, chairman of the Teamsters Western conference, which the subcommittee charged with coughing up $8,826.98 to pay some of Beck's personal bills...