Word: daves
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dave Beck finally tumbled to what other people in and out of labor have known all along: his Fifth Amendment appearances before the McClellan Senate investigating committee had done him in as president of the 1,400,000-member Teamsters Union. After a secret meeting with Teamster vice presidents last week, Beck announced he would retire in September. Dave also announced he would summon an executive board meeting in mid-June, raised the interesting possibility that he might step down even before September...
Much credit for removing the ugliest stain on the labor record was due the Teamsters themselves. The proof by McClellan & Co. that Beck had been using their dues payments like a business tycoon spurred Dave-must-go movements in half a dozen key Teamster locals before Beck finally took the hint. The ugly evidence that he could stoop even to profiting on the sale of real-estate equities to the widow of Union Official Ray Leheny (TIME, May 20) turned his retirement into a sooner-the-better situation (although Beck, protesting innocence in that, says that he has since sent...
Meany and his council took pains to prove that they were after Beck and not his union, the nation's biggest. One day later they filled Dave's vacant chair with another Teamster, General Secretary-Treasurer John English, 68, a onetime coal-wagon driver who has been a Teamster 52 years, has never liked Latecomer Beck. Promised tall, dour John English: "We are going to wash our own dirty linen." The A.F.L.-C.I.O. believed him. To allow time for the scrubbing to begin, the A.F.L.-C.I.O. Ethical Practices Committee postponed indefinitely its scheduled investigation of the union that...
Into the Rackets. The McClellan committee investigation reaches far beyond the skulduggery of any individual, even a Dave Beck. It goes to a fundamental U.S. proposition: that labor and management, through their mutually honest efforts at collective bargaining, shall both thrive in a free economy. It was to correct a management-weighted imbalance that the Wagner Labor Relations act (John McClellan voted for it) was passed in 1935. But that, in turn, created an equally oppressive, labor-weighted imbalance that even the Taft-Hartley law (McClellan voted for it, too) failed to remedy. Unchecked by restraining laws, some labor leaders...
...children-Kathleen, 5, Robert Jr., 3, and Joseph, 4-it was often a circus as Ringmaster Robert Kennedy cracked dossiers like whips and fired questions like pistol shots. If sometimes the kids fell into daydreamy boredom, it was perhaps because they missed the main event-a performing bear named Dave Beck who specialized in playing dead at the drop of a query...