Word: daves
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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 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...
This week some Pittsburghers thought they detected a glimmer of hope. It looked as if Dave Beck himself might intercede. Beck, who prides himself on running his union like a big business (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), did not sanction the Pittsburgh walkout and has refused benefits to the strikers. Officially, he said only that he would move in "at the right time," and colleagues said the dispute was not the kind of strike Beck thought served the cause of labor. Said Teamster Beck: "I refused to sanction the strike before it started, and I don't condone it any more...
...Dave Garroway Show (Fri. 8 p.m., NBC). Guests: Kukla, Fran and Ollie...
...Harvard's (and Australia's) Dave Hawkins won both the 100-and 200-yd. breaststroke...