Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Illinois, a 600-member La Salle local, long at odds with its parent union, issued a call for the resignations of Brewster, Beck and four other top Teamsters and urged that the international union be placed under trusteeship. A Toronto local flatly rejected Dave Beck's requests for financial aid for conducting the legal defenses of Teamster leaders. Chain letters were circulating in Los Angeles advising Teamster members to withhold their union dues. Brooding about the hundreds of thousands of dollars Teamster leaders had admitted "borrowing" from the union, a Los Angeles truck driver grumbled...
Under snickersnee-sharp questions from Committee Counsel Robert Kennedy (and duller ones from politically minded committee members, e.g., "Do you really feel that this is within the boundaries of basic Americanism . . .?"), Brewster squirmed about a $99,999 bank roll listed by his own Seattle Local 174 under "Special Fund...
Said Brewster: "That was for political funds." Said Kennedy: "Well, Mr. Brewster, we have checked and found that there is no such fund as a 'Local 174 Special Fund' in the bank. It does not exist...
...sure as Brewster could remember was not sure enough. The committee investigators had been able to trace from beginning to end only one check attributed by Local 174 to its "Special Fund." That check, for $4,000, was signed by Frank Brewster and had been cashed as a part down payment on his Palm Springs house...
...Seattle postman's son, "Handsome Frank" Brewster began driving a team of horses at 16, joined the Teamsters, spent two years in the Army during and after World War I, and returned to Seattle to become recording secretary of the Teamsters' Local 174 in 1921. His salary: $2 a month. During those early years, he was senior to and far overshadowed a turnip-shaped young Seattle Teamster named Dave Beck. "Frank had the interests of the working stiff at heart," recalls a Teamster veteran. "He'd put his neck on the line any time to sign...