Word: shefferman
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Dates: during 1957-1957
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...been considerable. A natty dresser and nifty talker, Pitzele is Business Week labor editor, was Dwight Eisenhower's labor adviser, served as Tom Dewey's New York State Mediation Board chairman. Last week, appearing in the McClellan committee's investigation of labor-relations Wheeler-Dealer Nathan Shefferman (TIME, Nov. 4), Mel Pitzele owned up to still another reward. While he was editing stories, advising Ike and mediating labor disputes, he was also collecting $5,000 a year as labor adviser to Teamster Boss Dave Beck...
...publications to suggest improvement, thinking up ways of bettering employer relationships and helping Beck root out rotten elements in the massive union he had taken over. But, said Pitzele sadly, the more reforms he suggested, the less he saw Beck and the more he had to deal through Nate Shefferman. who was paying Pitzele's Teamster retainer through the infamous Shefferman Labor Relations Associates firm. Pitzele saw nothing wrong in Shefferman's paying him ("This is an unusual union, and these are unusual people"). But as the Teamster crooks grew fatter, he did begin to see something incongruous...
...Also indicted: Dave Beck Jr.; Mrs. Dave Beck Sr.'s cousin, Norman Gessert; Teamsters Auditor Fred Verschueren; Beck's pal and personal financier, Chicago Labor-Relations Consultant Nathan Shefferman; and Shefferman's son, Shelton...
...that he had been handed some $69,000 as a Teamster organizer, never did a lick of work for his pay, profited $19,500 on the sale of toy trucks to Teamster locals, and received more than $5,000 in trinkets-cameras, washing machines, etc.-from Teamster Pal Nathan Shefferman. The one noticeable ripple in Beck Junior's sea of silence came when John McClellan asked him if he was married. After a nervous giggle and a consultation with his counsel. Beck squeaked no and had another giggle...