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Dave Beck, and more, should well be on Seattle's conscience. All major candidates for high public offices appeared last fall on a statewide, Teamster-sponsored TV program in unanimous condemnation of a right-to-work measure. Why should any American be compelled, as a condition of his employment, to become a member of a union such as Dave Beck...
Under the McClellan committee's thumb last week was Dave Beck Jr., 36-year-old, balding facsimile of his egg-bald Teamster-boss father. The long-elusive Junior lost no time on the amenities, plopped his 210-lb. frame into the witness chair, and settled right down to his pleas of possible self-incrimination under the Fifth Amendment. He gave his name and address, then began to sound like a tape recording of dear old dad. Beck's bad boy managed to run up 124 uses of the Fifth (papa topped 200), and in one burst of speed...
...crimsoned under his tan, and refused to say.* While his icy-eyed, vigorous father showed every sign of interest in his own undoing before the labor investigating committee. Beck Junior exhibited nothing but slouching boredom as he heard charges 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...
...surface, the Beck Junior bearing seemed just as depressing as any other Teamster hearing but there was more to it than met the ear; Lawyer John McClellan, nettled by reluctant witnesses, was hard at work trying to define some legal limits on the capricious use of the Fifth Amendment. Beck Junior and his kissing cousin, Joe McEvoy, who was next up, had overworked a new wrinkle in abuse of the Fifth. When Beck would refuse to answer questions on such matters as his occupation or salary, McClellan would ask if he "honestly believed" his answer would tend to incriminate...
...rebutted President Eisenhower's recent commonsensical remark that "if a man has to go to the Fifth Amendment, there must be something he doesn't want to tell." By the same reasoning, A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany could be held to be wrong in concluding that Teamster Dave Beck's use of the Fifth Amendment was reason enough for booting him off the A.F.L.-C.I.O. executive council...