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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...
Dave Beck, Seattle now knows-and long suspected-decided what Eastern beer the city could or could not drink. The chief editorial writer of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer turned up on the Teamster payroll as Dave Beck's biographer. When Beck was named international president of the Teamsters, Seattle's most influential men gathered at a dinner to cheer him on with a stout hurrah. Some alumni may have winced inwardly when Beck was named president of the University of Washington board of regents-but they did precious little protesting. Beck could walk into the eminently respectable First...
Backers of the Seattle symphony were happy to negotiate with Beck for Teamsters' sponsorship of a radio program featuring Conductor Milton Katims. In return for a $5,000 donation (Teamster money) to Seattle's United Good Neighbors charity drive, Beck's civic leadership was cited as going "a long way toward making our town a good place in which to live and do business...