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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...
Washington, March 27--Teamster titan Dave Beck, a Fifth Amendment witness, wound up an initial appearance before Senate rackets probers today under scorching denunciation for "arrogant contempt...
Wall Street Lawyer John Cye Cheasty (rhymes with hasty), 49, got a long-distance phone call from an acquaintance, Attorney Hyman Fischbach, onetime counsel for a House subcommittee investigating crime in the District of Columbia. At Fischbach's request, Cheasty flew to Washington, where Fischbach explained that Teamster Hoffa needed some "special help" in connection with the McClellan committee's investigation. Hoffa, said Fischbach, wanted to plant an agent on the McClellan committee staff and Jack Cheasty, a former Secret Service agent, Internal Revenue agent, and naval intelligence commander (he retired in 1952 with a $5,500 disability...
...Portland's Democratic Mayor Terry Schrunk, elected with Teamster help, had agreed to take a lie-detector test to help him refute testimony that he had, as sheriff of Multnomah County, taken a $500 bribe from a gambler. But when he went to take the test, Schrunk objected to six questions (e.g., "While sheriff, did you receive any payoffs from any gamblers?"), stalked out. Later he told the committee: "Apparently they were aimed at trying to make me flunk the test...
...Multnomah County's Teamster-sponsored District Attorney William Langley, 40, under indictment at home on malfeasance charges, repeatedly invoked the Fifth Amendment in refusing to answer the committee's questions. Then Langley sat pasty-faced while the committee played tape recordings (taken by Star Witness James Elkins, a Portland racketeer) identified as Langley's conversations with Gamblers Tom Maloney and Joe McLaughlin. A Langley sample: "So the prostitution is out. And now it's no good, and we don't want it anyway, and it's too dangerous ... So the only...