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...when the convention proper began, Teamster Czar Beck acted less like a union big shot than a man taking a rest cure at some stodgy, back-country hot springs. He made no speeches at all; when he sat down to listen to convention oratory, he did so with the resigned air of a man lowering himself into a mud bath for the good of his soul and his sweat glands...
...time last week, it looked as if Dave Beck had finally made it. As everybody expected, Uncle Dan made him the union's executive vice president-the crown-princely post which Tobin and Beck created at the last Teamsters' convention (TIME, Aug. 25). Teamster courtiers were sure that this was it; the boys were even trying to figure out who would get Dave's mahogany-paneled office in Seattle, where he rules a Teamster duchy of eleven western states...
...Work. For seven days A.F.L. teamsters had refused to drive truckloads of parts through the foremen's lines. So the company brought them in by boxcar and the C.I.O. workers helped unload them. Then Teamster Boss Dan Tobin told the teamsters to go through the lines. Student foremen and nonstriking supervisors worked 14 hours on the skeleton supervisory force. Some F.A.A. members of the 3,800 who had walked out went tack to work. Help also came from U.A.W. shop stewards. They knew that U.A.W. members could not afford to be laid off. And Ford had promised to keep...
Some 15,000 drivers of three teamster locals were out of control. They shouted down their leaders' pleas to accept one proffered settlement, shouted down proposals to return to work pending an agreement on wages & hours. They blocked many nonstriking drivers from working. They had just about choked off the metropolitan area's supplies of food when Dan Tobin stepped into the situation. He telegraphed an order: the nonstriking unions must abide by their contracts; sympathy walkouts must...
...limbered his lariat Hoffa went on talking soothingly. It had cost a fellow teamster chieftain, Dave Beck, endless time, abuse and trouble to round up Seattle's merchants, laundries and dry cleaners, back in the '30s. And Hoffa had learned plenty about trouble himself under the tutorship of Detroit's tough Bert Brennan-a teamster boss he had lately outstripped. Hoffa hoped to prevent a stampede, shoo Detroit's 6,400 into the corral in a body and close the gate as softly as possible...