Word: teamsters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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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...
Perhaps the most significant reaction came from a non-Teamster: the No. 2 man in U.S. labor, A.F.L.-C.I.O. Vice President Walter Reuther. Said Reuther in Detroit: "I believe that Mr. Beck's use of union funds to further his own personal investments is highly improper, inexcusable and morally indefensible." As for Brewster, Reuther said that if 10% of what the McClellan committee heard about his activities is true, he "is unfit to hold union office or any position of public trust." To guard against the occurrence of Teamster-type racketeering within his own United Auto Workers, Reuther announced...
...time Frank Brewster had thankfully left the hearing room, the McClellan committee was already gearing itself for an even more important Teamster: President Dave Beck, who was scheduled to show up this week (Counsel Kennedy promised to prove that Beck had taken at least $270,000 from the Western Teamsters). But although he would soon be smothered by Beck headlines. Frank Brewster would not soon be forgotten. The meaning of his testimony was perhaps best phrased by Republican Committee Member Karl Mundt of South Dakota. Amid all the big moneymaking of the Teamsters' leaders, asked Mundt, where did "John...
...manicured hands, he flashed gold cuff links. His handsome face was bronzed by many a day spent under the sun at Santa Anita, Tanforan and Bay Meadows. Only his slightly cauliflowered left ear betrayed the past of Frank William Brewster, 60, West Coast boss of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, as a brick-fisted mug. The story of the first phase of the McClellan committee's investigation is the story of how Frank Brewster used Teamster funds to make himself a real gent in the world of showy blondes, fast horses and high-proof bourbon...
...Seattle postman's son, "Handsome Frank" Brewster began driving a team of horses at 16, joined the Teamsters, spent two years in the Army during and after World War I, and returned to Seattle to become recording secretary of the Teamsters' Local 174 in 1921. His salary: $2 a month. During those early years, he was senior to and far overshadowed a turnip-shaped young Seattle Teamster named Dave Beck. "Frank had the interests of the working stiff at heart," recalls a Teamster veteran. "He'd put his neck on the line any time to sign...