Word: teamsters
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Dave Beck, the ruddy-faced president of the A.F.L. Teamster Union, could easily be mistaken for a millionaire. Teamster Beck has several personal business interests on the side: he owns large chunks of Seattle real estate; he is board chairman of Kellerblock Corp., which owns Seattle's 18-story Grosvenor House apartments, and, until recently, he operated Northwest Securities Corp., an auto finance company. His family has interests in other enterprises, including beer and beverage distributorships. Last week it appeared that Beck put over one of his best business deals at the union's expense...
Recently, Teamster officials decided that their boss deserved the same sort of generous treatment granted to retired President Tobin, for whom the union provides homes in Miami and New England, along with servants and upkeep. Last March 10, while Beck discreetly absented himself from the room, the union executive board unanimously voted to supply him with a "home and operating help." It turned out that Beck, always a good businessman, did even better than Tobin. He sold his own house to the union for $163,215, pocketed the money and went right on living there, free...
Last week in Chicago, Sewell Avery capitulated. As Hoffa looked on, Avery and Teamster President Dave Beck signed the first companywide union contract in Ward's history. When the bitter moment arrived, Sewell Avery, who once forced Franklin Roosevelt to order him carried out of his own office rather than deal with a union, acted as though it was not so hard to take after all. As photographers swarmed into his office, Avery playfully rubbed Beck's bald head, looked pleased as Punch when the union leader said: "You've got more hair than I have...
...Teamster Boss Dave Beck, who thinks the committee "is trying to make headlines for political purposes," sent two of his top lieutenants to Minneapolis to investigate. Said he: "No one is going to stampede me ... I can only move so fast . . . [But] if I find out they've been grafting, I'll crucify them...
...business (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), did not sanction the Pittsburgh walkout and has refused benefits to the strikers. Officially, he said only that he would move in "at the right time," and colleagues said the dispute was not the kind of strike Beck thought served the cause of labor. Said Teamster Beck: "I refused to sanction the strike before it started, and I don't condone it any more now than I did then...