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...appearing in the McClellan committee's investigation of labor-relations Wheeler-Dealer Nathan Shefferman (TIME, Nov. 4), Mel Pitzele owned up to still another reward. While he was editing stories, advising Ike and mediating labor disputes, he was also collecting $5,000 a year as labor adviser to Teamster Boss Dave Beck...
Advice to Beck. Pitzele explained to the committee, took the form of scrutinizing Teamster publications to suggest improvement, thinking up ways of bettering employer relationships and helping Beck root out rotten elements in the massive union he had taken over. But, said Pitzele sadly, the more reforms he suggested, the less he saw Beck and the more he had to deal through Nate Shefferman. who was paying Pitzele's Teamster retainer through the infamous Shefferman Labor Relations Associates firm. Pitzele saw nothing wrong in Shefferman's paying him ("This is an unusual union, and these are unusual people...
Questions & Answers. The step was climactic, pricked with crucial questions. The Teamsters comprise the largest single union in the federation; its 1,400,000 members pay $840,000 a year in per capita dues to the A.F.L.-C.I.O.; its burly truck drivers can make or break strikes in almost all key industries, and the Teamster bosses had let the word get out that they might be tempted to get even with the unions that voted against them. A morass of tie-ups, a campaign of raids, could splinter, perhaps even destroy the A.F.L.-C.I.O...
...executive council held firm. After 90 minutes of discussion with Hoffa and his general executive board, the council huddled in executive session for an equal period of time. At length, Jimmy Hoffa, cooling his heels in an outer office, was called in to hear the verdict: the Teamsters were suspended by a 25 to 4 vote (the four: representatives of the Teamsters, the scandal-tinged Bakery Workers, the powerful Carpenters, the Letter Carriers). Under George Meany's tough hand, a powerful majority had shown that the A.F.L.-C.I.O. would risk its own future to protect honest unions from creeping...
Bipartisan Burst. Dave Lawrence began his political schooling early. His teamster father was Democratic chairman of lower Pittsburgh's tough Third Ward. At 14 young Dave landed his first job: office boy to Democratic City Chairman William J. Brennan. Lawrence became Allegheny County chairman at 31, discovered that in Republican Pennsylvania the prestige was hollow. When Hyde Park's Franklin Roosevelt rolled into the White House, Democrat Dave Lawrence rolled into statewide power, dragging with him his own candidate for governor, Businessman George H. Earle...