The Spokesman-Review from Spokane, Washington • 29

T' A VllVfVtlfV419 'C4 The Spokesman-Review Spokane Chronicle Spokane, June 22, 1986 Once-powerful union boss wheeling toward 100 By Marilynn Wheeler Associated Press a paper route. At 16, he quit school to drive a laundry truck. He joined the Teamsters Union in 1914. In 1920, he was named business agent of the Laundry and Dye Drivers Union, and in 1924, he was elected executive secretary-treasurer. Two years later, he quit driving a truck to become a full-time union official.

In 1947, Beck was named executive vice president of the Teamsters, a job created just for him. In 1952, when Dan Tobin retired after 45 years as president, he named Beck as his successor. Beck was at the forefront of the greatest period of expansion in the Teamsters history. In 1925, when Beck attended his first national convention, there were 76,000 Teamsters. By the time he stepped down in 1957, that number had grown to 1.6 million.

At times we fought skull and knuckles alley rules, Beck told his biographer. But we built a strong organization with better wages, hours and conditions for the personnel we were paid to represent. Beyond that, Beck worked to establish the Teamsters unique position In the marketplace. Nobody can tell the Teamsters to go to hell, Beck said. Ill tell you why this union is so powerful: Were not allied with any one organization.

And yet every industry to some extent depends upon the Teamsters. Beck says that despite the Teamsters political clout, the union is not necessarily partisan. Labor unions are economic, not political organizations, he said. Running a labor union is strictly a business. Workers dont own steel mills, they dont own auto factories or department stores.

They own just one thing: their labor. In selling their labor, if they happen to be best served by a Republican, tneyll support him. The same for a Democrat, In some cases, its neither. Beck is a great sports fan, and especially loves to attend baseball games. He thinks the Seattle Mariners are on their way to becoming a great team, though theyve never had a winning season.

Beck says he thinks the team is still four or five years away from the World Series, and hes looking forward to that day. Hell be there, hes convinced of that. Ill be here until Im 100. he says. No problem.

SEATTLE Dave Beck is no longer the fiery figure he was in the 50s, but the 92-year-old former Teamsters boss hasnt lost his spark. The laundry truck driver who rose to lead the largest labor union in the world was courted by presidents Roosevelt, Truman and Eisenhower to become secretary of labor. Beck was big enough to turn them down. But then he made some mistakes. He went to prison.

And somehow, over the years, he fell through the cracks of history, i Beck, who turned 92 on Monday, wasnt the first Teamsters leader to spend time in prison. And he wasnt the last A certain number of people will say labor leaders are a bunch of crooks, Beck said in an interview. Theyll say it more about the Teamsters because theyre the largest union in the world. The first president of the union, Cornelius Shea of Chicago, served time in prison for trying to stab his mistress to death. 'Jimmy Hoffa, who took over when Beck Resigned as head of the Teamsters in 1957, went to prison for IS years for jury tampering.

Frank Fitzsimmons was under investigation for mismanagement of Teamster funds when he died of cancer in 1981. Roy Williams stepped down as head of the Teamsters in 1983 after being sentenced to prison for conspiring to bribe a U.S. senator. ust last month, Teamsters President Jackie Presser was indicted on charges of payroll padding in Cleveland. Beck refuses to speculate on Pressers guilt or innocence.

1 Beck himself faced off with Senate ccon-sel Bobby Kennedy before a racketeering committee in 1957 on charges of illegally investing Teamster money. In two days of questioning by Kennedy, Beck took the Fifth Amendment 142 times. charges were made as a result of that probe, but later that year. Beck was Convicted of embezzling $1,900 from the sale of a used Cadillac owned by the union. Next, he was indicted on federal income tax evasion charges and for filing a fraudulent union tax return.

Though Beck was convicted on both counts, the tax evasion charges were overturned on appeal. In 1962, Beck was sent to McNeil Island AP photo Former union boss Dave Beck: Nobody can tell the Teamsters to go to hell. f. Federal Penitentiary in Washington state, where he served 2 Vi years of a five-year sentence for the grand larceny and false return charges. In 1965, Gov.

Albert Ros-selini pardoned Beck on the state conviction. Ten years later, President Gerald Ford granted Beck a full and unconditional pardon. The labor movement is not dependent on men like Presser or Hoffa. Labor would have lived and prospered without those people, said Beck, who now lives the quiet life with his sister, Reta Henne, in Seattle. Beck works out daily on a stationary bi cycle to keep in shape.

And he says real estate investments have put him in excellent financial shape. Born in Stockton, on June 16, 1894, Beck moved to Seattle with his family when he was four years old. The family was poor, and young Beck helped out with Knapp or ns Mariimr lias identity crisis Krupp or Marlin Spokane You see all these cities starting neighborhood watch programs, Lesser says. People in these parts have always been that way. Not because theyre nosey, but because they know everybody else in town.

Lesser proudly points out the town halls new Marlin City Hall sign made by the Wilson Creek High School shop class, as were the towns street signs. The five-member town council meets once a month in a former country church Were hanging in there. If we disincorporate, wed lose our street lights. The rock-walled valley was settled by Henry Marlin in the 1870s, but the towns German stock named the town Krupp. To avoid challenges to their allegiance during World War when the Krupp munitions company was equipping the German army, residents unofficially changed the towns name to Marlin.

Thus began the towns 70-year-long identity crisis. Krupp, or Marlin, sits hard astride the Grant County side of the Grant-Lincoln county line in the Crab Creek valley, a green respite from the parched wheat and hay country about 25 miles northeast of Moses Lake. With a population of 80, the town is the second-smallest incorporated municipality in the state, said Kent Swisher, executive director of the Association of Washington Cities. The communitys location 'on a main east-west rail line makes it an important grain shipping spot. The Krupp Union Grain Co-Op began operating a 36-car unit-train loading facility last fall, fhe Almira Farmers Warehouse Co.

has started construction on a new $500,000 wit-train loading facility just to the west of the Krupp plant. Marlin, pr Krupp, is the kind of town where civic duties are shared by residents who volunteer their time. The towns only employee is someone hired to mow lawns. snorts Lesser as he waters sunburst locusts that volunteers planted along the towns main street two years ago. As far as Im concerned, and as far as the other members of the council are concerned, (disincorporation) just isnt an alternative, Lesser says.

Weve never discussed disincorporation at any of our meetings, agrees Jim Friend, city clerk and manager of the grain cooperatives Krupp branch. The insurance company that used to carry the towns liability policy quit writing municipal coverage ana did not renew its policy in December, Friend says. The community, with annual revenues of about $7,000, received a quote of $5,000 to replace the liability insurance, he says. Were hanging in there, says Town Council member Henry Kallenberger. A fellow doesnt know what to do.

If we disincorporate, wed lose our street lights. Street lights, street oiling and three city-owned buildings are about the only liability Krupp has, Lesser says. "Weve never even had a claim filed, he says. The town has joined with 74 other cities to help fund a feasibility study of pool insurance through the Association of Washington Cities, Lesser says. If the study proves such pool coverage is feasible, it should be available to cities shortly after the start of 1987, says Kent Swisher, the organizations executive.

KRUPP or MARLIN, Wash. (AP) On some maps it is Krupp, the name the town was given when incorporated in 1911. Others show Marlin, the name the U.S. Post Office has used since World War I. Papers of incorporation say its the Town of Krupp, but the newly installed sign on the town ball says Marlin, as do signs on the towns two aging fire trucks.

The grain cooperative on the edge of town is the Krupp Union Grain Co-Op, but the food market, owned by the cooperative, is the Marlin Grocery. There is even some confusion whether it is a city or a town. Its official name is Krupp, but everybody pretty much calls it Marlin, explains Tracy Lesser, 28, the towns mayor for the past five years. Its like the calendar. They just move the birthdays around whenever they need a holiday.

Mail is delivered, whether addressed to Krupp or Marlin, says Mark Warlike, offi-fcer-in-charge of the Marlin post office in the red brick building that was formerly the Bank of Krupp. Rumors that the U.S. Postal Service was ponsidering closing the post office prompted residents to start a successful petition drive to keep it, Warnke says. They were going to make this a community post office, and move it into the inarket, but people got up enough signatures on a petition to keep it here, he says. building that was moved to its present lo cation next to the volunteer fire department.

There usually isnt much business People have been very supportive, he says, noting that volume has increased so much that the facility may be upgraded from a fourth class to a third class post office this fall. Lesser says be started the petition drive because of uncertainty about the future of the grocery store. A pending merger of the Krupp Union Grain Co-Op and Central Washington Grain Growers could result in the store which is subsidized by the cooperative being closed, he says. If they made it a community post office and the store closed, theyd never bring a postmaster back in here, he says. that takes more than an hour or so, Lesser says.

However, since December, meetings have been a bit longer as the council debated how to cope with the skyrocketing cost of liability insurance. Lesser and other officials downplay rumors the town is on the brink of aisincor-poration because of the increased liability insurance premiums. I dont know where they got that idea, CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL COEUR DALENE MARATHON FINISHERS Buy a book, help Dallas go to prison Slagwarth Robaii -P- Hrblnn Noll 1:14 33 191 Hording Karlen 4: 17:04 729 -A- AcondN 9k far MM UHonkomp Olck LlihTorroll 4:1 4174 Lockhart Rill 4.29 07)0) Lomman Raod 4:01 91 10 Lovo Staphon 3:24 44101 Lundolo Shorlono 4:09 33 140 ia Trlpiatt Juanita 3:57:11 737 Turnar Ronald 307 TyrlaRIch 1.44:019 -u- Udovlc Jonat 4:00:34 777 -V- VonCloof Gary 4:27:90 Rilay Jasso 4:3 70 330 Riorden Joanna 4:07.39 74 Robbins Larry 3:4 77 19 Roborson Horry 4:09:33 RobortsTodD 2:4 93701 Robinson Alan 3:43 33 177 Robinson Connla A 3:2 3 131 Robinson Hanry 4:40:9 Court Ronald 4:01:93 24 Covet! 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V. Webster said he would contribute to the fund until Dallas is ap-ptehended. Dallas was serving a 30-year prison term for killing Idaho Fish and Game Officers William Pogue kaqd Conley Elms in 1981 when they came to his remote Owyhee County camp to question him about reported game violations. "Mr. Dallas thinks hes above the law, Webster said.

If it wouldnt have happened with these two people, I think it would have happened somewhere down the line." The reward fund established to aid in the capture of Dallas is expected to reach $25,000. Pogues daughter, Jodi Rupe, said the fund has grown to over $9,000. Another fund, established by International Game Warden magazine, has grown to $1,700 and will be added to the Idaho fund when Dallas is apprehended. Dallas trail remains cold, however. A bounty hunter, Ralph Papa Thorson, is looking for the escapee.

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