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Dave Beck
Dave Beck (June 16, 1894 – December 26, 1993) was an American labor leader, and president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters from 1952 to 1957. He helped found the "Conference" system of organization in the Teamsters union, and shot to national prominence in 1957 by repeatedly invoking his right against self-incrimination before a United States Senate committee investigating labor racketeering. ==Early life== David Daniel Beck was born in Stockton, California, to Lemuel and Mary (Tierney) Beck. His father was a carpet cleaner. The Becks moved to Seattle, Washington when Dave was 4 years old. He had a younger sister,Reba. The family was poor. He attended Broadway High School but was forced to quit high school at the age of 16 in order to go to work.〔〔Fink, ''Biographical Dictionary of American Labor,'' 1984.〕〔Raley, "The Rise and Fall of Labor Giant Dave Beck," ''Seattle Post-Intelligencer,'' December 3, 1999.〕 Dave Beck took a job as a laundry worker, and joined the Laundry Workers International Union. A short while later, he got work as a driver for a laundry truck. He helped organize Local 566 of the Teamsters after a short strike in 1917.〔〔 He was drafted in World War I and served as a machinists' mate and gunner in England with the United States Navy.〔
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