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Page 254 of the interim report: the end of the findings on James R. Hoffa, closing that the committee finds him "a dangerous influence in the labor movement."
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Interim Report of the McClellan Committee, S. Rept. 85-1417 (March 1958)

The select committee's report on its first year, ordered printed 24 March 1958. It finds that Dave Beck "took, not borrowed, more than $370,000 in union funds" and that James R. Hoffa "repeatedly betrayed the members of his own union."

Date
1958-03-24
Kind
hearing
Source
Internet Archive, scan of S. Rept. No. 1417, 85th Cong., 2d sess.
Retrieved
2026-10-12
Docket
S. Rept. No. 1417, 85th Cong., 2d sess. (1958)
Rights
A report of the United States Senate, printed by the Government Printing Office. Public domain in the United States under 17 U.S.C. § 105. Read from the Internet Archive scan and its OCR text; the page image stored here is from that scan.

The Select Committee on Improper Activities in the Labor or Management Field filed this report on its first year’s work. It was ordered printed on 24 March 1958 (legislative day 17 March). Its contents include sections and findings on the Teamsters in Portland, Frank W. Brewster, Dave Beck, the “New York teamster phony locals,” James R. Hoffa, Nathan W. Shefferman, the garbage industry, organized violence in Tennessee, and the Operating Engineers.

On Beck the committee found that he “took, not borrowed, more than $370,000 in union funds” (p. 85). On Hoffa it found that he “repeatedly betrayed the members of his own union by entering into a number of business relationships with employers with whom his union negotiated” (p. 250). The page shown here (p. 254) ends the report’s list of men with criminal records it connected with Hoffa and his locals, rejects his “posture of forgetfulness as unworthy of belief,” and closes by finding him “a dangerous influence in the labor movement and an unworthy steward of the destinies of 1,500,000 men and women.”

These are findings of a Senate committee, not of a court. The final report’s Part 3 quotes them.

itemMcClellan Committee hearings, Part 5: Dave Beck testifies (26 and 27 March 1957)The select committee's hearing at which Teamsters president Dave Beck, sworn, challenged the committee's jurisdiction and declined to answer questions about union money, saying a truthful answer "might tend to incriminate me."itemMcClellan Committee hearings, Part 10: the New York series opens (31 July to 6 August 1957)The volume that opens the committee's hearings on New York locals. The chairman's opening statement says the evidence will show that "hoodlums and racketeers came into the labor picture with the aid and assistance of certain high level union officials."itemMcClellan Committee hearings, Part 13: James R. Hoffa's first testimony (20 to 23 August 1957)The hearing at which James R. Hoffa first testified before the select committee. Sworn on 20 August 1957, he identified himself as "a business representative and a vice president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters."itemFinal Report of the McClellan Committee, Part 3, S. Rept. 86-1139 (March 1960): the criminal syndicate, and HoffaPart 3 of the committee's final report, ordered printed 28 March 1960. It finds that "underworld infiltration of business and labor is a national problem" and restates its findings on James R. Hoffa, adding that it had found him "faithless to the members of his own union."