LABOR: That's My Boy

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LABOR That's My Boy Charged with embezzling the $4,650 he collected on the sale of two Cadillacs owned by the Teamsters Union, paunchy, balding Dave Beck Jr., 37, last week watched a doubtful character witness speak up for him in Seattle's King County courthouse. The witness: paunchy, bald Dave Beck Sr., lame-duck head of the union, who shouted: "I will testify to the truth for my boy. My boy has done no wrong. If anything has been done wrong, it is me. I ordered him to sell the cars; there was nothing wrong about the transactions in the slightest degree. I certainly will stand back of my boy. My boy is right in this particular instance, thank God."

Unimpressed by Beck Sr.'s shouts and convinced that his boy had indeed done something wrong, a jury of nine men and three women found the younger Beck guilty on two counts of grand larceny. Then prosecutors turned their attention to the man who was standing behind him. Accused of grand larceny in the sale of still another Teamsters' Cadillac, Dave Beck Sr. will go on trial next week in the same court.