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Thunder. March 28. 19S7
eck Rlay Be Indicted for Income
Tax Violation, His Attorney Says
7 HERBERT FOSTER
?U JOHV A. GOLDSMITH
Vsite: Prasi Correspondents
Vashington 'U.R Dave
'Btcft'a , attorney said today he
tffcs the Teamster Union boss
Y tm indicted for income tax
rylftion "at any time now."
3 ha attorney, Arthur D. Con
dam.t told the United Press he
Mlivs a federal grand jury in
BaaHa will act soon against
Pac, who said he has been
rt4 he faces income tax
jpraeution.
Ztawaver in Seattle, Federal
15 ia. Atty. Charles Moriarty said
fca Anew of no forthcoming in
Actmcnt against Beck. He said
a. sasjLrfar federal grand jury will
M summoned in June "in the
(jTsorraat course of events."
Internal Revenue service
xttiad to comment on whether
. plans to act against the burly
Temster boss. A spokesman
saW only that action against
anyone is customarily taken in
the district where the individ
ual pays taxes. For Beck, this is
Seattle.
Committee Takes Breather
Beck gave his tax troubles as
the reason for dodging 117 times
behind the Fifth Amendment in
two dav as the Krnatp Rarkpts
committee charged he took more
than $322,000 from Teamster
Union funds and still owes more
than $50,000 to the nation's big
gest union.
The belligerent Be .. said re
peatedly a truthful answer to
yhat he did with union funds
I might tend to incriminate him
j Beck, excused as a witness
wnne the committee took a two-
week . breather, headed for
Seattle today and the palatial
home which plays a big part in
his troubles with the Internal
Revenue service and the rackets
committee.
He bore the grim promise of
Chairman John L. McClellan (D
Ark.) that the committee will do
its best to punish him for "utter
contempt" of Congress.
McClellan, who said "proper
propriety" prevented him from
expressing his real opinion of
Beck, seared the paunchy union
boss with an angry concluding
statement at the close of
Wednesday's hearing.
Executive Council Meets
He said Beck had shown
"arrogant contempt for the mil
lion and a half members of hon
est laboring peop e in the Team
sters' Union . . . flagrant d i s
regard and disrespect for honest
and reputable unionism . . . and
utter contempt for this commit
tee, for the Congress of the
United States and for his gov
ernment."
The chairman sent a copy of
Beck's testimony to the Justice
department and said the Inter
nal Revenue service could have
one too if it was interested.
Beck faced yet another haz
ard. The AFL-CIO executive
council meets here Friday to
consider what action to take
against the Teamster boss for
funds and for invoking the Fifth 1 such action would be "a healthy
Amendment.
The council adopted a policy
statement in February that any
union official who invokes the
Fifth Amendment has no place
as a union leader. Walter P. Reu
ther. No. 2 man in the AFL-CIO
and a council member, has indi
cated he will demand Beck's re
moval as a "council member and
AFL-CIO vice president
Will Seek Reelection
Beck's place at the head of his
1,500,000-member union, how
ever, is strictly up to the Team
sters themselves. Their next
convention is in September.
Beck has declared he will put his
case in his membership's hands
by standing for reelection.
Rep. Stewart L. Udall (D-Ariz.)
urged members of Beck's union
Wednesday to oust Beck and
Western Teamster official Frank
Brewster, who has figured in
earlier committee hearings.
Udall sent telegrams to all Team
ster locals in Arizona saying
his al.cgcd misuse of union
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demonstration of the basic hon
esty of the rank and file of the
labor movement."
Committee Counsil Robert F.
Kennedy said Beck had been un
der income tax investigation
since 19o4. Kennedy told the
committee that this set off some
of Beck's big-money maneuvers
to restore funds he had taken
from Teamster treasuries.
Attorney Condon, who sat be
side Beck during two days ' of
drama-packed hearings in place
of his oft mentioned chief coun
sel, former Sen. James H. Duff
(R-Pa.), said a grand jury would
have to act within "the next
month or so, because of the sta
tute of limitations."
The committee began a fort
night rece-is toda. while it pre
pared for new investigations,
probably involving Teamster ac
tivities in Scranton, Pa., and the
Teamsters and Building Trades
Unions in the New York area.
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IN HOT WATER Teamster Boss Dave Beck (right),
shown conferring with his attorney, Arthur D. Condon, as
he took the witness stand in Washington before the Sen
ate labor rackets committee, refused on grounds of pos
sible self-incrimination to answer charges that he "may
have misappropriated" $320,000 in union funds. Beck is
the first top union official to invoke the Fifth Amend
ment before the committee. Walter P. Reuther, United
Auto Workers president and AFL-CIO vice president, has
said that Beck should be removed from the AFL-CIO's 29
member ruling body if he invoked the Fifth Amendment
IWA Board Supports
Union's George Meany
Portland (U.R) The execu
tive board of the International
Woodworkers of America, meet
ing here yesterday, voiced sup
port of AFL-CIO president
George Meany and called for a
continued effort to oust "the cor
rupt element and racketeers" in
the labor movement.
The board, representing some
100,000 union members, issued
a statement which said:
"We commend the AFL-CIO
ethical practice committee for
its, dedicated and fearless work.
We support the action of the
executive council as necessary
and proper for the maintenance
of organized labor as a chief
bulwark of American, democracy."
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APPOINTMENT MADE
Salem (U.R) Appointment of
Clell Harris, 49-year-old Port
land labor leader, to the Port of;
Portland commission, was 1 an
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Labor Group May
Probe Meeting
Washington OI.R The Senate
Labor Rackets committee may
conduct an investigation into a
meeting in Portland Tuesday
night at which a Teamster union
member charged that union of
ficers attempted to get him to
retract statements he made
earlier criticizing union officials
and the organization.
Counsel for the committee.
Robert Kennedy, said he learned
of the meeting at which Harry
Federspiel contends he was
third degreed" by officers. Ken
nedy had said earlier that the
committee will not : tand still for
any retaliatory action taken
against a Teamster member who
voices support of the committee
hearings.
Federspiel last week circulat
ed a petition and obtained about
300 Signatures asking removal
from office "of any Teamster
official found guilty of racke
teering or misuse of union
funds."
Lew Cornelius, secretary of
Teamsters union local 162 here.
said that it was not Federspiel's
circulation of the petition that
stirred the ire of i.he executive
board but statements he made
in public.
Federspiel faces possible ex
pulsion from the union as a re
sult of what the officers said
was a violation of the union's
constitution.
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Boys Play Hookey !
For Six Months
Oklahoma City (U.R) Mr.
and Mrs. Earl Linville discovered
Wednesday that, although their
two sons always left home for
school, they never quite made it
to classes.
For the past six and one-half
months, Ora Lee Linville, 14,
and Jerry Don, 13, had been liv
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The older boys said they spent
the mornings exploring and in
the afternoons, "we'd just sit and
watch the sky or the creek until
school was out."
The boys said they picked up
enough gossip from students to
tell their parents convincing
stories about their activities at
Southeast High.
Portland Union
Official Surrenders
Portland (U.R) Frank Mal
loy. business agent for a Port
! land local of the Teamsters un
1 ion, yesterday surrendered for
i service of a warrant on an in
, dictment returned by the vice
i probing county grand jury.
; The charge against Malloy al
: leged conspiracy to commit the
(felony, of extortion in connec
i tin with an alleged scheme to
control the pinball industry in
: Portland.
Clyde C. Crosby, international
teamster representative in Ore
gon, was indicted on a similar
charge by the same grand jury
i and surrendered himself Tues
day. The indictments against Mal
loy and Crosby were two of the
seven secret indictments re-
turned by the grand jury Monday.
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j Portland (U.R) The Republi
' can central committee is slated
: to meet here Saturday to name a
new state chairman to replace
j Wendall Wyatt who resigned the
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