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Dirt for a Dossier. When a house built by a nonunion contractor (TIME, April 29) was dynamited in 1954, Murphy headlined his lead editorial: GET THE DYNAMITERS! He followed it up in the next ten weeks with eleven more editorials, pounding at local authorities to enlist county and state investigators for the man hunt. By last October, when a jury convicted four union leaders who had ordered the dynamiting, Murphy had racked up 27 editorials on the case, while the Times reporters had unearthed enough dirt to hand the McClellan committee a bulging dossier...
Some of the Scranton union tactics were as simple as a tooth-busting fist. Others were more ingenious; e.g., threatening to douse the milk, eggs and butter of a nonunion dairy truck with kerosene, and pouring sugar into the gasoline tank of a steam roller on a highway construction job. (One of the goons gave his left-over sugar to a girl friend for household use.) Soft-spoken William E. Cochran, a construction foreman for a nonunion firm, told how the threats of union goons drove him to the Scranton city solicitor. James McNulty, for protection. McNulty, it turned...
Witness Edward Pozusek, 50, a nonunion Wilkes-Barre contractor, told of landing deep in trouble with the unions while building a house in Scranton. He was approached on the job by officials of the laborers', carpenters' and electrical workers' unions. Asked one: "Who the hell allowed you to come here to Scranton to build?" Replied Pozusek: "Mister, it so happens I am American-born, and I am allowed to earn a living in any part of this country as long as I earn it legally." Said the union official: "You will just pick up your tools...
...Sense of Humor. Bradshaw's girl friend, gushing, giggling Helen Canfield, 26, a member of the Teamsters Union by virtue of her job as an egg-candler at an A. & P. warehouse, had the time of her life telling how the union enforcers stink-bombed Scranton's nonunion Sonny Boy Bakery...
...million in sales. The family-owned company, run by hard-bitten President Herbert V. Kohler, 65, disputes this claim. Although it publishes no annual report, the company says that the boycott gained it more sales than it lost, contends that it has held production close to normal by hiring nonunion workers. Last week the Milwaukee Journal's Labor Reporter John D. Pomfret turned up evidence that the U.A.W. is losing much more than Kohler...