Word: pattersons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...whose members rejected the recommendations of their leaders. Most of the margin of victory came from the 1.2 million-member Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers, many of whose delegates tried in vain to challenge the pro-rule vote reported by President Hugh Scanlon. That move was scotched by Marie Patterson, a member of the transportation workers union, who said the challengers were out of order and snapped, "I am not here to rule on the internal workings of the A.U.E.W...
...acres in all and destroyed almost 200 houses, some of them worth as much as $350,000. There were no fatalities or serious injuries, but the total damage-estimated at up to $20 million-made the blaze the worst ever in Santa Barbara's history. Fire Chief William Patterson warned that because of the drought the fire season would last several months longer than usual. Said he: "This is only the prelude...
...past decade. Instead, the outcome of the three-way race seemed certain to aggravate the tension. The final tally will not be completed until July, but according to unofficial results, President Arnold Miller squeaked to a second five-year term with 40% of the vote. His archrival, Lee Roy Patterson, an influential member of the union's 21-member executive board, took 34%; U.M.W. Secretary-Treasurer Harry Patrick, a Miller friend turned foe, picked up 26%. And only half the 277,000 active and retired miners who were eligible to vote bothered...
Miller, who ousted the corrupt regime of W.A. ("Tony") Boyle five years ago, appealed for unity. Said Miller: "It's time for [his opponents] to recognize who the enemies are-the operators." But Runner-Up Patterson, a onetime Boyle crony, criticized the way that the ballot was set up; his supporters had to mark nine different boxes to vote for his candidates, while Miller's backers could select the entire presidential slate by checking only one box. But U.M.W. officials ruled that Patterson failed to line up a complete slate and thus did not qualify for the single...
...spending excessive time at a motel in Charleston instead of going to his home 30 miles away; he is careful to go no further than that. Miller says that Patrick lost the union millions of dollars by setting up a computerized dues-accounting system that does not work. Patterson calls both Miller and Patrick "clowns"; Patrick terms Patterson a "scab...