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...weeks ago a thug hurled acid into the face of labor columnist Victor Riesel. The attack came only hours after Riesel's radio attack both of those racketeers who are attempting to gain control of labor unions, and of William DeKoning's domination of the Operating Engineers Union. The incident was described by the U.S. Attorney investigating racketeering in New York industry as "a black effort to intimidate witnesses." Governor Harriman decried the attempt to limit "freedom of speech," and Mayor Wagner called it "shame." The Operating Engineers Union agreed and added another thousand dollars to the growing reward...
Only two hours before he was attacked last week, Riesel gave an example of his blunt, sometimes overdramatic technique on a broadcast over radio station WMCA. He attacked William De Koning Jr., head of the Operating Engineers' Local 138 on Long Island, and De Koning's father, an ex-convict labor boss. Also on the program was Emanuel Muravchik, field director of the Jewish Labor Committee, who talked of discrimination against Negro labor in the South...
...their search for clues to the attack, police and newsmen recalled that Riesel, a hard-digging reporter, has been giving information to U.S. Attorney Paul Williams, who is probing industrial rackets in New York, and who considered Riesel a key witness. Said Williams of the attack: "A black effort to intimidate witnesses...
...week's end Riesel lay in St. Clare's Hospital, his eyes covered with bulky bandages. Doctors were not sure whether his sight could be saved; nor would the police admit to any leads on his attacker. But the price on the attacker's head was mounting fast. Rewards posted by the Hall Syndicate, the Mirror, station WMCA, labor unions (including De Koning's), and a crowd of press groups and newspapers totaled...
...shock of his experience slowly wore off, Riesel began to sound like his old self again. Said he: "To the press, radio and TV: keep the heat on. To the decent men of labor: for God's sake stop looking the other way, stop apologizing and sidestepping. [Begin] an all-out war against...