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...Nervous Type. But the Scranton unions' bullyboy art was at its ugliest in two other cases, one of dynamiting and one of stink-bombing...
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...
...thought that was very amusing to me, because, well, I have smelled rotten eggs, sir, and that is what a stink bomb smells like," she burbled. "Mr. Hubshman [Robert Hubshman, a Teamster slugger] and Mr. Brady [Philip Brady, business agent for the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers in Scranton] had discussed this with me, and I can't call them 'mister'-I am so used to calling them Bob and Billy and so on. Bob, he said to me, 'Wait until they try soap and water to clean that up.' Because, he said, 'Only...
Guest List. Among those arrested and convicted last October for their part in Scranton's classic example of union violence, after a campaign touched off by the city's newspapers, were Carpenters' Business Agent Bartell, Electrical Workers' Business Agent Brady, Laborers' Business Agent Anthony Bonacuse, and Teamsters' Secretary-Treasurer John Durkin, who is also a vice president of the Pennsylvania Federation of Labor. Yet all still hold their union jobs-a fact that places a real burden of proof on the national A.F.L.-C.I.O. Executive Council in its war against labor racketeering...