Word: trbovich
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...membership, it's with the elected officials and the staff." Miller explains, with some justice, that almost from the day he was elected, opponents have tried to undermine his administration. First, he says, it was the obstructionist international board, then the opposition of U.M.W. Vice President Mike Trbovich, who has been forced out of the fray by his own overheated charges about Communists in the Miller administration. Miller, 53, who has lungs ravaged by black-lung disease and a face scarred from World War II wounds, insists that he delivered on U.M.W. democracy with a new union constitution, rank...
...leaders of the anti-Miller forces were UMW vice-president Mike Trbovich and secretary-treasurer Harry Patrick. In 1972, Trbovich and Patrick had joined Miller in a successful campaign to oust former UMW president W.A. "Tony" Boyle, now serving a prision term after his conviction on charges that he ordered the murder of UMW insurgent leader Joseph "Jock" Yablonski. Recently, however, Trbovich and Patrick have broken with Miller and joined the UMW international executive board's pro-Boyle majority in attacking the reformist president's administration...
...criticisms levelled at the Miller administration amounted to little more than red-baiting. Although he admitted he could not prove his charges, Trbovich alleged that Miller had permitted "radicals, socialists, and Communists" to infiltrate the union, and that they were "running the president like a puppet...
Placed on the defensive, the Miller administration took a number of questionable actions in its attempt to demonstrate the scurrilous nature of Trbovich's charges. Undoubtedly the worst of these was the administration's decision to exclude selectively certain members of the press...
...poisoned atmosphere is even reviving the specter of union violence. Fearing attack, Miller recently gave up his Washington home to seclude himself in an apartment in Alexandria, Va. When traveling into opposition strongholds, he says he packs a Smith & Wesson .38 automatic under his left shoulder. Trbovich says he was clubbed over the head recently while entering the Burlington Hotel in Washington; in Hazleton last month, he stayed behind a bolted door in an isolated wing of a motel. The power struggle will probably not be resolved until the next U.M.W. presidential election in December 1977-unless it is settled...