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Leaders of United Mine Workers locals in northeastern Pennsylvania expected only a routine discussion of union business when they gathered in Hazleton at the end of last month. Instead, they witnessed a boiling confrontation between Union President Arnold Miller and Vice President Mike Trbovich. "This union is on the verge of financial disaster!" shouted Trbovich. "Our money and our future are being squandered by Arnold Miller's mismanagement!" Jumping to the mike, Miller snapped back: "That's a damn lie and you know it!" An hour later, Miller suspended Trbovich from the vice presidency, ostensibly for failing...
Friends Desert. The showdown reflected a fierce internal power struggle that, in the words of U.M.W. Secretary-Treasurer Harry Patrick, "is tearing our union apart." The battle between Miller and Trbovich-and Miller and a majority of the U.M.W.'s 21-member executive board-has paralyzed union leadership, and threatens to erode the reforms that are turning the once corrupt and authoritarian U.M.W. into a progressive labor organization...
...appointed executive board. To his dismay, the new board turned out to be dominated by Boyle cronies, elected by the rank and file because they were better known than Miller's men. In addition, four board members endorsed by Miller deserted their sponsor, charging him with mismanagement. Finally Trbovich, Miller's reform-minded running mate, left the fold to lead the opposition. The charges against Miller: that his staff is dominated by "leftwing radicals from New York and Boston," that excessive-and illegal-spending by Miller is plunging the union into the red, and that...
Boyle is now serving three consecutive life terms for first degree murder, and indeed, all the principals of the Yablonski case are now behind bars. In 1972, the Miners For Democracy (MFD) slate of Arnold Miller, Mike Trbovich, and Harry Patrick assumed office, and attempted to give the UMWA back to its membership. They sold the union's Cadillacs, are attempting to sell the union's Washington, D.C. bank, and have made plans to move headquarters to the coalfields from Washington. Chip Yablonski, the murdered leader's son, became union counsel. And the union's safety division now has over...
...indication. The May, 1976 West Virginia Democratic gubernatorial primary threatens to split the union's political power. Miller has a wellknown affection for Jay Rockefeller, an affection the membership does not appear to share, as they buried Rockefeller in his first race for governor in 1972. Harry Trbovich, who was outmaneuvered for the presidency in 1972 by Miller, may be pressured to run for the top post in 1977, though Miller says he will run again...