Word: trbovich
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Dates: during 1976-1976
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...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...
...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...
...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...