Word: yablonski
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...killed in Clarksville, Pa., that December night in 1969 was Joseph ("Jock") Yablonski, 59, a tough, gravel-voiced man who had been bold enough to challenge the rule of United Mine Workers President W.A. ("Tony") Boyle. He had charged that Boyle was ignoring miners' health and safety problems, that he had committed fraud and embezzlement, and that he ran "the most notoriously dictatorial labor union in America." The miners had listened favorably to Yablonski's call for reform -and then, three weeks before the murders, they had re-elected Boyle by a margin of nearly...
...Ever since the brutal slaying of United Mine Workers Reformer Joseph Yablonski and his wife and daughter, Special Prosecutor Richard Sprague has suspected that "the person who set this chain of events in motion" was former U.M.W. President W.A. ("Tony") Boyle. After convicting the actual killers, Sprague has been trying to nail men higher and higher in the union command. Last week it was the turn of William J. Prater, a former U.M.W. organizer, who transferred $20,000 in funds allegedly used to hire the assassins. Prater's lawyer noted that four of the five already convicted had turned...
Miller's first effort at reform inside the union came in 1969 when he organized the Black Lung Organization. The organization consequently persuaded Joseph Yablonski to run for the presidency of the union on reform ticket...
...After Yablonski lost the election, which was later overturned for irregularities, he and his daughter were murdered...
...large extent, Miller's victory was a repudiation of the corruption in the Boyle regime. After the Yablonski shooting, two U.M.W. officials, one of them a close Boyle associate, were indicted for conspiracy to commit murder, and Boyle was convicted by a federal jury of handing out $49,000 in union funds to political candidates, among them Hubert Humphrey. But they also mistrusted Boyle for other reasons. He had grown aloof and unreachable. He lived high and dressed fancy, and though he won fat wage increases for his men, he seemed oblivious to the occupational hazards of mining...