Word: yablonski
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...Murder is as institutionalized with the United Mine Workers as it is in the Mafia. The order to kill-to kill our whole family if necessary-was as routinely transmitted and carried out as an order to call a strike or settle a grievance." Thus Kenneth and Chip Yablonski gave vent to their anguish last week when they learned more of the gruesome details of why their father had been killed. Pleading guilty to murder, a minor U.M.W. official named Silous Huddleston confessed that the union had arranged the assassination of Rebel Miner Joseph Yablonski, along with his wife...
...killer. A white-haired, gentle-looking Tennessean who is suffering from emphysema and has been given only a year to live, he claimed that he had taken part in the brutal scheme only out of loyalty to his union. Word had gone round that the U.M.W. was threatened by Yablonski's campaign to unseat President W.A. ("Tony") Boyle in 1969. Yablonski had promised to take union voting rights away from all the U.M.W. pensioners, who were the major source of Boyle's power. Said Huddleston: "I believed that Yablonski was controlled by outsiders who wanted to destroy...
...indictment and conviction of the U.M.W president followed a bloody union election contest between Boyle and Joseph A. ("Jock") Yablonski. Boyle won the election by a 2 to 1 margin, but Yablonski supporters have appealed the result. Less than a month after his defeat, Yablonski, his wife and daughter were murdered. His death has shadowed the union with charges that he was ordered killed after the bitter campaign...
...connection has ever been established between the Yablonski murders and Boyle or the U.M.W., but the resulting publicity helped contribute to Boyle's downfall. From a post-World War I membership of more than 600,000, the U.M.W has dropped to 180,000 members; critics have charged that the union has lagged on safety legislation and failed to push vigorously for black-lung benefits for disabled miners. Autocratic, out of touch, Boyle was left with little defense to offer those critics -or his federal prosecutors...
...Carry complains that Nader criticized the National Traffic Safety Agency after helping establish it-and therefore being bound, McCarry presumes, never to attack it. After his disillusion with Nader's overzealousness, McCarry incongruously follows with a recitation of Nader's underzealousness in supporting the late Joseph A. Yablonski's ill-fated attempt to win control of the corrupt United Mine Workers...