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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...
...make sure the election would be honest, fielding 1,000 federal poll watchers during the balloting and hand-picking those who would do the counting. During the last election, in 1969, there was widespread tampering and intimidation. When it was all over, Boyle's defeated challenger, "Jock" Yablonski, was shot dead along with his wife and daughter...
...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...
Shortly after that election, Yablonski, his wife and daughter were murdered. Washington, which had never shown much interest in the murky affairs of the U.M.W., suddenly got busy. Two union officials, one of them a member of Boyle's hand-picked executive board, were indicted for conspiracy to commit murder; five other individuals have been convicted of murder. Yablonski's two sons, Kenneth and Chip, brought suit to set aside the election. A U.S. district court agreed, and a new one was ordered...
...soft, hoarse voice and suffers from the dreaded "black lung" disease of the pits, Candidate Miller, 50, carries a big stick-specifically, a shotgun beneath the seat of his car. He never hits the campaign trail without an armed bodyguard, while he ventures into pro-Boyle precincts that Yablonski stayed away from. He means to come back alive, which is why he keeps his schedule a secret. "They are not going to know where I'll be," Miller says, "and I won't be where they expect. I haven't made the Yablonski thing an issue...