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...rebel candidate for the presidency of the United Mine Workers of America, Joseph ("Jock") Yablonski charged that the U.M.W. was "the most notoriously dictatorial labor union in America." When he was defeated by Incumbent W.A. ("Tony") Boyle last December, Yablonski protested that the election had been a fraud. After Yablonski, his wife and 25-year-old daughter were found murdered, Boyle still dismissed the fraud charges as "wild allegations" and claimed that his union had been the "victim of a journalistic lynching bee." Last week the Labor Department moved to vindicate Jock Yablonski. It asked federal courts to throw...
Hamburgers. Yablonski's anxiety began last summer, when he became the first insurgent to challenge U.M.W. leadership in 43 years. He lost the bitterly contested election for president on Dec. 9, but charged irregularities that the Labor Department is now investigating. Yablonski's two sons claimed that the murders had grown out of the election, but U.M.W. President W. A. ("Tony") Boyle denied any union involvement. Last week, after the arrests, the union issued a statement saying that "We are most happy to learn that they [the three suspects] apparently have no connection" with the U.M.W...
...said that. Indeed, the sons' contention that the murders were related to union affairs was borne out by federal charges against the suspects that they killed Yablonski to prevent him from testifying before a federal grand jury. The jury is investigating the alleged mishandling of U.M.W. pension and retirement funds. But Yablonski, a 30-year U.M.W. veteran, had numerous enemies, any one of whom could conceivably have been hurt by Yablonski's reform efforts or his grand-jury testimony...
About the only thing that could be reasonably assumed from FBI information was that the three suspects had not acted on their own. None were known as coal miners, and robbery was not a motive. Moreover, whoever ordered Yablonski murdered did not have access to the services of professional killers -or chose not to employ them. He could scarcely have come up with a sorrier clutch of losers-"a bunch of hamburgers," according to one courthouse veteran...
...Monongahela River near Clarksville. The investigation was broadening into other states, including a Boyle stronghold in east Tennessee, and more arrests were expected. Meanwhile, the Senate announced a major investigation into the U.M.W. But the FBI refused to reveal who, if anyone, they suspect wanted Jock Yablonski dead...