Word: yablonskis
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...TIME completely misrepresents my position on the connection between the union election and the Yablonski murders [Jan. 19]. What I actually stated was that I was "convinced that the top leaders of the U.M.W.A. did not direct the brutal murders, but the sordid record of the union, the venom they spread during the campaign, and the possible fear of some lower union officials that Mr. Yablonski might report illegal activities, all contributed to this pattern which led to this heinous crime...
...support from me as long as they fraudulently misuse the dues of the coal miners for their own benefit and run their union on tyranny. The people of this nation are so shocked by the fraud and strong-armed bully tactics that culminated in the Yablonski murders that I am convinced Congress itself will take some action to clean up this union...
...Jock's hand reached back from the grave and caught his own killers." The words were those of the attorney for Joseph ("Jock") Yablonski, slain insurgent candidate for the leadership of the United Mine Workers Union. They fairly characterized the capture of three suspects in the murder. Yablonski, 59, had spent the last few weeks of his life in steadily mounting terror. Fearing assassination, he began keeping a gun at his bedside, installed floodlights outside his secluded Clarksville, Pa., home, and kept a list of license-plate numbers of unfamiliar cars in the area...
...cars belonged to a Cleveland house painter, Paul Eugene Gilly, 37, who had come to Yablonski's home on Dec. 18, ostensibly to ask for help in getting a job in the mines. Local police turned the slain man's list of license plates over to the FBI, and last week Gilly and two others, Aubran Wayne Martin, 23, and Claude Edward Vealey, 26, were arrested in Cleveland and charged with shooting Yablonski, his wife and his daughter in their beds before dawn...
According to FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, "Yablonski had been stalked and his residence cased on several occasions. Forcible entry was made into the Yablonski home, telephone wires were cut, and automobiles on the property were disabled." Yablonski's daughter Charlotte, 25, was shot first, as she slept, then Yablonski's wife Margaret, 57, then Yablonski himself as he lunged for his shotgun...