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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...
...president in 1963, and soon had to confront the fact that the U.M.W.'s fortunes had declined with the lessening demand for coal. The membership was down from 600,000 in Lewis' heyday to around 200,000, the locals were grumbling, and out in western Pennsylvania Jock Yablonski was calling for Boyle's scalp...
Shouting Match. Turnblazer said that he had been present at a meeting on June 23, 1969, in the U.M.W.'s national headquarters, when Yablonski and Boyle had staged a shouting match that ended with each calling the other a crook. After Yablonski had left, Boyle took Pass and Turnblazer aside and told them: "This guy is going to murder us." Boyle then said that Yablonski "ought to be killed or done away with...
...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...
...After Yablonski lost the election, which was later overturned for irregularities, he and his daughter were murdered...