Search

The article discusses events related to U.S. politics. South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu disagreed with former U.S. vice president Hubert Humphrey regarding the withdrawal of U.S. troops from South Vietnam. U.S. President Richard M. Nixon has nominated judge G. Harrold Carswell to serve as a justice on the U.S. Supreme Court. The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) arrested three men for the murder of labor leader Joseph Yablonski.

The article discusses events related to U.S. politics. The steel company U.S. Steel Corporation has refused to comply with anti-pollution regulations. Attorney Joseph L. Rauh Jr. has suggested supporters of labor leader Joseph Yablonski were threatened prior to his murder. A majority of children of U.S. Congress members have received deferments from military service in Vietnam.

Joseph A. Yablonski had just announced his candidacy for the presidency of the United Mine Workers of America. Yablonski came to reform the hard way-out of a corrupt and totalitarian union machine. He refused to hide the role he had played in that system during the past thirty years. Other forces moved him, he felt the indignation of the young activists, including his daughter sweeping across Appalachia, and knew that their efforts were bound to fail, in those coal-indentured colonies. Yablonski understood power a! exercised by the coal barons in the polities and economics of that region and Washington. The United Mine Workers of America, has been the most centralized, autocratic union in American history. Many years ago, union districts were stripped of their autonomy.

Reports on the tactics allegedly used by the camp of incumbent United Mine Workers of America (UMW) president, Tony Boyle, to prevent challenger Joseph Yablonski from winning the union election. Allegation that the UMW leadership has lost contact with the rank-and-file; Plans of Yablonski to improve the lives of the mine workers; Amount given to the widows of mine workers who get killed in the mines; Smear campaign and physical assault experienced by Yablonski while campaigning for the union presidency; Allegation that Boyle is financing his campaign with money from the rank-and-file miners; Laws providing the Department of Labor with powers to intervene in union elections; Reasons why mining companies are supportive of Boyle's candidacy.

The article reports on the success of Joseph A. Yablonski to win the first round of his fight to kick out U.S. United Mine Workers (U.M.W.) union president W. A. Boyle from the post. Yablonski, who was named by Boyle as acting director of the union's powerful political arm, has been challenging the U.W.W. leadership, which he accussed of flagrant and continuous violations of government laws. He also alleged that the funds of the union have been used illegally to promote the candidacy of Boyle.

The article reports on the death of Joseph A. Yablonski, the mine leader who failed to defeat incumbent W. A. Boyle for the United Mine Workers (UMW) presidency in December 1969, that is said to arouse the emotions of miners in the U.S. According to the two sons of the unionist and other people close to him, he had been assaulted and beaten early in the campaign for the presidency. The killings of Yablonski and his wife and daughter were considered by the sons as the work of professional assassins.

The article reports on the coverage of correspondent Mark Sullivan of the coal strike and its increasing settlement in the U.S. in 1974. It mentions the murder of insurgent Union Leader Joseph Yablonski and his family seven months after his announcement of running as president of the United Union Workers (UMW) in 1969. It announces the election of reformer Arnold Miller as president of the UMW in 1972. It notes the open relationship between Sullivan and the miners in the coal industry.

The article reports on the investigation of murder of Joseph Yablonski, candidate for the leadership of the United Mine Workers Union. According to J. Edgar Hoover, director of Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in the U.S., Yablonski had been chased on several occasions at his home. It also tells that the reason behind the murder was related to union affairs.

The article reports on the re-selection of W.A. Boyle as the president of the United Mine Workers ( UMW) of the U.S. He defeated Joseph A. Yablonski by a two to one margin. Boyle faces numerous challenges from the government as UMW was under federal scrutiny for its financial affairs. According to the government, top officials of the UMW has also made some unauthorized expenditures.

The article discusses the fall of Tony Boyle, president of United Mine Workers (UMW), wherein he was arrested for the killing of Joseph Yablonski. It states that during a meeting with the UMW, Yablonski charged Boyle various issues such as ignoring miners' health and safety problems, committed fraud and embezzlement and he ran the most notoriously dictatorial labor union in the U.S. It also mentions that Yablonski planned a reform and his co-miners agreed and supports the action of Yablonski. When Boyle learned the plan of Yablonski he contacted his men and plans to kill Yablonski. Three months later the men of Boyle declared that Boyle was responsible for financing the killing of Yablonski.