INVESTIGATIONS: The Ungentle Art

"We expect," growled Arkansas' Democratic Senator McClellan, "to develop in these hearings what may be a classic example of the use of force and violence in labor-management relation." John McClellan was as good as his word: last week his labor-investigating Senate committee heard testimony as fascinating as it was ugly about the ungentle art of teamster and building trades' union organizing in the industrial city of Scranton (pop. 127,600), hard by the Pennsylvania anthracite coal mines.

Some of the Scranton union tactics were as simple as a tooth-busting fist. Others were more...

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