The way San Francisco's Dow Wilson saw it, leaders of the Brotherhood of Painters, Decorators and Paperhangers were more interested in lucre than lacquer. As secretary of San Francisco Local 4, the brotherhood's largest, Wilson waged a tireless battle against union officials' chicanery, citing as one instance a union-employer welfare fund in Sacramento that he claimed had been mishandled. Wilson was shot to death for his pains April 5. This month Lloyd Green, another crusading official of the same union, met the same fate. After the arrest (TIME, May 20) of five murder...
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