INVESTIGATIONS: Organized Labor (Contd.)

Digging its power shovel into the violence-prone International Union of Operating Engineers, whose 270,000 members run most of the nation's cranes, bulldozers, drilling rigs, etc., the Senate labor-management rackets investigating committee dug another truckload of dirt out of what passes for organized labor in some sectors of the U.S.

Under questioning by Arkansas' John McClellan and his staff last week, officials of San Francisco's 24,000-member Local No. 3 told of lavish till-raiding under tough old (75) Victor S. Swanson, who bossed the local from 1941 until the I.U.O.E.'s executive board elbowed him...

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