LABOR: Bon Voyage

Resigned last week: William E. Maloney, 77, ailing president of the International Union of Operating Engineers (cranes, bulldozers, drilling rigs; membership 270,000), who declined to testify last month before Senator John McClellan’s labor-management rackets-investigation subcommittee. The committee said that Maloney’s union gave him a 47-ft., $35,000 yacht, three race-track memberships, a country-club membership and a Washington apartment. Investigators also declared that Maloney (salary: $50,000 a year) had a knack for collecting double and treble on his expense accounts. Once he traveled to Europe on behalf of the U.S. Labor Department, collected $1,001 from the Government, $13,387 from the union for such items as pictures for his bon -voyage party ($1,054); a camera, which was listed as “a recording machine” ($411); a car bought in France and shipped to the U.S. ($900).

Remarkable understatement by John McClellan, after hearing of the resignation: “A step in the right direction.”