INVESTIGATIONS: The Ungentle Art

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Guest List. Among those arrested and convicted last October for their part in Scranton's classic example of union violence, after a campaign touched off by the city's newspapers, were Carpenters' Business Agent Bartell, Electrical Workers' Business Agent Brady, Laborers' Business Agent Anthony Bonacuse, and Teamsters' Secretary-Treasurer John Durkin, who is also a vice president of the Pennsylvania Federation of Labor. Yet all still hold their union jobs—a fact that places a real burden of proof on the national A.F.L.-C.I.O. Executive Council in its war against labor racketeering.

Not only have Scranton's Big Four avoided union punishment, the McClellan committee noted, but they were honored, after their convictions, at a $15-a-plate testimonial dinner laid on by local A.F.L.-C.I.O. leaders. Among the guests: an international vice president of the Laborers Union, the A.F.L.'s regional representative in Indiana, the director of the A.F.L.-C.I.O. Committee on Political Education, and Joseph Keenan, a vice president of the A.F.L.-C.I.O. itself.