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ton of said buildings and private
and public works; and that it was
part of said conspiracy that said
restraint would be and was effected
by employment of strikers, boycotts
and by threats to use, and the use of,
force and violence"
Contracts Declared Violated.
In carrying out the alleged con-
spiracy, the indictment said, it was
attempted to compel various COM
panies operating the so-called mixer
concrete trucks to employ as drivers
only members of Local 639 and to
breach contracts previously entered
4nto by the companies with Inter-
national Union of Operating Engi-
neers, Local IT. The three COM
panies named are Howat Concrete
Co., Maloney Concrete Co. and Su-
per Concrete Corp. They are said to
operate more than so per cent of all
mixer trucks and we're employing,
1t was added, about IS per cent of
their operators and drivers from the
ranks of the operating engineers
union
It further sought, the indictment
says, to compel the mixer drivers
and operators to resign from the
Operating Engineers and become
members of the teamsters local.
Further, it is alleged to effectuate
their plans the defendants would
and they did threaten the calling
Of strikes and that they would and
they did urge, induce and assist in
the calling of such strikes" by,
teamster members to stop construc-
ton work.
The indictment says further that
by threat Of force and by force"
the defendants prevented the deliv-
cry Of concrete by the mixer trucks
operated by engineer union men,
bers.
THE said conspiracy and each of
the acts of said conspirators was
not intended to be, nor was 1t in
fact, in aid Of higher wages, shorter
hours, better working conditions for
labor or any other legitimate object
Of q labor union" the indictment
sums up, adding that it had as its
sole object" the replacing of Local
n members by Local 639 members
on the mixers.
Speedy Jury Action.
The grand jury acted with un-
usual speed in returning the indict-
ment, having just taken the case
under consideration yesterday when
10 witnesses from construction COM
panies and labor unions were ques-
toned by Gordon Dean and Walter
Hutchinson, special assistants to the
Attorney General, who were assisted
by Howard Boyd, an assistant to the
United States attorney.
The dificulty between the team
sters and operating engineers unions,
both A. F. of l.. affiliates, has been
Of long standing and the teamsters,
who recently concluded q wage
strike, had threatened to 60 out this
past Monday, but deferred action
pending action OF international Orn-
GERS in Cincinnati to settle the
trouble. The threatened teamsters'
strike also carried with it the posi-
bility OF a city-wide strike in the
building trades, the Washington
Building Trades Council having en-
powered special committee to take
such action.
Justice Department Statement.
In an unusual gesture, the De-
partment of Justice issued q state
ment as the indictment was re-
turned. outlining its scope: pointing
to troubles that have beset the build
ing industry here and attributing
them to unreasonable and i'm
proper" activities by the teamsters.
1t refers incidentally to the recent
strike on the new Social Security
and Census Buildings as having
sprung from turisdictional troubles,
although the teamsters contended
1t was a wage strike