像其他大城市工会一样，铁工公司的本地401在费城发现了它曾经在城市中持有的持有，并且由于肉儿承包商增加了其市场份额，其郊区受到了损害。

In response, say federal prosecutors, the local's leaders carried out, over many years, a program of intimidation that stands out for its violence and audacity.

根据上周在费城开幕的大陪审团起诉书，业务经理和当地领导人约瑟夫·多尔蒂（Joseph Dougherty）和其他九名官员以及成员定期雇用暴力和威胁勒索承包商，限制非工会工作，甚至保留工会木匠的工作控制。

In a Feb. 21 statement, the International Association of Bridge, Structural, Ornamental & Reinforcing Iron Workers has taken over the local "and removed existing leadership," said union General President Walter W. Wise.

The international union in Washington, D.C. has tapped Stephen M. Sweeney, a regional vice president, who also is president of the New Jersey state Senate, to serve as administrator of Local 401.

联合会使用告密者网络，保留了建筑项目使用不工会劳动力的标签。新利18备用网址如果被认为是必要的，当地人将一组成员派遣，称为“傻瓜小队”，以威胁承包商。

The 49-page indictment notes that one such group jokingly called itself "The Helpful Union Guys," or "T.H.U.G.S."

起诉书说，傻瓜小队是针对非工会承包商“迫使他们雇用不必要的，不必要的和多余的工会劳动”的。

起诉书称，工会领导人在起诉书中奖励了小队成员的特殊待遇或任命当地职位的职位。

检察官声称Dougherty，whose base salary in 2012 was $190,000,encouraged members to threaten and assault contractors and their employees, damage construction equipment and commit arson, includinga December 2012 fire at a Quaker meeting house project in Chestnut Hill, Pa.

在宣布起诉书的新闻发布会上，美国检察官Zane D. Memeger指出了会议室建设项目，其总部位于宾夕法尼亚州Abbington的总承包商E. Allen Reeves Inc.不会雇用本地401名成员。

In response, James Walsh, known as Local 401 "hit man," according to the indictment, and William Gillin and Daniel Henniger went to the jobsite and set a crane ablaze and cut steel beams, causing $500,000 in damage.

"It's about time. This has been going on for all of my career," Reeves President Robert N. Reeves Jr. said to the Philadelphia Inquirer newspaper.

Federal officials say Local 401 Business Agent Edward Sweeney ordered the attack. He is not related to the local's newly appointed administrator, Stephen Sweeney,

At the time of the attack, a Philadelphia building trades official reasoned that the Quaker meeting house vandalism could not have been done by union members. The project was too small, and the unions would not want to alienate potential employers, he claimed.

当地401名官员拒绝对这个故事发表评论。

暴力历史

There is a long history of union-related labor violence in Philadelphia.Building trades officials in Philadelphia have talked about the problems of maintaining control of the local industry.

Local 401 was founded in 1925, says the international union.

八名被起诉成员被控通过勒索，纵火，财产和攻击来为工会筹集资金的行为。