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information and ask the Secretary of Labor to decertify
as an administrative matter the union as opposed to a
full-blown civil RICO suit.
Do you have any thoughts on either that sort
of process or any other approach that may have occurred
to you during the years of litigatioll dbout how you
could get to the effective trusteeship control without
going through this kind of litigation?
MR. STEWART: The problem that we face
throughout this thing is that you are dealing with two
types of people. One iB the documented racketeer,
presumably a member of the Provenzano group in this
case. And the other is the adherent to the Provenzano
regime who may have nothing whatsoever to do with the
Provenzano group. In fact, by all objective standards,
may be a decent, honorable human being.
Judge Ackerman dealt at length with this
problem and alluded to Edmond Burke's observation that
all that has to exist for evil to triumph is for good
men to do nothing. And that is what he ultimately came
down to with several of the Executive Board members
who fell into this category of basically decent people
who were content to put their head in the sand while
the carnage continued around them. Those people are a