Word: coal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...contract by singing a few bars of Spread the Good News Around. Miller traveled through Appalachia, appealing to the locals and making a pitch on television. District presidents chorused their own praise of the pact over nine TV and 50 radio stations in all the regions where U.M.W. coal is mined...
...thick with smoke that the people in back could hardly see the district president up front. As the debate wore on, miners from time to time slipped out into the raw morning air to spit out tobacco juice-a habit they acquire to get rid of the coal dust they inhale in the mines. The gesture may also have expressed their feelings about the contract. "If Carter says this contract's a fair shake," said one miner, "they can take that peanut farmer back to Georgia and bury him." Terry Stay, 23, a former social worker who became...
They are supported by miners still on the job in a customary display of solidarity. "We're not forsaking our fathers." Says Jerold Hamrick, 35: "Blood is thicker than a contract and thicker than coal." Adds another young miner: "The way we treat these old miners is going to have a lot to do with how we get treated when we're old. We're all brothers...
...Though coal production has dropped to 6.6 million tons a week from 13.6 million tons a year ago, the nation has weathered the strike better than expected. Efforts at conservation as well as sharing of available power have allowed utilities dependent on coal to stay in business. Last week Pittsburgh's Duquesne Light Co. put a mandatory 25% power cut into effect for its 39 largest industrial and commercial customers, but it does not anticipate any further reduction in the near future. In February it purchased 35% of its power at an extra cost of $15 million from...
Utilities with coal shortages have also been helped by shipments from nonunion mines, which furnish about half the nation's coal. Thanks to outside coal, Ohio Edison, the state's most important utility, was able to cancel 400 megawatts of power it was purchasing from other power companies. Barring some unexpected development, the company will not have to impose any mandatory cutbacks on industry for 15 to 30 days. That means homes will stay warm and well-lighted and factories will keep humming...