Word: coal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Wrapped in sweaters and quilts against the cold because of a coal strike, I am reading about the computer society under one light bulb. Doesn't it seem ludicrous that scientists are developing machines to take over more of our lives while we in Ohio are regretting how much we are already dependent on electricity and machines for our wellbeing...
...addition to preparing for Taft-Hartley, the White House sounded out Congress on the prospects for legislation enabling the U.S. Government to take over the mines. Marshall held long talks with members of Congress from coal areas: Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd and Senator Randolph Jennings of West Virginia and Representative Carl Perkins of Kentucky. Support for seizure of the mines seemed shaky. It would be unpalatable to the operators, who had already given way under presidential pressure on the new contract, and might lose still more if the Government ran the mines. While the profits would still...
...limited. Both sides have proved to be stubborn, fractious and suspicious. In the scarred and desolate hills of Appalachia, owners and miners both take for granted a degree of conflict that does not exist in other U.S. industries. From the start, the 130 companies that belong to the Bituminous Coal Operators Association showed a determination to bludgeon the union into a contract that had little chance of ratification by the rank and file. In exchange for a 37% pay increase over a three-year period, the owners insisted on making the miners pay for part of their medical benefits...
...conclusion, Metzenbaum said he supports a mandatory conservation bill that would encourage development of solar and thermal energy while seeking to find alternative uses of coal...
Despite police and National Guard protection, the truckers kept running scared. Many carried guns in their cabs and were in constant touch by CB radio, informing each other of the whereabouts of the roving caravans of strikers. Driver Roger Heubner, 30, had five of his eleven coal trucks burned in Boonville, Ind., in January. Last week he was carrying a 9-mm automatic pistol in his coat pocket. For Heubner, other truckers and the working coal miners, firearms had become, in effect, their union cards...