Word: coal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Those measures, as Carter well knew, could have made matters worse. By using the Taft-Hartley Act, he could obtain an 80-day back-to-work injunction against the miners, but they might well choose to ignore the ruling. Seizure of the coal mines, on the other hand, would put pressure on mineowners, but it might have taken a month to get the necessary legislation through Congress...
Confronted by such unpleasant options, Carter had been looking in another direction: a compromise settlement worked out earlier last week by the union and 'the Pittsburg & Midway Coal Mining Co., a small subsidiary of Gulf Oil, which is not a member of the 130-company B.C.O.A...
There was little time to spare. Coal stockpiles in Ohio, Indiana, Tennessee, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia, Kentucky and Michigan had dwindled dangerously. Normally, the utilities in those states use 3 million tons of coal a week during the winter. Lately they have been receiving a weekly average of 300,000 tons from unstruck mines...
...Ohio, the state's largest utility, Ohio Edison, has been staying just above a 30-day coal supply. At that cutoff point, a mandatory 50% power cutback would be required, affecting General Motors and Chrysler plants and perhaps thousands of jobs. Last week officials were importing up to 35% of their power from Minnesota, New Jersey and other states...
...period of near chaos in the coal dispute began on Feb. 12. That was when the 39-member U.M.W. bargaining council?with rowdy support from rank and file miners, who barged into U.M.W. headquarters?rejected President Miller's initial agreement with the B.C.O.A. The agreement called for a three-year wage increase, from $8.11 an hour to $10.46. But the pact also allowed mine owners to penalize workers who joined in a wildcat strike by requiring offenders to pay $20 a day to the U.M.W. health fund. The owners were adamant on the wildcat provision because 2.5 million man-days...