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...Coal Strike...
...reading about the coal strike [Feb. 27], I find a country tormented and turned on its back. One of the most powerful industries is abusing the American people in a game where nobody wins, but everybody suffers...
When the President signs a bill, the White House traditionally invites interested Congressmen to the Oval Office for ceremonial photographs. So it was last week with the black-lung bill to increase benefits for disabled coal miners, and among the invited legislators was Democratic Congressman Dan Flood of Pennsylvania. For Flood, who is under investigation for numerous influence-peddling schemes, the chance for some flackery instead of flak was a godsend. Flood showed up early at the Oval Office and anchored himself behind the presidential chair. Party leaders began jostling to get the Congressman off center stage. No words were...
...interview with TIME Correspondent Don Sider. Labor Secretary Ray Marshall explained the thinking behind White House actions on the coal strike...
...early we established that whatever we did, we wanted production to resume. That meant we had to be fair to get cooperation from both labor and management. One possibility that became clear was that the workers might go back to the mines, but they wouldn't dig much coal. That's not going to help anybody. Nor is it going to help anybody to have management mad at us and not do a good job of managing. If either side decided to show that the Government couldn't do the job, it wouldn't be very...