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...owned by an absentee landlord: the Federal Government. The 29% of Washington that belongs to the U.S. is comparatively small: the Government owns 47% of Wyoming, 52% of Oregon, 64% of Idaho?indeed about 57% of all the land west of the Rockies. Bureaucrats decide how minerals and coal will be mined on federal land, how timber and grazing rights will be apportioned, how electricity will be generated and sold, which areas will be set aside for public recreation. Says Ray: "I often feel that the long arm of the Federal Government reaches out this way, but the distance...
Faces covered with grit and hearts filled with distrust toward both union and company leaders, the nation's 165,000 male and 800 female unionized coal miners walked off their jobs last weekend, 48 hours before the expiration Monday midnight of the United Mine Workers' contract with the coal companies. (With so little time remaining, few miners felt compelled to work beyond the shift ending at midnight Saturday, and the companies were not scheduling Monday production.) Thus began what will probably be a long stoppage, perhaps twice as long as the 32-day walkout in 1974, over...
...least ten days would be required for a U.M.W. vote to ratify it-and in the mine union "no contract, no work" is a religion. But the economy will not be hurt for a long time, nor will the strikers and the companies be subjected to pressure from major coal users to settle quickly. As of early November, the users' bins were overflowing with 150.1 million tons of coal that had been stockpiled in anticipation of a strike. Electric utilities held a 90-day supply, and they could switch to oil-fired reserve boilers when that is gone. Steel...
...forced by militant U.M.W. district leaders to embrace the idea of legalizing local walkouts during his re-election campaign this year (he won with barely 40% of the vote in a three-way race). Miller now contends that granting strike rights to locals would promote peace in the coal fields. His reasoning: locals armed with the right to strike could push mine owners to settle quickly grievances that now fester until workers' tempers explode in wildcat walkouts. Wildcats by U.M.W. locals so far this year have cost the coal companies 2.3 million man-days of work. Miners of District...
...health benefits. It made no difference to the strikers that U.M.W. President Arnold Miller is a District 17 alumnus. They felt that Miller had backtracked on campaign promises and doublecrossed them. In the past, 17's members have struck over things that have nothing to do with coal or the U.M.W.: the banning of studded tires, school textbooks regarded as damaging to children, gasoline rationing and the condition of Cabin Creek Road near Charleston...