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...members of a French friendship delegation visiting there as "ruined totally, 100%." The consequences for Chinese industry may be severe, since the city is both a center for the production of rail locomotives, diesel engines and other heavy machinery and the country's largest single producer of coal. Many miners, who work in shifts round the clock, were feared entombed in the deep caverns beneath the city...
...across town where he lived until his arrest last week. Yet the House of Detention was not wholly unfamiliar to "Kaku-san," as he was once affectionately nicknamed. In 1948, as a brash young member of the Japanese Diet, he spent three weeks there on charges stemming from a coal industry bribe scandal. His return in abject disgrace brought to full circle the most extraordinary political career in postwar Japan...
Perhaps the most striking characteristic of America's 184,000 coal miners is their intense loyalty to one another and their union. Some people explain that loyalty as an aboveground extension of the close teamwork that the miners must practice in dangerous subterranean mines; others say it is a result of facing common enemies-the coal companies and the Federal Government. Whatever the reason, when one union local walks off the job, others usually follow in sympathy...
Last week that was certainly the case. A wildcat strike that started at a Cedar Coal Co. mine at Cabin Creek, W. Va., suddenly spread to include all of the state's 60,000 miners, plus 10,000 of their fellows in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Virginia and Colorado. The miners had lost a total of $24 million in wages by week's end, and U.S. coal output had fallen by 6 million tons, worth $150 million...
Heavy Hand. Cedar Coal, a unit of American Electric Power Co., then got a federal court to issue an injunction against the strike. When the miners ignored it, the judge fined the local $50,000, which went unpaid. At that point, miners elsewhere started to take notice. To them, the case was just another in a series in which the heavy hand of the Federal Government patted the companies and slapped the union. "When that judge gets out of the coal business, that's when we go back to work," vowed a Cabin Creek miner, and his fellows...