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...more beginning to flow back into savings and loan associations. Eventually that should help housing and such allied industries as furniture and appliances-though not for many months, because S and Ls have to repay debts before they can start making new mortgage loans. The strike of 120,000 coal miners, which has badly deepened the recession in the past few weeks, seems on its way to an end; the United Mine Workers Bargaining Council finally accepted a new contract last week and sent it out for a membership vote. Administration economists think that they see signs-more trustworthy than...
...Irish Sweepstakes. He bubbles. He bounces. He loves American beer. Above all, he credits his eminence in a rarified field not necessarily to years of scholarship, not to a preternatural kinship with the shades of Telemann and Tartini, but to the four years he spent working in a Provencal coal mine as a youth. "Look at these lungs," he cries after breathing deeply. "Feel these back and shoulder muscles. That is what it takes to play the Baroque trumpet...
...HOPES OF AMERICA's coal miners for union democracy and economic justice have been higher than ever in the last two years. Yet in the last two months, those buoyant hopes have been compromised. The miners will return to work soon after an unsatisfactory contract-ratification process with only a tainted victory...
...coal operators did finally "yield" to miners the basic human right to leave mines whenever they sense imminent danger. They can do so now without fear of pay-docking. But talk of miner-safety inspection committees and "control over the conditions of the working place" got lost in the shuffle...
...contract's proviso for an 18 per cent pay raise means that coal miners' pay raises are now finally in line with those of other major unions--40 years too late. But the raise does little for the 80,000 pensioners who could not vote on the contract and who will not benefit from pensions which were fattened for men retiring after 1976. These men are living on $150 a month; many are stricken with black lung; all deserve better pensions and medical benefits...