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...that the United Mine Workers leadership experienced under the autocratic tenures of John L. Lewis and Tony (W.A.) Boyle. An industry formerly saddled with a union in which, in Miller's words, "you couldn't tell labor from management" now has a more progressive, responsive union leadership. If the coal industry is to fill the energy gap it must extend the long overdue benefits to the miners and eliminate the unhealthy working conditions that cause absenteeism and wildcat strikes...
Miner's rights are no longer a matter of managerial largesse; the union now has the economic power to force the companies to share their bloated coal profits with the miners. The longterm economic stagnation suffered by the coal industry has left the mining companies with selfish and antiquated goals. A departure from this mentality of greed will enable the coal companies to imitate the U.M.W.'s advancement from its own archaic past...
Businesses were urged to reduce energy use, but again there was no compulsion. States were asked for strict enforcement of the nationwide 55-m.p.h. speed limit. Ford wants some electric-utility generating plants that now use oil or natural gas to switch to coal and new plants to use coal or nuclear fuel...
...been right about the unhappy state of the British economy-quite a few experts, at least, agree with him -but it was clearly more than most voters wanted to hear. Beyond that, much of the electorate believed that Heath had brought on last winter's confrontation with the coal miners and feared that another dark winter might be the prospect if he were returned to 10 Downing Street. Another factor was Heath's personality, or lack of it. "Even his best oratory is about as exciting as a wet evening in Wigan," wrote Editor William Davis in Punch...
Ford's goal of converting oil-fired power plants to coal by 1980 might at first glance seem worrisome to environmentalists because electric utilities have long argued that no existing technology can clean coal smoke. But the Environmental Protection Agency points to two recent studies showing that pollution-abatement devices now in use can remove toxic gases from smokestack emissions reli° ably and effectively. In any > case, says Michael McClos-8 key, executive director of the Sierra Club, "the limiting factor is not scrubbers, but whether we can produce sufficient coal supplies...