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...time bomb is ticking in anticipation of the November 12 expiration of the current United Mine Workers contract. The confrontation promises to burst into a protracted strike with potentially crippling effects on the American economy. The strike will climax the present period of flux in the relationship of the coal industry to the national economy. This changing relationship has been caused by rapidly rising oil prices, which have given coal new importance as an abundant source of energy. The increased importance of coal has given the U.M.W. new leverage in contract negotiations, and the Union hopes to close the long...
...plant to plant, there could be no hard guideline, but federal experts estimate that industry could reduce consumption by a minimum of 15%, saving as much as 300,000 bbl. a day. Example: exhaust heat from gas-fired turbines could be used instead of oil to process sulfur. Using coal instead of oil in power generators and factory boilers could save a further...
ALTERNATIVE ENERGY SOURCES. A U.S. Senator told me that the oil price increase had helped West Virginia to start coal operations again, reopen the mines and reinstate thousands of jobs. He said, "Don't ever lower oil prices below those of alternative sources of energy." I want to know, are you Americans always going to think of Exxon and Texaco? What about West Virginia...
...product better used for purposes other than energy. We can produce some 70,000 petrochemical products-something we cannot do with nuclear, solar or geothermal energy. Let us believe in interdependence. We all live on one planet that has only 50 years of oil reserves but 400 years of coal and unlimited solar, tidal and geothermal energy. Iran's interests would be much better served if we left some extra oil underground...
Gierek is unique among Communist leaders: he lived for many years in the West, and he comes from a genuinely proletarian background. The son of a mine worker who died when Gierek was four, he worked in French and Belgian coal mines from the age of 13 until his early 30s. He returned to Poland after World War II, where he quickly became active in the party. In 1957 he was named first secretary of the party in Silesia, where he gained a reputation for protecting the interests of miners and other industrial laborers. When worker unrest threatened to wreck...