Word: coaling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...exist on dole. For many of the area's children, the only opportunity for a square meal is a public school hot lunch-if they have the shoes to get to school. The most fortunate adults work for a third of their old wages in "dog holes"-dangerous coal mines dug by anybody who can scrape up enough cash to finance...
...violence. At least two have been seriously wounded by shotgun blasts. Mine tipples have been dynamited or riddled with rifle fire. Railroad bridges were blown up. In the past three months, says a veteran mine operator. Hazard has experienced "the worst violence I've ever seen in the coal fields." The violence is not directed against management; neither is it against the United Mine Workers union...
...twelve hours to live.' But you get so you don't worry about that." The Only Assets. Ironically, much of Hazard's tragedy is the result of a wise decision. More than a decade ago, United Mine Workers President John L. Lewis realized that the coal industry would have to modernize in order to compete with other fuels. He decreed that the U.M.W. would back mechanization on the theory that it is "better to have half a million men working in the industry at good wages and high standards of living than to have a million working...
...During that same decade, the whole structure of U.S. employment changed. The number of workers in professional and related services soared by 58%. those involved in finance and real estate increased by 41%, and those in public administration by 27%. At the same time, the number of workers in coal mining dropped by 56%, those in railroad and railway express by 31%, and those in textile product industries...
...experienced men. the highest median wage was $7.547 in the legal and engineering and other professional services. Following closely were median earnings of $6,521 in petroleum and coal products, $6,373 in communications and $6,018 in aircraft and parts manufacturing. For women the highest median wage was in railroads and railway express with $4,435, while petroleum and coal products followed with $4,111 and the motor vehicle and equipment industry offered...