Word: coaling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...frame houses, a couple of eating places, a bank, a gas station and small supermarket. A lone yellow blinker slows traffic a little. But few outsiders ever stop, and that is fine with Galatians, who have better things to do than chat. They raise corn, graze cattle and dig coal for a living. "Until lately," drawls one miner, "two dogs crossing the road at the same time was a big event here." Now there are bigger and more ominous events in town. As has often been the case in the region's tumultuous history, coal is the crux...
Galatia lies on the eastern edge of the Illinois basin, a 25 million-acre, spoon-shaped, subterranean shelf of coal that has made the state the nation's fourth largest producer. For almost a century now, the basin has been union turf. While only 44% of all U.S. coal is dug by members of the United Mine Workers of America, down from 70% a decade ago, some 99% of Illinois coal is union mined. The legendary John L. Lewis rose to the presidency of the U.M.W. as a legislative lobbyist from the union's Illinois District 12, which...
...Oklahoma-based Kerr-McGee Coal Corp. is clearing a 3,000-acre site on both sides of Highway 34, barely a mile east of Galatia, for a new deep-shaft mine. The company plans to invest $185 million in the venture, which will employ up to 700 miners-all nonunion. Many towns would greet such an investment with enthusiasm. Galatia...
...Cafe, where a sign on the screen door decrees NO SHIRT, NO SHOES, NO SERVICE, a jut-jawed miner hunches over a cup of coffee at the Formica counter, digging coal grime out of his fingernails with one toothpick while another bobs at the corner of his mouth. "Ain't gonna give you my name," he growls. "But just remember Herrin and Muddy Bottoms. This ain't but the start." Herrin is a town some 20 miles to the west where striking union loyalists shot 19 would-be strikebreakers to death in the "Herrin Massacre" of 1922. Muddy...
Referring to the dispute in Canada over acid rain caused by the American coal industry, she said, 'Canadians are touchy about imported noxious influences. If we want our lakes killed, we'll do it ourselves--not that you're not doing a good...