Word: coaling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Kirkland addressed an AFL-CIO Regional Conference at the Sheraton Hotel in Boston only hours after marching in a rally of 6000 coal miners and black lung victims in Washington. The miners, in the midst of a two-day work stoppage, were protesting the Reagan administration's proposed cutbacks in benefits for victims of the respiratory ailment...
When asked after his speech about his influence on the rank-and-file, Kirkland responded. "I was marching today with the coal miners about black lung. We had 8000 coal miners." He added, "When somebody makes the charge that we don't represent the rank-and-file, then we bring some people to show them...
Dunlop said he hopes that non-AFL-CIO labor leaders from either the Teamsters or Coal Workers unions will join the group, and that the membership is still not finalized
Stockman wants to end Government subsidy of the synfuels program for a saving next year of $864 million. Energy Secretary James Edwards makes a proforma pitch to save one experimental project - a coal liquefaction plant to be built in West Virginia - but Reagan appears unmoved...
...saga began in late 1977, when Kennecott took some of the proceeds from the Government-ordered sale of a subsidiary, Peabody Coal Co., and bought Carborundum Co., a maker of abrasives. As soon as the purchase was made, T. Roland (Ted) Berner, 70, the chairman of Curtiss-Wright, saw an opportunity. He said that Kennecott paid too much for Carborundum and that the copper company should have spent the money for improvement of its antiquated copper mines or distributed it to the shareholders. Berner then spent $75.5 million to buy 9.9% of Kennecott's shares and announced that...