Word: coaling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wildcat strikes continued unabated. In Bialsko Biala, near the Czech border, 60,000 workers in 120 factories, including the assembly line for Polish Fiats, stopped work to demand the firing of the provincial governor and three other officials for corruption and mismanagement. Workers in 70 coal mines and industrial plants in the Bytom region in Upper Silesia struck to protest government failure to honor many of the agreements it made with Solidarity last autumn. In the Lower Silesian city of Jelenia Gora, 250,000 workers staged a general strike on Friday to dramatize then- disaffection with inept local Communist officials...
...problem of sulfur pollution and the need for effective control policies will increase as the country shifts from oil to coal usage. Richard Wilson, professor of Physics and researcher at Harvard's energy and environmental policy center, said yesterday. "As the country prepares to burn coal more extensively, we have very little margin for safety." he added...
...House Subcommittee on Health and the Environment: "If Reagan keeps to his rhetoric, he will declare war on the act. The potential is there for a tremendous battle." Some of the President's supporters are likely to be split on the issue. While businesses want fewer restraints on coal burning, farmers and fishermen are alarmed by the acid rain emanating from polluting stacks. Says Charles Lee, Florida spokesman for the Audubon Society: "The real tests for the first time in decades will not be between liberals and conservatives, but among conservatives themselves...
...said he had no reservations about enforcing them. In fact, he said, he is more concerned that the purpose of the laws, and the West's ecology, might be damaged should an energy emergency in the future spawn "crisis-oriented, unreasonable" programs to develop the region's coal, gas and oil resources. Said Watt: "All too often, the Federal Government moves in a crisis, not with the precision of a surgeon's scalpel but with the force of a meat ax. We want the right kind of development to come over time, not the wrong kind...
...dispute, Solidarity's national commission passed a defiant resolution calling for a five-day week by declaring Saturday a nonworking day. Since most Poles are usually required to work a six-day week, this was a provocative departure. Several union locals, representing shipyard workers in Gdansk and Gdynia, coal miners in Silesia, and most of the 16,000 workers at the giant Ursus tractor factory outside Warsaw, threatened to force the demand by not showing up for work on Saturday. The Ministry of Labor, Wages and Social Affairs responded by instructing factory managers to dock the pay of workers...