Word: contraction
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After three months of strike, after two detailed contracts had been negotiated, after the White House had intervened and called on both the industry and the union to settle their differences for the national good, the critical decision last week lay in the rough and sturdy hands of the 165,000 United Mine Workers. In scores of begrimed towns throughout Appalachia, in settings as varied as Utah, Missouri and Pennsylvania, they marched to their union headquarters to cast their ballots-or, in some instances, angrily shred and burn their copies of the pact. And though the final results would...
...Congress from coal areas: Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd and Senator Randolph Jennings of West Virginia and Representative Carl Perkins of Kentucky. Support for seizure of the mines seemed shaky. It would be unpalatable to the operators, who had already given way under presidential pressure on the new contract, and might lose still more if the Government ran the mines. While the profits would still go to the owners, wages and work rules would be set by the Government. The takeover, however, would have the grudging approval of the miners, who figure they could get a better contract from...
...scarred and desolate hills of Appalachia, owners and miners both take for granted a degree of conflict that does not exist in other U.S. industries. From the start, the 130 companies that belong to the Bituminous Coal Operators Association showed a determination to bludgeon the union into a contract that had little chance of ratification by the rank and file. In exchange for a 37% pay increase over a three-year period, the owners insisted on making the miners pay for part of their medical benefits and fining them for wildcat strikes. For reasons that are still obscure, U.M.W. President...
...whip up support for ratification of the second pact. Country Singer Johnny Paycheck, a favorite of the miners, was recruited to support the settlement in one-minute radio spots. Instead of belting out his top song, Take This Job and Shove It, he pushed the new contract by singing a few bars of Spread the Good News Around. Miller traveled through Appalachia, appealing to the locals and making a pitch on television. District presidents chorused their own praise of the pact over nine TV and 50 radio stations in all the regions where U.M.W. coal is mined...
...creative alternative would be to restructure this position by dramatically altering both the selection criteria for, and the responsibilities of, the post. The applicant selected should be a recent Harvard graduate (within the last three years) who would receive a four-year, non-renewable contract. At the end of his four-year term, after having followed a class through Harvard, the associate director's position would again be opened to a more recent Harvard graduate...