Word: duking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...miners at Brookside and Eastover went on strike over Eastover Mining's refusal to accept their vote to join the UNWA. Eastover Mining is a subsidiary of Duke Power, one of the largest utilities in the country, and fewer than ten per cent of its workers are union members. Harlan mines are among the most unsafe in the world--in 1970, one day before the first anniversary of the passage of the Federal Coal Mine Health and Safety Act, 38 miners died in an explosion at a nonunion mine at Hurricane Creek, only a half-hour away. The miners were...
Kopple began to make her film about the Miners for Democracy, the UMWA reform factiion that sprang up after the murder of Jock Yablonski in 1969. Instead, she found herself focusing on Harlan County and the test fight the union was waging there against Duke Power. She moved among the miners, lived with them, eventually got herself beaten up with them. But all the time her camera was rolling, and Kopple has captured incredible scenes on film. Here is Basil...
...miners' wives, attacks him for aiding with the scabs. The community's feelings spring up froj having known each other all their lives; the atmosphere is caught in a song written in the '30s, "which Side Are You On?" The enemy is the outside, the unseen menace of Duke Power. As the leader of the strikers tells the company's president, a man who bears a striking resemblance to Hubert Humphrey (D-Monn.), "KWell I tell you one thing Mr. Horn--I'm gonna be right there on that goddam picket line looking at you.... just as long...
...finally takes a killing to end it. Lawrence Jones, a striking miner, is shot in the back of the head one night, and, ironically, the outside pressure brought to bear from the incident forces Duke to negotiate. The scene causes anger to rise cold in your throat--it's strangely impersonal, yet moving. A flashlight shines on some muck on the ground, and a miner's dirty hand stirs through it. "Know what that is?" the voice asks. "Them;s brains. Shit. That's the way with a dirty scab. Shoot you when you're not even looking. Shit." Kopple...
...uniforms and play Columbia Friday at 3 p.m., Penn, in a twinbill Saturday at 1 p.m. and Holy Cross Monday at 3 p.m. For the uninitiated, baseball games are ideal places to consume mass quantities(...of beer that is). During my spring trip throughout the country, I visited Duke and noted that students watch their baseball team while consuming large volumes of the golden elixir...