Word: gutermuth
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tubby onetime coal-mine handyman has West Germany's industrial titans worried. As boss of his nation's 522,000-member mine and power workers' union, Heinrich Gutermuth, 64, recently inveigled the Adenauer government into arbitrating a 7% wage rise for his Ruhr miners by threatening a strike on the eve of important local elections. West Germany's faltering coal industry will have to rely on some sort of government subsidy to meet the extra $82 million-a-year wage bill. Now Gutermuth is touring the Common Market nations urging all six to nationalize their coal...
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