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James, a third-year law student who worked with the Harlan County UMW in its 1973 strike, cited time-consuming work and sophisticated union-busting tactics as the two major problems of union organizing...
...school and church are still the only real places of socializing." In her course this spring, she will show her own films of women's participation in Pentecostal groups, which are part of Appalachia's fundamentalist religious revivals, and in the mountain "serpent-handling" cults. She will also screen "Harlan Country USA," Barbara Kopple's movie on the Kentucky coal strike in which the miners' wives played a large role...
...supplies are fast falling short, particularly in the Middle West. All over that region utilities have been cutting back services. President Carter will try his powers of persuasion on the miners and operators. He has reason not to invoke the Taft-Hartley Act. As Robert Little, who came from Harlan County, Ky., to demonstrate, put it: "They can make us go back and work-but at what rate of speed? I can work awful slow...
...slip back toward politics as usual has raised no cries of alarm, because even the bad old system managed to produce a federal judiciary of a generally high quality. Many of the U.S.'s most respected jurists, including every Chief Justice but Harlan Slone, were political activists before taking the bench. But the Democratic Congress is now completing action on a bill to expand the federal judiciary by one-third, adding 113 new district and 35 new appellate judgeships. The bill has been delayed for years, awaking a Democratic President, and legislators are rubbing their hands in anticipation...
...Harlan County, USA at 4, 6, 8 and 10. Midnight Show: The Song Remains the Same, switching to The Harder They Come on Wed., July...