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...Around Hazard, such benefits are the only assets of many; the announcement caused sporadic strikes - not so much against management but, if it is possible, against the union...
...Last Straw. Then, two months ago, the U.M.W. announced plans to close down four welfare-fund hospitals in the Hazard area. That was the last straw; among other things, a lot of Hazard's people had hospital jobs. Bands of armed men began roaming around the region...
When folks in the scarred hills around Hazard, Ky., complain about hard times, they know what they are talking about...
...Hazard's hopeless people, in the tradition of the desperate, have recently resorted to violence. At least two have been seriously wounded by shotgun blasts. Mine tipples have been dynamited or riddled with rifle fire. Railroad bridges were blown up. In the past three months, says a veteran mine operator. Hazard has experienced "the worst violence I've ever seen in the coal fields." The violence is not directed against management; neither is it against the United Mine Workers union...
...These gun thugs call a lot of times during the night and say, 'We're going to blow your house up. You've got twelve hours to live.' But you get so you don't worry about that." The Only Assets. Ironically, much of Hazard's tragedy is the result of a wise decision. More than a decade ago, United Mine Workers President John L. Lewis realized that the coal industry would have to modernize in order to compete with other fuels. He decreed that the U.M.W. would back mechanization on the theory that...