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Winter always clamps an austere hand on the little mining town of Kellogg, Idaho (pop. 5,000), where most homes are heated by wood stoves. The encircling, mile-high mountains of the Coeur d'Alene mining area, rich in lead, zinc and silver, curtain off the sunlight except for a few midday hours. This year the 5,000 people of Kellogg await winter's arrival with a new dread: life in a town with its only industry shut down...
...Bunker Hill Co.'s lead and zinc processing plant, where 80% of Kellogg's breadwinners earn their livelihood, has been shut by a strike since last May. More than 2,000 wage earners are out of work; the town is going broke, its population bleeding away to find other jobs elsewhere. On the brink of winter last week, negotiations for a settlement came to an abrupt, bitter halt...
...Common Sense. Kellogg and Bunker Hill had few labor difficulties until 1958. Then a depression in the lead and zinc industry forced Bunker Hill, the nation's second largest lead producer (first: St. Joseph Lead Co.), to cut its work force in Kellogg-the first time management had had to exercise the layoff clauses in the contract with the Mine, Mill & Smelter Workers' Union. When the contract expired May 6, 1959, a deadlock ensued over job security, grievance procedures, seniority, safety regulations and shift schedules...
...town of Kellogg was not prepared for a long strike, and the results were grim. Bills went unpaid, new purchases trickled off, most of Kellogg's merchants began operating at a loss-and some closed down. Young businessmen, who formed a Common Sense Council, argued common sense to both sides. Now the council goes on the local radio station three times a week to castigate the union's unyielding stand. The dormant Shoshone County Anti-Communist Association awakened, charged that the union was Communist-led. The Mine & Mill workers were ousted from the old C.I.O...
...international affairs the influence of women has been outstanding," the Judge said. "Various senators have repeatedly or edited the adoption of the World Court Resolution largely to the work of women," she declared, adding that the Kellogg-Briand Pact outlawing war "possibly owes its very existence to the political support of women...