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Many companies, however, are wary of reopening without sufficient protection. Quin Morton III, executive secretary of the Kanawha Coal Operators Association, thinks a majority of miners would return "to work if the pickets could be kept away. But he will not hire extra guards to do the job. He recalls the strikebreaking tactics of his grandfather, Quin Morton I, whose private army was once accused of machine-gunning a mining camp inhabited by sleeping wives and children. Says Morton: "History shows us that one of the biggest mistakes coal operators can make is to bring in outside guards...
Lewis also left a dubious choice as his successor: W.A. ("Tony") Boyle. Boyle continued to rule the union in Lewis' dictatorial style and further alienated the membership by largely ignoring their wishes for fringe benefits. Boyle kept dissident miners at bay by packing union conventions with his own delegates. He finally lost his hold following the 1969 union election. Dissident Leader Joseph Yablonski had waged a fierce campaign, citing Boyle as an embezzler of union pension funds. Boyle claimed victory; Yablonski charged the election was fixed and asked the Labor Department to investigate. Three weeks later Yablonski, his wife...
...some serious obstacles, notably the enforcement of clean-air standards. To that problem must now be added the question of reliable supplies and stable prices for the coal that the Carter policy recommends. During the strike so far, with overall coal production cut by about half, affected utilities have kept operating partly by burning an extra...
King and Navratilova, the top-seeded doubles team, delighted the crowd with lively chatter and antics, but good communication and steady play kept them in control...
...lungs--and off key. Clutching his muscatel for dear life, he fought off three conductors and a plain-clothes cop until the train reached the next station, whereupon wino and muscatel went flying out the door. The other wino was the more genteel type--and she kept me company from D.C. to New York last Christmas. She was a sweet old Southern lady--74 years old, she kept telling me--with a habit of pulling on a flask of "Irish Rose" wine every five minutes. By the time we hit Baltimore she was polluted and getting rancher every minute. Having...