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...Life. Government files contain reports on the miseries of Lota-its mine galleries reaching out under the sea, its underhoused town, its undernourished children. One of the reports says that no Chilean family can subsist on less than 65 pesos ($2.60) daily. But 33-year-old Juan Soto, a typical miner, who has dug Lota's coal for 16 years, gets 30 pesos for an eight-hour day's work. Neither he nor his wife and three small children remember having ever bought cheese or fruit, but they do get some milk...
...takes Juan four hours a day to get to & from his work, which is sometimes as much as five miles out under the ocean. The tunnels are hot and humid. In the big Lota mine, there have been 8,151 accidents and 38 deaths in the past 20 months...
...Need. Like the majority in Lota, Juan is a Communist. His union is Communist too. In the past it has staged some violent strikes, lost every time. Last week, the union's tone was strangely moderate. Its leaders seemed to take seriously the claims of the Chilean and British owners that costs were high,* and bound to remain so as long as machinery ordered in the U.S. failed to arrive...
Because hard-pressed Chile needed Lota's coal to keep railroads and power plants going, President Gabriel González Videla sent troops to Lota, used his emergency powers (TIME, Sept. 1) to order strikers back to the mines, offered a 40% wage increase. At week's end, the miners still stood fast...
...Though Lota and Schwager, the two biggest companies, cleared 10% and 20% profit respectively last year...