Word: lungful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...could say there weren't ways to prevent or control the disease. The British began paying compensation for black lung in 1943, and ten years later, faced with staggering compensation payments, began putting dust-control techniques into effect, he result was quantifiable: 4,000 British miners suffering from black lung in 195?: 740 in 1967. That works out to ?.8 cases of black lung for every 1,000 miners...
Here? by comparison, the Public Health Service figures that one out of every ten active miners has black lung to a debilitating degree, and one out of every five retired miners. In Eastern Ken?u?ky, plagued by every kind of trouble known to men in poverty, the government recently estimated that 27,000 men have the disease. The irony is great. Most of Eastern Ken?ucky's mines are played out: the coal is gone; the men, unwanted, are on welfare: but black lung stays with them...
Tell me, you there, brother, how much longer do you think you're going to live? You got the black lung! You can't walk ten steps without resting. You can't breathe. You spit up black juice. But the company says you just got compensationitis! You're dying! And the killing will go on until you tell them to grant you compensation and clean up the miners or there won't be any coal coming out of West Virginia...
...trapped for ten days in a mine at Hominy Falls: Four died. The rest came out, in a spectacular resence heavily covered by the national press. Suddenly people were aware ? a little-of hard times in the mines. And West Virginia miners were getting together to form the Black Lung Association. They covered the state, working with Dr. Buff and building up organizational strength...
...morning on November 20, 1968, when one of the world's largest mines, belonging to the world's largest coal company, blew up: 78 men died. The TV cameras came back to West Virginia. What they recorded, millions of people saw: the widows: the old miners, gasping with black lung; the union president. Tony Boyle, praising Consolidation Coal Company: the governor of West Virginia, surmising that disasters were inevitable in coal mining... it was too much to swallow, and people who had never thought once about coal mining thought twice about it now, and the uproar was heard throughout...