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...injury. One explosion at the Kentucky Power Co. plant knocked out service to some 3,000 customers, including one coal company that had bought a unionized mine and reopened it as a nonunion one. Another blast blew up a power line leading to the Sprouse Creek Processing Co., the Massey subsidiary that has been a primary strike target. Former Mayor of Matewan Robert McCoy, a member of the original feuding clan, calls it "almost like a civil...
...Massey company broke off negotiations after West's slaying. Company President E. Morgan Massey came close to accusing U.M.W. President Richard Trumka of fostering violence. Said Massey: "Mr. Trumka can turn the violence on, he can cut it off at will, and he uses that as a bargaining tool." The union leader in turn said that the Massey firm was merely foot dragging. Talks have resumed but have produced nothing...
...longest and most violent U.S. strikes since World War II, and it summoned images of the feuding Hatfields and McCoys. By the time it ended last month, the United Mine Workers' 15-month walkout against the A.T. Massey Coal Co. had left one person dead and hundreds wounded, and caused millions of dollars' worth of damage on both sides of the Kentucky-West Virginia line...
...brought back, and the company refuses to rehire those who participated in the violence. Several of the mines have been sold or leased to new operators; others have been closed. Workers are also furious over the company's insistence that they return to work under conditions set separately by Massey's 17 subsidiaries, rather than under a single set of terms. Although the war between the firm and the U.M.W. has ended, new skirmishes could soon break out in court. BROADCASTING Changing Casts...
...ability," said Mary Lee Reyna, a first-grade teacher in San Antonio. "If I am incompetent, you'd think they would have found me out in 23 years. The only way you can tell if I'm a competent teacher is to come see me in my classroom." Harold Massey, executive director of the Texas Association of Secondary School Principals, maintained that the main result of the teacher test will be to "totally and completely demoralize the profession in Texas." The feeling was particularly strong among blacks and Hispanics, who felt the test would discriminate against them...