Word: membership
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...owners insisted on making the miners pay for part of their medical benefits and fining them for wildcat strikes. For reasons that are still obscure, U.M.W. President Arnold Miller went along with a settlement that he must have known would be as acceptable as black lung to his membership. When it was overwhelmingly rejected by the bargaining council, which consists of the union's 39 district leaders, he had to go back under a barrage of criticism for another round of negotiations. "If we didn't live in an Oriental society," quipped Energy Secretary James Schlesinger, "we could...
Whether it will work is quite another question. The agreement paves the way for formation of an interim government, which will have two tiers: an executive council, composed of Smith and the three blacks, and a ministerial council, whose size is still to be determined but whose membership will be evenly balanced between blacks and whites. Smith will keep his title of Prime Minister, at least for a while, but the present Parliament will be recessed and in theory Smith will be head of the country only when he is chairing the executive council, whose decisions in any case...
...membership in those two organizations didn't do very much for me socially, because I became less and less involved with anyone who wasn't involved with one of them. It was something that was cool not so much for everybody else but for myself...
Garuda has been personally affected by one case of U.S. reaction against the movement. Although he is a Hare Krishna priest, last fall he was denied associate membership to the United Ministries, an ecumenical religious organization...
Henry E. Horn, president of the United Ministries and counselor to Lutheran students at Harvard, says Garuda was not accepted because he is a student doing research and represents a religion not listed in the World Almanac. Horn says he believes Garuda would use his membership to display his religion and try to attract potential followers...