Word: millers
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Bruising Battle. The sharpest labor-management confrontation this year will be in the coal fields, where chances of a disastrous strike are great. One reason: United Mine Workers President Arnold Miller is fighting a bruising battle to retain his post in a June election against the union's secretary-treasurer, Harry Patrick, and Lee Roy Patterson, another union official. Whoever wins, the souped-up promises of the campaign-fatter pay, expensive safety improvements-will have to be included in the union's demands and could cause coal operators to resist...
...Jerome Miller, then DYS commissioner, abolished training schools with the idea of instituting the newer and more experimental community-based treatment...
That juvenile crime is down is an encouraging sign for this new approach, as is the recognition of the need for some new secured facilities for youth. From the hyperactive, almost slap-dash days of Jerry Miller, Massachusetts has sat back, reevaluated its child welfare program, and begun to pick up the pieces...
...cases make bad law, Flynt's may be a classic of the genre. His was one of the most important obscenity trials since the Supreme Court, in Miller v. California (1973), abandoned the notion that there are national standards of what is acceptably sexually explicit in print and film. Instead, the court held that local juries could decide what is obscene for their communities.* Publishers and civil libertarians now fear that Flynt's conviction may encourage local law officials to harass other national publications, including those far more acceptable to most Americans than Flynt's seedy monthlies...
...Miller is the favorite in the race, though not by a wide margin. Patrick is a charismatic speaker who will attract a large number of young miners disenchanted with Miller's leadership. Patterson will pick up the sizable bloc (better than 40% of the vote in 1972) that supported Boyle. What worries union progressives is the possibility of a split vote between Miller and Patrick that would give the election to Patterson. "That will return us to the dark ages," says one Patrick supporter...