Word: millers
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...chance of ratification by the rank and file. In exchange for a 37% pay increase over a three-year period, the 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...
...Country Singer Johnny Paycheck, a favorite of the miners, was recruited to support the settlement in one-minute radio spots. Instead of belting out his top song, Take This Job and Shove It, he pushed the new contract by singing a few bars of Spread the Good News Around. Miller traveled through Appalachia, appealing to the locals and making a pitch on television. District presidents chorused their own praise of the pact over nine TV and 50 radio stations in all the regions where U.M.W. coal is mined...
...Paul Miller temporarily saved face for the Terriers with his tally in the second period...
...Religion, and French Departments Lecture: Malcom Miller, Guide and lecturer on "Iconography of Chartres Cathedral." 277 Science Ceneter...
Vastola sliced the Lion's Wayne Miller, 5-2, in his opening battle, then breezed past Harold Cataquet, 5-2, gaining the last touch by disengaging his blade from Cataquet's before touching the Columbian's upper right shoulder...