Word: millers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Miller has proved to be an inept administrator with exaggerated forebodings, he nevertheless has some grounds for anxiety. He heads one of the toughest unions on earth, whose members seldom hesitate to use their fists or a weapon to back up an argument. When Miller became president, he had to contend with U.M.W. officials still loyal to Tony Boyle. In such a situation, physical safety can never be taken completely for granted...
Fortunately for the Crimson as the going got tough the big guns got going. Becky Tung, playing at number two, beat Betsy Miller in three games...
...shouted the protesters. They papered the walls with slogans of crude double-entendre: WHAT DID YOU GET US, ARNIE-THE SHAFT? Though the demonstrators pledged nonviolence, Miller did not enter the building. Charging them with "intimidation and threats," he postponed the meeting and later said testily: "There cannot be any further collective bargaining until this irresponsible action ceases." In his absence, members of the bargaining council took an unofficial vote. The panel of district leaders, reflecting deep dissatisfaction among the rank and file, voted down the contract...
What provoked the rebellion against the settlement, which Miller had described as "by far the best agreement negotiated in any major industry in the past two years"? For most dissidents, money was not the rub: the agreement offers miners pay raises, over three years, that would lift their average hourly wage from $7.80 to $10.15. In all, wages and fringes would increase nearly 37%. But the contract also authorizes stiff penalties for absenteeism and, more important, seeks to do away with wildcat strikes. It allows mineowners to discipline wildcatters by requiring such strikers...
...week's end the bargaining council had no plans to reconvene until, as Miller said, "the meeting can be held under orderly and constitutional procedures." The dissident miners believe they hold a strategic advantage because coal supplies are fast falling short, particularly in the Middle West. All over that region utilities have been cutting back services. President Carter will try his powers of persuasion on the miners and operators. He has reason not to invoke the Taft-Hartley Act. As Robert Little, who came from Harlan County, Ky., to demonstrate, put it: "They can make us go back...